Joseph Rigdon

Catholic layman, student, teacher, and citizen of the USA
Quid Est Veritas, Deus Vult, et Incepto ne Desistam

[MechFrog @TheMechFrog]

This reminded me of one of my favorite work stories. We were having a meeting with all the teachers and admin about coming up with a plan to deal with students who are always late to class.

Before my brain could engage I stated that we should introduce a pack of timberwolves into the hallways to motivate children to get to class quickly.

There was a moment of shocked silence before one of my teaching buddies laughed loudly.

My dead pan dry humor is not for everyone.

[robin⁷ @yoongiatsume]

DO NOT CONVERT MY TEXTBOOKS AND ARTICLES INTO EPUBS. I NEED THOSE PAGE NUMBERS WHEN I CITE FROM THE TEXT ARE YOU MAD

[Cletus Van Damme @Callicleez]

2.5 year old went through linguistic burst over 3 hour nap last Friday, brain doubled in size, putting together 3 word phrases with ease now, including such useful bon mots like: "daddy meow kick": please father, kick the cat

[Christopher Whitehead @AkbashEfendi]

An Ottoman budget for the year 1653 includes an entry for the salaries of "the corps of Franks" (taife-i efrencan), which consisted of just one person. I wish I knew who this was

[Joseph Rigdon @weeklyadvent]

@sadgirlyboss These states are trying to make Missouri exist, they must be denied too.

[Adam Aaronson @aaaronson]

Missouri is the only US state to border the same number of states as it has letters in its name

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Thunderdome diplomacy

[UltraNosk @UltraNosk]

Mulan for Americans

[Kama @Kama_Kamilia]

Marines gonna be fighting over those in Walmart

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

American craft beer pioneer Samuel Adams is honoring the Founding Fathers by bringing back the Brewer Patriot Collection to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence. These limited-edition beers are brewed from original colonial recipes that would have been served in The Green Dragon Tavern to the Sons of Liberty as they organized The Boston Tea Party

The four-pack includes:

•George Washington Porter – toasted malt, molasses, and licorice
•James Madison Dark Wheat Ale – smoked barley with tart cocoa notes
•1790 Hard Root Beer – spicy herbal blend with sassafras and vanilla
•No. 3 Ginger Honey Ale – bright ginger and wildflower honey

[Joseph Rigdon @weeklyadvent]

The US should acquire some of these yachts to hand to the naval reserve for conversion to expendable sloops of war.

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWI) do own yachts for tax reasons, but not because they are a modern replacement for palaces.

Most of the world runs residency-based taxation. As in, if you stay over 183 days somewhere you become a taxable base. The US is the outlier, as it taxes you regardless of where you live, based on citizenship.

That difference produces two entirely distinct wealth architectures.

European UHNWI have a structural incentive to stay mobile. Not being in one place too long is itself a tax strategy. Yachts happen to serve that lifestyle perfectly - flag-registered in favourable jurisdictions, moving between anchorages, never accumulating residency days (and benefiting from things like Cypriot 2 month stay non-dom status). The tax regime does not cause yacht ownership, but it makes yachts a remarkably efficient asset class for people whose wealth depends on being nowhere in particular.

This is why European UHNWI do a yearly circuit - Wimbledon one week, Cannes another, the WEF, the Biennale. The social calendar is not separate from the tax strategy. They are the same thing. This also mirrors the itinerant courts of the past, where the aristocracy would move around from one part of the kingdom to another throughout the year, according to king's mood.

American UHNWI face the opposite constraint. Citizenship-based taxation means mobility cannot solve the problem. So they optimise differently - dynasty trusts, LLCs, state domicile arbitrage. They are not less sophisticated. The same economic incentive just produces a completely different behavioural output when the underlying regime changes.

[Joseph Rigdon @weeklyadvent]

Because that is still too much, affordable is $50,000-75,000.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

I genuinely don’t understand why people don’t sell everything they have, move to Iowa, buy a beautiful old house for next to nothing, and start enjoying a simpler, better, and more affordable life.

[Joseph Rigdon @weeklyadvent]

The names I want: Peter and Paul, Andrew, James, John,
Thomas, James (jr. not to me but his brother), Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Jude; Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Laurence, Chrysogonus, John (jr. 2) and Paul, Cosmas and Damian; John the Baptist, Stephen, Matthias, Barnabas, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia:
Then from other parts of EP 1: Leo, CURRENT BISHOP, Mary, Joseph, Abel, Abraham, Melchizedek

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

TradCath baby names: Thérèse, Seraphina, Augustine
Ortho baby names: Theodora, Anastasia, Maximus
Protestant baby names: Selah, Genesis, Trinity
LDS baby names: Laykynnleigh, Bruxtin, Utah

[Joseph Rigdon @weeklyadvent]

Sounds like a JAG episode not NCIS because it happened on board the carrier rather than off ship.

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

Sailor Dead After Shooting Aboard Carrier JFK, One Sailor in Custody - USNI News
https://t.co/7vgoU1gjxD

[The Watcher On The Web @WatcherontheWeb]

"Dad, there's 2 moose in the yard"

Me: " pffft, your silly bud. We don't get moose down this far..."

"No, I'm not joking"

He wasn't joking

There's 2 young female moose in my backyard....

[Congressman Addison McDowell @RepMcDowell]

America is back. National Mall lawn stripes are dialed in.

Let the 250th celebration begin🇺🇸

[Joseph Rigdon @weeklyadvent]

@newoldtalk Jokes on you then because there is nothing inside our minds except either nonsense playing on repeat or horrors beyond the pale or one singular woman, usually the one attempting to use her witchy powers.

[Joseph Rigdon @weeklyadvent]

The P in PhD used to mean philosophy because college was just philosophy with classes in different disciplines of philosophy. A bachelors should mean you know a little bit about a lot of different disciplines of philosophy (enough to learn particulars no matter your trade), masters should mean you could teach grammar/logic/rhetoric to kids and doctorate should mean you could teach all disciplines of philosophy.

[Carly @RhyminCarly]

Why do I argue with people on Twitter and then get upset about the fact that nobody knows how to argue properly. It's Twitter. Even in real life, nobody knows how to argue properly. I truly believe that philosophy in schools could save our country, if we could teach it right.

[Stormchasernick @stormchasernick]

I got really into this podcast… and I went too far north. I feel like an idiot.