ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
I’ve never gotten any value out of anything SK tweeted and I assume few have. He should stick to books.
Red checkmark for him if he’s too tight to pay up.
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Elon & Twitter
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Red checkmark for him if he’s too tight to pay up.
ZenRockGarden
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You missed the opportunity to confess that your claim of Twitter paying content creators has been debunked.
I guess if taxes is all you care about. I have 2 kids in Austin. We intend to move near where at least 1 of our kids ends up. Austin is out of the question. No fan of the weather and no fan you need to drive freaking everywhere. I have come to hate suburbia and cities that are basically suburbs with little opportunity to get around without cars to me suck. So I will choose higher tax place that is very walkable over a low tax suburban sprawl.
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
Ain’t it grand to have a choice? Now imagine if we all fell under the same tax regimes nationwide.
No thanks.
I will add that I do have a fondness for Northern CA, but couldn’t consider calling it home even tax free due to the state’s restrictiveness regarding one of my hobbies as well as it being a fundamental, and constitutionally protected right.
bkp_duke
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You don't have to guess. Elon was CRYSTAL CLEAR in why he thinks the $8 fee is necessary. He tweeted as much 2 days ago - to reduce bots. Non-validated, non-fee-paying tweets will be a lower priority. The bot farms currently sign up for these by the tens of thousands to push promoted tweets to the top, they won't do that if non-paying tweets hold less weight, and it costs them money to sign up for new accounts because their current bot accounts are banned.
Honest question - do you read Elon's tweets? No joke, he's covered all this. The MSM just is cherry-picking certain things and taking them out of context because they want to move the goalposts.
You also are getting the SK stuff and Elon wrong. The $8 is a flat fee for everyone that wants a blue check mark, content creator or not. You don't have to have it. But if Elon brings Vine back to complete with TikTok, SK can more than make up that $8 in content he makes money off of, and the $8 would be a drop in the bucket. Currently SK is making nothing off Twitter, zilch.
It's all an academic argument, we're turning ourselves blue in the face, but Elon WILL DO what Elon wants, nothing else.
Changing subjects - scuttlebutt is that 50% of Twitter is getting canned tomorrow.
Musk Plans To Layoff 50% Of Twitter’s Workforce Ahead Of Verification Fee Roll Out Next Week, Reports Say
Twitter could roll out its $8/month fee for verified accounts as early as Monday, while it's reportedly preparing to fire around 3,700 workers.
www.forbes.com
bkp_duke
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Care to take the opportunity to admit you were wrong?
Elon Musk might bring back Vine, a predecessor of TikTok shut down by Twitter
Twitter bought Vine, an app that let users take 6-second videos that would run on a loop, in 2012.
Vine = TikTok competitor. Creators would be paid by view for their content.
bkp_duke
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I live in high-tax suburban sprawl. Worst of both worlds (but a killer view, I'll give it that).
bkp_duke
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Actually, Costa Rica is nice, could retire there immediately and never have to work a day again with what I have saved (even after the current market crash).
Parts of Mexico are beautiful as well. Wife's family is from SE Asia, could retire there for cheap as well.
If I wanted to keep in the USA, I could go to Puerto Rico and the cost of living there is WAY lower than what I have in SD County. And the tax rate is really really low there (Puerto Rico Taxes – How to benefit from incredible tax incentives - Global Expat Advisors).
My big problem with Elon is that when the Fremont factory was shut down in 2020, when we didn't have vaccines or any other way to manage SARS-CoV-2, the vast majority of the local people were on the side of the Alameda County Health Department and Elon was regarded as an asshole. But in Shanghai right now, the vast majority of people are against zero COVID so Elon would be regarded as a hero. And regardless of how you personally feel about COVID protocols, if Alameda County's restrictions are so ridiculous they require a standoff with the Sheriff's office, then Shanghai's require a standoff at least 5-10 times as big. But we don't hear a peep out of Elon about those.
Ah, so the fairness of taxes aren't really what you're concerned about. You just want to keep as much of your money as possible.
Understandable. I think most people want to keep as much of their money as possible.
Some of these places you've listed though, have you factored in the cost of private security and building your own infrastructure?
Food quality: SE Asia first, then Mexico, then Costa Rica.
bkp_duke
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Depends on what part of SE Asia. I would say MX, CR, then SE Asia (personally).
bkp_duke
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I've visited all those place, MX is the only one that worries me about security, and it's also a distant third. CR would probably be top of my list, possibly PR close second.
Fair enough. I always think Thai/Vietnamese first.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Have you factored in rebuilding every year after a hurricane or two?
OK, I'm as guilty as anyone else here, but I think we've turned this thread into Twitter.
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
bkp_duke
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Nah, you don't have to do that if you build right the first time. There was a guy in FL that built a beautiful beach-front home to withstand a Cat 5. . . . few years later a Cat 4 or 5 hit and he was the only house left. Said his overall cost of construction was 20-25% higher than the homes around him (deep steel footings being the main thing, and a wind-resistant roof).
Costa Rica is beautiful, but I would choose Amsterdam or some place like it.
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