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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 10h

It wasn’t the violence. It was where it was directed. Downwards is fine. Upwards is not.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 11h

So Trump can blame the diesel prices on Ukraine. This ain’t rocket science.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 11h

Russia can’t maintain F-35s. It would be pointless. They can certainly use oil-money, though.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing of this will reduce prices. Trump merely claims it will. As a bonus, he can claim that Ukraine is to blame for the high diesel prices. Not his own insane attack on Iran.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 12h

Somehow this is in no way how this is being described here in Norway. Interesting.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 13h

Without the anxiety. If I am without. Trying to find a new equilibrium. It’s as if I am in a room, and the room has gotten bigger, and this is probably good, but the room is so empty now. It echoes, and I can’t find I don’t know what.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 15h

No see why. Slice of brain was not dealing with *gestures at everything*.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Am realizing self is undersocialized feral kitten. *sad nodness*

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t remember the Soviet Union being big into trans people. To put it very mildly.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, I got that. i’m just taking the opportunity to showcase my cylon-like capacity for mercy in boardgames. :D And also my childishness, obvs.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think the modern BSG boardgame lost me friends. They thought there weren’t any cylons.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe they should just have gotten a doll.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

EVERYTHING! (It’s been a bad half-century.)

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I read some of his other replies. The amount of remedial schooling it would take to get him to a level of just “wrong about everything” would be monumental.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The judge is not *less* restricted by the rules of evidence. It’s not a case of “it’s okay if the judge says so”.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is also knowingly presenting a fake document to the court. This would in most countries lead to jail time, not the judge going “oh, how convincing!”

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perhaps the judge should be checked for advanced dementia? This is so fucking stupid.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Only slow blink” does not have the same effect.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just looking at this picture makes my stress levels go down. PRETTY!

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I tried (in the 90s) to set up something like that without knowing about listserv. And I added myself to the list of emails for emails to be sent to. I still have never tried something like that again.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, we broke it some time ago. It’s just that now the fragments are working their way into the feet of the people with the really big expensive boots.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I didn’t mean that to come off as dismissive, but I fear it did. :/

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sometimes, when I have the energy, I wish I could have gone on studying machine learning, so I would have more than just these vague feelings of “this llm’s turning sapient is utter bullshit”. :/

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If it is learning from people, this suggests an increase in incidences of napalm cake. Does this seem concerning to anyone else, or just me?

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do, but only for marzipan cake. Yum!

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Should I find one, I shall not hesitate to inform you!

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Awww… You stealeded my point. Waah. Well done! :)

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Buying a wagon, skinny-dipping, wagon on fire, dysentery… Nooo, no comma songs.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An elf remembers to do his chores *exactly* when he means to!

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No, the lobster banging his wife.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There’s a musical where this is a plot point. Starkids’ Trail to Oregon. Yes, this is wierd.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All elves have ADHD. They’ve just got the time to properly indulge in it. It’s also why elven civilization advances so slowly.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wannsee is the point where the Nazis realize "all our efforts at exporting Jews to somewhere else are no longer possible now that we are at war, which we probably should have thought about beforehand given our fears of a magic Jews Make Us Lose Wars beam"

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is invitation to play. Play is chomp. Unless dressed for chomp, avoid.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Consequences are bad! Waaah!” Fuck you.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s (yet another) publicity stunt, just like the “oh no, the ai model escaped!” and the “oh no, the ai could recursivel self-improve and kill us all”. Meh.

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Eowm of Meow @mjaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Visible universe. Obviously they have faster-than-light travel, so they’d know how big the universe really is. The homogenity of the visible parts do suggest it’s rather bigger.

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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It has been nine years since I had a WHOOPS litter of kittens and then fell into fostering for Illoura as an apology to my vet friends. So many cats and kittens since then!