Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

[SDHornet]

CA, on top of 39.6% top fed income tax rate, and highest in the nation 13.3% state rate.



But wait, there's more: 1st in the nation wealth tax proposed, bill AB2008:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/ne ... 482011.php

I saw the CA donk legislator Robert Bonita on TV also stating that the bill would tax the rich 10 years AFTER they moved out of CA (which of course would be challenged in court).

Might as well rename those bills "Drive the rich out of California Acts"..

I read this earlier. What an idiotic move. Do they actually expect this to pass? Democrats can't stop stepping on their own feet.

It's one party rule here in CA it'll pass with ease. The bigger concern is the Marxists going after Prop 13 (caps increases on property taxes). Once that is gone, retirement in CA will be impossible.

[SDHornet]

Babylon Bee suspended from Twitter, not given a reason why.

Can't wait to see what this'll turn out to be.

But big tech isn't censoring conservative accounts.

[Winterborn]

SF is losing residents in droves. Bad news is these people will move to new places and keep voting for the same Marxist bullshit that got SF and CA into the current mess.

But yeah, hard to feel sorry for an extra tax on those making over $1M.

Ran across the article below yesterday about the SF housing market. Also read elsewhere that NY is seeing similar trends.

Both cities use property tax as one of their main sources of income. Going to be interesting to see what happens when landlords cannot pay that due to not having renters or people leaving.

New report confirms what many have been talking about for weeks: There is an exodus out of San Francisco, and the numbers are staggering.

Online real estate company Zillow released new statistics shining a stark light on the issue this week. Their "2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report" reveals that inventory has risen a whopping 96% year-on-year, as empty homes in the city flood the market like nowhere else in America.

https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/art ... 484785.php

[Winterborn]

Babylon Bee suspended from Twitter, not given a reason why.

Can't wait to see what this'll turn out to be.

A drone attack by the spam filter apparently....

[SDHornet]

SF is losing residents in droves. Bad news is these people will move to new places and keep voting for the same Marxist bullshit that got SF and CA into the current mess.

But yeah, hard to feel sorry for an extra tax on those making over $1M.

Ran across the article below yesterday about the SF housing market. Also read elsewhere that NY is seeing similar trends.

Both cities use property tax as one of their main sources of income. Going to be interesting to see what happens when landlords cannot pay that due to not having renters or people leaving.

New report confirms what many have been talking about for weeks: There is an exodus out of San Francisco, and the numbers are staggering.

Online real estate company Zillow released new statistics shining a stark light on the issue this week. Their "2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report" reveals that inventory has risen a whopping 96% year-on-year, as empty homes in the city flood the market like nowhere else in America.

https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/art ... 484785.php

Yup. Those cities might have to...wait for it...defund the police to make up the budget shortfall.

[SeattleGriz]

Reuters gets slammed over shoddy effort and no context. Click the tweet to open the thread.

Man, they have been pretty biased since Trump. Predictable.

[JohnStOnge]

Reuters gets slammed over shoddy effort and no context. Click the tweet to open the thread.

Man, they have been pretty biased since Trump. Predictable.

I looked at the thread and I don't think they have Reuters as doing anything wrong. It looks like they think the Reuters should have provided some kind of explanation to make sure nobody used their stock photos to claim the stock photos are evidence of Trump mucking up the post office. It doesn't look to me like Reuters made any claim about that. I looked up a fact check on the use of the photos and I don't think the "mainstream media" are implicated. Here it is:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fac ... 382701001/

It looks to me like somebody used social media to post misinformation about the photography. This is not a "mainstream media" misinformation thing.

[JohnStOnge]

Reuters gets slammed over shoddy effort and no context. Click the tweet to open the thread.

Man, they have been pretty biased since Trump. Predictable.

And BTW it is pretty clear that Trump was indeed trying to muck up the post office.

[SeattleGriz]

Reuters gets slammed over shoddy effort and no context. Click the tweet to open the thread.

Man, they have been pretty biased since Trump. Predictable.

I looked at the thread and I don't think they have Reuters as doing anything wrong. It looks like they think the Reuters should have provided some kind of explanation to make sure nobody used their stock photos to claim the stock photos are evidence of Trump mucking up the post office. It doesn't look to me like Reuters made any claim about that. I looked up a fact check on the use of the photos and I don't think the "mainstream media" are implicated. Here it is:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fac ... 382701001/

It looks to me like somebody used social media to post misinformation about the photography. This is not a "mainstream media" misinformation thing.

