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dogslayeggs ,

I’ll never understand why people like what I don’t like. It’s so dumb for everyone not to be like me.

dogslayeggs ,

Just swim sideways or float. It’s so easy to float in the ocean and doesn’t take much energy. Most people panic, though, and don’t remember to do simple things. When I was in lifeguard training, most of the stuff they teach you is how to deal with completely irrational actions people do when panicking.

Also, never underestimate the ocean (or any moving water). I’ve been swimming, waterskiing, surfing, scuba diving, whitewater kayaking, sailing for over 40 years, and I’ve had a TON of instances of “oh shit, I have zero control over what the water is doing to me right now.” Just completely powerless as the ocean tosses you around or the river pulls you down behind a boulder and holds you until you can find the bottom and kick out of the “hole.”

dogslayeggs ,

Yeah, the “washing machine” while you try to find the bottom to kick off. You’re in 3ft of water and can’t find either the bottom or the air.

dogslayeggs ,

While this should be cut and dry, I have no confidence the judge appointed by convicted felon Trump will make the legally correct ruling.

Disney told L.A. residents to move to Florida for a planned campus. They did, it was canceled and now they're suing (www.latimes.com)

Walt Disney Co. continues to face fallout from its scuttled plans to move 2,000 California employees to a proposed Florida campus — a controversial decision the company reversed last year following the return of Chief Executive Bob Iger....

dogslayeggs ,

While there are no posts here defending Disney or disparaging the employees suing, I want to add why there is a major impact on people who move away from CA.

One thing that sets CA apart from I think the rest of the country is our limit on property tax increases. Most states, if not all others (I’m too lazy to check), raise your property based on assessed value on a regular basis. Some states do it every year, I think TX does it even more often. CA passed a law a long time ago saying that your house’s tax assessment only changes when you sell your house. It was intended to allow old people to stay in their houses when property values skyrocketed around them. It’s honestly amazing and the only reason I can keep the house I bought 12 years ago. Yes, it has loopholes that rich people can get around (buy the house with an LLC, then sell the LLC instead of selling the house), and it has also contributed to rising house values since nobody can sell their houses unless they get a significant salary increase or move out of state.

So these people are told they have to move out of state to some brand new facility for a super stable company. They plan to be in this new place for the rest of their career, so instead of keeping their CA house and trying to rent it they decide to do the easy thing and sell so they can buy a giant house in FL. Now they have to move back to CA, but the house they sold is both more expensive AND even if it were the same price their assess tax value went from $7000/year to $21,000/year. So they need at least a $14,000/year raise (after taxes!) just to be where they were when Disney told them to move plus some sort of post-retirement annuity to keep paying that extra tax rate.

dogslayeggs ,

Thanks for that!

For reference, CA is limited to 1.1% per year.

dogslayeggs ,

That’s not how it worked for any of the people I knew on student visas. All of them had to hope for a job with a company that would support getting them an H1b/EB2/EB3 visa. Trump has been pushing to raise the limits on H1B visas since before the 2016 election, and it’s one policy idea of his I (think I) agree with. One of the reasons so many foreign students stay on for grad school is because it allows them to stay on a student visa if they can’t get supported by a company.

There are 5 ways to go from a student visa to a green card: marrying a US citizen, employee sponsorship (H1b/EB2/EB3), the green card lottery, political asylum, get sponsored by a relative who owns a US company. There is also a 6th way that doesn’t require a student visa, the EB1, but that requires being a recognized leader in your field.

dogslayeggs ,

Trump has been pushing for more foreign student green cards since before 2016. He said numerous times that he wanted to raise the number of H1b visas.

dogslayeggs ,

The dissenting opinion basically ignores how wealthy people make money. Just because you don’t directly receive income from an asset doesn’t mean you aren’t making money. Banks lend money based on your assets. And when you have very large asset holdings, those loans can have very favorable terms.

The majority opinion was also very narrow about the ruling, hinting that they are open to a future challenge about wealth tax in general. That will be the real battle.

dogslayeggs ,

In this case, it’s a Democratic senator who proposed the law.

dogslayeggs ,

What a completely awful way to not address anything other than a desire for vengeance from victims.

The same dumbass somehow thought a vasectomy would be a punishment for sex offenders?? What the fuck is in the water down there?

dogslayeggs ,

I think it depends on whether the cookies are homemade or store bought. Homemade might be creepy from someone you don’t know. But if I got a pack of Oreos mailed to me from some random internet person, I’d be stoked.

dogslayeggs ,

I read the article, and my take was more that I get a feeling she is gearing up to go against originalist doctrine FOR A REASON. Possibly she thinks something in the original Constitution is too liberal and anti-Jesus, so she wants to vote against things that follow that. It’s hard to put in words my feeling, but it wasn’t that this was a good thing.

dogslayeggs ,

A lot of airbnbs are owned by corporations. Also, airbnb came out around the time corporations really started investing in single family homes en masse. Airbnb started in 2008, which was at the same time as the housing bubble collapse that helped investors buy up on the cheap. It’s hard to say which was the chicken and which was the egg.

dogslayeggs ,

That is the percentage of homes owned by the people living in them, not the percentage of Americans who own homes.

