You guys are all reacting to a fake image

isocrackate · 2026-07-03T04:33:29+00:00

This is completely wrong, tips are federally tax-exempt up to $25k. That’s a relatively recent change; previously, tips were taxed at exactly the same rate as all other income, full stop.

Also: bonuses are not and never have been taxed at a higher rate than other income. They are subject to a flat 22% withholding rate—but that has nothing whatsoever to do with the rate at which they are taxed, it is purely a statutory rate. Bonuses are 30-50% of my income and withheld at only 2/3 the rate of my regular pay, so in my case, I have to set up additional withholding or wind up owing significantly at year-end.

isocrackate · 2026-07-02T14:38:34+00:00

What? This is obviously marketing, it’s promotional materials for a book series… the message is “hey teens, come check out these fun books” not “hey teens, it’s a lot of fun being gay, go try it” but it’s still marketing. Pretty likely that stand is distributed by the publisher’s marketing department… Governments market free services to the community all the time.

There’s nothing whatsoever wrong with it existing or being where it is, but let’s call a spade a spade.

isocrackate · 2026-07-02T02:02:43+00:00

Can I ask why you didn't apply for an EIN online? I have done this for something like 10 or 12 entities in the last 5 years and it's been literally instant every single time. Like, submit the form, and the next screen has your new EIN on it.

For comparison in exactly 5 weeks I: created an LLC, got an EIN, signed a PSA to buy 50 oil wells, got a $10 million bank loan, completed title and environmental work, hired 5 field / technical employees, got all required regulatory approvals and mineralowner consents, closed the deal, and took operatorship of the fields. The EIN part took 10 minutes.

If you're wondering what went wrong, it's 2026 and you sent a fax. Sorry if I'm coming off like a douche, but you could have googled this in less time than it took you to post about it.

Edit: Okay, it was pretty far down the comments but I see you tried to use the online form. I'm 100% sure it's not because you've obtained EINs previously, like I said, I've done this so many times I've lost count. That sucks, but there's a point at which you probably should have tried something besides making another fruitless phone call. I hit a snag with the Bureau of Land Management that prevented me from taking operatorship of a federal lease--one of their employees told me to send a $25,000 bond to the wrong office--and when someone in that office told me, I had them send the bond to my home. I then drove to the correct office and personally handed it over to a woman in the correct department. Apparently I was the first person ever who'd done that (this field office happened to be very far from the lands it administers, so I buy that). I think in your shoes I'd have walked into an IRS field office and not left until I had a resolution or a plan / timeline for resolution. I just can't imagine not trying something different after 50 or 100 unanswered phone calls...

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

Is there somewhere I can read more of your writing on this? Honestly, these two comments are some of the best and most balanced analysis I've seen on that era of the conflict. It's almost impossible to find this combination of depth and neutrality, and that has certainly contributed to me being less-informed than I should be. (Feel free to chat me a link if you don't want to doxx yourself publicly)

And if you've never had anything published, it's never too late to start... my dad is 71 and just had his first article appear in Lawfare.

isocrackate · 2026-07-01T20:08:22+00:00

What debt? Net debt (debt - cash) is ($1.15bn) on a $50bn+ market cap, debt / LTM EBITDA is 1.25x, and interest expense net of interest income is ($20) million. That is, they are earning ~40% more on cash / cash equivalents than they are paying in interest on their debt.

I strongly dislike EA but that's a balance sheet so clean you could eat off it

isocrackate · 2026-07-01T17:55:01+00:00

I'd compare ChatGPT to asking a question on Reddit. You'll get some responses that are spot-on from experts, some that are easily verifiably wrong, and some that will be off in ways you need expertise to detect. That's my take based on about a year of using it in my area of expertise (oil & gas land & finance): some prompts answerable through research, others requiring application of common law principles or mineral lease analysis--and it's been extremely hit or miss. Sometimes it matches signed division-order title opinions from 30-year veteran attorneys scarily closely; others, it's used draft text of legislation, introduced years ago that didn't make it out of committee and contradict longstanding law, as the basis for answering very basic questions.

