Skip Navigation

User banner

TonyOstrich

@ TonyOstrich @lemmy.world

Posts
1
Comments
134
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • How are my fellow Americans preparing for the upcoming apocalypse?

    Jump

  • Thanks. I'd say it was a good run, but I don't like lying.

  • AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17

    Jump

  • God fucking damnit

  • How are my fellow Americans preparing for the upcoming apocalypse?

    Jump

  • They are, but like I said it's possible to create a self directed one. Essentially I'm wanting to hedge my bets. On the small chance that things don't go to complete shit I would like what I do to be above board and legal under the (somewhat) sane(r) laws and regulations so I don't get nailed by the IRS. Doing what I mentioned would essentially put the money out of reach of the US government if they decided to start seizing assets or if I were arrested, but still legal if things don't go south.

    It's not an insignificant amount of money, but it's also not enough to have a dedicated firm or person to manage all of this (if it were I'd probably be safe in this oligarchy hell scape).

  • How are my fellow Americans preparing for the upcoming apocalypse?

    Jump

  • Trying to get my retirement money moved to foreign assets and currency. Ideally I want it to out of reach of the US government so that if I do somehow make it out of the other side alive I'll still have access to it. I believe the ideal way would be to create an offshore LLC and create a self directed IRA that I then move my retirement money to. I have no idea how tenable this is though.

  • Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns

    Jump

  • Still, almost half are OK and happy about this 😮‍💨

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Henry Kissenger lived to 100 and Carl Sagan died at 62 from cancer. I'm not in anyway religious or superstitious, but given how unfair things can be sometimes I'm not convinced the high heel wearing, pants shitting, Nazi loving sociopath is going to die soon. He somehow survived covid despite having so many risk factors.

    I won't be mad if he does, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

    Also fuck Elon Cuck.

  • I overheard some Trump voters visiting Ireland last week

    Jump

  • That's what I did with my 401k and IRA. My actual concern is with the US Dollar itself, hence not wanting it to be cash. This seemed like the best hedge/option for now.

  • Trump memo reveals plan to throw Social Security into chaos

    Jump

  • X to doubt

  • What reason do I express for changing jobs during my interview?

    Jump

  • Depending on your PoV number two sounds like a win-win. You either get an employee you want, or you at least know that you were able to help someone obtain an actual job/offer. That's pretty cool actually.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • The immigration process isn't exactly super easy though.

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia

    Jump

  • But why should they have to? They had nothing to do with it.

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia

    Jump

  • Wouldn't that be unfair to the developing country?

  • Friends who have babies

    Jump

  • Sure

  • Friends who have babies

    Jump

  • Why United Does Not Allow You To Use In-Flight Screen As Extended Display

    Jump

  • Hell yeah. Halo Custom Edition will run on a potato. We played it in highschool off of flash drives on Pentium 4HT desktops with integrated graphics.

  • A lesson some need to learn

    Jump

  • *than

  • Why United Does Not Allow You To Use In-Flight Screen As Extended Display

    Jump

  • You joke, but I have absolutely created an ad-hoc wireless network and gamed with people I'm traveling with on a flight before.

  • Is the 'stuck' economy a global phenomenon? Americans share frustrations about not being able to get ahead despite education - is this a universal experience?

    Jump

  • That's the issue I have with a lot of talk about equity or equality even from people on the left. They will practically make it their entire identity, but then when faced with a scenario where they could improve the situation overall for the group at the cost of sacrificing or giving up some amount of privilege or prosperity they pull the latter up. Everyone is about equity and equality when they stand to gain, but they won't go much out of their way to help things

    Note: I am very liberal in a lot of my social beliefs and have a very strong sense of or drive to achieving equity, fairness, and justice. Which often results in making a lot of the people I mentioned above seem kinda phony to me.

    My personal experience with this is that I am mildly on the spectrum. Most wouldn't notice or guess it though due in part to the fact that I somehow managed to balloon animal a lot of the social interaction and language abilities to the problem solving analytical part of my skill set. What this means is that I am always having to "translate" what I'm thinking into normal people talk and normal people talk into how I think with every conversation and interaction.

    I don't even have much of an issue with that aspect perse. I know I'm the odd one out, and while not fair it's understandable. What is frustrating is how little effort others seem to be willing to put forth. This obviously manifests in relationships the most acutely. I'm not usually even looking for 50/50. I'm more than willing to do the bulk of the work. All I want is for them to meet me somewhere on that bridge. Give me 80/20, 90/10, fuck I'll take three or four steps onto the bridge, but no. Anything that requires they actively engage in thinking rather than doing everything off of vibes and they nope out so fast. I have had so many conversations where I essentially point out blatant inconsistencies between what they say they believe in (like equity or DEI) and what they actually want said either explicitly or through their actions and they inevitably end up saying something like "it's just my preference".

    Having a preference doesn't just absolve a person of hypocrisy, bigotry, racism, or any other belief that disenfranchises or puts down the marginalized and outcast.

  • DeepSeek just proved Lina Khan right

    Jump

  • We didn't deserve her, but I am honored and grateful to have had her working for my interests. What she was or wasn't able to accomplish wasn't for lack of trying.