FloopDoopz

I believe that most people would be better off making Traditional contributions instead of Roth. Some exceptions: 1. People making too much to be eligible for the tax deduction 2. Retired people (Roth conversion time!) 3. Students working part time x.com/FloopDoopz/sta…

@inutfreely @granderojo @cremieuxrecueil But practically speaking, they have a boss who tells them what to do. They're not consulting with judges for their day to day work. And the boss at the top is the chief executive. The executive power is vested in the president; that's his job.

@FloopDoopz @granderojo @cremieuxrecueil Bureaucrats usually don't take oaths to the president if any at all. But all have a responsibility to act within the law. +/-, especially those whos job it is to advise on what is legal. When i say judicially aligned, I thought it was clear, their advice aligns with prior decis

It's official: Employees in the executive branch may no longer contradict the President on matters of interpretation of the law.

@williamevanl @PunkyCovfefe I think where I first saw it described (at least in an easy to digest way) was the Mad Fientist blog, which is also a good resource for early retirement info in general, particularly taxes. madfientist.com/how-to-access-…

@FloopDoopz @PunkyCovfefe How can I learn more about this?

We ’ve got enough 💰 to be retired. We're still grinding away because early retirement was a foreign concept until we were 48, so our cash is basically all in 401(k)s! Not ideal for early retirement. We have decided to continue working until the age of 54 and retire in accordance with The Rule of 55. While we could utilize 72t, we have opted not to do so.

@1exi If they're the "put a chick in it and make it lame and gay" team, then firing them seems appropriate so the rest of the developers can focus on the important stuff.

@Viztrit @yacineMTB penis is the correct analogy here. he has two hands, but only one penis, with which he will metaphorically fuck "the swamp" into submission as it is being drained of corrupt bureaucrats

@yacineMTB Wait, don’t you work at X? And Elon follows you as well?🫡

i think he's more the penis of the king

@randomrecruiter No, it's yellow because I'm away, and I locked my workstation to make it yellow so it would be obvious that I'm away.

“Hey, I noticed your Teams status is yellow. Just wanted to make sure you’re still online.”

@Pirat_Nation >look, it's outselling this other new release... that came out two weeks ago dunno if that's a useful comparison, lol

Game Journalists Claim Avowed is doing better than Kingdom Come 2. Steamcharts says otherwise Currently on steamdb, kingdom come 2 has 133 k vs avowed having 13 k players.

@Ranked90 Water is the easy one Maybe water mixed with protein powder for #2 Honorable mentions: - chocolate milk for special occasions when I have calories to spare - hot water flavored with dry plant bits when I have cold/flu symptoms

If you could only pick 2 drinks to have for the rest of you life, which would you pick?

@shadydoorags As an old person who has dabbled over the decades, I've never watched it, but I've seen it mentioned enough over the years to at least recognize the character when this came up on X.

For those who don't get it, Haruhi Suzumiya is the title character of one of the most influential and well known stories in the otaku community, but said story isn't mainstream by today's standards. So if you claim to be a fan of anime/manga, but you haven't even heard of this character, then you're likely actually a fan of MAINSTREAM anime/manga which is just a subculture of the entire thing. Thus, any and all opinions you might have would be limited to that small part of the community and have less weight when talking about the culture as a whole. The otaku community, at large, doesn't want all anime/manga to be like mainstream anime/manga. This is the equivalent of claiming to be a superhero fan but your only exposure to them is MCU films, so you critique all superhero media as though they were MCU films while claiming to have a good grasp on the hobby as a whole. This mentality is very annoying to anyone within any hobby and is a big reason why gatekeeping is becoming more and more accepted. Hobbyist don't want tourists deciding what needs to be changed about the thing they love.

@inutfreely @granderojo @cremieuxrecueil Bureaucrats are not judicially aligned - they're aligned with what the boss tells them to do. The damage to clean up has already been done, and Trump's attempt at swamp draining here is the clean up process.

@FloopDoopz @granderojo @cremieuxrecueil You'll be leaving it for the judicial to clean up after the damage is done, vs the judicially aligned bureaucrat that tried to prevent the damage.

