No

I was expecting Ukraine as thats what Ive been willing to pay for...

but good to get em on the backside :)

Mickey Mantle enters the OR

Before the first ban went into effect I would see plastic bags caught in all the fencing, especially near the railroad. Now I see none and its beautiful. Im willing to let others be inconvenienced to see these gone.

You're willing to make others pay more for food*

id be more than willing to help them find reusable bags. Youre willing to litter the landscape with trash?

Welcome to central coast California. It is a tech issue as people like Ellison think it will solve the issue by surveilling everyone and using 'AI' to find the bad guys. The worse part is it goes from petty crimes to terrible crimes. I am not, however, advocating the lock them up til 35. We need to use the money we subsidize people like Ellison with to mitigate and navigate long before the first arrest happens.

Dude, its work. Regardless of where and how hard you are whistling, its work. Youre trading your life for dollars. Your point at wherever you work is to produce ... could be pulling carrots or hitting a keyboard but youre selling your time. Dont expect to enjoy it. Wake up

That's my philosophy. I do only what I was hired to do. I start when I'm supposed to and I end when I'm supposed to. Take my dog for a walk everyday at lunch.

If my employer wants to complain that I'm not going above and beyond, let them complain. As long as my job is getting done and the checks keep being deposited, I can deal with it. It's only work. These people aren't my parents, I don't care about them.

I've gotten twice as much done around the house since remote working 3 years ago. Can't wait to tap out of shitty job and ride into the sunset. 4 more years is all I need.

this is an artificial limitation enforced to optimize for a subset of system participants.

it isn’t fun because that doesn’t most benefit them, and they ain’t you.

sleep tight.

Better than a flipped coin

We had undersea carbon storage ... It was millions of gallons of crude tucked neatly away.

More like billions/trillions

Oh my, Im looking forward to getting some of those. Never thought I would be so excited about not stripping out screws. I bet their next approved tool kit is going to come with a drill bit

interesting ... and tiring of this site ... this post just lost a point. Why? no response, no reasoning against wanting screws that perform well. Just a loss of points. FU y combinator ... i think ill spend more time posting elsewhere

But $26B seems like a pretty good tax write off. Seriously tho, How much of this drop (adjustment to reality) could Musk potentially write off on taxes, etc? Especially when it was pretty obvious he tanked it on purpose.

Losing actual money is not a good tax write off strategy.

Until it's realized, nothing. If he sold Twitter tomorrow, he could take the $25 billion loss and not pay taxes on that much of his next capital gains, essentially saving him $5 billion, for a net loss of only $20 billion.

That's not how tax write offs work.

You can write that off against profits, and save around 20% - but you still lost 80% of the money.

So what would be the purpose of tanking it on purpose? He could just send the US Treasury the money for less trouble.

I'm not an accountant, but doesn't he need to realize investment losses in order to write them off? Capital expenses can be depreciated for tax write-offs, but I wasn't aware that corporate investments could be marked to market for write-offs.

I dont know either but I cant fathom why he paid that much for the company only to play Nero.

Like most super-successful people, he's smart, hard-working, overconfident, and very lucky. His luck didn't work out for him this time when he overstepped his expertise. Survivorship bias made him think he'd be fine.

(Yes, it's very possible to be both smart and overconfident.)

Can you write off this stuff? You can only personally write if like 3k of loses per year

$3,000 loss limit is the amount that can offset ordinary income.

Capital losses can offset unlimited capital gains.