Over a third (35%) of single family homes are owned by landlords, not by the people living in them. When a third of your single family homes are not owned by single families, then there is an issue.

The 26% number another person used might be percentage of US adults who own a home, but I can’t find that number anywhere. The difference is most single family homes have 2 adults (or more) but is only “owned” by one of them. Or that is a statistic that uses multi-family housing where most of the families are renters.

dogslayeggs ,

I had actually put that info in my post but deleted it. It’s around 34% that own their house outright without a loan.

New study highlights stark racial wealth gap in the New Orleans area (www.nola.com)

A new report from the Data Center is shedding disturbing light on income and wealth disparities in the New Orleans metro area, showing that on average white households have an astounding 13 times more net worth than their Black counterparts and nine times that of Latinx households....

dogslayeggs ,

New Orleans might be the city (in the US) I’ve been to with the most glaringly obvious wealth disparity on display.

dogslayeggs ,

Wait, he’s alive? I’ve been reading stories of his death for the past day or so.

You win this time, Internet!

dogslayeggs ,

She was carrying a backpack big enough to hold a bomb, climbing through a hole in a door that was barricaded, being warned by armed guards not to, and was backed by thousands of angry rioters ready to follow her in.

I’m pretty sure she represented a threat.

If your house were surrounded by people yelling and waving bats and batons and pipes and you barricaded your door against them entering, would you feel threatened by someone who broke your window and started climbing in?

dogslayeggs ,

It depends on whether you consider PRC and Stalin “left.” There are plenty of their supporters out on the internet.

dogslayeggs ,

I think most Americans didn’t have any perception change of their government when they saw that chick get shot. If anything they were shocked by what levels conservative civilians were ready to go to for their completely unfounded beliefs.

dogslayeggs ,

Yeah, same here. 13 inches is honestly too much for most women. I wish it were only 10.

dogslayeggs ,

Like you’ve never done a line off Grandma.

dogslayeggs ,

A) You can’t “invade” something you already possess… is how he will spin it when he tries to invade.

B) Didn’t Putin say the same thing about Ukraine?

dogslayeggs ,

It’s like a word for word replay.

dogslayeggs ,

That is an absolutely absurd line-out veto. It’s the kind of “malicious compliance” I would like to do as my last act in office before retiring.

dogslayeggs ,

I also had that issue with the movie.

dogslayeggs ,

You would have to be an absolute moron to think smoking only kills you early. That’s not how it works.

Even if you don’t like the world around you today and aren’t enthusiastic about the future, the way smoking kills you makes your day to day worse until you eventually get a very painful day to day until you eventually give out and die. You are advocating slowly committing both expensive and painful suicide over a 30 year span because you don’t want to live for 40 more years.

dogslayeggs ,

I got a downvote for saying that smoking kills you slowly and eventually painfully. Like, how is that debatable at this point? Am I getting a downvote because I’m not vibing?

Trump Targets J.B. Pritzker: ‘Presided Over The Destruction And Disintegration Of Illinois’ (www.offthepress.com)

On Sunday, former President Trump targeted Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party but who has presided over the state while natives flee. Pritzker was inaugurated as governor of the state in January 2019; between July 2021 and July 2022, over 142,000 people left...

dogslayeggs ,

So many issues with attacking the governor this way.

  1. This is the data for 1 year in his 4 year term. What did it look like the other years? Well, we can see that for 2022-23 the rate of decrease slowed down, from 0.8% to 0.3%. This makes sense because rent-vs-buy ratios have changed wildly in big cities in the last couple years.
  2. This is a similar rate of decline for other high cost of living states (CA, NY, HI) without having the benefit of CA and HI weather and beauty.
  3. It’s the same rate of decline per capita as Louisiana (Republican governor) and West Virginia (Republican governor).
  4. It leaves out who is leaving and why. Is it MAGAs upset that they can’t be racist asshats as freely? Is it low income people who can’t afford to live there due to the high taxes? Is it because his leadership drove jobs out of state? Is it because the state protected abortion rights, and religious people wanted to move to FL instead?
dogslayeggs ,

Got it, so that makes it alright to kill 30,000 civilians who aren’t child soldiers.

