I looked up their WY SOS filing, and yeah this is almost definitely an S-Corp. (S for small). That status is already an protectionist measure: it bypasses the corporate tax level so long as xyz conditions are met. One of those conditions is having no foreign ownership. (‘nonresident alien’). I don’t even really mean this as a hypocrisy gotcha, the whole article’s vibe is propaganda by juxtaposing two forms of corporatist protectionism and setting the pre-justification for raising prices.

Also the focus on racist cowboy garbage and electoralism disguises how important this stuff can be. Like I have no idea what the price of 10-gallon hats is because it doesn’t matter in the way that food or electricity or rent does. The target audience is libs who will say “haha maga ppl won’t be able to buy their 10-gallon hats anymore if trump wins but they’re so brainwashed that they support him anyway haha” It’s just ridiculously condescending.

Tariffs would make it harder for people to distinguish between price increase for the sake of profit and price increases from supply chain inflation. This makes it easier for large businesses to charge more and consolidate out the smaller players in an industry. It’s a short/medium term solution to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. This is just crocodile tears from an entirely irrelevant intermediary capitalist, presumably to get some kind of cushy small-business tariff exemption or tax credit.

Also the Tax Foundation is a very right wing (libertarian?) lobbying group who should not be taken seriously for any opinions on any topics.

Sellers Inflation

Definitely any indoor public space, I’ll ask friends if I’m going to theirs, and outside it depends.

Hopefully you’ll be reassured to learn that McKinsey & Company is one of the larger industry players.

Thanks haha but for opsec reasons it has to be a joke.

The main thing for me is how libs nitpick and fight into fake ideas that they think are a ‘progressive middle ground’ which are just extremely evil and unserious. I distinctly remember a lib explaining an elaborate plan of how they would have NATO build a giant wall to enforce a two-state-solution and I just kinda started losing it and showing them pictures of the west bank barrier on my phone. They kept insisting that if NATO ran the wall it would stop israel from expanding.

I think the performative caring about anything gets undercut by how fickle and useless libs are as allies. Maybe a year or two ago I’d say that libs agreeing with the left with trump in office would be a silver lining, but honestly they’re just kinda useless. It seems harder to persuade libs than it is to persuade people entirely disconnected from politics even if they get the performative anti-trump benefit. Idk maybe I’m just in a doomer mood.

The euphemism is for getting pulled into an unmarked van and killed.

Like I’m already “on a list”, but for completely non-political reasons (crimes lol).

imo the site would just be shut down in some way. Many of the state’s domestic repressive functions are more easily carried out by non-state actors. Like FICO score or getting categorized as ‘extremist’ in an HR consulting database. This sort of thing materially pushes people into situations where they’d be arrested for something more mundane.

Other than that, there are other forms of carcerality or social ostrisization if people fall outside of social norms in real life. So maybe in IRL we say “hey isn’t making kids say the pledge of allegiance every day sorta weird and bad?” and someone responds that it would be unamerican not to and that their dad died in iraq or something and that the pledge honors them… and etc etc… suddenly vaguely left people irl who were gonna join the DSA but didn’t ever get around to it are indistinguishable from maoist guerillas because US body politic is ridiculous.

Special purpose vehicles (SPV) and special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC) - especially with 704© layers. It goes well with the new Form 7217. Also please get me a job lol

Well, my apt management company has been fired for water in light fixtures and our fire alarms being disconnected on their end. The new management company is a multi-level marketing scheme somehow and our only contact’s linkedin bio is about “minimizing costs and maximizing profits”. Looking up the company gives a bunch of NYT articles about SA and abuse scandals. I have no way to contact the landlord at all. I need to get out of here lmao.

One-page RPGs might be better for this than 5e or 5.24. There are literally thousands of them and most of them are free or really cheap.

Mr. President, sir, let me first say thank you for your commitment to the American people… Your administration has not yet released a statement regarding the new Esperanza Spalding album, Milton + esperanza, should such a statement be expected in the coming weeks? Taxpayers were concerned to find tracks from the album absent from Former President Obama’s 2024 summer playlist.

TANKIE!

Their corrupt state handouts

Our public-private partnerships

basically the military took fewer pictures and worse pictures.

So, scientists have observed Earth’s nightlights for more than four decades, first with astronaut photography and military satellites. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force has operated the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), a series of 18 polar-orbiting satellites that observe clouds and other weather variables in key wavelengths of infrared and visible light. Starting in 1972, the DMSP satellites included the Operational Linescan System (OLS), which gives weather forecasters some ability to see in the dark.

While DMSP has been a source of nighttime images for decades, until fairly recently the data were classified, which meant that only a few civilian scientists could conveniently gain access to study the data. The atmospheric science community was eager to have a more accessible night-vision tool to better understand weather and climate patterns and phenomena. Finally, in 2011, a new source of unclassified satellite images of Earth at night became available—one that improved upon the capabilities of OLS. The new low-light sensor was called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and was launched in October 2011 onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite—a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Defense

– Earth at Night

I always did like the mystique of the anarchist cookbook in that it was maybe not even real, but the magic around hacking was so fun in that era. You could just download a ddos program on like limewire that was actually a keylogger and be like “I’m doing crimes!” IIRC there was a whole section on payphone hacking and how to dial at unlisted numbers (they just immediately disconnect you lol). Everyone botted runescape and there was that dubdub website that shook your computer windows.

Ideologically, I feel like getting info from many sources is better than a secret tome because it’s more participatory. I kinda hate that someone published a real ‘anarchist cookbook’. Security stuff always kinda reads like larping to me, but I’m also not really into computers. Presumably tails or kali devs have a guide on modern hacking stuff, but idk maybe not.

An anarchist ‘anarchist cookbook’ would unironically have some great bean recipes though

This reminds me how “military-grade” tends to indicate the lowest possible quality

Terrifying and irrational state enemies are evil-y mustering their forces… Anyway, that’s why the highest levels of our government secretly formed a plan to literally nuke their countries.

Perfect framing, thank you

Mallory Stewart, the assistant secretary for arms control, deterrence and stability at the State Department, said in an interview that the Chinese government is “actively preventing us from having conversations about the risks.” Instead, she said, Beijing “seems to be taking a page out of Russia’s playbook that, until we address tensions and challenges in our bilateral relationship, they will choose not to continue our arms control, risk reduction, and nonproliferation conversations.”

Gee, no clue why they wouldn’t play ball.

deeply unserious