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andrew, 6 months ago to law

I got to squeeze a lot of puns in this short piece on the "Chicken Tax" that is actually a ... tax on light pickup trucks.

"The US introduced the tax after negotiations to resolve the rooster ruckus reached a stalemate. The Lyndon B. Johnson administration imposed a 25% tariff on light trucks—specifically to capture the Volkswagen Microbus—as well as other exportable goods where the offending EU states would feel the pinch."

#lawfedi @law

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/week-in-insights-the-chicken-tax-has-made-an-enduring-impact

andrew, 6 months ago to law

In this week's Insights I wrote about a fun little fraud (if #tax fraud can ever be fun) in the EU involving shipping #Apple #AirPods in a big loop and exploiting input credit refunds for VAT payments never made. Also known as a "carousel" or "missing trader intra-community" fraud.

#lawfedi #taxfedi @law

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/week-in-insights-airpods-are-at-center-of-eu-carousel-fraud-case

andrew, 7 months ago to law

On this day in history Abraham #Lincoln delivered the #GettysburgAddress.

He wasn't the main speaker that day, Edward Everett was. He spoke for 2 hours about the significance of the battle. Lincoln's address was only 10 sentences and he delivered it so quickly there are no photographs of him speaking.

Interestingly, the speech itself speaks to the insignificance of anything he could say that day. And yet the speech is unquestionably more well-known than the battle.

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jenniferplusplus, 7 months ago to activitypubtestsuite

I want to share a fediverse test resource I've started putting together over the last few days. It's a minimal config sandbox with automatically provisioned SSL and DNS for fedi services. A lot of apps refuse to federate with instances that don't have ssl or proper domain names, as a security measure. This makes that easy to run locally for testing.

https://github.com/Letterbook/Sandcastles

It's worked for the few people who've tried it out so far, so please have at it.

cc @activitypubtestsuite

catsalad, 9 months ago to random

⚠️DANGER⚠️ Quicksand

jerry, 9 months ago to random

Last nights super bizarre dream: I had a super annoying and clingy pet octopus that kept hugging me, which I found really unsettling, but it was my pet and I had apparently agreed to love it like any other pet.

I was very happy when I woke up from that one. And no, the octopus did not require water - it was apparently a PNW tree octopus