I’m glad you reset my moral compass.

dogslayeggs ,

Only if you are pushing boundaries of the performance of the helicopter. Yes, they are designed with a specific balance in mind, but that balance is an envelope not a single number. They need to have capability to add people as well as have those people move around in flight. Some are designed to carry payloads/cargo, too, which can be variable in weight and shape. Have you ever seen a rescue helicopter flying with a gurney dangling by a line, swinging in the wind with a patient strapped to it? Same thing.

dogslayeggs ,

I fucking love the picture of the bird flying the boat while the dude slides down the line.

dogslayeggs ,

Really? Dammit!

I had a whole animal based joke playing out with bird fish seal, but I couldn’t find an animal term for an army person. I thought about saying seal but couldn’t tell what kind of military person it was sliding down the line.

dogslayeggs ,

Nah, as a taxpayer I strongly advocate making our military vehicles look like animals.

dogslayeggs ,

Is it rude to say, “You know what? I think I’ll walk.”

dogslayeggs ,

As much as I appreciate that added bit of flash and glamour of chrome, the health problems from dealing with that shit are nassssssty. I also feel like the younger generations of purchasers are looking less for chrome than my generation.

dogslayeggs ,

They specifically said “in some states.” Delaware is one state, not multiple states. So in this case, they were saying in some states (includes Delaware but not necessarily Delaware) that trans members of state legislatures have been treated poorly. Talking about negativity from other state legislatures is relevant here because she will be leaving Delaware and interacting with people from other states, some of whom were from those other state legislatures.

dogslayeggs ,

I know people who use the mouse jiggler. They get all their work done and are good employees.

I’m a manager at a large company and have employees who work mostly from home. I don’t bother checking if their picture has a green or yellow mark next to their name. If they respond to my emails quickly and get their overall work done, I’m happy.

dogslayeggs ,

I’d love to hear from anyone at all who can give me a reason why the shareholders would vote for this. The stock value has been going down for both the 1 year and 3 year time frames, so he’s not doing great things today. The company only made a profit of $18B last year, so this is like wiping out 3 years of profitability in one step. This package is over half of the company’s total revenue!! In what world do investors think it’s a good idea to say one guy deserves almost as much as the entire company brings in for a year?

dogslayeggs ,

This is probably the right answer.

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle (www.theguardian.com)

The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics....

dogslayeggs ,

Her ranks when swimming against men were 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle, and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. Those ranks are now, when competing in the women’s team, fifth in the 200 freestyle, first in the 500 freestyle, and eighth in the 1650 freestyle.

Her time for the 500 freestyle, where she is ranked #1 against women, is over 15 seconds slower than her personal bests before medically transitioning, and even THEN she was only 65th in the event against men. The same event where she was 65th is now 15 seconds slower and ranked #1. That’s the gulf between the two events.

dogslayeggs ,

I’m going to quote what you wrote to me on another post: “If you don’t understand, far be it from to educate you.

Go read a book.”

The person showed you a citation that shows in track and field the top 0.1% (not 10%) of women would get 6 medals vs the top highschool boys (who are outside the top 10% of men) getting 81 medals. That’s young boys beating the absolute best women 93% of the time. In swimming it was worse: 1 medal vs 47 or 98%. In soccer, the US Women’s National Team, arguably the best of the best women’s team in the world, would regularly lose to highschool boys teams. I’m sure there are some sports where the gulf is smaller, but it’s going to be rare.

dogslayeggs ,

So are you OK with forcing a trans man to compete against men in sports?

dogslayeggs ,

So what do you call a baby that has a penis but isn’t old enough to tell you whether they are a boy or a girl?

dogslayeggs ,

Not sure why this is being down-voted. Most organizations do not have rules saying women can’t compete in men’s sports.

dogslayeggs ,

Where do trans men compete?

You are saying it would be degrading to have a trans woman compete against men, but a trans man is not allowed to compete against anyone because they are taking a banned substance to transition. Which is more degrading?

dogslayeggs ,

www.redfin.com/CA/San-Jose/…/1729649

www.rent.com/california/…/3-bedroom_2-bathroom?pr…

I can link things too. The house you linked was last sold 40 years ago for $126k, so the person who owns it is renting it out for many times more than their mortgage. You might not be able to rent out a place for more than a mortgage today in that specific city, but if you own it for 5 years then you might be able to. Also, 2br 1ba single family houses in San Jose are fucking weird. If you start looking at 3br 2ba houses in that area then it gets a little more normal. If you look at 2br 1ba condos, the prices are also more normal. But you ignored what I said about Silicon Valley being an extreme case.

90% of the country you can buy for less than renting. You asked why anyone would rent when buying is cheaper. And the answer is because buying is hard. You need to have a lot of money saved up, which most renters can’t do. You need to be able to pay for repairs, which most renters can’t do. You need to know you aren’t moving jobs any time soon, which a lot of people don’t know. And nowadays you are bidding against corporations and investors who are bidding full cash, and sellers would prefer to do that instead of waiting on a mortgage approval that might fall through.

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