The convoy idea is so dumb that I can’t believe anyone said it out loud. Effective strategy against commerce raiders, which Iran explicitly does not have. Might as well offer to mount a CIWS on tankers and hope your insurance premiums will see it as a wash (they won’t). Makes as much sense as suggesting you counter drones with cavalry.

I mean just getting rid of immunity would be fine

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.

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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.

They don’t let you deduct the cost of your own labor ever. The property thing is the loophole (but after further research not a real loophole and they will nail you for it).

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.

I wish LNG was that simple. Most of qatar LNG production comes from dedicated natural gas fields(the North field) but they also have quite a bit co-extracted with oil. That requires big facilities to compress it. Without them they’ll just flare it like they did in the past and dump the CO2 right into the atmosphere with no gain.

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.

Hopefully the balloon will keep the catheter in place and the bag itself will just detach from the Foley lumen.

The whole trinitarian debate is like a Lemmy comment chain of people completely talking past each other.

I do not I just can’t believe these neolibs are that fucking bold faced about it. Like I get sacrificing one manufacturing industry for another. That’s industrial policy, even if it’s often corrupt. But this is sacrificing a manufacturing industry for its owners. It’s just… stupid. The British crown subsidizing East India company adventuring level stupid.

Germany’s need to support the car industry, one of the country’s biggest employers, has made its approach to barriers to Chinese imports less black and white.

It voted against an EU decision to introduce tariffs on Chinese EVs in 2024 and this month was spared EU tariffs on imports of the Chinese-built Volkswagen Cupra Tavascan SUV in exchange for undertakings on the minimum price of the vehicle.

I’m having a hard time parsing this. It’s supporting the car industry offshoring as an economic boon for one of its biggest employers?

Should just have msg packets and get people used to that instead.

Ron Paul blimp.

Yo is there any way to weaponize this into banning all binding arbitration because that would be based.

Nothing to do with endangered, dudes just a nut. Said he ate them out of spite. He’s got an impressive court history of brandishing firearms and DUI/driving suspended while DUI. https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-man-eats-pet-peacocks-dispute-neighbor-feeding-them-craig-vogt-pasco-county-sheriffs-office-tampa-bay/

https://www.civitekflorida.com/ocrs/county/51/

Well you could always go the boiled water and some salt route. “Yo dog I heard you liked shock so I infused some water with bacteria antigens in it so you could go into shock while you’re going into shock.”