cfoh.bsky.social
husband of one, dad of two, professor of business, resident of Cincinnati, advocate of EVs, listener of music, rider of motorcycles, avoider of yardwork, devourer of ice cream
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Nice! I knew there was a story there. :-)
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We got our refund in like 2 weeks...filed a few weeks ago. May happen faster than you expect, especially if nothing triggers a human review.
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How did this event come to be? Her book seems a bit outside your normal genre, yes? I'm not complaining...just curious.
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Sure, but really...do you think anyone at the IRS is going to notice right now with everything that's going on?
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That would indeed be the presumed stance if we still lived in a country where the law mattered and checks-and-balances remained intact.
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[points at majority of Joe Satriani tracks]
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Calm your tits. Your original reply to me was essentially a variant of Hitchens' razor, which is why I referred you to it. Srsly...get a grip.
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Word auto-correcting "--" to "—” is one of my favorite things.
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I refer you to Hitchens' razor.
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So if you were trying to create a scenario where businesses hunker down, hoard cash, and try to just weather out the storm -- you know, exactly the OPPOSITE of what Trump's telling industry he wants them to do (build domestic capacity, etc.) -- this is exactly the kind of situation you'd create.
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...and your statement is STILL true
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C'mon, Hank...this is social media. You really think people come here for critical thinking and de-escalation of their irrational fears?
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another example of "survivor bias"
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It's like what I imagine you'd get if brutalist architecture was applied to industrial food processing equipment.
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Republicans have long seen Orwell's work as a manual rather than a warning.
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FTA: "As I’ve said before, complaining that Christians have it rough is like saying the problem with racism in America is that it really hurts white people."
Isn't that exact argument the heart of their anti-DEI messaging?
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Corruption as blatant and in-our-faces as...as...I am legit struggling to think of a case more wantonly and egregiously corrupt as this.
This is nothing more than an oligarch carving off a piece of the federal government to monetize and privatize. Hell, Putin was less overt with Gazprom!
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You bet...this is important and valuable info.
*fin bump*
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Anyone who thinks a guy who called neo-Nazis "very fine people" actually cares about the well-being of Jews is probably also going to believe that a guy who bankrupted casinos will be good at managing our national economy.
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Tribalism is a powerful force...and the billionaires know how to exploit it.
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Overt demonstrations of unwavering loyalty are typical in fascist states.
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That's in addition to 25% "sectoral" tariffs on steel & autos. Plus pharma tariffs coming.
Firms still have no idea what tariffs will be in 90 days, so are pausing investment decisions.
We are significantly worse off today than we were pre-"Liberation Day" and press coverage should reflect that
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It is exceedingly rare now that anyone lives such a removed life that none of their actions have implications for anyone else.
Minimizing the importance of those externalities, or ignoring them entirely, requires an extreme degree of selfishness.
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... some knock-on effect or benefit -- "externalities" in economist-speak -- for others.
We can't burn trash piles because smoke wafts into an asthmatic's window (and there's the risk of the fire becoming uncontrolled).
We can't play music super loud outside because it'll bother our neighbors.
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... For example, they help keep kids from being orphaned and help reduce healthcare costs (and the insurance premiums the rest of us pay when someone gets badly injured).
Then I realized that almost every policy that affects/inhibits an individual has ...
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That will be my "dancing in the street day" fr