Masios

Dude adds a zero on his figures for rage bait, then the 550 becomes 650 half way through. Malicious? Misinformed? Or just plain old click bait lies? You decide!

@hispanicnomad @Duarteosrm By "I don't know the exact mechanics" do you mean, you've no idea what you're talking about? I'd say you've added a zero for effect. But your figures with added zero change by 100000 half way through your story.

@Duarteosrm I don’t know the exact mechanics, but basically, if you don’t pay “in time”… They will wait for a few years and let it compound (because the amount increases over time) And then when it’s high enough according to them, they’ll tell you

I just found my favorite Spanish 🇪🇸 tax authorities story ever Paco Vallejo was a professional chess player. Top 40 in the world; which is a CRAZY achievement Then Hacienda decided he owed them €650,000... For money he never made See, Paco played online poker in 2011, for fun. He ended up losing 5,715€, which, you know, no big deal But Hacienda took that and decided to ruin his life See, in 2011 there was an old Spanish law that taxed poker "winnings" at 47% but didn't allow you to deduct losses. So if you made €86,000 and lost €92,000, the government ignored the losses and taxed you on the full €86,000. This law was insane. Everyone knew it was insane. So in 2012 they changed it But they didn't make the change retroactive Five years later, in 2016, Hacienda sends Vallejo a letter. They've looked back at his 2011 poker account, and saw he had gross winnings of €86,482. They ignored that he lost €92,197. They did the math under the old law and told him he owed €550,000 in taxes For money he never made, and for a loss he actually took Paco is Spain's #1 chess player. One of the world's best. This wasn't some hidden offshore scheme, either; his poker account was completely transparent, digitally recorded. They could see every hand. They knew he lost money They didn't care The appeals process was designed to break him: ❌ Years of lawyers ❌ Legal fees destroying his savings ❌ Every day, the threat of seizure hanging over him ❌ His mother got sick during this period. He couldn't help her because Hacienda had already taken almost all his money The stress was so severe he withdrew from a major international chess tournament. First time in his professional career He was 35 years old, and one of Spain's greatest talents. And the government was treating him like a criminal for playing poker once and losing money So he left Spain Eventually he won the case, which took him six years of his life. But here's the thing: ❌Hacienda didn't compensate him for the legal costs ❌ Didn't compensate him for the years of stress ❌ Didn't compensate him for the tournaments he cancelled, the image damage, the psychological destruction He just got his initial money back, and he had to move on This is what I mean when I talk about Spain's tax system. It's not just "unfair." It's designed to assume guilt and make you prove innocence, even when the digital evidence is crystal clear Funny enough, Paco released an interview last week, and it turns out he's living in Paraguay now, too. I'd love to meet him; so Paco, if you're reading this, let's grab a beer! Anyway, that's why Paco left, and why thousands of others leave too And that's what I help people navigate

@TadhgCalbhaigh @Femi_sorry @LucyTCWife @hmpps Not a political figure... Source: ITVX share.google/ia8ndhito4r9yf…

Filming a private citizen while she's simply travelling on a train (she's not a political figure, but the wife of a former Conservative councillor) and then publishing the footage on X without her consent, while smearing her as a "terrorist", is horrific and unlawful behaviour. This amounts to harassment, libel, and outright rudeness. It falls far short of any standard of journalistic integrity. You are not a journalist, you are a political activist. You should be ashamed of yourself. Apologise, take the post down, and learn from this extremely uncivil conduct.

Lucy Connolly threatened to have a journalist arrested for filming a political figure in a public place. She also sent a mountain of abuse. Upon seeing I reported these threats & abuse to the police, & fearing this violated her probation, she privated her account. @LucyTCWife

@frgbju @DaveKeating Directly addressing both the point and your pointless diversion. But it's me who lost the point? 🤷🤡

@Masios3 @DaveKeating Masos lost the point of this thread.

I'm really confused as to why this is a scandal. I thought all countries don't allow you to enter on the other passport if you're a dual national? That's the case for 🇺🇸&🇪🇺. It would be illegal for me to enter 🇺🇸 using my 🇪🇺passport, and the same for entering 🇪🇺 on my 🇺🇸passport

@PaulDavidJones @BBCNewsnight How dare the man whos the main subject of a film that won an award be in the audience at the awards 🤔

@BBCNewsnight What clown put a man with Tourette’s in a theatre and tv cameras? How thick are these people, did you expect the pressure and glare of the media to make him clam up? NO! It probably triggered him to be worse… bunch of clowns. Only fault here is the idiots putting him there!!!