Reuters is a news service. They are supposed to get shit like that right. The guy criticizing them is a journalist and was calling them out.

And how has Trump mucked up the USPS?

[BDKJMU]

I looked at the thread and I don't think they have Reuters as doing anything wrong. It looks like they think the Reuters should have provided some kind of explanation to make sure nobody used their stock photos to claim the stock photos are evidence of Trump mucking up the post office. It doesn't look to me like Reuters made any claim about that. I looked up a fact check on the use of the photos and I don't think the "mainstream media" are implicated. Here it is:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fac ... 382701001/

It looks to me like somebody used social media to post misinformation about the photography. This is not a "mainstream media" misinformation thing.

Reuters is a news service. They are supposed to get shit like that right. The guy criticizing them is a journalist and was calling them out.

And how has Trump mucked up the USPS?

Reuters has dropped the ball with an obvious bias or being flat out wrong a number of times since in the last couple years..The most recent I can remember is last winter when they published a story accusing the Trump admin of keeping 100k children in immigration detention, then scrubbed the news from their site when it was pointed out they were UN #s from 2015 when Obama was president..

[CAA Flagship]

CA, on top of 39.6% top fed income tax rate, and highest in the nation 13.3% state rate.



But wait, there's more: 1st in the nation wealth tax proposed, bill AB2008:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/ne ... 482011.php

I saw the CA donk legislator Robert Bonita on TV also stating that the bill would tax the rich 10 years AFTER they moved out of CA (which of course would be challenged in court).

Might as well rename those bills "Drive the rich out of California Acts"..

SF is losing residents in droves. Bad news is these people will move to new places and keep voting for the same Marxist bullshit that got SF and CA into the current mess.

But yeah, hard to feel sorry for an extra tax on those making over $1M.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/palanti ... orado.html

Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado

Data analytics software company Palantir Technologies is relocating its headquarters to Denver, Colorado from Palo Alto, California, CNBC confirmed Wednesday.

The company updated its website where it now lists Denver as the site of its headquarters. It also updated its social media pages to reflect the change.

The Denver Business Journal first reported news of a potential move.

Co-founded in 2004 by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, Palantir is a data analytics company that provides software to large companies and government agencies. Palantir also announced early July that it filed confidentially for a public stock offering.

[Winterborn]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/palanti ... orado.html

Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado

Data analytics software company Palantir Technologies is relocating its headquarters to Denver, Colorado from Palo Alto, California, CNBC confirmed Wednesday.

The company updated its website where it now lists Denver as the site of its headquarters. It also updated its social media pages to reflect the change.

The Denver Business Journal first reported news of a potential move.

Co-founded in 2004 by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, Palantir is a data analytics company that provides software to large companies and government agencies. Palantir also announced early July that it filed confidentially for a public stock offering.

Kubota and Toyota are another two companies that come to mind that have moved out as well. Both moved to Texas.

[Gil Dobie]

Reuters is a news service. They are supposed to get shit like that right. The guy criticizing them is a journalist and was calling them out.

And how has Trump mucked up the USPS?

Reuters has dropped the ball with an obvious bias or being flat out wrong a number of times since in the last couple years..The most recent I can remember is last winter when they published a story accusing the Trump admin of keeping 100k children in immigration detention, then scrubbed the news from their site when it was pointed out they were UN #s from 2015 when Obama was president..

Reuters is the least bias MSM outlet and makes less mistakes than Fox or CNN.

[Gil Dobie]

Reuters gets slammed over shoddy effort and no context. Click the tweet to open the thread.

Man, they have been pretty biased since Trump. Predictable.

I looked at the thread and I don't think they have Reuters as doing anything wrong. It looks like they think the Reuters should have provided some kind of explanation to make sure nobody used their stock photos to claim the stock photos are evidence of Trump mucking up the post office. It doesn't look to me like Reuters made any claim about that. I looked up a fact check on the use of the photos and I don't think the "mainstream media" are implicated. Here it is:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fac ... 382701001/

It looks to me like somebody used social media to post misinformation about the photography. This is not a "mainstream media" misinformation thing.

