The Tragedy

Whoever started that should be thrown in the goddamn ocean while tied to many, many bricks. And now Gen Z thinks that is what relationships are all about and don’t know anything else. In fact, they refuse to believe relationships can be based on anything but power and extraction.

It’s a profoundly demented and horrible (as well as horrifying) way to think about human relations.

Baltic

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This is about the timing I’d expect. It’d be the right season, the US is distracted in Iran and many of our important munitions have been depleted substantially.

If I were Putin, this is when I’d attack. I give this a 40% chance of occurring.

Taxes In

Gavin Newsom takes on economists and the media to claim that residents pay more tax in Texas and Florida.

LOL. Absolutely fucking not.

I pay about $2,000 more a month in taxes in California than I did in Florida. I’m still glad we moved, but Florida has extremely low taxes compared to CA. And it’d be even more taken if I hadn’t dropped my side gig.

The idea that California has lower taxes than Florida or Texas is ludicrous.

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