Ryan Dinkelman

Why do I tweet about #TaxCourt? What is my background? I used to do taxes for a big name prep firm; you've heard of them. I did orphan 1040s. I love reading the opinions and seeing the precedents that form the basis of the rules the tax system operates under. Not an attorney.

@1followernodad What many people fail to understand is the truth that one amazing book makes a reader for life. It doesn't have to be Shakespeare, or even widely loved!

I simply don’t think this is true

@mattyglesias Perfect example of something that Democrats put together that only needed enforcement to work, that Republicans tore down with no plans to do better. Irresponsible on every level, and absent public statements or votes to the contrary, they are all culpable.

Well there was actually a mechanism in place to prevent this, but Republicans got rid of it in the 2017 tax bill.

@chess_feed I will just resign as black in shame.

Why is this move brilliant?

@DavidFleckEsq Seems a little...short.

A jury in New York just convicted a man of stealing two Harlem brownstones with forged deeds, about $4.7 million worth of real estate. One of his victims, an elderly homeowner, spent years in a homeless shelter while he rented the building out as market-rate apartments. He's facing up to 25 years.

@realEstateTrent No joke I called my assessor after they did that to me and he said "We're lucky if we even get the square footage." I wasn't calling to argue, but that's a stunning statement for a small township.

System is broken when you have people ultra incentivized to keep sale prices a secret. On the flip side, California’s property tax system is among the most favorable in America: Everyone knows the purchase price and happy to share it - and you know exactly what your property taxes will be for the entire time you own your property. Reassessing values based on a random assessor’s “real estate expert” opinion is a nonsense guessing game - and a waste of time, energy, and resources. It’s a high stakes, expensive wild goose chase - the true joke of the real estate world.

@RealGalego Employees.

Um negocio que eu nunca entendi é propaganda de petroleira ou mineradora. Tipo em Portugal vs Espanha tem no estadio propaganda da Saudi Aramco. Legal? Proxima vez que eu for comprar petroleo cru eu compro deles? Qual o publico alvo disso?

@LorenzoElijah Yep. Many never see the way out. Paradoxically you can go pretty far that way, as long as you stay in your lane. The true genius hides in plain sight.

I taught insanely intelligent kids at Oxford.  They all made the exact same writing mistake: Trying to sound smart. • Big, unfamiliar words • Long, meandering sentences • Paragraphs that sprawled across pages Not because it served the argument, but because they thought it looked impressive.  It didn’t. Intelligent writing is clear, so clear it becomes transparent: you don’t notice it; all you see are the ideas. That’s the point. Anything less is just hiding.

@AdvisorJohn The most important question to ask is, "If I gave you X amount of money(w/e the sale clears), is that specific house the best thing you could use the money on?" For most, the answer is simple. If it's close, doing rent comps, answering 'How will we do this?' will help.

I've been having the "Should I keep my house as a rental, or sell it?" conversation quite a bit recently. In the early 2020s, everyone came in saying, "I'm keeping my house as a rental," so there is a shift there. My clients in the city have been discouraged by prices dropping and rents remaining relatively stable... my clients in the burbs feel like we may plateau for a while from here, given the insane runup in prices. I remember when I bought my first house in 2003 for $370k. I put about $100k in renovations into that house before I sold it in 2017. In 2007, the price shot up to $725k. I sold for $495k in 2018. After 14 years of owning the home and updating all the aging items (siding, roof, appliances, etc.), I made virtually no money on that house. Here we are in 2026, and all the online estimates show that the house is worth $695k. LOL. In my area, I don't think the setup points to a crash like we had, where values broadly decrease. But I could see a decade of no growth in the parabolic markets from the early 2020s onward. 1/3

@SinaiLawFirm I'm presuming the number is negotiable. The way to solve the free rider problem is the same as the way to solve the cost problem. Just make it like a college dorm room from the 70's. Community bathroom, no private showers, a/c set at 80 in the summer, etc.

I know I joke around a lot but real talk if every big American city had extremely cheap housing option available to the masses ($400/bedroom per month) the country will be unstoppable

@AuthorGFAllen I think there are people who read a lot who couldn't write a short story. I think people who write often get more out of reading. And the best case is for someone to also study story structure at the same time as the other two. If you see a car and not the wheels, you're struck.

Does reading a lot naturally improve writing ability?

@NealBruceBC Wait. 1)Qxh2, 2)nxh2, bh3, and white can't stop the rook from crushing the g file. They can trade the queen for a knight, but that seems to delay the inevitable.

@NealBruceBC I like bh3. Qxh2 seems worse than rxh2 strictly. White has a lead, but how can black advance? Bh3 puts pressure on the weaker g2 square, and there is no good response on the board for white.

An important tactical idea. Black to move and gain a winning advantage. 🤔 #chesspunks

@lizisamused Yeah, count me in on the long skirts. I'm agnostic on the top if the skirt and hair is there. It's always hard to know whether it's the right time, so there's a weird middle ground where it's not you don't care, not trying too hard either. It leaves room to grow into also.

I noticed after much experimentation that the most man-catching look is a revealing top with a long flowy skirt or a dress that's fitted but not insanely so. And of course sun dresses 😁 Men do not respond to full-on modesty. And super revealing catches their eyes but doesn't get the same kind of positive interest. So I now dress VERY modestly 😆

@mgsiegler As busy as the news was with it in 2023, it's surprising that hasn't happened yet.

Sort of weird/fun to still watch current movies/shows where characters don’t use AI in situations where they clearly would (still use web search, etc). Obviously a lag in real world to production. Expect we’ll see such transitions in the next year or so?

@eternalhopeoaks Looks like e5 collapses the whole structure.

mosalenko gives g4 two exclamation marks. however it's a terrible blunder. can you work out why? 🤔

@SweetHelenade Having watched off and on, it feels like life. Real life. Gay people, teenagers, perhaps somewhat absurd problems, but plausible. Maybe that's why it didn't really capture the zeitgeist. But it is also the genius of it.

Insane that Modern Family was on for over a decade, was so huge at its time, and had zero cultural impact. No quotes-turned-shorthand, no staying power

@SinaiLawFirm 150 pages is wild.

The dilemma of practicing eviction litigation in the age of AI: Got served 150 pages yesterday for an emergency motion, hearing is tomorrow. Motion to vacate a jury trial decision for an eviction Do I spend 5 hours and draft an opposition?

@koolhead17 Just have to replace the ones using their cell phone in sensitive areas.

Those robots going back to closet?

@DietCoke_Esq 😂💀😂🚩

There is a combination family court and liquor store in New Hampshire (Florida of the North)

@mauddweeb One thing wildly underestimated is that the difference within the top 2-3% of the spectrum is huge. Like someone in the 98.9th percentile looks at the 99.8th percentile and it's as different as between them and normies. The rest is super concentrated around the average.

it is simultaneously true that — human variation in intelligence is real — the variation has a large genetic component — IQ is a robust and reliable proxy measure of human intelligence — human worth is more than intelligence — blank slatism is cope for midwits and ethnonarcissists — guys who know their exact IQ and bring it up are usually losers — the “downsides” of intelligence are usually other traits that can be associated with but not necessarily caused by higher intelligence — most people are probably lying about their IQ online