David Pope

Tax policy/crypto policy geek. Digital Assets are our future! CPA, CGMA Creative solutions to complex business issues. Not tax or investment advice.

[David Pope @DAPCPA]

The way to defeat those who would silence us is to speak. Speak the forbidden truths. Speak for those who have no voice. Let your voice ring out. The cowards will, in desperation, increase the intensity of their efforts to stop the sound. But the sound of a billion voices singing (even if they are different songs) will drive back the evil that would darken our world.

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@RunninM @KalebLynch You bet. It is an unfortunate fact of our lives here that weather, distance and isolation are considerations. I love it. Not for everyone.

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Absolutely. And a reminder - this is I-80 in winter. Welcome to Wyoming.

[Holly @Wyo307Holly]

In case you’re considering moving to Wyoming after the mid term results I thought I’d help everyone think this through.

* Hope you have lots of time to drive, because a trip to Costco can take your entire day.
* Your Amazon Prime account won’t work the same here. In Wyoming, “Prime” just means you’ll eventually get it.
* We have winter for eight months. No really, we do.
* The wind will blow the snow right back into the driveway you just cleared. It’s a fun little hobby.
* I-80 in the winter can turn a simple drive into a very long day of sitting in your car, waiting for the road to open and questioning your choices.
* It’s not always easy to run out for one thing. Sometimes that one thing is an hour or more away, and lots of times after the drive you can’t find the one thing in that place either.
* We don’t have every store, restaurant, or delivery service you’re used to. You’ll learn to plan ahead, or learn to do without.
* Hiking? Sure. Just remember you might run into a bear. Nothing like enjoying the scenery while also keeping an eye out for something that could eat you.
* And those deer and elk everybody thinks are so wonderful? They’re beautiful right up until one jumps in front of your car.

Wyoming is cold, windy, inconvenient, and a long way from Costco. Hope this helps. 😂

[David Pope @DAPCPA]

@iceebuffalo The real problem was the night before with zero visibility and 80mph wind gusts. Like you said, the snow in the picture was really no issue as long as you have a vehicle with a little clearance and you have good visibility.

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@IraGilligan I hate typos. My apologies.

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@IraGilligan Hardest thing for me to learn, but best accounting thing for me to ever push through. Once I learned debits and credits it was like the heavens opened up and the world became beautiful. And there was much rejoicing and maybe a little music.

[Giant Jim 🇺🇸 🤪🤠🚓🇮🇱 @jimgeeting]

Reason #65 why big city folk always in a hurry would not like it here in Wyoming.

We are, what America was.

[David Pope @DAPCPA]

Grok’s description of the photo. I80 runs over the service road and the photo was taken by WYDOT. Illustrative of some of the challenges winter travel presents in Wyoming and consistent with the theme of the post that I quoted:

“The original source is WYDOT (Wyoming Department of Transportation).
The exact photo appears in a February 24, 2023 post by the official @WYDOTNews account. The post states that westbound I-80 had reopened, notes ongoing drifting on the eastbound lanes, and says: “Photos show I-80 drifting between Rawlins & Rock Springs.” One of the three attached images is identical to the one in your post (the view under the overpass with the green Rock Springs ← / Rawlins → sign and high snowbanks).
This matches the documented storm conditions that day, when massive drifts forced extended closures on that stretch of I-80. A later reply under your post also noted it was taken from the service road because the main lanes were closed, which is consistent with how such photos are typically captured during closures.”

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@kaideejay @lsferguson It’s great when you are heading East.

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Hope not. I’ve spent the last 10 years working to keep weird alternative taxation out of our statutes. Mostly successful. I also understand that we have to stay vigilant. We are most successful when the people line the halls to testify at committee meetings. Most of the legislature is from rural communities and they know their reelection is on the line in those instances. So - we keep lining the halls with people to testify and make sure the people in those districts are represented.

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@johaugum Wyoming would be the gateway drug for a Norway. Love it.

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@johaugum Would love to visit Norway someday.

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@FtTicon The original post was a bit tongue in cheek. However, I have spent holidays like the Fourth of July in Saratoga Wyoming when it has snowed. Interesting place Wyoming is. I love it.

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@rasmd Go Josh Allen!

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@grownwildinaz

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@smith_john59964 🤣🤣🤣

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@Dave54251550 @de_Abbeville Thanks for the discourse. Enjoy your weekend!

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@smith_john59964 Wrong on all accounts. I have posted several times the origin and location of the picture.

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@Dave54251550 @de_Abbeville 🤣🤣🤣 Good neighbors or bad - doesn’t matter. When chips are down we will help each other.

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@AccountingAsArt @ToriMcKee6 BEST DAY EVER! I was CN’d AND accused of posting fake pictures for the first time (though the accuser later apologized) ALL IN THE SAME DAY!!! This day ROCKS!

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@smith_john59964 Enjoy trying to get on I80.

From Grok:

Wyoming’s I-80 is among the most frequently restricted major interstates in the U.S., though exact “days closed” figures are not reported as a simple annual total.

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From Grok:

Root: Swag (verb) appears in the early 1500s, meaning to sway, lurch, or move unsteadily. It is probably of Scandinavian origin, related to Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”) and connected to the same Germanic root as English “swing.” The sw- sound cluster in English often suggests swaying or swinging motion.
• Formation: “Swagger” is formed by adding the frequentative suffix -er to swag, creating a sense of repeated or emphatic swaying/strutting. It first appears in the 1580s–1590s.
• Earliest uses: The earliest recorded examples are in Shakespeare, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (“What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here…”) and Henry IV, Part 2. The original sense was to strut or walk in a defiant, insolent, or superior manner. The related sense “to boast or brag” developed soon after (1590s).

Later history
The noun (“an insolent strut; boastful manner”) is attested from 1725. Over time the word expanded from a critical description of arrogant strutting/bluster to a more neutral or positive sense of confident, bold style or self-assurance (especially in modern slang, including the shortened “swag”).
In short, the core idea is a swaying, showy way of moving that came to stand for confident or boastful behavior.