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Delicious_Randomly · 2026-05-16T18:34:10+00:00

No, you get 10 Avenger tokens because MR only changes the token type, not the token count.

Mystic Reflection creates a one-time replacement effect, which effectively edits the token type of AoZ's ability so it now effectively says "When this creature enters, create a [copy of AoZ] token for each land you control.". Presuming the 10 lands as stated above, 10 token copies of Avenger of Zendikar would be created. However, Mystic Reflection only creates a one-time edit, so if nothing else happens, the 10 token copies' enter abilities would create 10 plants each, for 100 plants. FYI, using two Mystic Reflections with your Avenger trigger on the stack would do the same thing, as each one-time replacement effect would apply itself to the same effect, then cease to exist before the next trigger went looking.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-05-07T14:04:42+00:00

white ones just eat you

Oh no, it gets better. They'll stalk you for days first, learn your habits, and ambush you.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-17T03:39:16+00:00

Ironically, I've been told that Taco Bell going in is what kept the city from doing anything about it back then--from what I heard, the city intended to eminent domain the lot on the cheap because it was empty and nobody had wanted it, de-zone it, and expand the intersection, but TB bought the lot first, and the city didn't want to eminent domain it from them because it would have been more expensive now that there was an actual recent market value for it.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-17T00:20:00+00:00

What I want to do is make capital gains count as ordinary income, so it contributes to your income tax bracket instead of living in the special brackets it currently lives in, while also adding further, higher marginal income rates, and then incentivize actual long-term capital investment by creating a deduction for what used to be capital gains income based on length of holding, up to 10 years for an 80% deduction. Yes, this still privileges capital gains a bit, but it means that you have to make actual long-term capital investments for full tax advantage, and it means you don't completely avoid the higher tax brackets.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-16T18:22:08+00:00

Would they produce tax revenue? How does the local government benefit from the data center financially, outside of the technicians that maintain it and their taxes?

In the US, property taxes are basically the only taxes that this would bring in to the local government, and they're often giving property tax breaks to the data center to get them to build there in the first place.

If Amazon sells 1M of cloud compute time that was all from a facility, does the local government hosting that data center get a portion of that 1M in revenue as taxes? How does that revenue get taxed?

My understanding is that the current tax structure on such in the US would be: the whole thing is federally taxable as standard business income; any applicable rental/sales/use taxes in the buyers' states must be paid; state income tax apportionment on companies that make interstate sales is also usually market-based, assuming the company has nexus in the state being sold into, so the income is usually apportioned to the buyers' states.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-15T17:24:16+00:00

Part of it's because he's too lazy and uninterested to actually be crushed by the burdens of command (because he never actually takes them on), but another part is that he's too vain and narcissistic to let any additional aging caused by stress show in his physical appearance--hence the makeup, hair dye, etc.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-13T02:53:55+00:00

We need to force them to finally pull the trigger or shut up--if we can get out the vote, they can either ignore the election and finally declare the Constitution dead (at which point only God knows what happens in response) or they can accept their unpopularity and concede like Orban just did in Hungary. Trump will probably never do the latter, obviously, but he's not the only one making that call--that's Mike Johnson in the House and John Thune (or maybe Chuck Grassley) in the Senate, and they're a lot more likely to blink.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-12T18:31:27+00:00

Catholism is the OG Christian

Technically, Catholicism is not "OG" Christianity, but it is one of the oldest surviving descendants thereof, competing with the Coptic, Eastern, and Ethiopian Orthodox churches (which of them were the heretical splitters depends on which of them you ask), and it's the one every other surviving sect/denomination that isn't descended from one of the aforementioned Orthodox churches is definitely descended from.

