Galaxy.1996

@ravira The old days were different. Every year and every inter fc United expansion moves us a little further away from playing soccer.

MLS, unlike the old NASL, seems like a league of posers to me. The NASL was unabashedly North American while the MLS tries to be British. Bring back the old nicknames the NASL had and let's talk about fields, uniforms, and shutouts instead of pitches, kits, and clean sheets.

@regencyreader1 @jenvanlaar Why not?

@1996Galaxy @jenvanlaar lol there is no such thing as "full coverage"

Are you retarded and can't help saying things like this, or do you try? It's well-known Pratt had insurance with State Farm until 2024. When State Farm non-renewed its policies in the Palisades they went to the FAIR Plan. What about wrap-around coverage, you ask? Good luck with that when your property directly abuts Topanga State Park and its 40 years worth of fuel growth.

@xwanyex Your reasoning is sound but the conclusion is wrong. People don't do it because landlords usually don't make money.

A reminder that a very simple proof exists that landlording is not easy money: 1. Millions and millions of middle and upper middle class American households have the financial resources required to own rental property 2. They almost universally do not choose to do so 3. None of those people would turn down easy money 4. Therefore, landlording is not easy money QED.

@jenvanlaar @GrantCardone @spencerpratt Full coverage is available through marketplaces like lloyds of London if the CA fair plan coverage is too low. It is significantly more expensive than traditional insurance though. Self coverage is a business /tax strategy a totally different issue.

That's simply not true, Galaxy.1996. And if it's "just a matter of price" why do people like @grantcardone just self-insure? And if you bothered reading the screenshots, if one's property abuts a neglected fire trap like Topanga State Park (as @spencerpratt's did), you're SCREWED. And you have zero control over brush abatement.

@ChrandLord @huded Will do. You keep replacing toilets and being poor 🤑

@1996Galaxy @huded You are a fucking retard dude. Keep watching your goy ball.

I got one shotted by the IRS when I was 20. I sold over $100,000 on eBay and claimed zero. Took all the deductions but accidentally left that income number as zero 😂 Got a letter in the mail that I owed $20,000. Taxes owed, penalties, and interest. My heart sunk. I get that feeling anytime I get a letter from the IRS in the mail to this day. Fuck the IRS ☠️

@ChrandLord @huded Your business plan involves massive risk that it seems you don't understand. Send me a DM in a few years and I can recommend a good bankruptcy attorney.

@1996Galaxy @huded No. This is why you are a wagie.

@ChrandLord @huded So you will pay tax when the depreciation runs out

@1996Galaxy @huded I can buy a property for zero down and claim 25% of the purchase price as a deduction year one. I have no desire to sell when I can refinance and pay zero tax.

@ChrandLord @huded I do taxes for a living. You will pay taxes when you sell or when the depreciation runs out. Real estate isn't a magic get out of taxes free card.

@1996Galaxy @huded I bought 30 properties last year on creative finance. Have you heard of depreciation and accelerated deprecation? Probably not.

@ChrandLord @huded If you're not paying taxes, you're not making money

@huded Taxation is theft. They just steal it and send it to foreign invaders. Now that I’m in real estate I don’t have to pay taxes because the tax code is made for real estate.

@Dr_Singularity What happens if UBI isn't implemented in 15-20 years? The person who saved for retirement doesn't care , the person who didn't is fucked.

Retirement Dead If you're under 50, there's no point in financial planning for your "retirement." The concept of retirement as we know it know won't exist in 15–20 years. You’ll live comfortably whether you worked and saved for 40 years or were a bum living on the street, abundance will be so great that no one will be left behind. Some form of UBI will likely arrive well before 15–20 years. What we call 'retirement' today is built on scarcity, on the assumption that you need decades of labor just to secure a few decades of rest. That model will start to break down once productivity is driven by systems that can operate at a scale and speed far beyond human limits(robotics driven by AGI's/ASI's). When output becomes effectively abundant, the idea of "earning the right to stop working" stops making sense. Work itself won't disappear, but it will become fluid, and driven more by interest than necessity. The line between working, learning, and living will blur. Instead of saving for a distant endpoint, people will navigate continuous access to resources, services, and opportunities.

