Ronald Rickey

You wanna come to my wedding? All you need to do is book a flight, use a week of PTO, buy new outfits, get a hotel room, donate to the registry, and contribute to the honeymoon fund. Let me know thanks!

Jill is 100% correct. we should absolutely evaluate, test and check-on home-school kids. if they are not performing at least as well as the worst kid in a public school then they should face the same consequences as a public school with similar performance. so, to take an example, 23 schools in Baltimore have zero children scoring proficient in math. Because of that, those schools have faced the consequence of getting extra funding. thus, if a homeschooler is found to have performance that bad or worse, they should also be given extra funding, I guess.

@money_cruncher It's not betting, it's "investing". We are talking about Korean micro cap stocks on IBKR, right?

Stop betting. It's terrible for your taxes and wallet: 1. Say you win $1k and lose $1k, net $0. You have to itemize to deduct the loss, and since most people take the standard, you'll pay taxes on $1k. New law also limits losses to 90%. 2. Some states don't allow you to deduct losses at all (e.g NC) 3. Winnings increase your AGl, which could reduce other tax credits

This sentence by Dostoyevsky never fails to hit hard: “You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

@untalentedroto2 @Lifeinvestmoney You've clearly never met an "educator" with a Master's or PhD.

@BiggestRonald @Lifeinvestmoney Also he said without having skills. So getting a master and a phd definitely counts as skills

Need a job where I can make six figures but I have no skills and I’m not very smart What field is this?

@MaryGElliott @Lifeinvestmoney Yes.

@BiggestRonald @Lifeinvestmoney There are one year PhD programs?

@bloatdtoad @fivewithflores @BasicMountain Called it!

@fivewithflores @BasicMountain Parallex Wave is still played.

Can’t wait for my first premodern event end of the month

A big improvement and a step back to normalcy.

@avidseries White supremacists? You mean southern poverty law center?

White supremacists don't like hearing it, but northern Europe was a civilizational backwater throughout most of recorded human history.

When did written language (a graphic system capable of recording language) first begin being used around the world? Mesopotamia and Egypt, 3100 BC Levant, 1850 BC Greece, 1450 BC China, 1250 BC Persia, 1000 BC Rome, 700 BC Central Asia, 700 BC Japan, 400 BC Southeast Asia, 200 BC Central America, 200 BC Northern Europe, 150 BC Western Sub-Saharan Africa, 1000 AD North America, 1500 AD Southern Sub-Saharan Africa, 1500 AD Australia, 1800 AD

How the 5% California wealth tax is a 67% wealth tax for Sergey Brin: >Owns 3% of GOOG. >Holds 25.3% of voting rights >Wealth tax is assessed as the greater of his ownership or voting rights. So his tax is 5% * his 25.3% voting ownership = 1.27% of the value of GOOG. >1.27% taxes / 3% ownership looks like a 42.2% wealth tax, but that's not quite right. >He has to pay the wealth tax with after-tax cash proceeds. So he needs to sell enough stock to cover 37.1% in taxes first (23.8% federal and 13.3% state). >His gross stock sale has to be 2.01% of GOOG to cover the wealth tax + federal and state taxes. >His wealth tax bill is thus 67% of his net worth (2.01%/3%) >This for 2026. There are proposals being drafted for a 2028 wealth tax. (I understand that some people see this as a feature)

@cullenroche 0% chance this happened, unless your wife is named Tedaj Pogacar.

I bet your wife doesn't have the cannons to do 472 watts for 30 minutes.

@MercuriusFilius Zero. That's not earned income, that's capital gains. Different tax treatment. Also, if the cow is held for more than 12 months you can depreciate it and qualify for LT cap gains.

How would you answer this common BlackRock interview question?

@mtgbanding Is Lanny one of the two moxless gro day 2 contenders?

day two meta (6-3 or better) for premodern’s north american champs, courtesy of hodge. replenish in the lead but still under 10% of the meta!

Gen-Z women on college campus: Eat the rich. Empathy for the poor. Make homes affordable. DEI for minorities. Compassion for all races, genders, and orientations. Gen-Z women on dating apps: Must be white. Must be 6’3”. Must be handsome. Must be rich. Must be a homeowner.

With fewer students, but more resources applied to them, Michigan made the following progress with respect to its black students: Math proficiency results 18 years ago: 5-10% 2025: 5-10%

BREAKING: Former NJ mayoral candidate Henrilynn Ibezim (D) pleaded guilty to forging nearly 1,000 voter registration applications The thing that never happens happened again!

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

it's much worse than this is you look at "taxes paid net of benefits received." @Mark_J_Perry did some great work on this a ways back the bottom ~75% of americans are net recipients of federal money and basically only the top 20% pay anything meaningful. people think they pay taxes because they only consider their gross taxes paid and ignore the cash they get back. something like 70% of the US federal budget now functions as wealth redistribution of one sort of another (SS, medicare, welfare, SNAP, unemployment, etc) it's the primary function of the federal government.

@DanFriedman81 Someone needs to tell this woman she can blink in Morse Code on camera and we'll rescue her.