Asparagirl

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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Not anymore! California became a CCW “shall issue” state (instead of “may issue”) last June, under NYSRPA v Bruen . There’s a backlog of people applying, but it’s finally possible. https://calmatters.org/guns/2023&#x2F
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Probably, yeah — just like the current president of Ukraine, whose native tongue is Russian. That happens a lot when local people have a foreign language forced upon them by an empire that literally sent people to the gulag for decades for
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
If his non-Anglo parents had been born in somewhere like Galway, Chennai, or Hong Kong in 1900, and had similarly come to the US in 1923, it is very unlikely that his New York Times obituary would read simply “born to British parents…” even
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
” Born to Jewish Russian immigrants in Brooklyn, New York on June 30, 1926, Berg developed a love for science during middle school…” sigh The _vast_ majority of “Russian Jews” who came to the US prior to the 1960s were not from Russia a
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
The Savings and Loan crisis of the early 1980s was kicked off by rising interest rates that simultaneously made the assets (mainly mortgages) they already held not as profitable and also made their depositors want to pull their money to get
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
I think the strings are warming up... https://twitter.com/Dr_PhillipB/status/1634632068058722304
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
> "regardless if it was over the insured limit" Sorry, dude, this is flat-out wrong. Please go find out what happened to depositors over the FDIC limits at IndyMac and Silver State, just a few years ago.
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
> "Are you suggesting tens of thousands of small business customers need to do due dilligence on the investment practices of their banks?" Golly, some of us even chose non-banks, and use local credit unions. There are millions
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
I have an Etsy shop. I have a teeny tiny side gig selling plants: homegrown dahlia tubers, tulip bulbs, unusual and super-hot chili peppers grown from seed, fancy-schmancy houseplants, etc. I may or may not be out $21 for the month, big who
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Actually, you can get some or all of your paycheck auto-deposited there! The Payroll Savings Option: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/research-center/communication... Some or all of your paycheck gets sent to a non-int
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
> "Why doesn't the government provide banking services with unlimited insurance?" They do, kind of: it's TreasuryDirect.gov. It's only accessible through a horrible web interface straight out of 1999, but it&#x27
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Cut to a scene of fifty angry unpaid devs banding together to file their claim and then standing in the Atherton driveway of their VC and figuring out who gets his art collection, who gets the wine and how much, who gets his watches...
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Yes, and emphasized in Jewish law, too. - Leviticus 19:13 - "You shall not leave [with you] the payment of a worker overnight until the morning..." - Deuteronomy 24:15 - "On his day you should give his wages, the sun should n
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Yup. And that was even after the FDIC limit was raised from $100k to $250k, and amazingly was even made retroactive back to January 1, 2008, to try to help those poor people out.
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Old: Subprime is contained! New: It’s just some startups!
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
No. INSURED deposits are safe, up to $250k per signer on an account, depending on how that account is titled and how many other accounts that company or signer might have at the same bank, and some other details that are very nitpicky but a
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
There is absolutely no evidence people above FDIC limits will recover “80-90% of the capital”. It’s a guess, a crapshoot, and it’s not taking into account historical loss rates for banks of this size that were seized by the FDIC. See also:
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Dude. Could you please tell us how much money the thousands of depositors (both individuals and companies) who were above the FDIC limits at IndyMac Bank lost in total, when the bank was taken over by FDIC in 2008? (hint: three comma club,
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Gonna be some new faces at some board meetings soon! And by new I mean a buncha old guys from Wall Street or private equity who are going to buy a seat at some “disruptors” and then explain how things are going to work now.
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Unless, of course, this predicted white knight never appears because lots of other banks are secretly in similarly shaky positions where they are also holding lots of long-term Treasuries or MBS that are in some respects extremely safe
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
One of the largest recent FDIC payouts was IndyMac. I'm not sure if this was the most recent one, but certainly one of the most recent big ones. They were so bad that no one wanted to take them over! And the other banks were in such
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
2008 also had IndyMac and Wachovia[1] and a whole lot of regional banks, which were not small either. [1] which technically didn't fail but had its retail banking operations forcibly absorbed by Citigroup in an overnight shotgun weddi
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
The IA hosts lots of non-public-domain videos, including loads of rare ripped-from-VCR material. Copyright status rarely is an issue unless a copyright holder finds a specific video and makes an explicit DMCA claim against it. And even then
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
If you do find out, please please post a follow-up with details on how more of us can do this too? I live in an unincorporated area of Marin county, just north of San Francisco, maybe ten minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge — and we’ve got
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
You’re not curious. You’re being disingenuous. If you were actually curious, you’d read the article , which goes into a lot of detail about the unsafe work conditions, the equipment breakdowns, the unstable hours, the student debt making
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
They're probably smart enough to use LLC's and other shell companies, several layers deep.
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Yuuup. IRS reminds taxpayers they must check a box on Form 1040, 1040-SR or 1040-NR on virtual currency transactions for 2021 IR-2022-61, March 18, 2022 WASHINGTON — The IRS reminds taxpayers that there is a virtual currency question at th
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
Your statement is fantasyland. It’s absolutely legal in the US to publish “EU citizens’ details”! It’s not a crime, and it’s not even against the GDPR at all. The GDPR is explicitly about EU companies (or American companies with EU subsidia
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
GDPR applies to companies doing business in Europe . An American court is neither a company nor in Europe.
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by Asparagirl 4y ago
When I bought my house in Los Angeles (in the southern part of the San Fernando Valley, not particularly close to the accident site), in 2005, the closing documents I had to sign had disclosures about the accident.

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