@SPFLWatch In 2004 nonsense from across the Atlantic: MK Dons were founded after being relocated. You're a retarded that hates MLS but doesn't know about it

Today in nonsense from across the Atlantic: The MLS are proposing to move the Vancouver Whitecaps "franchise" to Las Vegas. Honestly, do the Americans realise this is exactly the sort of reason that no-one takes their league seriously?

@MLSMoves It's not unprecedented in other countries, MK Dons for example moved and changed names.

They CANNOT move the Vancouver Whitecaps. It’s a tragedy that American/Canadian sports teams are the only ones in the world who have to worry about their club moving. Could you imagine if Real Madrid moved to Mallorca? Manchester United moved to London? Inter Milan moved to Naples? It’s not fair to the fans that there’s a risk of losing their club. It’s absolutely sickening, and it shouldn’t be this way. SAVE THE CAPS

@sufyanmaan The only problem is that without factory farming there wouldn't be enough beef to go around, same for any type of food.

Look at this picture for a second. Really look at it. On the left, you've got ground beef from a local farmer. On the right, the styrofoam tray version from the grocery store. Same product? But your eyes are already telling you a different story. That deep color on the left? That's beef from a cow that lived a real life. Walked around Aged pretty naturally The flecks of white you see aren't filler or fat scraps mashed together, that's a healthy animal raised the way cows are supposed to be raised. The pink (uniform texture) on the right is what happens when beef gets pumped full of oxygen and carbon monoxide to keep that "fresh rosy" look on the shelf. Yeah, really Look up "modified atmosphere packaging" sometime if you want to lose your appetite Here's the part nobody talks about. Grocery store pound of beef might come from dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different cows mixed together in massive industrial facilities. One sick animal contaminates the whole batch That's why beef recalls are always measured in tons. The farmer at your market? He can tell you the cow's name. He can tell you what pasture it grazed in. He can tell you when it was processed and by whom (daughter, son wife or himself, ). And the taste, man. You cook a burger from real farm beef and you'll realize most of your life you've been eating a product engineered to be cheap, not good. The flavor is actually beefy instead of just salty + gray. Yes, it costs more per pound. But you eat less, you support someone in your community, and you know exactly what you're putting in your body. Go to the farmers market. Meet the person who grew your food. Ask questions! Pay the extra 3-4 bucks. You'll never go back. What's the one food you've stopped buying at the grocery store once you found a better local source?

@RobertMSterling KPMG are laying off partners because they make too much money and don't do enough. It's a revenue per employee move. It's not because of AI.

