Lurker123

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[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

You don’t actually believe what you wrote, right? Because back in 2008, the US bought 60% of GM’s stock and over a trillion in mortgage backed securities (the bad debts that destroyed the bank’s books). Yet, this was clearly a bailout, despite the fact that the US received property in exchange for its cash.

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Won’t landlords simply pass through this increased cost to tenants?

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Are people still commissioning expensive art? I would have thought AI would have eaten their lunch.

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

What is the tax advantage of the holding LLCs? Is it some state tax thing? For US federal income tax purposes, assuming these were wholly owned, they would be disregarded entities.

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From what I recall, referring to a group of people as “you guys” is a regional thing. I remember in that NY times dialect test that it was one of the questions that nailed me. That said, if I’m referring to group solely of women, it does seem odd, so I usually use party people or peeps in this situation. Using folks or y’all would get weird looks here.

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s over for us. One of the images has a hand that doesn’t look fucked up. Oh fuck

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Damn she really ties up all loose ends

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure there’s a person who really believes both of these. I think people who believe premise one actually believe this to be a generally true statement about people (or a generally true statement about some racial subset of people) rather than a statement about all people. This dovetails nicely with their love of billionaires due to them being “hard workers” because it shows the billionaire is somewhat unique and better than most people in that regard.

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I feel like you had additional context to this question that you meant to add, but just totally forgot.

As it stands, yes of course. If your house in condemned or otherwise subject to eminent domain, if your house is seized to pay creditors for non-mortgage debt (in some states), if somebody else has superior title to your home and you aren’t protected by being a bonafide purchaser, etc.

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank god it says hamas on his suit. I wouldn’t have been able to tell what this was about otherwise, as I have no ability to recognize current events, cannot read the text where he says “how dare Israel attack civilians”, and cannot recognize the Palestinian flag.

Like seriously this is some Ben garrison tier labeling

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Just to be clear, is your question why doesn’t Iran send “missile barrages” intended to secure the military defeat and destruction of a nuclear armed power which hates them?

[–] Lurker123@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The “magic law” is just the consequence of what it means to be the “same” person. To be the same person, you have to, among other similarities, take up the same spatial-temporal space. This is why if we ask “is Bruce Wayne the same person as Batman” one of the first thoughts is “you know, I’ve never seen them in the same room before.”

Maybe what you’re getting hung up on here is the split. Let’s imagine there is one river (river A) which goes for a bit before it forks and becomes river b and river c. In some sense, we could say that both river b and river c are river a. But if you’re river b, then river c is not the same as you, and vice versa.

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