The post office is not like it was prior to the pandemic. I have no doubt the mailboxes are not being picked up as often as before. 5 times in a 2 month period, items I have dropped off at the post office drop-box, have been tracked as mailed 3 or 4 days later, leading ebay to ding me for late shipping. For 22 years, I had never had this happen prior to the pandemic. I no longer use the drop-box, I go into the post office and drop my mail off there now. No issue with late shipping since.

Also notice a lot of packages going on detours. My package that was suppose to arrive on Monday, went to St Paul, then Wilson, WI, then back to St Paul and then to me.

A lot of strange stuff that could be related to the pandemic with new rules and people being sick, substitute workers, etc.

[CID1990]

SF is losing residents in droves. Bad news is these people will move to new places and keep voting for the same Marxist bullshit that got SF and CA into the current mess.

But yeah, hard to feel sorry for an extra tax on those making over $1M.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/palanti ... orado.html

Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado

Data analytics software company Palantir Technologies is relocating its headquarters to Denver, Colorado from Palo Alto, California, CNBC confirmed Wednesday.

The company updated its website where it now lists Denver as the site of its headquarters. It also updated its social media pages to reflect the change.

The Denver Business Journal first reported news of a potential move.

Co-founded in 2004 by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, Palantir is a data analytics company that provides software to large companies and government agencies. Palantir also announced early July that it filed confidentially for a public stock offering.

Wait...

How awesome is it that a company is named Palantir?

That’s a candidate name for my retirement boat


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[Ibanez]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/palanti ... orado.html

Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado

Wait...

How awesome is it that a company is named Palantir?

That’s a candidate name for my retirement boat


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We use them at the Bank. They've got a solid product and great customer service. I worked with them once of a few vulnerabilities we recognized. I'm pretty sure we can tell them we want the SW to sing show-tunes as it compiles analytics and they'd make it happen.

[Ibanez]

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through their campaign “We Build the Wall.”

Bannon, along with three of his associates were indicted by investigators at the U.S. Southern District of New York on Thursday. They allege that the group of conservative leaders defrauded donors and that led to raising “more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States,” according to the press release.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/20/former- ... cheme.html

I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

[CID1990]

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through their campaign “We Build the Wall.”

Bannon, along with three of his associates were indicted by investigators at the U.S. Southern District of New York on Thursday. They allege that the group of conservative leaders defrauded donors and that led to raising “more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States,” according to the press release.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/20/former- ... cheme.html

I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

What did they pokkit the money?


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[Ibanez]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/20/former- ... cheme.html

I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

What did they pokkit the money?


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This is all fake news. Conservatives wouldn't do this. It's clearly a witch hunt wanting to hurt anyone with a relationship to Trump, his past campaign and/or administration. Fake news.

[kalm]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/palanti ... orado.html

Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado

Wait...

How awesome is it that a company is named Palantir?

That’s a candidate name for my retirement boat


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You’ve never heard of Palantir and Peter Thiel?

[Skjellyfetti]

[∞∞∞]

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been arrested after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors through their campaign “We Build the Wall.”

Bannon, along with three of his associates were indicted by investigators at the U.S. Southern District of New York on Thursday. They allege that the group of conservative leaders defrauded donors and that led to raising “more than $25 million to build a wall along the southern border of the United States,” according to the press release.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/20/former- ... cheme.html

I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

Only the best people.

I've lost track; what are we up to for arrest counts of former Trump officials?

But yeah, Donny was never involved in anything . (I know not actually in this case)

[SeattleGriz]

Gotta appreciate a guy who goes out on a limb and makes a prediction. CNN changing the polling ratio of Dems/Reps/Inds so the polls tighten, only to go back to oversampling Dems and claim they got a convention boost.

https://www.toptradeguru.com/2020-polls ... ou-decide/

[kalm]

Bannon gets arrested:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics ... index.html

Rule #1. Dont steal from the rich.

#2. Don’t mess with the postal service.

[CID1990]

Wait...

How awesome is it that a company is named Palantir?

That’s a candidate name for my retirement boat


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You’ve never heard of Palantir and Peter Thiel?

No. Am I in some position where I should have?

Sounds like they vote with their feet though.


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