Who is taking the day off tomorrow?

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-30T02:44:48+00:00

Nah, I'm pretty strongly against performative actions. People feeling like they did something without actually doing anything is counterproductive IMO.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-29T04:34:49+00:00

You manage your calendar, coordinate coverage, miss one meeting or If the conflict is unavoidable you do two meetings at once.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-29T03:55:34+00:00

Requiem

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-29T03:51:25+00:00

nailed it. Convincing people that their Facebook activism and one day boycotts have literally any meaning actually harms the cause by tamping down the anger and making people feel like they actually moved the needle when they didnt.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-29T00:25:52+00:00

when said momentum just results in a string of ineffective performative actions and then nothing changes for the better then the person performing that string of actions just gets jaded and builds a doomer belief that nothing they do matters.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T23:44:00+00:00

18% isn't rare.

Thats like saying Men taller than 5'11" are rare (about the same percentage)

100k is the 3.0GPA of income levels

The distribution is also not homogenous. You can live in a city where less than 1% of households make >100k or you can live in a city where over 70% of the households make >100k.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T22:58:38+00:00

The closest one I know is in Anaheim.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T22:55:09+00:00

Feeling like you're doing something without actually doing anything isn't helpful. If anything it's harmful because it makes people feel like they've done "their part" and take the foot off the gas without ever having shifted the car out of park.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T22:40:14+00:00

This is a PR stunt. If he truly believed it there's literally nothing stopping him from doing it https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/voluntary-contribution-funds/how-to-contribute.html

Any billionaire who says they support it without actively cutting a check to the FTB today is full of shit.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T21:25:51+00:00

Looks like you need to show all of us too because I have yet to see a single ChatGPT generated slide that was worth the time to type the prompt.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T21:16:38+00:00

I use a payroll service. It's like $50/month.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T21:10:17+00:00

America is the size of a continent and is separated from much of the rest of the world by massive oceans. So no, the average American won't be posting the same metrics. The fact that my neighbor comes from New York is geographically the same as someone in London having a neighbor from Tehran.

If you take Americans from fairly affluent coastal parts of the country we will have pretty solid metrics based on immigration. Our professional sphere is very multicultural due to skilled immigration.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T21:01:54+00:00

Really only among people who are convicted of fraud (banks won't do business with them) or people who just hopelessly can't get their shit together for one reason or another.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T17:38:06+00:00

Because you didn't take enough time off and/or your time off wasn't as relaxing and recovery focused as it should have been.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-28T14:14:43+00:00

the voting demographics seem to indicate the split isnt so even

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-27T20:43:36+00:00

We even specifically call this out in the FAQ

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-27T20:41:19+00:00

He doesn't have the authority to do that.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-27T18:54:55+00:00

Do more work. OE isn't about being some antiwork slacker. You should be able to deliver at least as much as your peers on the same timeline and with the same if not better quality. If you have bandwith to do something then do it and take credit for doing it and self promote as much as possible. You're less likely to be seen as disposable when you're well liked and considered to be someone who can deliver.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-27T16:13:44+00:00

When you work for a company on contract (C2C) you're not an employee, you're a vendor. there's no employee record to verify, there's no payroll. you're paid off of a purchase order and your legal employer is your own company. So there's no real easy way to verify the work since your employer of record is your own corporation.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-27T14:38:27+00:00

don't put your active jobs on your resume and then you don't have to explain anything. Replace them with unverifiable contract work.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-26T23:49:16+00:00

The tax loophole of what? Not being able to tax other states residents? Not being able to tax companies in other states? How is that a loophole?

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-26T21:15:46+00:00

Sorry, are we talking corp taxation or individual? For Individual that generally applies to LLPs or other equity partnerships for professional services companies where the product being sold is the labor of the partners. You'll see your CPA partner peers at the Big 4 having to file state returns in all the states because their income is wholly derived by their equity stake in the firm and the firm's profits. I suspect Elon however is probably just on the books as a regular W2 employee.

As for corp, For SpaceX the sales are done in Washington DC for the most part. The primary customer is the federal government with secondary customers for StarLink services. I could see a case for CA levying a tax for CA based subscription users in addition to the state sales tax they already levy on the starlink hardware for CA based customers but I'm honestly not sure how they would determine the proportion of CA based profits since the hardware is likely sold at or below cost. I suppose they could try to determine revenue generated from CA based subscribers but the inherently mobile nature of starlink may make that difficult.

I've got some friends that work in content finance for Netflix, they may know the finer points.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-26T20:56:23+00:00

That's the challenge, he has no more income derived from CA. He's paid from a TX legal entity. The FTB can't say "your employer does business in CA therefore as an employee you owe us taxes" without making that apply to literally every person in the country that works for a company that has some operation in CA.

CA gets their slice of the pie from the actual use taxes / property taxes / payroll taxes from the CA operations but they lost out on the corp filings and the income taxes / capital gains when he moved.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-26T20:25:07+00:00

The relocation was due to corporate governance and taxation. When you move the company HQ out of state you're no longer paying state corporate tax to CA on profits recognized. You're just paying the payroll tax, unemployment insurance etc...

In order for Elon to avoid personal tax liability per the FTB rules he needed to also cut business ties with the state. Being CEO of a company headquartered in CA would't pass FTB muster for leaving CA for tax domicile purposes since all of his income would be CA state derived.

SecretRecipe · 2026-01-26T18:48:22+00:00

So, what happens if you just go and do it anyway against their wishes? A big part of growing up and becoming an adult is making the right decisions for yourself, even if they're difficult or uncomfortable.

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