I took the day off today, so I wasn’t even thinking about the links until about 30 minutes ago. This will be reflected in the (lack of) quality of the links.
- Gosh, I wonder why people think California is a terribly high tax place?
- Japan…very metal.
- How could you tell?
- Leave Swiss watches alone!
Music is on you. Comments are open and yours.
I personally wonder why other states haven’t simply refused to have sporting events in California and/or refuse to honor their greedy “we will tax your income as we see fit even if you live out of state!” crap.
Sorry you have a case of the Mondays, Swiss… hope you’ve still got your red Swingline at least.
ISTR that every state has some version of the jock taxes.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised — as (like hotel and other “visitor” taxes) it is an easy target for the mob to vote themselves other people’s money and all.
I’m not aware of another state that taxes you at over 100% though. (If I’m reading that right.)
If NFL players were smart THIS is where they’d play the race card. Get a bunch of black dudes who hate taxes together and get them to bitch about how it’s unfairly burdening successful black men.
It gets really fun when the leagues start complaining about the unfair advantages of low income tax states.
I always wonder why a star in any sport playing in place like Florida or Tennessee would ever accept a trade or offer to go to a team in CA or NY.
See Neph’s comment above – the lack of taxes are part of the pitch by teams like the Bucs. Which other teams promptly complain about.
A) team
B) net comp
C) other intangibles
D) how many sportnaires end up broke from poor money decisions
It’s not unheard of for agents to use the tax policy of respective states in negotiating and at times teams in those states have paid a premium based on the geography.
I figured this would happen. Pro athletes should absolutely boycott. It’s bullshit to owe more than you earned.
Rolling Stones and John Lennon look back at England and smile.
All Swiss needs is a visit from ZARDOZ.
The gift of the gun will cheer him right up. That, and a cheese bacon cheeseburger.
Double cheese?
The gift of the gun will cheer him right up. That, and a cheese bacon cheeseburger.
I could use that too.
A bacon cheeseburger fixes many problems.
Not as many as a cheese bacon cheeseburger.
Obligatory
NEMOPHILA – THE TROOPER ( Iron Maiden )
https://youtu.be/C4pJh88-P4U?si=GDdBH9ir_XDO15QR
Is that about people with a disturbing love for clown fish?
Are you saying they are…
(puts on sunglasses)
Clown Triggering?
(why, yes, I do have an ex-girlfriend with a dr. in Marine Bio)
NEMOPHILA
Solid.
Japan…very metal.
It’s been fun to watch. My Japanese friends are “conflicted” roughly 2 unhappy and 1 mostly happy. My younger Japanese teacher, surprisingly, seems the most enthusiastic.
Kimi Onoda is who she’s got tackling immigration and foreigner caused issues. The fact that her father is American and she naturalized as a Japanese citizen has given her amazing cover to tackle the issues. It’s been a hoot to watch the press tie itself up in knots because their usual tactics don’t work on someone with a foreign parent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimi_Onoda
Japanese went full anti-immigration when their native population dropped from 99% to 98%. They really are smarter than us.
*cough* they’ve always been anti-immigration
No more non-residents taking JLPT!
In Japan itself.
Partly in response to timezone cheating. You can guess from where. However, it’s going to cause some problems. For example, my good friend is a Japanese teacher there. One of her students is a properly admitted Ukrainian refugee. She actually passed N2 and is studying for N1.
I think there are some exemptions, but haven’t felt the need to go deeper. If it wasn’t for the timezone cheating I think it’s probably not a the best thing. If someone is going to the trouble of taking a language proficiency exam it would seem he or she wants to integrate.
Yes, or short term students taking it while they’re there.
Speaking of test advantages. Cisco gives extra time to exam takers in non-English countries regardless of the taker’s own proficiency. I’ve considered doing it on a vacation.
When I hear “activist shareholder” I think “asshat.” Considering none of Steven Wood’s proposals were detailed in the news article I think my assessment is correct.
I don’t even need the “shareholder” part these days.
I don’t know who that is but I was literally expecting some “divest from Israel” flapdoodle.
It can be asshattery, such as several activist shareholders were pushing DEI initiatives at several of the companies I held stock in, in 2022 and 2023. It can also be someone who is fed up with management rewarding itself while the company is in a nosedive losing market share as well as share value. A good example of that happened to Cleveland Cliffs several years back. The activist investor was successful in ousting the top management and installing several new board members and turned around a company that was on the brink of bankruptcy the way the old management was running it.
hey
It is a timely discussion even if it is setting off some alarms.
On on hand I agree, but on the other hand, I have doubts.
I think that shareholder is a ticking time bomb.
He won’t be fobbed off.
*narrows gaze*
You guys wound him up!
He seems ticked!
Watch out!
You know, annoying Swiss can lead to complications.
Time to split.
I second that.
It is hard to see the bezel through the timepiece.
We’ll be fine if we band together.
This is such a regular thing, almost like clockwork.
Swatch’s founding Hayek family, which has a quarter of the capital, controls 43% of the voting rights thanks to registered shares with enhanced voting rights. This makes it very difficult for a minority shareholder such as Wood to obtain a seat without support.