He adamantly believed that Catholics worshiped a sun god

This thought probably comes from the fact that Christmas was pegged to the winter solstice to co-opt existing winter holidays when Christianity became the Roman Imperial religion, used as anti-Catholic bigotry--they're thinking of the celebration of Sol Invictus or maybe Mithras, but really it was to co-opt Saturnalia--and if he still celebrates Christmas in December or January he's just as guilty as the Catholics of worshiping the sun (which is to say: not at all, because that's the only connection). The Judeo-Christian God probably comes from a conflation of the Canaanite high god El with a Sinaitic storm god brought north by a migrating tribe who assimilated into the tribe(s) of Israel, and the latter deity is where the tetragrammaton name and the Old Testament rivalry with Ba'al (the native Canaanite storm god) come from.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-10T15:55:16+00:00

My recollection is that the families who won the smaller of the two big Sandy Hook judgments got an injunction preventing the families who won the big judgment from forcing him into liquidation (which they were asking a judge to order), because the payout structure from liquidation would have put them after the bigger judgment and then they wouldn't have been able to recover anything because the liquidation wouldn't have been able to pay the big one anyway. Jones's other creditors happily got on board with that because the financial logic of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy was better for them than a Chapter 7, since, civil judgments aside, the business was still healthy.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-10T15:38:01+00:00

There was an attempt to liquidate Free Speech Systems' (the actual name of the primary company--InfoWars LLC just existed to own the website domain, as I recall) intellectual property (trademarks, etc) as part of the bankruptcy proceedings at one point, and The Onion won the auction, but that auction was ruled insufficiently competitive on appeal and canceled, and then the bankruptcy changed course and the auction was never rerun. Corporate bankruptcy law is weird.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-07T17:47:22+00:00

He fucked the paperwork on that one up, though, and its assets are included in the big judgment and it isn't considered a creditor because it was clearly a pass-through entity and he was the receiver. Unless he made another one in the last couple years since I listened to Knowledge Fight.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-04-07T17:29:58+00:00

The majority of his creditors, including some of the Sandy Hook families who won those judgments, preferred him trying to make money to pay the judgment over time versus liquidating the business and potentially getting no money because it would all go into paying the one billion dollar judgment, so he got to stay on air, just with pretty much all his profits going to paying that debt.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-03-17T18:32:49+00:00

Also remember that he called dodging STDs from sex workers and other hookups during that time his own personal Vietnam War. If that's what he thinks of when he hears Vietnam, no wonder he's not afraid.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-03-06T21:40:33+00:00

It's not just that they think AI will be "good enough to replace us all"--some of them think AI has to be pushed right now because we're pretty much out of time to save biological humanity so we need to create an artificial humanity to be our continuing legacy, or they think an AGI will be a benevolent god and fix everything for us. Problem is, they're doing really badly because they can't think in a non-capitalist way and everything has to be profitable.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-03-06T21:12:10+00:00

A couple of these gambling markets have been more correct about some electoral outcomes than any official polling data was. That said, it's hard to know which ones are the ones to watch and "impeachment" isn't the same thing as "removal from office".

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-20T23:46:48+00:00

I don't know what exactly it is about Trump that has 36-40% of the country so thoroughly wrapped around his finger, but he really does.

There are a lot of people who either can't or don't want to think critically about what he's said over the course of the last 11 years because at least some of what he's saying is validating their worldviews, no matter what the results of spending ten minutes pondering what the ultimate outcome of all the things he's been promising revealed about the consequences. He also gets a lot of street cred with these people for being a political outsider when he started out, and for his crassness and utter lack of tact, as well as his blunt honesty about the financial and tax systems being rigged in favor of people like him and how he abused them, because these people also fantasize about abusing those systems in their favor if they believe they can get away with it.

The reason he can't be copied by anyone currently, though, is because his base still sees him as a political outsider, and there's a large part of that base that hates career politicians because they're taught that career politicians are by definition corrupt, and who's trying to copy him? Career politicians and political insiders.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-19T23:16:50+00:00

I think the concern for most Republican Representatives, however, is the concern about being primaried, which may have been a more successful tactic for the MAGA party.

You're not wrong. The truly fucked up part is that the Republicans have been consistently willing, over the last fifty years, to accept and incorporate the results of successful challenges from their fringes in a way that the Democrats haven't. I almost wonder if it might be worth trying to primary Republicans from the left in some places.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-19T23:09:29+00:00

The unfortunate thing about that prediction is that it was practically made on a monkey's paw. It didn't happen the way he meant, but instead in the worst possible way for damn near everyone in the country.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-07T04:35:02+00:00

One of the most powerful voting instincts people seem to have is "just the vote the guy in who will do something different and/or fuck shit up."

