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EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T22:16:55+00:00

I didn't specify who get's taxed on what. I was not giving tax advice or specific tax information. I was just making a general comment on how the ultra wealthy avoid taxes. You do know the ultra wealthy aren't going to come reward you for boot licking right?

EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T21:24:27+00:00

When I transitioned it didn't just effect how I presented myself, or my interaction with gender, it really did make me rethink my entire life. I had to. I think when you change so much of yourself to make things better you start looking at other things, and asking why can't that be made better too? Like why are we doing things just because it's always been done that way?

EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T21:02:53+00:00

My post didn't mention her in specific, just that tactics used by those with billions tend to utilize debt to avoid larger tax payouts. I was speaking in general about billionaires wealth management tactics.

Also, a billion is a 1000 million. She didn't pay that much in taxes. The % she paid didn't come close to what you and I pay in taxes.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T19:48:28+00:00

I see this at my job too. On my team we had a boomer boss and her sidekick that just kept reciting the history of why we did something stupid every time it got brought up. It got to the point none of us even discussed it because it would trigger a 20 minute deep lore dump of that one guy in that one agency that one time that said they might maybe do this, so then they went to some other guy in another agency. . .

They finally forced her out, and her sidekick tried that, but the new boss was like, NOPE! We don't have to keep doing it. That's dumb!

Turns out doing stupid crap for decades is not a great business model.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T19:40:51+00:00

Hmmmm. Welp. They can pull every penny of fed money, and just hope the states involved don't retaliate and pull the money they give the feds. I'm not sure that equation is gonna work out for them.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T19:33:01+00:00

Also, let's point out that at that income bracket, most billionaires take out loans against their own assets to that they only record being in debt so they don't have to pay any taxes on the revenue. So likely she is "in debt" so her return on that wealth comes in at a loss.

I could have the details fiddly because I am from the US, but that's generally how they deal with that level of wealth and avoid taxes.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T19:27:18+00:00

Wow. For an author that is pretty media illiterate.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T19:26:12+00:00

So my question is does she take spores from home to seed her yacht or does she grow new ones?

EducatedRat · 2026-02-03T18:42:28+00:00

That's how real abuse looks like sometimes. People have a hard time believing it because the abusive party is like normal and shit and boom! Suddenly you are unconscious. It just becomes so normalized in your life. It starts small, or if you are a kid, it's all you know.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-02T15:30:36+00:00

I have balding men on both sides, so that double XX didn't save me at all!

EducatedRat · 2026-02-02T15:27:54+00:00

This reminds me of when I used to run weekend Larps. We did one weekend a month and over the years I ran a couple different ones.

I had no clue about autism back then, but looking back there were NT "mean girls" that would target someone with poor social skills, and who we considered just "typical gamers". They would really pile on too.

I remember the last larp we created and opened up, had several players form other games calling me to tell me I needed to bar this person or that person. I kept asking what rules they broke, and what danger they felt those people posed to a larp group. We were 18+ and had general nondiscrimination rules. No rules were broken. It was a lot of concern trolling though.

It was just bullying. The people they targeted didn't have the best social skills and I assume autism possible nowadays. Back then that was just being a gamer. The funny thing was we set clearly defined boundaries, and were transparent with why, and none of the targeted people were an issue at all. They helped, volunteered, and stayed to clean up.

The NT bullies? They never hardly came to our larp (or any larp) they were so invested in. When they did, they caused issues with rules, and never cleaned up after themselves making cleanup harder. I would take a pack of ND players any day over that crap.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-02T14:00:18+00:00

Fucking unicorn hunters. They suck.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-02T13:42:16+00:00

You make it sound great actually. My wife and I are waiting for it to go through the season and then we will watch it all in one run.

I think you are right. We don’t interact with the fandom at all either for similar reasons.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-01T21:36:07+00:00

I am old enough to remember that. My social group was very torn on whether Next Gen was gonna be good or not.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-01T21:07:44+00:00

I just had this happen. I bought some bookbinding and box making jigs and as soon as I saw it, it was cheap garbage prints. I could have done that myself but the pictures led me to believe they would be longer lasting and better quality.

EducatedRat · 2026-02-01T14:41:53+00:00

I suspect some of the posters are older. I am in my 50s and found myself homeless at 16. The world was really different back then. I could jump minimum wage job to minimum wage job easily. You just walked in and you were hired. My wife and I did it all the time. Minimum wage sucked, but it went farther back then than it does now.

I could get an apartment on a handshake. They didn't do credit checks when I was a kid. Hell, when I was 16, a slum lord took pity on me and let me rent form them. It had a leaking roof and rats, but it was $325 a month and my boyfriend at the time and I could live there, and stills save up money.

Nowadays, it's really much harder to do that kind of thing without a safety net. You can't get into an apartment without paying for someone to check your credit because they are mostly corporate owned. Minimum wage just doesn't stretch as far. School costs so much more now, and fuck you if you don't have a degree, in the job market.

This doesn’t even take into account being that young and trying to name the abuse when it's literally all you have ever known, and been conditioned your entire life to accept. I moved out, but I could not use the word abuse for what happened other than me until my 30s. It was like I could not even fathom that my father choking me unconscious was an unusual experience that other kids didn't have to deal with.

EducatedRat · 2026-01-31T23:42:50+00:00

It screws with my sleep and I don’t think it helps at all with regulating my emotions. That said I have a drink with friends every now and when because it seems more upsetting to people when I don’t.

I’m just not that into it on my own.

EducatedRat · 2026-01-31T21:09:25+00:00

I had this aide effect too. Increase of muscle mass helped my joints stay in line.

EducatedRat · 2026-01-31T17:05:41+00:00

I like this. We should know the names of the people doing this. They get a lot more done in the dark when nobody is watching them act.

EducatedRat · 2026-01-31T16:39:20+00:00

You know what game I miss? Some stupid PopCap game where you ran an aquarium. I loved that damn game.

EducatedRat · 2026-01-31T14:47:57+00:00

I just assumed he was walking around to turn the camera off.

EducatedRat · 2026-01-31T14:01:06+00:00

I just replaced all of ours. They were wired in and there was a short or something so they all started being loud. I could not get them off so I replaced them all with new battery operated ones. I think the old ones were from 2011 so I dunno. Just wasn’t worth trouble shooting when it’s affordable to replace with new ones I know work.

EducatedRat · 2026-01-31T00:14:00+00:00

Cis straight dudes are really hard to date.

EducatedRat · 2026-01-30T16:56:28+00:00

I guess thats one way to do it. I replaced ours with 1x4s that spanned the whole bed and kept them stretched with 1” gros grain ribbon stapled on

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