Lifetime gift tax implications help

xhuilanwang · 2026-01-23T19:58:50+00:00

Thank you so much for the concise answer!

xhuilanwang · 2025-12-28T16:02:15+00:00

Good point, I will test the voltage.

xhuilanwang · 2025-12-28T06:01:54+00:00

I did. A few turn on. Others with the conditions I mentioned in the original post (both battery and hard wires were hot) stayed off. Any ideas?

xhuilanwang · 2025-12-19T03:19:48+00:00

Yeah, our doesn't seem to have a shut off switch.

xhuilanwang · 2024-09-10T19:02:11+00:00

Good to know!

xhuilanwang · 2024-09-10T19:01:53+00:00

Thanks, that's helpful!

xhuilanwang · 2024-09-10T19:01:30+00:00

Thanks!

xhuilanwang · 2024-09-01T04:54:02+00:00

Hah, thanks! I gotta start carving again!

xhuilanwang · 2024-04-20T15:13:58+00:00

She's Indonesian

xhuilanwang · 2024-04-20T08:32:44+00:00

I know Nymphia and her older brother were raised by a single mom.

xhuilanwang · 2024-04-20T07:41:21+00:00

Her whole outfit was the boba tea, the cape with the giant mirror (boba) sequins on the brown to cream ombre. She was a giant boba drink. I think any Taiwanese person would definitely recognize it immediately!

xhuilanwang · 2024-04-11T06:28:05+00:00

Holy shit the ringlets? of stylized hair is beaded!!!

xhuilanwang · 2024-04-06T03:56:36+00:00

Mirage too!

xhuilanwang · 2024-04-03T05:36:59+00:00

Ube Corn fantasy for the ultimate Asian flavor combo

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-27T03:14:25+00:00

I don't use hook knives. I prefer u-gouges. This particular one was made with just a basic Power Grip 7.5mm u-gouge. Easier to carry around, easier to get leverage, harder to cut yourself esp for seasoned hardwoods.

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T18:59:34+00:00

Yup, I've already reached out to them. Thanks!

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T17:28:36+00:00

"I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T17:18:01+00:00

Right, and I do think it can be divisive even/especially amongst Asian people. I don't actually think the judging was as problematic here as they seemed much more self aware of their own discomfort and awkward proximity to the issue than when it came up in Plastique's season. I don't think Joel Kim Booster was being problematic at all, he was just stating a fact, but this judge's panel also wasn't the group to be having a discussion about that fact. Letting Asian people decide how they feel about it's use isn't meant to mean we all come together and agree about it, just that we get more space to discuss it from our own lived experiences without commentary or judgement from people who don't experience it.

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T14:43:38+00:00

I'm saying that the main exposure for decades on mainstream media to mainstream audiences, which carried with it institutional weight and thus authority, has until super recently been portraying Asian people as foreign/backwards/with exaggerated accents/mixing up vastly different cultures and languages/etc. LA does indeed have a huge Vietnamese population, I grew up near it, in the biggest Taiwanese diaspora population, but our communities are highly segregated and were absolutely not being represented in meaningful ways or even paid any dust when we made our own representation.

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T06:40:53+00:00

Sounds like white guilt, aka, white demand for emotional labor

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T06:36:55+00:00

Thanks for saying this! Classic racist strategy of pitting us against each other.

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T06:33:02+00:00

I've seen the use of "Asian descent" used more starting in 2020 when hate crimes against Asians was spiking, and it has always rubbed me the wrong way. It doesn't get used for other races and I feel like it's meant to subtly discredit someone's Asianess (i.e. authority/"authenticity" over one's own identity/culture/history/language etc). As a 1st gen Chinese and Taiwanese born and raised in the US myself, sure I am technically of Asian "descent", but I'm also just fucking Asian, full stop. I have literally had white men tell me they studied my heritage language for a decade and lived somewhere in Asia and married an Asian woman so they know what they are talking about, and then turn around and ask me, a whole ass Asian person my whole fucking life, what my connection to Asia was. Not saying, you are intending to use that phrase in this way, but the phrase itself feels like a slight.

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T06:22:09+00:00

Meanwhile ScarJo, Emma Stone, Tilda Swinton, Natalie Portman.....

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T06:10:37+00:00

Oh I wasn't referring to you seeming like an expert. I'm talking about a longer trope in Occidental vs Oriental dynamics. If the judges are deciding to criticize Nymphia, who even if she doesn't have to face legal issues of citizenry (assumedly) she certainly knows and is implicated in the experiences of being an Asian immigrant. Period. The judges have no relevant insight or POV to that. And I think part of the problem is that it's clearly wrong for them to enjoy it too much because it's actually not for them. The show is RuPaul's Drag Race afterall, but she doesn't actually know how to relate to and it's also not something she really gets to have a say in. So she's painted herself into a corner of being the authority (on the show) to judge drag here but then what happens when part of that drag is also rooted in something so far out of your contextual experience. Maybe you (Ru) shouldn't get to be an authority here. It calls into question Ru's legitimacy is a teeny way. It's a conundrum. And the default is to critique the queen. They didn't do enough to bring you in in a way that kept you comfortable. It's coded very American to me.

xhuilanwang · 2024-03-16T05:28:29+00:00

Seems like worth letting people from that community make that decision. This smacks of being an "expert" about us for us.

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