KPMG is laying off 10% of their audit partners. You might have missed the news amidst today’s announcement that Meta is also laying off 10% of their employees. I’ll be blunt: If you work in front of a computer, your job isn’t safe. It doesn’t matter how senior you are (KPMG’s partners literally own the company). Nor does it matter how good you are at your job (Meta’s engineers are among the best of the best in the tech industry). Your job is at risk, and it’s incumbent on you—and no one but yourself—to plan for what you do in your career to proactively manage that risk. Four reasons why this is happening: 1. Competition: AI is reducing barriers to entry across every industries, from professional services (such as the audit and advisory services provided by the likes of KPMG) to software and everything in between. Reduced barriers to entry mean increased competition, which means lower pricing power, margin compression, and pressure to reduce costs—especially fixed costs such as labor, which is the number one expense for most white-collar businesses. 2. Need to Invest: As incumbents face increased competition from new entrants to their market and from substitute products (e.g., vibe-coded homebrew SaaS replacing expensive vertical SaaS products that previously enjoyed virtual monopolies within their respective target markets), they are forced to make sizable investments in technology to remain competitive. In the case of professional services companies, this means large investments in proprietary software (all of the Big Four firms are investing billions in new technology right now); for big tech companies, this means tens of billions of dollars going into data centers and physical infrastructure. Essentially, capex and opex are in the middle of a zero-sum battle in corporate budgets. As companies face the need to invest more in capex and R&D—and as capital markets become increasingly averse to providing them additional liquidity to fund it, out of concerns that the ROIC on said capex will not be accretive to earnings—opex is cannibalized to fund capex. And, again, the primary lever CFOs in white-collar companies have to instantly reduce opex is layoffs. 3. Automation: These competitive pressures are compounded by AI rapidly automating work faster than incremental revenue is able to be generated. In other words, workers are being made redundant faster than companies are able to come up with the new business that might otherwise save those jobs. Some in the tech industry (people far smarter than me, I will add) conjecture that, on a net basis, AI will create more jobs than it will destroy, due to an AI-facilitated period of hypergrowth and a corresponding boom in corporate earnings. But with every company I advise, across the worlds of startups, SMBs, and large industrial companies, I’m simply not seeing that yet, and I don’t know anyone who is. 4. It might feel like ancient history at this point, but many companies are still dealing with the excesses of the Covid-era labor market. Money was loose, talent was in short supply, and software companies, financial services firms, and professional services companies hired too many people too fast, with standards that were too low. They’ve made significantly progress in right-sizing their workforces over the past couple years (return-to-office mandates, for example, have essentially created “soft layoffs” at many large companies), but much work still remains. If you’re picturing your career and your company as you read these words, I can’t emphasize it enough: Plan ahead. Build a network of people outside your company who would want to work with you if your current job were made redundant. Think about businesses you might want to start (it’s a lot easier to keep your job if no one but your customers can terminate you). Set money aside. Be proactive, not reactive. Be a predator, not the prey. Because these trends are inexorable, they’re unstoppable, and, chances are, they’re coming for all of us. Start planning. And start planning now.

@GalaxyPodcast Ramos looked like he needs a little more development. Miller, has looked better in that position.

The only way you get Reus into the 10 roles is to have Klauss (or someone) at the no. 9. Galaxy aren't getting to choose their best 11 in their best positions right now. They're literally just plugging holes. Paintsil might be pressed into the no. 9 role now with Ramos on the left.

@rationalaussie Or the other possibility is that you don't understand what people in white collar jobs do.

It's funny how AI has made white collar work 10x faster already but there's been basically no economic impact from it. The reason is quite simple: 1. Most white collar work is bullshit, so speeding it up by 10x still equals a pile of bullshit at the end 2. Most white collar employees are using AI to do all their work for the week in 4 hours instead of 40, whilst telling their manager the deadline is still 40 hours away We have been living in a fake economy for the better part of two decades. It is all a fugazi. People who do real jobs in the real world get paid comparatively crap, and people who do fake jobs in the fiat Ponzi world get paid just enough fiat currency to pretend they are important. None of it amounts to anything productive nor valuable for the world though. An entire generation doing fake email jobs, slide decks and excel sheets for corporations who ultimately produce nothing.

@Badhombre Why did they genocide the white population in 1804? Seems like you might be excluding some important context to make people jump to a conclusion 🤔

Haiti genocided its entire White population in 1804. Haiti stands as the blackest country in the world, exceeding all Sub-Saharan African countries. It is the least ethnically diverse country in the Western Hemisphere. White missionaries from the United States, Canada, and Europe are routinely kidnapped and held for ransom. Over 95% of the population practice satanic Vodou worship. Only 15% of the population have running water, the average annual salary is $1,700, it has the highest incidence of rape and murder, and the highest HIV prevalence in the Western Hemisphere. Haitians chose this path. America is not responsible for absorbing the shocks of Haiti’s self-inflicted crises.

@the_P_God The job that he voluntarily contractually agreed to do.

It’s literally your job to fix anything and everything in the apt. Crying over doing your job. Soft. Grow up.

@DavidPiotrowski People who choose to be landlords in los Angeles are dumb. I don't agree with the rules but these are the rules and you must play the game by the rules, not the rules you want.

A tenant can stop paying rent and stay for months during the eviction process in Los Angeles. The landlord isn't collecting rent during this process, which can take many months to complete. Many eviction cases remain sealed so it's difficult for a new landlord to properly conduct due diligence. The next landlord might have to deal with the same thing again after the evicted tenant moves in and then stops paying rent. Your thoughts?