DelaneyM

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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Are we really doing this? Every other club every day has straight energy. Every movie you watch, every book you read. The point of a gay bar is a homonormative space. And since gay people are outnumbered 20:1, and heteronormativity is the
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Some do, but not every bar has a bouncer, and even then it’s hard to blanket-ban on suspicion. There aren’t any lesbian bars, sadly, but I would expect bachelorettes to hit them if they existed. The point seems to be “act slutty and let th
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Anything to get the bachelorette parties out of gay bars. They’re a plague. Edit: The bachelorettes are the plague, not the gay bars. I assume they also blight straight bars, I just don’t go to those.
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
An accounting professor I once had called trades like this “speed dialing the SEC from your Bloomberg”. Even if it’s legit, this trader is going to be spending a lot of time giving depositions over the next few months.
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Or possibly it’s like the hole in the ozone layer, which has also faded from public discourse, because thanks to that huge amount of press and action it’s been largely addressed. You’re basically saying “why is this thing we’re all working
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
> …COVID has killed more people in the past 4 years than HIV/AIDS did in the past 40+. Ok, so that’s wrong by an order of magnitude. AIDS has killed ~85.6 million [64.8 million–113.0 million] people, and it’s plausible that could be
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
No part of the post you’re replying to suggests it’s opening the door to reciprocal violence. The more complete argument is that extra-judicial action is justified when there is no other way - such as when the political process cannot effec
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
As a teenager I picked it up in a few weeks of halfhearted practice while visiting blind relatives. It was a struggle for a few hours until it “clicked.” It’a not like learning a new language, just a different alphabet with mostly 1:1 subs
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Vision loss runs in my family and has affected a few of my uncles and grandparents, so I’ve seen this multiple times. Braille can absolutely be learned at any age, and is a godsend for an avid reader. My grandmother learned braille at 72 a
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
This affects women more because caregiving is a responsibility which falls disproportionately on women. Though I'm no longer working, being able to shift to remote a few years ago let me move home and care for my parents + kids at the
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Our decision to have lower taxes, because we don’t need to raise more money, seems an odd thing to criticize us for. Companies do not choose Cayman. They choose “not my home/operating country”, then as a well regulated and safe third
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
By the way, Cayman has pretty substantial taxes. We operate a thriving country with no national debt and a great social safety net. We just charge them differently. There’s an effective 22% consumption tax (with carve-outs for basics), le
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
My point is that the ability of a company to put money offshore for tax benefits is on the home/operating country, not the offshore location. Cayman invests a lot of energy in sensible and globally integrated financial regulations. We
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Companies are not putting money in Cayman to hide it. Some companies put money outside of their operating or home country to minimize taxes, but Cayman has no part of that besides being “not their operating country”. And it’s actually less
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Many people misunderstand the difference between legal tax mitigation and tax avoidance. If your country allows companies or individuals to not be taxed on assets they locate overseas somehow, that’s on your country, not on us. And it has
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
There’s tax mitigation and tax avoidance, and I feel like you’re conflating the two. If your country allows a company to locate money somewhere else and not be taxed on it, that’s on your county, not on us. The best we can do is make sure
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
> The Cayman islands along with a few other tax havens play a nasty and selfish role in today's financial system that gives rich companies and rich people a massive advantage while hurting everyone else. This is where you demonstrat
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
It’s mostly Grisham’s fault from his 90’s book “The Firm”, IMO. Also, like much of the world, before global money laundering laws and regulations came into being there _was_ a lot of tax evasion happening here. But that hasn’t been the ca
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
People use Cayman because it’s a neutral and safe jurisdiction for global funds which plays nicely in the global financial system. If you keep money in the US, and the beneficial owner of that money is in Singapore/UAE/China/
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Citations needed. You just can’t hide money in Cayman. You can put money in Cayman, when you need to put money somewhere safe and neutral, but not hide it. Nobody dodges taxes by putting money in Cayman. There are some ways to save on som
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
I’m a wealthy local with a wealth management bank account. It took me 7 weeks and I had to file literal volumes of paperwork with help from an accountant to open a bank account when I moved home.
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
As a Caymanian I’m doing to take exception to your non-sequitur about Cayman being a “well-known tax haven”. Cayman is one of the most financially transparent, if not _the_ most financially transparent, location in the world. We fully comp
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
The biggest frustration I have with Bluesky is the velvet rope and its consequences on community building. I've been on the wait list since Feb 22, but for whatever reason I don't have access. That's just sour grapes, I know
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Oh yes, I realize it's for the street. But unless a public offering coincides with the PR there's little value in combining the two messages.
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
I know the reality is more complicated, but it's always jarring to read a "company X had a great! quarter, is firing 20% of employees" headline. Very dystopian. It seems like these two facts should at least go out in differe
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
The value people produce is an asset. After all, you don't own people, you buy their effort. A contract can be an asset. Usually the unrealized future value of the agreement has value should you need to make a deemed disposition (or
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
For a half billion dollars or so Elon could buy substack. It's a private company in the midst of a very painful and difficult fundraising cycle, they may not have much of a choice but to sell. Twitter would get a functioning monetiza
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by DelaneyM 4y ago
I'm not sure that's even possible. You'd likely need to register a Caymanian company to open the account. It might be possible if you're a resident of UK or a different BOT? (British Overseas Territories). If you'd
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by DelaneyM 4y ago
To be honest, I don't actually drink, and I'm just defending Cayman rum as a point of national pride. I suggest a Caribbean tasting tour.
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by DelaneyM 4y ago
Tax haven rules are on the US side, not the Cayman side. FATCA makes Cayman way more transparent than the US itself. Like, what does "stop being a tax haven" even mean? "Start charging a corporate income tax you don't

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