Well, Trump did pledge $10 Billion of US money to his Board of Peace, which is kind of his personal slush fund…

My #1 tip for stopping media addiction is to turn off notifications. There is simply nothing going on that requires your immediate attention. It can wait until you have time to check. Try it!

Right, but a lot of Catholics voted MAGA last time around, solely on the basis of abortion policy. Not realizing that Catholics have always been on The List. Maybe after pregnant women, immigrants, and trans folks. But eventually, MAGA is coming for them too.

Not many, but more common than you think, particularly in HCOL areas where real estate prices have spiked, and even a modest house is over $1M. You might think “Yeah, but those folks have no equity”, but there are plenty of people who bought in 20+ years ago who are sitting on all that equity but can’t do anything with it until they sell.

Also, retirement assets count in that, and even though we see headlines talking about how unprepared most people are for retirement, there are plenty of people who are.

Add in the fact that most countries won’t hand out residency to anyone unless they are in a key field, and you will find that the people with the means to decide to emigrate are often the ones that have these assets in the first place.

There is some truth to it, that exit tax is not calculated on future income, but is calculates on one’s net worth, including real estate, investments, and retirement funds. They are basically looking for people who have chunks of unrealized gains accrued while still citizens, then file to leave the country so that they can sell those assets without paying capital gains taxes on them. So, before leaving they make you pay taxes as if you sold it all.

Yes, there are exceptions and exclusions that make it so most non-rich people wouldn’t owe anything, but it’s still up to you to prove that.

There are services that specialize in this, I found this one with a good writeup here. Note that they are looking to sell their service here, so may be overestimating the impact of non-compliance.

“And I have to tell you, Wilf, I have a teenager who’s considering military service. And I could give this teen my highest compliment from President Trump to the head of the Joint Chiefs to the secretary of War,” he added, referring to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “I would trust my child’s life in their hands.”

I wonder what the kid thinks. (And what he really thinks, not what he tells his dad)

That’s chump change compared to his war

I am afraid to ask what Donald Trump thinks are the services a good “escort” provides…

Honestly, I’m just surprised this is the first time someone has dared to put a phone SOC in a laptop chassis.

I’m probably missing something fundamental, but isn’t this just a Chromebook?

I’m kind of hoping the rest of the world wakes up and realizes that sending teams to the US to compete right now us just as bad as sending teams to Russia. The world should boycott it, and let the US claim its trophy after the Saudis field the only other team.

May as well just pay the bots directly then…

The article lists an insane revenue of $1.6B, yet the losses are only on the order of $42M in the last 3 months. Against that much revenue, it looks to me like they are managing the company at a slight loss on purpose. They probably could close that gap if they wanted to, but have some favorable tax implications or something by running that “slight” loss.

(And who knows, maybe this is part of the attempt to close that gap and show a profit before the founders cash out and it all gets sold to a Shittier company)

It’s possible either the US or Israel had some extremely timely intelligence on the location of the old leader, and the new one is just being more careful…

there are 69 current representatives and senators who are retiring

Nice!

Haha, Philly might be the one place on Earth that is more hostile to Trump than Iran…

I just use the same combination that I have on my luggage

Because the techbros are pushing AI (really LLMs, but that is too many letters) for everything to justify their insane stock valuations

Sorry, but discrimination is discrimination, even if the people doing the discriminating are doing it for reasons they think are just. If stuff like this gets normalized, it’s only a matter of time before it’s weaponized against others, and the trans community in particular.

There’s a direct line between things like anti-trans bathroom bills and this. Surely I can’t be the only one that sees it this way?

They did the one practical thing they could have done after 9/11, which was maintain better security practices on cockpit doors while in flight. Much of the rest is just theater.

I have flow through SFO and other airports with non-TSA security quite a bit, and the contractor’s work is just as thorough as TSA. Don’t tell their bosses, but I have even seen a few smile on occasion. I don’t think we lose anything, security-wise, by privatizing TSA.

Didn’t you hear? He’s too tall for a tugboat