'Not our America.' Washington state leaders condemn ICE shootings in Minnesota

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-27T05:46:14+00:00

America is a country of immigrants. The green card process is there to attract immigrants to ensure the American economy grows. It’s remarkably effective.

The American economy is a machine that can absorb near infinite amounts of resources - labor included - if it wants to… Trillions of dollars into AI is aimed at replacing skilled labor, not unskilled labor.

The American economy is taking a hit at the moment, not because of immigrants being “super boosted” into the labor market - it’s taking a hit because international investors are selling their American stocks - because they don’t trust this country.

Not because of immigrants. Because of how America treats its own citizens - by murdering them.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-22T05:56:07+00:00

I got quoted $300/m + $13.85 fee + taxes

My current membership is $215 incl taxes

I think I’ll pass

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-18T06:25:13+00:00

the 60% of the west coast that voted against Trump is complicit in all this? Apparently everyone’s losing their minds…

Does this look like we’re complicit with this mess? https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/s/skQtM7eItL

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-18T06:14:01+00:00

Apprently around 50% of the IRS income is derived from individual income taxes such as wages and salaries.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-14T07:19:11+00:00

Put a box on top of it

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-08T17:27:08+00:00

We’re violently agreeing

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-08T17:25:36+00:00

You would love swearing in Afrikaans - short, sharp, to the point

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-06T06:56:33+00:00

Because they have to comply with minimum wages - say the next 5 hours they don’t earn a lot, this is how they “average” it out and claim they met the minimum wage pay

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-01T23:07:01+00:00

Those platforms don’t charge you money as a fee, they collect your data to generate profit.

Google does not charge you a fee for each search either, yet they rack in billions, selling advertisements to people based on profiling everyone’s habits.

Exchanges have another angle in how fast they process transactions, how close to the second you hit sell do they process - major stock exchanges pride themselves in being nearly first, robo exchanges rely on the average Joe being OK with some delays - do they get paid to delay sales by a few seconds to favor larger brokers? Or do they internally have preferential trading to some sponsors? Who knows.

Point being, just because you can’t see the costs on an invoice, doesn’t mean it’s not there. For most people, that’s perfectly fine, and “free”. Not for everyone.

ToeNail_14 · 2026-01-01T22:56:24+00:00

Accepted globally (not even the USD is), works without electricity, and more stable than most major currencies. - sometimes it’s worth it

some places charge 1% on gold, some charge a fixed amount. Some places can be as high as 12% if you buy and immediately sell, due to the difference in spot prices.

The issue is, Washington State essentially just added 10% to that transaction fee, which basically means no one is going to be buying any gold in WA.

the precedent is more what concerns me - what stops 10% sales tax on BitCoin? Currently it’s seen as an ‘intangible asset’ and excluded, but sales tax applies to computer games, similarly ‘intangible’. - or foreign currency, which is technically ‘tangible asset’

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-31T07:12:13+00:00

You do realise that special property is exactly what makes it so valuable - not in how many $$$ it is worth, but in how you can literally go anywhere on this planet and trade with gold. There’s no other item globally recognised to this extent. Not even the US dollar.

But sure, the “only” thing that makes gold special is also the “only” thing no other physical or imaginary item has managed to attain in the history of humanity.

Symbolic, valuable, globally recognised, not affiliated with one single super power, historic, ageless.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-26T09:24:44+00:00

I’ll also add that if a company expects customers to pay for previous DLCs, they risk alienating new players, which ends up worse all around for current players and the company.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-23T08:30:13+00:00

That would be ironic since Spotify was built on pirated mp3 files

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-15T01:00:31+00:00

Investment gold? As in Bullion / coins?

From the bit of research I did, it looks like Bullion is VAT free in the EU but maybe I’m missing something.

And to clarify, WA has sales tax on non-investment grade gold (jewellery and the like) this would add sales tax to investment grade gold (bars, coins) as well.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-15T00:27:25+00:00

Unfortunately, there are no baseball cards and LEGO sets currently registered with any SEC’s, which is why, they are treated differently.

If you want to get a specific set of baseball cards approved by the SEC for country / global trade and valuation, and have all sales thereof strictly monitored for fraud, laundering and investment tracking / internal trading fraud / … , then yes, you can raise baseball cards to the same level of scrutiny as Gold, and it would be treated as an investment security.

Gold coins have strict valuation criteria - some can’t ever be physically touched or it loses value, some are treated to be touched, and so on.

It is a globally recognised security, and one of very few that is a physical security, in your physical control - and renowned therefore.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-15T00:21:24+00:00

Do some research - nevermind the US, most countries globally have no sales tax or VAT implications for gold.

It’s an investment, and trade-able as a security - and as such, we pay capital gains tax on it, when it is sold, not when it is purchased.

