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@moneyfetishist Furnished finder has better rooms than hotels is and more affordable than extended stay Airbnbs

genuine question : I am thinking about this for my next move has anyone here ever lived in a hotel long term? not a week or month. I mean actually lived there. like Udo Lindenberg has been living in the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg for over 30 years type of situation because the more I think about it the more it makes sense to me financially and logistically. no furniture. no maintenance. no utility contracts. no dealing with landlords or property management. cleaning handled. laundry handled. food available 24/7. gym and amenities included. you check in and your entire life is operationally managed by someone else from that point forward and from a tax perspective I am fairly certain I can write off a hotel as a business expense significantly better than I can write off rent depending on how the structure is set up. if you are travelling between cities for work and your “primary residence” is a hotel in the city where your business operates the deductibility argument is substantially cleaner than trying to write off a portion of a flat. obviously depends on jurisdiction and how aggressive your accountant is willing to be but the structure seems favourable I am not talking about living in a Holiday Inn. I am talking about a proper long term rate at a good hotel where they know you and you have your own setup and it actually becomes your home if anyone has done this or is currently doing this I want to hear about it. what was the rate structure like long term.? did it actually work lifestyle wise or did it get depressing after a while? how did you handle mail and residency? was the tax treatment actually better than renting? genuinely curious. I am actually considering this. let me know

@RealRickRule Now look at the birth rates

says it all

@RealRickRule @dispicable2020 Antilles Gold ($43m aud mcap) 50/50 Cuba JV. Nueva Sabana gold-copper pit under construction, fully funded, first production Q1 2027. Small starter mine prints ~$100m USD to self-fund the larger ~900koz AuEq La Demajagua. Cuba risk obvious but high torque if they deliver

@of_quantity @dispicable2020 I'm game to try. Tried once before, a dismal failure

Do you believe it’s even possible? Just like African animals cannot be domesticated, maybe Africans are tribal for a reason, just like Afghanistan, they cannot be changed.

@Empty_America Open borders but locals can be physically hostile and don't have to fund welfare fraud

Yeah, lots of people imagine border fences, ID papers, and so forth as a core part of reality, something that has always existed. Mostly a 20th century thing. Before that you could often just walk into other countries, although locals might be hostile, and most places were about equally poor, so there was often no pressing reason to take the risk.

@RealRickRule @dispicable2020 What do you think of investing in Cuba?

I have invested in Africa for four decades. I have seen it work with my own eyes. I have invested, successfully, in many African countries. My returns on capital employed in several of them, including the DRC, has been much higher than my returns were domestically. When Africa shrugs off the indigenous political elites (n the new colonialists) , the continent will prosper

@Empty_America Hope everyone is ready to work in lead pipe factories

Iran looks like a definite loss of "Hegemony Points." Somewhat ameliorated by the fact that our systems and troops massively outperform Axis stuff on the battlefield. But a failed invasion or indefinite closure of the strait would have been MUCH worse. Had to fold em.

@LukeGromen No way Trump/Israel agreed to this

Purported Iranian statement on the two-week ceasefire 🤔

@SawyerWhisler Now take away big ag subsidies

The word "sustainability" got co-opted so bad that nobody even knows what it means anymore. A hog farm that's been running for three generations without going broke is sustainable. That's what the word actually means. Everything else is somebody's marketing department.

@_10delta_ @crypto_condom

What many characterize as the end of America is very unlikely, if not outright wrong.. The much more plausible outcome is the end of the Republic & the rise of the (American) Empire.

@TheEdPill Getting close to crypto deployment, expecting $30-40k bottom by EOY

There’s no need to work a job voluntarily. You simply cash in during bull runs. Make $100k+ in 6-12 months. Take 1-2 years off. Repeat 🥂

@SaysSimulation Our military protecting shipping lanes isn’t “free” for allies. They send us goods, run surpluses, then recycle dollars into our debt markets that let us run deficits and fund the military. What happens when they tap their piggy banks and sell U.S. assets to pay for energy?

@SaysSimulation Hegemons have the furthest to fall. Our economy runs on trade deficits and exporting dollars via the petrodollar system. Reserve currency powers historically take the hardest hit when that breaks. Other countries can re-route trade and keep surpluses.

As the furious replies continue, I'm recognizing that this fits into one of my core themes. The world economy is based on US hegemony. As the US retreats from hegemon status, the damage will be worse for other nations than us. International trade depends on the US Navy 1/

@ChrisFitterer @brim006 Oil boom social fabric doesn't match rest of ND

@of_quantity @brim006 What do you mean by vibes are off.. serious question

West River Community Center Dickinson, ND

@jawwwn_ @elonmusk @peterthiel It’s not hard to figure out - birth control and feminism

Peter Thiel on population collapse: “There is something very odd about a world where people are not reproducing.” “It’s probably entangled with the stagnation, the decline, pessimism about the future.” “I disagree with @elonmusk in that— I don’t think there’s some kind of magic thing you can do around natalism.” “People are not reproducing in all 50 states in the US. They’re low in Italy, in South Korea, in Iran.” “The fact that it’s this universal conserved phenomenon tells you something very deep about late modernity— there’s probably no magic bullet solution.”

@Empty_America What is the meaning then? I can imagine it, just hard to put into words. Affluence, the sanctity of work, individualism, Culver’s

"Boomers" aren't going to pass on. Older millennials with any level of economic or social success are already considered to be "Boomers." It's become a term for a certain kind of slightly older person, not actually a generation anymore.

@MrOverprayed Slave mentality

Mexicans kick biohackers asses Have 5 Mexicans working on my home Morning to night, One lunch break in between Chugging microplastic bottled water Feasting on Big Macs and coke No roids, no peptides They run laps around raw milk drinking, ballsack tanning dorks Guaranteed

@Empty_America If you have 4 children, and your next 2 generations have on average 3 children, you are 9x larger than the average lineage (1.6 TFR), after three generations. Probably more if you consider the TFR goes lower than 1.6 in the coming decades

If you have kids, no one is "replacing" you. Especially if you have 3, 4, or more. You are a replacer.

@pikeypilled George and I share the same paternal ancestor y-chromosome R1b-U152, Alpine Celtic

President Washington's portrait painter remarked that Washington possessed facial features unlike any he had ever observed in another living human being.

Was this part of the plan?