https://x.com/spencerhakimian/status/1926790735723913702?s=46

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.

I opened my trading app and saw futures were up a little. So naturally I went straight to truth social. [image: 1748213504815-bd6c797a-a6a3-45f4-a256-e65141f0b718-image.png] What I am relieved by about this one, is that the setup and rug-pull happened entirely between sessions. No chance of cronies trading inside info.

@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.

@jon-nyc needs to meme that.

If he descends into complete irrelevance, a confession might still be in the cards. That note reads like he still has a career, and maybe he does.

@taiwan_girl said in Tucci in Italy: @Horace Where are you going in Italy? Florence and then Tuscany. I'm looking forward to the steak restaurants. I'll probably have to avoid the exact one Tucci talked about, since it'll be overwhelmed by American tourists. With my new diabetes diet I can't really eat much in the way of pasta or pizza or desserts, but maybe I'll cheat a little bit.

The best people.

You don’t want Constitution Ave. to be the next Broughton Suspension Bridge.

https://lawandsocietymagazine.com/expert-have-named-musks-doge-involvement-one-of-the-greatest-brand-destructions/ The prominent US marketing professor Scott Galloway said Elon Musk’s decision to implement brutal job and spending cuts within the federal government on behalf of the Trump administration was “one of the greatest brand destructions” ever. and “He’s alienated the wrong people,” Galloway remarked. “Three-quarters of Republicans would never consider buying an EV. So he’s cozied up to the people who aren’t interested in EVs.” Galloway also rattled off figures maintaining that Tesla’s sales were down 59% in France, 81% in Sweden, 74% in the Netherlands, 66% in Denmark, 50% in Switzerland and 33% in Portugal.

I didn’t finish because I got an offer from Credit Suisse which I couldn’t refuse.

Smart snail.

It’s been glitchy for a couple of days

He created his own problem. But he did not sound Afghani to me.

So a future meme and movie trope may be "he's so poor he could only afford to burn penny bills"?