@jon-nyc said in And now, the corruption.: My god. Guy gets convicted of using his employees payroll tax money for personal use. Gets 18mo sentence plus he has to pay restitution of 4.4MM. His mother went to one of those ‘meet the president for $1M’ dinners and three weeks later he gets pardoned. And another pardon - this time a couple: In June 2022, they were accused of falsifying documents to defraud Atlanta banks out of more than $30 million through fraudulent loans. They also hid millions of dollars from the IRS that they earned from their show “Chrisley Knows Best,” a federal jury found. Back in February, their attorney told NBC that Trump was “seriously” considering pardoning the Chrisleys. https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-pardons-todd-julie-tax-evasion-bank-fraud-1236411269/

ChatGPT’s words: Trump’s framing of a “spinoff with guarantees” underscores the asymmetry: it would remove federal control while preserving federal support — a setup many critics view as “heads Wall Street wins, tails taxpayers lose.”

I have a friend who has a catering business in Champaign/Urbana, and it is one of her favorite restaurants. She recommend to me, but it was too crowded the night I went by there.

@xenon said in Social Media vetting for student visas: Stuff like this has such a chilling effect on tourism. I know a bunch of Canadians who just don't want to bother with the border any more https://fortune.com/2025/05/23/us-could-lose-23-billion-gdp-230000-jobs-foreign-tourists-trump-tariffs/ Tariff bluster, canceled visas, and enhanced screening at border crossings and other checkpoints may be pushing foreigners to put a pin in their plans to visit the U.S. this year. The impacts could ripple through America’s economy. A 10% drop in international tourism this year—based on the decline in foreign visitors to the U.S. by air in March—could cost America $23 billion in gross domestic product and the equivalent of roughly 230,000 jobs, according to estimates from Implan chief economist Jennifer Thorvaldson.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Leo weighs in: @Mik said in Leo weighs in You really have to ask? I think I'll go with Doctor O'Toole. After all, I do have a bit of the Irish in me. Is it Michael Fitzpatrick or Patrick Fitzmichael?

@jon-nyc said in Is Trump souring on Israel?: @LuFins-Dad said in Is Trump souring on Israel?: Witkoff? More like jagoff when it comes to these international negotiations. The guy doesn’t have the cojones that you would think Trump would want in these situations. The only person Trump hired that was qualified to do the job was Stormy Daniels. The toadstool whisperer?

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/georgia-civil-war-108886

@jon-nyc said in ChatGPT: Nate Silver has a long substack post today about how surprisingly bad ChatGPT is at poker. I've heard it plays chess like AlphaZero had a cousin that was in a serious car accident after smoking crack.

@Doctor-Phibes said in tncr is sick: There's nothing sicker than a bunch of grown men talking about shoes. What would that priest from the Overseas Russian Church think of this talk??!!

@Horace said in 85 years ago today: [image: 1748271801768-a44b8fd7-0ac3-4759-86b6-09a7bfbada8a-image.png] 21,000,000 million illegals entered America. Let that sink in. That's 21,000,000,000,000. That's around 20 billion COVIDs. Dude I almost spit my drink all over t3h keyboard.

Missed the point. It’s not about being jealous of their electrical capacity, it’s making fun of the idea that western nations can stop carbon loading of the atmosphere.

I think it is fair to say he was being purposefully and stupidly provocative at an extremely sensitive anti-war protest rally. Probably removed and held overnight by police for his own safety. All charges were dropped. To be succinct, seems he was a numpty looking for trouble by holding someone elses placard.

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My bad. Thanks for letting me know

I think his time at DOGE is like the story of the Greece boy who flew too close to the sun.

Sad but very nice and heartwarming.

Since ROCOR falls under the Moscow Patriarchy, you can be assured it is co-opted. Lock, stock and barrel. A fish rots from its head.

@Horace said in Cavity search and deportation of a US Soldier’s wife: @Axtremus said in Cavity search and deportation of a US Soldier’s wife: @Horace said in Cavity search and deportation of a US Soldier’s wife: If factual, then at worst, one can weave a narrative of an emboldened immigration officer at the airport, going rogue and completely mad. Nah … you’d figure that would be multiple reviews and approvals by supervisors and supervisors of supervisors before a visitor is put on a return flight. You can argue whether it’s a large systemic issue or small systemic breakdown, but not the doing of one rogue agent. How many entries have there been even at that airport, and how many of these anecdotes do we have? How systemic do you suppose it could possibly be? My other anecdote was while waiting in line in Boston, a middle-aged Indian woman who was being interviewed absolutely and totally lost it, and became completely hysterical. Eventually she had to be restrained and escorted out by a bunch of immigration officials. As we were riding the elevator down, one of the people who'd been interviewing her turned to us and said 'All we did was tell her she couldn't have an aisle seat'. I'm afraid I LOL'd.

@mark said in Should we consider transitioning to an S Corp?: I got out of that mess a few years ago. Dissolved my S Corp and work mostly for W2 income now. I still do some side hustle work which is 1099 based. I I went that way too. My LLC still technically exists but it wasn’t worth bothering with. With W2 I could collect unemployment between gigs. As I got older I got pickier about what Work I’d take. And don’t get me started on the Covid bonanza.

And it’s Chinese.