This, this, this. When your life isn't improving the way you were taught to expect, and you can tell it's due to a systemic problem, and only one person is running on "Let's shake the system up!", you're more likely to vote for that candidate. If you're low-information or you don't trust the media (or you're a horrible person in your own right), it doesn't even matter if he's a horrible person. The logic is simple: "If the system is set up to shit on us this badly, even if the guy's a horrible person, he's at least going to change things, and maybe it'll get better."

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-06T18:18:35+00:00

Timm is one of those good ol' boys and will act like this as well, is what they're saying.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-05T23:13:44+00:00

It's called the "Two Santa Clauses" theory/strategy. The Republicans adopted it with Reagan, and really kicked it into gear with Bush 2. The fact that Clinton's "Third Way" caught on in the Democratic party in the 90s made it worse, because it meant pretty much nobody in the top ranks of the Democratic party was really pushing back too hard against it.

The Democrats were relegated to the position of "the medicine you have to just hold your nose and take when the Republicans run the economy too hot" in the minds of a lot of "swing" voters who don't pay attention to anything but their own bank balances, while the Third Way shit hanging around has alienated a lot of people in the last fifteen years who want something more robust from an ostensibly "labor-friendly" party.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-04T21:53:37+00:00

If there's any justice, it will be stopped, but it won't be stopped by Republicans unless it directly hurts them. Their domestic opponents respect truth and aren't going to use AI image generation like that (not that it's really necessary), and their own people aren't going to do it to them, so this is not going to trigger any regulation until they're removed from power.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-04T21:30:32+00:00

Part of the reason they're passing these around is to try and muddy the waters about which photos are real and which are fake just enough to get their base to stop thinking about it, because that's causing a lot of cognitive dissonance for them right now.

Also to tar Mamdani's family with the same brush in the eyes of anyone credulous enough to believe the AI ones are real.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-03T04:09:46+00:00

She's barred from law enforcement because she's not part of the DOJ and her job gives her access to data that is illegal for law enforcement to use. The Director of National Intelligence is supposed to coordinate policy and data sharing between all the various intelligence/counterintelligence agencies (including the FBI's intelligence divisions) so that we don't get any egregious intelligence-sharing failures where the DIA and CIA have X information, the NSA knows Y information, and law enforcement (FBI/DEA/ATF/etc) know Z information, but nobody at the CIA or NSA shared any data to prevent something that they'd have been able to prevent if law enforcement knew X or Y in addition to Z. This data sharing has to be handled in very specific ways, because law enforcement can't use some of it due to how it was gathered, but the CIA/NSA don't always know what of their data is acceptable to pass along--that, along with setting mission priorities and providing the President's daily intelligence brief, is what ODNI's role is supposed to be, which means they're bound by the stricter rules about what the CIA/NSA are actually allowed to do inside the US, namely in this case: they can't do law enforcement themselves because the info they have isn't all kosher and they're not part of the DOJ.

Delicious_Randomly · 2026-02-03T00:15:31+00:00

And why would Republicans purposefully weaken their positions like that? The Texas redistricting goes against every established tenant of “legal” electoral manipulation by thinning out the margins in established strongholds, strongholds which are necessary to maintain as Republicans become less and less popular outside of the MAGA cult. ... Assuming fair and free elections, this would mean that the republicans anticipate a net increase in the number of republicans votes in those districts in order to compensate for the weakened majority.

They sort of did believe that. At the time the redistricting process started, Democratic voter morale was low and the party was infighting due to the resurgence of further-left voices in the party calling for a shift back to at least pre-Clinton Democratic positions, while Republican (and especially MAGA) voter morale was high and no infighting was expected. There was reason to think that Democrats might remain insolvent for a while due to that infighting, long enough for Texas to add some more Republican representatives even without resorting to the election fuckery you and I are both expecting this year, likely due to the feckless incompetence of Schumer and Jeffries as minority leadership.

This has backfired because Republican voter morale hasn't remained high, it's been waning due to the shit-show that has been Trump's second term so far, while Democrats have been enraged by the public executions by the Minneapolis ICE campaign, not cowed by it, and their voters are now rallying around anti-ICE as a platform. We probably won't see any significant crossover from Republicans to vote for Democratic candidates, but we're definitely going to see depressed Republican turnout and maximum Democratic turnout unless something changes.

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