ArtVandalay

Data Science, Soccer, Food

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@MichaelDell round of applause for the Trump Account donations!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A timeline of one man's cunning inheritance tax scheme.

2008: Buy a thousand acres in Oxfordshire. Tell The Times that dodging inheritance tax is the critical thing. Scheme live.

2009 to 2018: Do absolutely nothing. A villager farms it on contract. Flawless.

2019: The villager retires. Rather than hire another one, decide to farm a thousand acres yourself, having never grown anything.

Also 2019: Invite a film crew.

2020: Rain for nine weeks. Profit on a thousand acres: £144.

2021: Broadcast the £144 to the largest streaming platform on earth, thereby informing the entire planet that farmland makes nothing.

2021: Open a farm shop. Acquire a queue down a lane and the undivided attention of West Oxfordshire District Council.

2022: Restaurant refused. Enforcement notice. Six weeks to take a barn apart.

2023: Lose the appeal. Lose it again.

May 2024: Accidentally get English planning law rewritten. Lawyers name it Clarkson's Clause.

August 2024: Open a pub selling only British food. Sell your own sausage at 74p against 18p imported, and eat the difference on every plate.

October 2024: The Chancellor caps agricultural property relief at a million. Scheme dead.

November 2024: Stand on a platform in Westminster in front of thirteen thousand farmers, drawing maximum national attention to the exact tax break you were supposedly hiding behind.

July 2025: Go down with TB. First calf ever born on the farm destroyed, pregnant with twins. Gate padlocked.

23 December 2025: Government retreats. The threshold goes from one million to two and a half. Five million for a couple.

March 2026: Farm declared clear.

July 2026: Drive four hundred miles to Scotland and buy more cows.

Eighteen years.

Planning law changed. Agricultural degree applications climbing. Cited in the Commons more times than most ministers manage. Half the estates that were going to be caught by the tax are no longer caught by it.

He was accused of buying a farm to dodge inheritance tax, and then spent eighteen months getting the relief raised for everybody else's.

Worst tax dodger in British history.

Best thing to happen to British farming in fifty years.

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar Someone should make a tracker of what percent of anonymous claims turn out to be false

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@marktenenholtz I have people calling a TFIDF file search a knowledge graph

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@ArizonaGuyAZ @FreddyLA7 Yeah this would be a great game

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@elonmusk @farzyness @elonmusk what will the market for limited items look like? Not all things will scalable and surely there will still be a market for scarce items?

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@FreddyLA7 BYU vs Utah - Nov 7th, a very unique experience for college football and a great atmosphere!

[Harry Stick @voidcentral_us]

@Osint613 Oh ya? Well if Iran cuts off electricity to U.S. regional allies, then we will broadcast U.S. TV entertainment on the population of Iran!

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@gianlucac1bis You do realize that it’s possible to be the offender while being under the other persons foot? Penalties have been given for being stepped on by an attacking player

[Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC]

All former FIFA-certified referees raise your hands.
🙋
That's right I used to both play & ref soccer. Now I mostly just mock it. Until they mess w/ Team USA.

This picture of the collision between Balogun & the B&H player looks awful, but it's complete garbage.
Wrong angle to see what really happened.

Balogun was closer to the ball and the B&H player came from his right AND behind initiating the contact. He caused his own suffering.

The ref got it right initially as a no call. They were both playing the ball. Even in a sport known for pitifully lame flopping sometimes two dudes just crash into each other and do some actual damage. Doesn't mean there was a foul.

The replay guy then saw an opportunity to take the Americans down a notch and the ref bought in and made an egregious red card ejection.

If any call was made it should have been against the B&H player who came from behind and out of the sight line of Balogun.

The outrage now is "How dare the Americans get this absurd attempt to weaken them overturned".

Taking a player out of a once in a lifetime game and tournament should be an exceedingly high bar. This was not.

The people pretending to care about the rules are really mad the Americans aren't getting screwed over. It's a common sentiment and all around the world hating Americans for being the Biggest, Baddest and Best is as much a national sport as Soccer Ball.

I've lived overseas for six years and traveled to several dozen countries. Furriners love to hate on us. I'm not saying it's all underserved, I'm just saying it's not new and it's everywhere.

I can't blame them, we're barely 250 years old and we have accomplished more than any country in history. We have invented more amazing things, freed more people from tyranny and lifted more people from poverty and that stings, especially for the Euros who think they own our history.

They do, the part that we left and left behind. The part we are making now they can only watch and be chafed about. Because they can't even come close.

So they were salivating at knocking a US star out of play on a BS call. Sorry Jacques Belgique, you're going to have to take on a full US squad. Good luck, I hope we make you cry some more in the game tonight.

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@smutsvanstern This is you

[𝙋𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙘𝙠 @PistolRick]

Belgian’s when you tell them they have to play against the 135th FIFA ranked striker

[𝙋𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙘𝙠 @PistolRick]

Belgian’s when you tell them they have to play against the 135th FIFA ranked striker

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@timthetatman Soccer at big matchups is unmatched. The problem is most people watch some inconsequential game and judge the sport based on that

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

@VanLathan For FIFA World Cup stars - Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Man City, PSG

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

That last 10 seconds is gold, such a serious and emotional expression but said with that voice

[ArtVandalay @DrRobbieBobbie]

Almiron is the embodiment of “international football player”