So how is that fake? I can’t do any of those things you mention in the first paragraph.

You’re not rich enough where banks know you always have stock available to give them. Where there’s virtually no limit to your stock pool that the bank can just liquidate after the fact. You need to be in the top .1% for that. The fact you’re on lemmy means that’s not a possibility in the slightest.

Getting loans based on assets is not at all the same as selling those assets.

It is for the rich. That’s why so many don’t care about their traditional salary. That’s why so many went out of their way to advertise they were taking a $1 salary during the recession, or even today. Because their salary is subject to income tax, but loans are not. You can get the same end result of cash in hand by receiving your pay in stock, then taking loans against that stock.

Okay Journathan

Because the meme isn’t about the actual facts. It’s about the joke at the end. Which you clearly missed.

I count that in the sold category. Because they just get more loans to pay off the previous ones, or default and the bank just takes the shares and does it again because what the loaned is less than the share value. All the while avoiding income and capital gains taxes.

It’s why boycotts and cancelling subscriptions actually do work when done in large enough numbers. Their money can disappear very quickly if shareholders get spooked.

It’s also why Tesla isn’t being affected as much now despite Elon pulling the mask off and going full Nazi, resulting in massive sales drops. Years and years of short sellers and complicit media trying to tank the brand, largely funded and promoted by things like entrenched oil interests and competing car brands have trained many shareholders to ignore a lot.

To be fair, all that money is effectively fake until the shares are sold.

I’ll give them full points just for not putting it immediately in front of the door preventing it from being opened, despite the doormat request.

So they’re telling them to ignore official government documentation and to put something else? That’s fraud.

So 90% of the self-proclaimed “power users”.

Probably the wording in the article that seems to say exactly that?

The Singapore Government’s Factually website states that all goods brought into Singapore are subject to goods and services tax, currently pegged at 9 per cent. However, travellers are granted GST import relief based on the duration of their trip.

Those who have been overseas for 48 hours or more are entitled to GST relief of up to $500. For trips under 48 hours, the value is capped at $100. The GST rate is currently pegged at 9 per cent.

These amounts apply to the total value of goods bought overseas, excluding liquor and tobacco. Any value above the relief limit is taxable, and travellers are required to declare it upon or prior to arrival.

Singapore work permit, employment pass, student pass, dependent pass or long-term pass holders, as well as crew, are not entitled to GST import relief.

The term goods isn’t specified, but could easily be interpreted to mean absolutely anything they want potentially.

The way to make a big dent in that is to tax unused housing, with peogressivwly increasing amounts as they continue unoccupied. And limit or outright deny ownership by companies and investment firms.

We have more than enough housing for everyone, but a large portion of it sits unused. In many cases only because no one will/can pay what some of these companies are demanding monthly for them.

Again those pesky facts get in the way of their deranged fantasies.

Ah, you made the dog whistle connection. That wasn’t supposed to happen, you weren’t supposed to notice that, it was only for them.

Google Maps reports are just for “police”, which is a generic term that ICE would be either way.

I would expect by this point after Waymo has been on the road for 7 years… Police should know what the fuck one looks like, especially with the dozen or so very obvious LIDAR sensors all over the thing. And especially since Waymo only operates in a handful of places under special authorization by the State DOT, the police should know what they look like by now, they are not new.

We need to stop giving police the benefit of the doubt for their ignorance. Ignorance of the law isn’t an excuse for regular people, why should we accept that ignorance and poor training is fine for the police?

From my understanding, Waymo operates under special permission from the State’s Department of Transportation. They’re requires to submit even minor traffic incidents that otherwise would be ignored, etc. to the State and a lot of data is collected that is ignored for regular drivers.

If they wanted, they could make whatever changes necessary to handle citations for these vehicles. They just haven’t.

I wasn’t talking about any particular administration. I’m talking in general, regardless of who’s in charge.

If there’s anything we’ve learned the last couple decades, it’s that we need to actually set rules with consequences and not rely on old gentleman’s agreements and convention to run the government.

Even if that’s being done after a third world war instigated by the dipshits and the US as it is collapsing.

They’re working, are they getting paid? Because I remember that being a big deal one of the previous times politics got in the way of fundamental daily functioning.

If they are, they shouldn’t be.

Posting political propaganda on government websites should be illegal. The websites should solely be for providing information and support for and about those departments.

It’s also a justification for the millions of dollars they already spent on office space that isn’t necessary anymore.

Did anyone actually think the IHOP rebranding was real? That looked like a promo trying to force itself viral from the second they announced it.