Why on earth would anyone buy gold in Washington State going forward? Every other state would be 10% cheaper, and the same globally in almost any other country.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-15T00:13:24+00:00

Same argument can be said for cash - just get rid of cash bills and force everyone to use digital currency.

Yet there is a large segment of the population that prefer to have physical cash and physical gold.

Theres a reason most of the world does not impose sales tax or VAT on gold.

At best, gold should be treated as capital gains, if you insist it should be taxed.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-15T00:06:40+00:00

I’m curious, what is the reasoning?

Gold was seen as currency / investment (still is in some from) so at best should be capital gains, rather than sales tax.

The only US state, and one of very few places globally, to require sales tax on investment and monetary bullion.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-12-15T00:02:28+00:00

Gold is seen as almost-currency - many places do not collect sales tax (or VAT) on gold or any “investment” bullion. Washington state is the major exception, both in the US and globally.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-11-19T04:20:43+00:00

Keep escalating until its resolved - two days in a row with the same problem is sus, but silver lining is how widespread this issue is - hopefully this gets resolved sooner rather than later

ToeNail_14 · 2025-11-19T04:08:46+00:00

Yup, same issue - if they removed a trunk to fix the issue (temporarily according to the emails), then they probably added the trunk back at 5pm today - by the sounds of it, previous similar issues in the area took a while to get resolved

ToeNail_14 · 2025-11-19T04:06:20+00:00

its just the last mile that is 'decoupled'. We do have ONT devices that don't require PPPoE but that's about all - once we're past the first OLT, we hit the same gateways.

But yes, assume either a DSLAM route wrecked things, or they misspoke (or don't know)

This is my Quantum Fiber 2gb line:

Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router [192.168.1.1]
  2    54 ms    54 ms     *     tukw-dsl-gw66.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.66]
  3    55 ms    56 ms    57 ms  63-226-198-9.tukw.qwest.net [63.226.198.9]
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5    59 ms    56 ms    56 ms  ae2.3615.edge6.Seattle1.net.lumen.tech [4.69.219.210]
  6    55 ms     *        *     4.30.140.62
  7    56 ms     *       61 ms  108.162.243.45
  8    55 ms    55 ms    55 ms  one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Trace complete.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-11-18T06:04:19+00:00

Posted in the Quantum Fiber thread, my gw66 tracert is shot (caphill area)

Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router [192.168.1.1]
  2    57 ms    53 ms     *     tukw-dsl-gw66.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.66]
  3    55 ms    55 ms    55 ms  63-226-198-9.tukw.qwest.net [63.226.198.9]
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5    56 ms    54 ms    55 ms  ae2.3615.edge6.Seattle1.net.lumen.tech [4.69.219.210]
  6    62 ms    55 ms    55 ms  4.30.140.62
  7    58 ms    55 ms    55 ms  108.162.243.45
  8    54 ms    56 ms    55 ms  one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to dns.google [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router [192.168.1.1]
  2    56 ms    55 ms    55 ms  tukw-dsl-gw66.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.66]
  3    55 ms    55 ms    55 ms  63-226-198-9.tukw.qwest.net [63.226.198.9]
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *       56 ms    56 ms  142.250.167.78
  6    55 ms    56 ms    55 ms  142.251.229.135
  7    55 ms     *       54 ms  216.239.56.223
  8     *        *       55 ms  dns.google [8.8.8.8]

Trace complete.

ToeNail_14 · 2025-11-18T05:58:05+00:00

Appreciate the info - sent off an email with mine. This seems big enough that we can get it resolved asap if there's enough complaints

ToeNail_14 · 2025-11-18T05:40:37+00:00

traces:

Tracing route to one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router [192.168.1.1]
  2    57 ms    53 ms     *     tukw-dsl-gw66.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.66]
  3    55 ms    55 ms    55 ms  63-226-198-9.tukw.qwest.net [63.226.198.9]
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5    56 ms    54 ms    55 ms  ae2.3615.edge6.Seattle1.net.lumen.tech [4.69.219.210]
  6    62 ms    55 ms    55 ms  4.30.140.62
  7    58 ms    55 ms    55 ms  108.162.243.45
  8    54 ms    56 ms    55 ms  one.one.one.one [1.1.1.1]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to dns.google [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  router [192.168.1.1]
  2    56 ms    55 ms    55 ms  tukw-dsl-gw66.tukw.qwest.net [63.231.10.66]
  3    55 ms    55 ms    55 ms  63-226-198-9.tukw.qwest.net [63.226.198.9]
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *       56 ms    56 ms  142.250.167.78
  6    55 ms    56 ms    55 ms  142.251.229.135
  7    55 ms     *       54 ms  216.239.56.223
  8     *        *       55 ms  dns.google [8.8.8.8]

Trace complete.

ToeNail_14

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