In general pulling apart financing and equity is, well, it can feel very arbitrary

Maybe a joke expressly and exclusively for @regimecpa.bsky.social

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i've been reseraching & writing about leasing lately, and I don't think folks realize just how much of capex / global infrastructure is leased rather than owned

Wow that's a leaden sigh I just had

I give them a half hour early run with updates every five and it kinda works

I mean they've got a robot that uses machine vision to detect weeds and blast them with a fucking laser

no pesticides

if you don't want a bite of that kind of problem solving, you're not living with an adult conception of the scale of problems that we face

In the 1922 case of US v Ozawa, a Japanese immigrant to the US essentially pointed to the color of his skin and said, look, I'm white, I should be eligible for naturalization.

But the court, embracing the new "science" of race, said, no, by white we mean "Caucasian"

The very next year, SCOTUS heard US v Thind, in which a South Asian Sikh insisted he was technically part of the Caucasian race based on language and anthropology etc.

The court said, ha ha, no, by "Caucasian" we mean white.

It stems from a literal belief that white peoples descended from the Caucasus mountains after Noah’s ark

Where do you have the courage to drop takes of this magnitude

Also all my homies hate typeset changes. KEEP IT GRAY

Also Xena is all up in there

“the real story is the Systematic Problems of the Republic, it is a shame we focus on the tawdry scandal of young Skywalker knocking up a Naboo royal and freaking out about it” mf that’s why we have Darth Vader

there is no way to tell this story that does not hinge on Nuzzi’s character and personal life, especially as the web of entanglements she participates in all inherently blur the dividing line separating the personal beyond recognition

what Lizza’s Nuzzi Chronicles do as a purely self contained narrative is paint a picture of a pathologically duplicitous, faithless, and mentally unstable person who manages to somehow play a major role in deciding the fates of millions of people around the world

i think a lot of this throat clearing comes from an puritanical urge to scold people for eating up the story as a lurid personal scandal, but its far too late for that. the mess we are in is precisely, across the board, about influential people whose lives are public trainwrecks

these are not tertiary distractions, its like saying that anakin skywalker having weird sex issues and hangups about sand is irrelevant to the fall of the galactic republic