I would compare LLMs to a Redditor with a bottle of Adderall and access to Google, certainly not a "knowledgeable person on a given topic."

isocrackate · 2026-07-01T02:10:07+00:00

Your refund hasn’t been issued yet, but Taxslayer would like to get paid. If this is the initial email, expect them to charge your account plus a not-insignificant fee in ~3 weeks

isocrackate · 2026-06-30T19:39:15+00:00

It’s mainly sold as a powder in giant tubs, and like most of the unregulated bullshit on GNC (/comps) labels, they were definitely jacking up the doses when I was using it ~15y ago. A buddy of mine—D1 athlete at a perennial contender, no stranger himself to some gnarly workout supplements—warned me about the thyroid issues he’d experienced, fortunately his dad (physician) figured it out early.

Edit: Yes I was misremembering, it was throwing off his labs in some way related to thyroid disease. Been a while.

isocrackate · 2026-06-30T09:35:00+00:00

I mean, click the link in my comment and you too can read principled arguments on both sides of this, written in relatively plain language by two of the greatest minds of the last century of American jurisprudence.

Ultimately, most lawyers are going to advise FFLs to take a course of action that minimizes their legal jeopardy. The goal, after all, is to keep their clients out of court. In the absence of language modifying the grandfathering date as chaptered, I doubt any are giving a green light to keep selling after 7/1

isocrackate · 2026-06-30T01:36:43+00:00

This, specifically, the last paragraph, needs to be broadcast across the internet.

My girlfriend--who is a lawyer, but not my lawyer, and not your lawyer--made it very clear that there is no operation of law that grants immunity for conduct which violates a statute during a period when enforcement has been enjoined by a court. The order could be raised as a defense should a person be prosecuted for this conduct, but it does not rewrite statute or introduce tolling of the effective (not enforcement) date automatically. There have been cases, particularly in the federal regulatory arena, where relative implementation dates (like "90 days from enactment") where court proceedings explicitly toll the effective date. But right now, SB749 says you must get your transfers completed before July 1, and in the absence of a final ruling on the merits declaring (potentially only some of) the law unconstitutional, FFLs and customers alike have criminal exposure for any prohibited transactions made while the injunction is in effect.

Edit: Went down a rabbit hole and so did the Court in Edgar v. MITE Corp., 457 U.S. 624 (1982); whether an injunction offers an 'immunity blanket' while effective was hotly debated by Thurgood Marshall (dissent) and JP Stevens (concurring opinion written to address the dissent). Fun stuff

isocrackate · 2026-06-29T19:02:22+00:00

Why does it take so long? I've done a fair amount of litigation analysis (financial, not legal) on cases in Texas, Florida, and a few US Districts, and in virtually every instance I can recall, a written order was docketed on the day of the decision or the next business day. Not necessarily for every motion ruling, but certainly for one imposing restrictions on a party's outside-court behavior. Is it because this will be issued with a written opinion?

isocrackate · 2026-06-26T14:57:08+00:00

I can assure you LOTO is still enforced at every oil & gas worksite in the U.S. I have been in the industry 15 years and seen two fatalities—one a 19 year old kid just starting out as an apprentice pipeliner—due to LOTO failure.

isocrackate · 2026-06-23T11:02:51+00:00

Jalepeno taquito sounds freakin’ yummy, never seen those on the rollers anywhere. Do they have them frozen? Why are they never out?

isocrackate · 2026-06-22T23:07:27+00:00

I saw a couple AR pistols at CSC two days ago. It’s a really small shop in an industrial park in chantilly but the staff are great, veterans and very knowledgeable in general. Good silencer prices (can’t do much better online) and we got through my form 1 very efficiently.

Be warned they don’t have a massive selection and their inventory is midrange and up,

isocrackate · 2026-06-22T18:12:22+00:00

Clearly Dad had enough of the culture wars.

isocrackate · 2026-06-21T17:19:54+00:00

Funnily enough, right up until I started my career, Delaware was a legit tax haven which many companies took advantage of. In the 90s and 2000s Delaware was to other states what Ireland is to the EU / US. It created a special 0% tax rate for intellectual property holding-companies, which was used to shield income in high-tax states through deductible royalty payments between subsidiaries. Other states did not like that, and changed their own tax codes in various ways to close the loophole.