Their brands and Rolex dominate the high end watch market. LVMH is like a distant third.
The days have been dubbed “duty days,” and after the Seahawks touched down in NorCal on Feb. 1, Darnold and the rest of his team accumulated eight days total by playing in Santa Clara on Sunday night.
You can’t just sneak into the state and make money. That’s stealing.
California: Land of Opportunism.
Unless you sneaked (snuck?) over from Mexico.
Yeah, for that they give you free healthcare.
In Soviet Union, border sneak over YOU.
I vaguely remember megacorp telling us that we needed to keep track of days spent in various states when on business travel. If enough days accumulated we would be subject to state income taxes in those states.
I haven’t been on a business trip in years, but I do remember this “warning” coming out of HR.
We’ve gone “mostly remote” but had to have a public talking-to regarding working outside of your designated “home”.
It’s mostly aimed at the Indians who’d like to go see family for a couple of months but just work from there while they do so. The Indian tax authorities _really_ want their cut.
I was just today thinking it’d be nice to do an extended working visit elsewhere this year but it would 100% be a “don’t ask, don’t tell” situation.
Yeah… in my perfect world it would be a matter of where the office is, not the remote worker so people could live where they want.
And monkeys might fly out of my butt, I know….
SDF-7:
Why do you hate local tax municipalities so much?
/looks back to all the stories lamenting the WFH moves that “gutted” city centers of tax
cattlerevenueI wonder if Darnold has a “Win the super bowl bonus” clause in his contract.
The facilities guy at a northern Minnesoda YMCA camp had a “wind is nukin'”clause in his contract. If the wind was nukin’ and nothing was on fire or spewing sewage, he could take the afternoon off to go wind surfing.
Meanwhile, in Italy
Swiss racer Franjo von Allmen brought home the first gold medal at the Milan Cortina Games by winning the downhill on Saturday. It’s his first Olympic crown in his very first Olympic race.
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“I had fun with the skiing today,” von Allmen said.
More gold for the gnomes.
So, what does that activist want Swatch to do, run on united colored people of Beneton time?
I imagine something like that.
Hayek ran it like it was his fiefdom and employs a bunch of his family.
I’m sure there is wee bit that can be cut.
OTH,
Breguet VS Patek Philippe isn’t even close.
Sam Darnold should get a mile named after him on the California high speed rail. Though since it costs about $200/mile to build, he really would get only a few feet named after him.
That should be $200 million/mile.
I’m not aware of another state that taxes you at over 100% though. (If I’m reading that right.)
Taxed on total annual income, per days in California. I think it said Darnold is making ~$30million.
Ah. Yeah, I think a lot of states do that.
Maybe he can deduct it from his Washington taxes.
No income tax in Washington state.
You know what, I’m wrong: https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/income-tax-by-state/washington-108568/
*to be clear, Washington has a new capital gains tax (I would call that an income tax) and are very close to enacting their own millionaire tax/jock tax.
GLIB EMAIL UPDATE: Glibs email is working again, at least for me. Unfortunately, address books and old messages did not migrate.
Yay!
Can I send you an article?
Please.
tonio [at] glibertarians (dot) com?
Dat’s a mi!
Does that mean you’ve lost contributors’ actual email addresses?
I lost my glibertarians (dot) com email address book but I can still find out your email addresses, at least the one you used to register here to comment.
I’m working on something to allow me to contact people if the website is down, or gets nuked, or whatever.
I shall try it.
Check your email. If it worked, everyone can pitch in to rebuild your address book.
So, glimail?
Cool, thanks Tonio
I am in some kind of work-torture simulation at work, where people keep asking if they have a final approval, even after producing final approvals over and over. As such after three weeks people still do not have their project funding. And I am on the phone holding the hand of the finance guy, making sure he understands every word.
My project sponsor last week made the mistake of asking too many people if he could just click on agreement on a website to turn on a feature. Now it has to go through Sourcing which will take 2 to 3 months for permission to click on the button.
Is that the final approval?
At least its not a final solution.
You may have to bust off some Firsts in some asses to get things done.
Can you imagine a world where Firsts were limited by such bureaucracy?
Wood ran for a one-year term as the representative of bearer shareholders, arguing that Swiss law would grant them this right in companies such as Swatch, with a capital structure divided between bearer shares and registered shares with enhanced voting rights. Greenwood, which holds about 0.5% of the capital, believes its nomination can only be rejected for objective “important reasons”, which it says are absent in Wood’s case.
Wood seems like Al Czervik to Swatch’s Bushwood Country Club. Shut up and go away, you prick.
Swatch owns Blancpain, which is the oldest watchmaker in the world. It’s still a pretty white bread name for a company, though.
Funny, I’ve made the same dad joke.
The FBI admits, in their own document, to erasing the prison footage before and after the time of Epstein’s death.
https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/2020972363316162677
Um…as someone who’s been responsible for a lot of DVRs and a *huge number* of RAID arrays…nothing about that story indicates anything other than typical .gov laziness and incompetence. No intention, in other words.
