Can’t rake everywhere all the time

“Based on” and what people associate with now are vastly different. Most people don’t even know if Saint Nick is based on a real person.

I’m from Australia and snowflakes during December is hemispherist and offensive to us down under.

The rich use a multiparty trick to stay rich:

1. Put their money in an offshore account that doesn’t tax them based on wealth in the country. Typically the deal is the managers get some very small amounts, single digit percentages, to charge the customer for moving money in or out of the country. Then they never touch this money again unless it is an emergency.

2. The rich then use their bank account full of money as collateral for a loan that is much smaller, like a few million borrowed with a secured loan linked to the millions/billions in the account. The banks easily accept the terms because they can’t lose - if the loan defaults the amount is pulled from the account. But the rich usually try to make their payments so that account money isn’t touched.

3. The rich spend their loaned money and make payments from the dividends, annuities, funds, and/or interest on their principal amount. This way the bank gave the person money that they can spend and it’s not income so they aren’t taxed on it, unless there is a sales tax. It’s basically free money.

As they spend this free money, the government for the country that they live in doesn’t know how much money the rich person actually has so they are unable to create an accurate amount to tax them. This is partially why folks like Bezos and Buffet pay a few hundred thousand dollars on hundreds of billions in actual wealth. Stock valuations are an entirely other beast but functions roughly the same way as having wealth to borrow money against.

The rich stays rich and get free money because the banking system was made by them and they are educated by their accountants and financial advisors on how to pay the least amount of money they can to get the most out of each cent.

Ugh, that Reagan bump

Election Day should be a national holiday to give folks a chance to vote.

Roughly: Titles in management typically denote the scope of what they oversee. A manger will over see a small team. That manager reports to their senior manager, which either reports to or is a director of a large part of the organization. Directors report to vice presidents on progress or achievements by their division.

Vice president is where a person leads several teams by steering their managers. Steering is either a set of objectives, some key results, or other metric that feeds into the corporate strategy. At that level the corporate decision are made by gathering a group of managers to get a feel for what their options are. (This is where most enshitification gets started.) Decisions at this level are not arbitrary but usually run through a few layers of testing for feedback to understand what will happen.

Presidents oversee the same as vice presidents but make more money and have more access to the C levels but otherwise have the same scope as VPs. A president will run an entire part of the org, like Marketing, and approves all decisions made under them that effects the entire organization, like pricing changes.

Senior VPs and Presidents are the same pay scale but have different levels of responsibility, depending on the company culture. Presidents are chief officers within their part of the org and get corporate objectives to meet by the CEO.

CEOs are beholden to a board of supervisors which determines the progress of a corporate objective and also speaks for investors and shareholder. This pipeline to the top of power is what has caused folks to despise shareholder decisions; constant poor voices for only short term gains is counter to any longevity of a company.

You don’t need to put in the effort to hide those IPs. An IP starting with 192.168 is a private network and virtually useless as any way to compromise your network - an outsider would need access to your network (via your modems public facing IP) and know the device access credentials to make any use of the IPs.

That being said, it appears your input devices are unable to connect because they can’t be found. That means a mismatch in network details somewhere. Check the IP address and confirm it’s using the same subject; does the device connecting use the same 192.168.1.x network as the input/source device?