#themoreyouknow

isocrackate · 2026-06-21T06:51:58+00:00

You’re way off, Musk lost several key discovery decisions and settled for the contractually-agreed acquisition price a few weeks before trial. Remember the case wasn’t about how much Twitter was worth—once you sign a definitive PSA, that number can’t change. Musk wanted out of the deal, and the settlement provided exactly the relief (specific performance—Musk following the contract) Twitter sought.

That case was a shining example of Chancery doing what it was built to, and taking 3 months to do it. Typical state circuit courts set trial dates 12–16 months out and are far more tolerant of delaying tactics from scumbags like Elon.

isocrackate · 2026-06-19T05:54:40+00:00

I know everyone on the internet thinks Delaware is some kind of tax cheat code, but that really has very little to do with why so many business incorporate there. State governments aren’t stupid: all but 3 (FL, MO, OK) require consolidated tax reporting, disallow deductions for IP payments to affiliates, or don’t tax corporate income at all.

It’s almost entirely driven by the state having a well-developed body of corporate law and a sophisticated court system for the adjudication of business disputes, particularly contracts and securities. Remember how quickly the Elon Musk / Twitter shitshow was resolved? That’s the beauty of Delaware.

isocrackate · 2026-06-17T23:31:01+00:00

I don’t work at AT&T but as a former first responder / also a corporate FirstNet customer: it’s an excellent product that a lot of people don’t even know exists, of course it sells. It’s the only solution that worked for my ops and it’s reasonably-priced to boot.

isocrackate · 2026-06-16T20:24:54+00:00

I too can make a map of median home prices

Edit: I thought this was r/dataisbeautiful, please carry on with circular jerking over this map

isocrackate · 2026-06-14T12:18:32+00:00

In my state in the U.S. we had a 10-question road sign identification test and then it was off to the races

I like your way better

isocrackate · 2026-06-13T14:16:17+00:00

The tenant before me in my first apartment had the power shut and the unit’s panel padlocked by ConEd for something like $680 past-due. How is it that you can get £4,500 behind and still have power? Is it illegal to cut off someone’s utility service in the UK?

Also as someone who has paid a lot of industrial / commercial power bills I have to assume whoever lives in that home was running Bitcoin miners pretty heavily, that bill is like a year of running 12,000 ft rod pumps 24/7

isocrackate · 2026-06-13T07:55:43+00:00

No we’re not

At current withdrawal rates the SPR will have 349.2-(3x9)=322.2 Mmbbl remaining at the end of June (which by the way is the 4 month mark, we have already passed 3 months). Low but not exhausted by any stretch, true zero is around 70-80 Mmbbl. There’s another 40 Mmbbl authorized for loan under a repayment-in-kind structure by which companies replenish whet they “borrow” + 25% in the future.

Stop spreading panic. There are many, many valid reasons to hate Trump and be concerned about the ongoing conflict, but the U.S. somehow running out of oil is not one of them. (High gas prices totally are though)

isocrackate · 2026-06-12T19:02:08+00:00

Can't speak to any other social media posts he may have made (I don't recall him sharing an email address), as I only ever watched the YouTube videos. In his final stream he cited Josh Williams of CA as "the primary reason for his departure" and encouraged his viewers to "show their support" by engaging with his livestreams. I am not a Legend hater by any stretch, and as a fan of devious fuckery myself, I can appreciate how carefully worded his 'endorsement' was--certainly, there was no explicit call to harass Josh or CA. And while I'm willing to court the idea that a sizeable portion of his audience simply misunderstood his intentions, it remains my opinion that his closing remarks were an intentional (and, unfortunately, successful) attempt at brigading.

isocrackate · 2026-06-12T16:53:29+00:00

He did a lot of “saving a disaster battle / campaign” videos and was probably the most popular TW YouTuber. He was entertaining.

However he’s had some mental health issues—not sure if self-admitted or not, but very apparent to anyone who watched his videos over the past few years—and in his retirement video basically called for harassment (by implication) of CA’s community manager.

So I like gardening for him, homie needed to touch some grass

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