There were Epstein conspiracies before the death which is why he was re-arrested in the first place. Public started to notice. Then he dies, people instantly doubt it, and they delete the footage. On top of being caught in multiple lies. This was not a case of some random homeless dude offing himself in a prison cell where you’d probably figure they’d shrug and move on but a high profile prisoner who was going to get public attention to a high degree.
But then we have some group of people on here who refuse to really acknowledge that anything strange is going on no matter how many oddities we find.
But yes, it can often times be hard to tell the difference between garden variety incompetence and malfeasance.
The art of is to make sure the malfeasance always looks like incompetence.
Has even one alleged victim come forward and said anything specific like “Politician XYZ was Epstein’s guest at an orgy and he screwed me even though I pleaded with him that I was only 14?’
There are 125 women who have taken money from the “Epstein Victim Fund” which was established by his estate post-death.
Of those, only a fraction are known to us. Journalists routinely cite hundreds of women as victims, so presumably there’s more than who have claimed the money. And perhaps some who claimed the money who weren’t really victims.
Only a small group are publicly known as far as I can tell.
If you are asking the question because you doubt that there were rich and famous guests at these orgies, I’d say reexamine your premises here.
I believe the girl assigned to (former) Prince Andrew did.
Here you go.
https://x.com/KlonnyPin_Gosch/status/2019937629748277659
Coincidently since then, Virginia Giuffre committed “suicide” and the interviewer’s mother was kidnapped.
EPL round 25(of 38) relegation tier update:
Safe: none
Reasonably Safe: Arsenal, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Manchester United, Chelsea
Safe for Now: Liverpool, Brentford, Everton, Sunderland, Fulham, Bournemouth, Newcastle United, Crystal Palace, Brighton
Danger Zone: Tottenham Hotspur, Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, West Ham United
Toast: Burnley, Wolverhampton
Relegated: none
West Ham has won 3 of the last 5 to put a few more teams into the danger zone. By round 27, Arsenal could be the first team mathematically safe.
There’s a lot of bullshit being spread on social media about the supposed ratings for the halftime show and the “alternative” hosted by Kid Rock. Online viewership totals from all platforms are estimated at around 25 million. Youtube alone was 5-6 million at its peak.
Think about that. The ratings for that were never going to be what the Super Bowl’s will end up being, but that’s a whole lot of people who were alienated enough to watch that shit mostly out of spite.
We don’t have the actual numbers or even estimates for the halftime show yet and won’t have anything really until tomorrow. But social media is filled with lies and propaganda on the subject.
But try as they might, the Super Bowl remains an American event. Over 2-3x as many people watch the game in America than globally. They picked a performer who was GUARANTEED to piss off roughly half the country on principle.
How do you pass that off as a “good” business decision? I just don’t see it. Old white dudes griping about the half time show is one thing. Pissing them off by politicizing it (and I’m real tired of the left leaning douches saying there was nothing political about it – not aimed at people here on this site really) was just beyond stupid to me.
Some decentportion of the audience paid less attention and/or turned off the game to watch an alternative event that still had a bunch of music they probably don’t care for just to say fuck you to the NFL.
Some people had been citing numbers posted on CBS News that claimed 130+ million estimated viewers for the halftime.
They had to retract that report because it was utter bullshit, though as usual the damage is already done. Other progagandists got to cite it for their own stories and on social media.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to remove a reference to viewership numbers, which had not been released as of Monday.
It’s so supremely shitty, that I’ve concluded that Obama had a hand in it.
I’ve seen some people who really ought to know better claiming with a straight face it was the NFL trying to internationalize the game, like with the London games and shit.
At last some good news: Skyline Chili brings back popular deal, sweepstakes for National Chili Day
Politics on social media and the end result of the Epstein files –
Progressives and conservatives arguing about which side is dominated the most by potential pedophiles.
I know that there is no peak derp. That is it an infinite resource in theory. But my mind cannot fathom more derp than this. The Epstein files had a purpose, could have a purpose. But it’s been latched onto by your average garden variety idiot, the propagandized and easily misled. And their tiny brains don’t know how to make sense of any of this outside the realm of team politics.
With most names and all photos and videos redacted, it’s mostly a tease – and an open defiance of a law passed by Congress.
Howard Lutnick and Steve Bannon’s names were released, others weren’t. Why?
I think I’ve said this before here, but anyone who thinks we aren’t still getting a somewhat selective leak of what the government has is clueless.
The intelligence agencies have plenty of shit written about Epstein that will never see the light of day.
average garden variety idiot
Oh, you mean the good, common folk of the land.
bad cattitude has a pretty even analysis of what’s been released.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/what-the-epstein-dump-is-and-is-not
I dig the reference to PIzzagate. The emails that I’m told were a big nothing burger for conspiracy nuts in which pepole who felt pretty free to talk openly about a lot of shit on their private email accounts STILL felt the need to use clear code to refer to something that we still can’t identify.
And then it was roughly the same time that Epstein was rising in the conscious of many who pay attention. With a Clinton connection to boot.
I don’t *know* that Podesta and those rat fucks were talking about fucking children, but why would it surprise me? They were talking about something pretty bad because they wouldn’t have used code otherwise.