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I’m curious how some of these countries reciprocate on American tech services like google or Facebook. If you’re France, why wouldn’t you charge Facebook for every French user on Facebook products? Meta makes money from French advertisers so why shouldn’t the govt take their share as a services tariff? Maybe offer a discount based on the number of Meta employees in country.
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What would it take to get her passport name changed? Can she update it from the US? Due process is dicey now but if I were in her situation I would want clear paperwork from a birth certificate, documentation on my name change, and current documents in the same name. it probably won’t come to that but if does, it’s too late. In today’s world, you can’t even count on being deported to your original country or not being imprisoned. On second thought, why stay in the US?
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The issue is that the real intent is to keep the poor and young from voting. And who do the poor and young historically vote for? the top GOP are fully aware that non-citizens are not voting. Or the number are so low it’s a multi decimal point rounding error. And even then the voting is out of ignorance. regardless voter id is a loser issue for the Dems to fight. Don’t even bring logic like I wrote above. Instead work to get free IDs to people.
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Im hoping that the tariffs actually start today and there isn’t some last minute reprieve? The tariffs themselves are bad, but we need to stop the uncertainty of when they will start. And if these countries cave today, there will be another trump demand, or else, tomorrow. The next demand will be repayment for past trade imbalances if those countries lay down today. unfortunately we need to move forward on burning down the economy because it will eventually occur under trumps plans. We might as well get to the pain part ASAP so we can get out of it sooner. its sad that we need other countries to also hurt to deal with our mistakes.
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It helps teach those poor people to stop being poor.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Nice Guy Eddie replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Dane County (Madison) showed up. 82%-18% for the Democrat with 280k total votes. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Nice Guy Eddie replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Elon’s $25m and time completely wasted. Wasn’t even a close election. 54-45. If Elon has ignored the election perhaps the GOP would have won. Nah, Trump’s falling popularity would have ensured a loss but Elon created a larger margin. -
I wouldn’t leave the country as a green card holder. To the GOP, your wife doesn’t belong here. It’s a much lower bar for them to ban non-citizens from coming back into the country as opposed to attempting to kick them out. They can even spin it as a reevaluation of her immigration status especially if she’s had any issues even as simple as a speeding ticket. That makes her a criminal in their eyes. and don’t think for a second that someone in the WH isn’t thinking this. His name rhymes with Stephen Miller.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Nice Guy Eddie replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
On the don't-give-a-damn element, I'm reminded when I worked for dysfunctional corporate teams. When someone needed to communicate a problem to a higher up, they had to judge how the higher up would react and the personal impact. If the higher up would get pissed at them. Sometimes the decision was to sweep the problem under the rug. say Noem had to communicate to Trump that they screwed up and sent a US citizen incorrectly to El Salvador and want to bring them back. What's in it for Noem other than just be a good person, which she isn't. -
Publicly re-announcing your auto acceptance criteria reeks of marketing and desperation. Especially when cloaked in some virtue signaling statement how damaged the current system is. i imaging that the vast majority of colleges and universities auto accept someone with a 1460. Maybe there is a paperwork delay but the acceptance is guaranteed. im ancient but as soon as I received my SAT score in the late 80s, I knew that I was accepted into UT. I hadn’t even spoken or communicated with UT yet. The paperwork would only be a formality. So I don’t have an issue with what Univ of Austin is doing, except my general laughter at them.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Nice Guy Eddie replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
At worst Trump would only need to tell El Salvador to return the guy. But that would also require someone telling Trump about this screwup. -
Everyone needs to step back from the ledge. Susan Collins is considering to vote for a resolution against the tariffs. She will decide tomorrow. I know that I’m going to sleep soundly knowing that Senator Collins will stand on the side of integrity.
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The only one that I know is that if you separate from a company for which you have a 401k (or presumably 403b), you can withdrawal the funds from that 401k starting at 55 without penalty. The IRA non-penalty feature doesn't kick in until 59.5. What I don't know is if the 401k funds, withdrawable without penalty, could have only been contributed at that job or whether rollover 401k funds also receive that benefit. It would be important to think this through and possibly transfer funds if you know you're leaving a company after 55.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Nice Guy Eddie replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Many family farms should fail if they can't stand more on their own. For some reason we have created a dream that family farms are the highest value of work that an American can do. In the meantime many do not produce much value for the US, so much that other Americans have to pay to keep them in business. I've watched a few videos where farmers speak to the economics and frankly I wonder how they can make their farm equipment payment. -
Markets still falling like whoa
Nice Guy Eddie replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
One word of advice on financial advisors. Be 100% clear on how you (or anyone) is paying for those services. It can get very expensive paying 1% or higher for their services. There are options to pay a hourly rate with some advisors which is much lower.
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