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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • You could deregulate to hell. You won’t get Chinese skilled workers or Chinese supply chains from that and that’s where they’re killing the West (or better you could say the West killed itself by giving them up). Getting those requires industrial development, patient capital investment (which is subsidized), and heavy regulation/government directed market discipline to make sure the companies don’t just steal your money. These are all answers the West is allergic to, so the neoliberals just say deregulate and the market will magic long term capital investment on depreciating assets. Spoiler: it won’t, no matter how many positive externalities arise from it. Better to buy into inflating the property bubble or some shit ass liquid tech stock. So the musical chairs game in the West continues until suddenly everybody realizes that you can’t run an economy on asset inflation.














  • The value of the yarn is deductible if you make the product. If you sell the product to someone they can deduct the full value if they donate it while you pay income taxes on the profit. Trying to backdoor your labor as a deduction is what the IRS has a problem with because you’re not allowed to do that.



  • But my point is technically you can deduct the cost of the product. Lets say you knitted an Afghan that you can sell on Etsy and donated it to someone. You can only technically deduct the cost of the yarn, but you’re getting away with doing the market value thing. Full audit would nail you for it but the IRS isn’t staffed enough to call you in for one of those.



  • Right because you’re donating intellectual property which is property. And that distinction is fucking nonsense but here we are. I doubt a full audit would allow market prices to survive on that though. They’d be like “hey now, this didn’t cost you that.” But to do a full audit we’d actually have to fund the IRS. Good luck getting that to happen.



  • Balloon is filled with normal saline inside the bladder. A standard Foley is a double lumened tube, one with a balloon on the end and the other just ending in nothing. You fill the balloon once you insert it, then it holds it in the bladder, empty it when you want to remove it. Then on the open end you attach the bag and it’s held on with friction. If you remove the bag the piss just goes on the floor.

    Really though a sudden yank may pull the balloon before it pulls the bag that’s being held on through friction and that’s… Less than ideal. It really depends on how tight the bag is placed on. That balloon generally has a out 10 to 15mL of water and it will go through a urethra with enough force.