Listening to today’s episode of the Prof G podcast there is a new exchange trying to open that is lobbying for the same 6 month reporting structure. So it’s some sort of payoff in sure.

I would guess that it is related to the fact that he is in his 50s now and the last few years the PED rumors have been growing louder. He needed a way to not be huge and that was going to take committing to the size.

You’re forgetting that cults don’t continue when the leader is gone. Trump doesn’t his entire life getting people to believe him and love him or hate him he is good at it. Vance sucks. No one likes him and he will not be able to continue the grift when Donny dies. They have no one past him that can handle the base and the party. There is going to be a lot more pain when he is gone because of all the fighting. Better case unfortunately would be for midterms to happen then he dies then at least there’s a chance the GOP won’t have full control over the government

Just give them a dummy button and play the clip of the death star blowing up or something. They aren’t going to check to make sure it happened. Keep it sending the data just turn off the server side recording it then turn it back on when they inevitably forget about it in a couple weeks.

Fluency in a language learning context is not the same as native speakers. The measure is can you pass a 4th grade grammar class in the given language.

My understanding is that you won’t get fluent but it would give you up to a middle school level understanding, depending on the language. French and Spanish were more advanced than Mandarin or Welsh.

I don’t think I’ve ever run into anyone else who has seen or remembers surf ninjas. What a great fever dream of a movie.

*fiefdoms

If you like them The Agonist is a good band in the same vein. Alissa White-Glutz fronted them until she left for arch enemy and was replaced by Vicky Psarakis

Not if it is leveraged to hell and back. Odds are that a bulk is collateral for buying a social media platform and a presidency along with how he uses it to float his other companies.

Is it really a new low? I meant he pretty much does the equivalent of this just about daily. It’s pretty standard at this point.

If a judge can garnish my wages or dictate the terms of a company bankruptcy settlement then they should be able to take control of the payments relevant to their ruling.

Pretty sure he just paid for it.

I wrote it below but that’s not the only way.

Other things like finding the IRS (8x the investment) and job placement programs return much much more than what is invested in them. It’s like running a restaurant and pricing alcohol at cost while planning for apps to make us the difference, that’s just not reality.

Granted this is still unpopular with lobbiests and would cost rich people money so them money

Not very effectively. Tariffs return less than the investment in them due to a slow down in the economy they cause. Other things like finding the IRS (8x the investment) and job placement programs return much much more than what is invested in them. It’s like running a restaurant and pricing alcohol at cost while planning for apps to make us the difference, that’s just not reality.

The thing that always baffles me is that they never look to increase government revenue. Every company I’ve worked for the question was always 1 how to increase money coming in then 2 how to reduce money going out. In that order.

Just spin it as a car regulation instead of a gun regulation.

Agreed, and the passing from the article implies that she was prepped and had an idea that he was shitty then realized how terrible a person he is once he met her. He’s in the news so much over the last 8-9 years but before 2015/2016 most people knew fairly little about him unless you read his biography which his biographer has come out and said it’s very sanitized.

I mean, why would she care? He’s was a US business man and she was a German politician. They would have little to no overlap and even when he became president she had more to do than spend the days of would take going over his list of bullshittery. It’s easy to see immediately that he is a terrible person, realizing that he’s quite literally toxic takes actually investing time into.

I mean, it’s not like things have gotten better.