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One reason you may want to care about this "fake money" is the buy, borrow, die tax avoidance scheme you can run if you're asset rich [1]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26...


"Buy, borrow, die" is simply not a thing. It's a half-baked idea invented by academics, who don't realize that it's just not viable in practice. Billionaires do not actually utilize it[1].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...


In that case, isn't the correct analysis how much money is borrowed? If Musk is borrowing $500 million, that won't fund the government very long.


What should probably happen is the gains on any stock used for collateral in a loan are automatically realized for tax purposes.


That would make sense.


You may call them pathetic or hysterical but that doesn’t change the fact that the sentiment is real. The pace at which the current administration is burning through political capital that has been built over the last century is truly staggering and makes me wonder how much there will be left in three years time.


Wasn‘t Borat wearing one of those like 20years ago?


It's high time the Republicans embrace their new leadership with a re-branding of their outfit's name and henceforth call themselves The Banana Republicans


You‘re in luck BMW recently presented their vision CE.

https://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/en/experience/stories/urban-m...


Sadly, no weather protection and apparently almost zero luggage capacity. But it's a very tiny step in roughly the right direction ...


In the camper image it has a luggage box a sort of roof case.


oh, those concept shots are hysterical. the one with the pink bike and the woman with 3 dogs kills, but the dj setup is where I said "too far" and closed the tab


> the one with the pink bike and the woman with 3 dogs kills

A was all curious about the "woman with 3 dogs kills", but was disappointed to find the dogs are alive. I just read the sentence wrong.


the with 3 dogs was just describing the woman, not the target of the kills. it's not Kristi Noem in the image.


> the dj setup is where I said "too far" and closed the tab

Also, it's AI-generated. Zoom in on the right-most guy in the image. Garbage in, garbage out. Embarrassing garbage quality for an official site.


I‘d draw a different conclusion namely that it’s decidedly pro republican via omission. There is not a single reference to the current administration‘s role (which Vance is obviously part of) in dismantling the US democratic norms and institutions.


But then again the oldest trick in the authoritarian‘s playbook is to abandon the path of democracy by tilting the scales in their party’s favor. which is why you want strong independent institutions and separation of powers in a democracy, something the current administration does not appear to be in favor of.



This administration is not standing up for the principles of free speech. It has violated this principle numerous times in action and in spirit.


The docker-compose syntax ist valid for compose/v1 which was last updated in 2021. yet this article is from 2025. is vibe-docing now a thing also?


Hey! Thanks for pointing it out. I just double-checked the article, and actually — nothing there is outdated


  $ docker-compose
  bash: docker-compose: command not found

  $ docker compose
  Usage:  docker compose [OPTIONS] COMMAND
  ...


docker-compose is in fact deprecated, its right in the docs.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/releases/migrate/#what-are-t...


FWIW I still use docker-compose and had no idea it was deprecated. Pretty sure my colleagues do also.


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