@LegalDistortion @cremieuxrecueil Does the government not have rules prohibiting the use of government resources for personal use? If not, they should. I think every corporation has a policy like that and I have to sit through corporate training about it every year.

My concern comes from the idea that "rogue" employees might argue their actions are personal, or unofficial...if a DOJ employee sends an email from their government account criticizing the President, or proposing a "different interpretation" of a law, would that be an "official" act? It's from their "official account" - a digital door requiring a badge. My point is that proving intent or distinguishing between official and non-official actions can be legally complex, especially in cases involving leaks, whistleblowing, or public statements.

@inutfreely @granderojo @cremieuxrecueil Then that'd be the judicial interpretation, not the bureaucrat's decision.

@FloopDoopz @granderojo @cremieuxrecueil Unless ofcourse the bureaucrats decision is in alignment with prior court interpretations of the law.

@TArchcast Is peaking on a weekday pretty normal for a new release? My first thought is to wait for a weekend at least to see if it picks up when people aren't working, but I'm a boomer with a day job.

Avowed is looking like a flop, peaked at 15k, just 2k above it's pre-release peak and less then half of their old CRPG title

@LeftismForU What's the logic here? Hitler chilled in heaven for a year until God chose to reincarnate him as Trump to Make America Great Again after seeing where things were heading post-WW2? Is that what the person is implying?

Hitler drank water Leftists drink water Just saying.

@jamalichaidani >NYC women My understanding is that this is the opposite of easy mode, unless you're trying to have as many unpleasant first-and-last dates as possible.

@MoemonCollector @GiveMeBanHammer I don't remember Cold Steel 3 being especially bad either, but I've only played the Xseed / NISA localized stuff on Steam, so my sense for iffy localization might just be bad.

@FloopDoopz @GiveMeBanHammer I’m a long time fan of the series, translations like this. Is it as bad as Cold Steel 3? If not I might give it a chance on sale

"He worked his ass off for Daybreak 2 and has so much love for this series" So...deliberately mistranslating the source material should be excused because "he worked his ass off"? Vandals put in a lot of work with their graffiti, some even climb up to really dangerous places like the side of bridges to vandalise them...but its ok because "they worked hard" to you? Also, what "love" does he actually have for the series if he deems it imperfect to the point he has to change meanings and intentions of the source material, instead of faithfully TRANSLATING it? Your words of defence contradicts his actions.

@ModernDayInves @GenXmillionaire It's less about flu susceptibility and more about USDA chicken genocide campaign susceptibility. But yeah, the flu isn't stopping anyone from buying and raising chickens. Industrial egg laying is a different story when there's a financial incentive to kill all of your chickens.

@GenXmillionaire I’d assume it’s because egg-laying chickens are more susceptible to avian flu’s, and we eat non-egg-laying chicken.

So eggs are hard to find. How come it’s not hard to find chicken and how come the cost hasn’t gone up??

@MoemonCollector @GiveMeBanHammer I enjoyed Daybreak 1 despite some sketchy TL. TBD for Daybreak 2. Might look into fan TL, but for 1 I think it didn't play well with some of the NISA PC technical changes, which are quite good. Localization aside, PH3 consistently does great work.

@GiveMeBanHammer I haven’t played Daybreak yet god don’t know if I ever will now 😔

@RRR0BYN I suspect they're subconsciously (if not intentionally) trying to get "colonized" by a white man.

@LegalDistortion @cremieuxrecueil If they want to disagree when they're not working that's fine, but if they act in contradiction while on the clock they should be fired. Whether someone is working or not is pretty black and white when you're an employee with business hours.

What’s to prevent employees from acting in contradiction to the President’s interpretation of the law by claiming they are simply not acting in their “official capacity”? Couldn’t advancing an interpretation that’s different from the President’s or AG’s be considered an “unofficial act” that circumvents this EO?

@granderojo @cremieuxrecueil Any fighting on what the law means should be between the judges and the executive branch, not within the executive branch. And the president being the one making the calls obviously makes more sense than letting millions of bureaucrats decide for themselves.

@cremieuxrecueil I don't think the conservative justices will look kindly on this executive order opens government employees up to lawsuits, a pet peeve of alito & thomas especially maybe we'll finally get some cases reigning in executive authority which will be good