"Everyone in the auditorium heard the N-word being shouted... there were gasps" Radio 1Xtra presenter Richie Brave, who was in the audience at last night's Baftas, recalls hearing the racial slur used by a guest with Tourette's syndrome during the ceremony. #Newsnight

@DaveKeating @frgbju It's not an "eu passport" you hold its Belgian And you don't understand the point. people who have the RIGHT to uk nationality they have never realised, are covered by this rule. An Australian, with an English parent, who's never been to the UK, needs a UK passport or COE

@DaveKeating @frgbju Plenty of eu nationals HAVE NO PASSPORT. They don't need one to travel in the EU. Many Spaniards have no passport, their DNI is all they need. Your passport has very little to do with schengen zone rights as an EU national. Your passport is not issued by the EU

@frgbju @DaveKeating And?

@Masios3 @DaveKeating Masios, Your UK passport is well over 5 yrs old then. Last time.

@DaveKeating @frgbju None of that actually responds to the point, or really means anything. I have a UK passport with EU written on it,

@frgbju @Masios3 Exactly. There are EU passports (issued by the 27 EU countries) and there are non-EU passports. The UK passport is now a non-EU passport. Belgian passports are an EU passport. That's why you enter in different lines.

@DaveKeating This forces dual nationals, like the children of UK nationals born abroad, to apply for a UK passport or pay £589 for a certificate of entitlement, even though they hold a valid Australian, Spanish, whatever passport.

@DaveKeating First things, There's no such thing as an EU passport. Each country have their own passport with their own passport requirements, Many many people who are entitled to a UK passport under dual citizenship rules via a parent don't actually hold a current the passport....

@aakashgupta You can't recycle steam ..

Google’s single data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of fresh water in 2024. One facility. One year. Enough to supply every home in Iowa for five days. The reason they need fresh water is pure chemistry. Evaporative cooling towers work by running water over hot surfaces and letting it evaporate. 80% of the water a data center pulls in literally vanishes into the atmosphere as steam. You can’t recycle steam. The remaining 20% becomes concentrated mineral waste. Calcium, magnesium, silica. Every cycle through the cooling loop makes the water more corrosive. After enough passes, it starts clogging pumps and eating through heat exchangers. Multi-million dollar equipment destroyed by limescale. Recycled wastewater carries even more of these minerals from the start. You could treat it, but less than 1% of U.S. water is recycled. Most cities don’t even have separate pipes to deliver reclaimed water to industrial customers. A data center wanting to use recycled water would essentially need to build its own treatment plant on site. Meanwhile, municipal potable water costs almost nothing. So they just drink from the tap. Across all its data centers, Google used 8.1 billion gallons in 2024, nearly double what it used three years earlier. The company claims its water stewardship projects “replenished” 4.5 billion gallons. Those projects aren’t even in the same watersheds where they’re pulling the water. Same playbook as carbon offsets. Consume locally, offset globally, call it sustainable. The trajectory is the real story. U.S. data center water consumption could quadruple by 2028. That’s 68 billion gallons for cooling alone, before the 211 billion gallons consumed indirectly through electricity generation. Two-thirds of new data centers since 2022 are being built in regions already facing water scarcity. Nobody’s asking why they use fresh water. They’re asking what happens to the towns sharing a water main with a facility that drinks like 50,000 people showed up overnight.

@CallofDuty Just a single game free of scripts cheats and hacks would do

We set out to create the largest Black Ops experience to date, complete with expansive live seasons and more content than ever before 🤝 ... and we might need another roadmap for Season 02 Reloaded in the coming weeks 👀

@elonmusk You do talk some shit. Anyone would think you were trying to deflect attention

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

@victori97635357 @dontforgetchaos @libertytarian So, carrying a gun at a protest is an executable offense?

@dontforgetchaos @libertytarian Johnny G, what part of federal authority do you not understand?! This man came with a loaded gun and a full clip! What was his plan? Federal law is behind these officers. Work to change the law but when you bring a gun you will lose!

I make no apology for posting this photo. I think it’s a photo that will haunt America in the years to come. This is what you have become. If you defend this, have a word with yourself.

@elonmusk Says the guy who banned words from his platform because it offended his biggot friends

It is easy to tell who the bad guys are

These morons actually exist. Idiocracy is here

@ShadyE115 @ParakeetsUnited @xFleXy_ You ain't know? 🤷

I think Call of Duty has finally reached the point where the studios & Activision don’t really know where to take it anymore. Over the 23 years it’s been out we’ve practically seen & done everything, so what do they do to excite players now?

@ParakeetsUnited @xFleXy_ Utterly deranged.

@Masios3 @xFleXy_ I'm guessing you haven't figured out that wokeness is the equivalent of fascism.