How Trump Ruined the housing market, like how he bankrupted a casino

1. The Corporate "Pay Raise" (Lowering the Rate)Before 2017, a large corporation like a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) or a C-Corp might have paid up to 35% in federal taxes on its profits.

The Change: The TCJA slashed that rate to a flat 21%.

The Result: If a firm made $10 million in profit from renting out suburban homes, they suddenly kept $1.4 million more every single year than they used to, just from that one change. This extra cash allowed them to outbid families who are paying with "post-tax" dollars from their salaries.

1. The 20% "Pass-Through" Discount (Section 199A)Many investment firms aren't set up as traditional corporations; they are "pass-through" entities (like LLCs or Partnerships).

The Change: The 2017 law created a new rule: owners of these businesses can deduct 20% of their business income right off the top before paying any taxes.

How it helps the "Giant Landlord": For a firm owning 5,000 houses, this is like a "20% off coupon" on their tax bill. It essentially lowered their effective tax rate from the top individual bracket (37%) down to roughly 29.6%.

The 2025 Impact: This was originally supposed to expire this year, but the 2025 "One Big Beautiful Bill" made this 20% deduction permanent. This gives Wall Street certainty that their "discount" isn't going away.

1. "Bonus Depreciation" (The Magic of Paper Losses)This is the most technical part, but it’s where the real money is made. In real estate, you can "depreciate" a house (pretend it's losing value due to wear and tear) to lower your taxes, even if the house is actually going up in value.

The Change: The 2017 law allowed for 100% Bonus Depreciation. This meant if an investment firm bought a massive portfolio of homes and upgraded the appliances, roofs, or HVAC systems, they could deduct the entire cost in the first year instead of spreading it out over 27 years.

The 2025 Impact: This "100% expensing" was phasing out (down to 40% in 2025), but the new 2025 law restored it back to 100% permanently.

The Result: A firm can buy $100 million worth of homes, do some renovations, and show a "loss" on their tax return for the year—meaning they pay zero taxes despite collecting millions in rent.

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When stallin discovered amphetamines

maybe i release a small taste of ai systems to maybe get jobs. by demonstrating skills and talent

🛑 Stop Calling Them Certs. They're Privilege Slot Machines.
Let's be blunt: Many high-stakes, hands-on cybersecurity certifications have lost their merit. They are no longer a true measure of skill but a measure of affluence.

The Truth About the Exam Cycle:
It's not about being a better hacker; it's about being able to afford the next attempt. We’re paying thousands to play a "gambling slot machine":

Exams cycle through a limited list of labs (some easy, some hard).

Candidates just pay repeatedly, "throwing money at the cert" until they hit the series of easy boxes they can pass.

This turns an industry benchmark into a "Privilege Cert." You're not proving your competence; you're proving you have the capital to keep paying until you win the RNG lottery.

Merit is Not Majority
A lot of people hold these pieces of paper. That doesn't make the cert valid. Historically, a majority believed the Earth was the center of the universe—it just means a lot of people are gullible or following the crowd. Paying out thousands for a piece of paper that can be brute-forced with a credit card is a poor substitute for genuine, verifiable skill.

The Real Skill Test
The focus is so narrow it fails to test fundamental skills. If you can automate the process but choose not to because the test structure rewards rote manual work, you've already exposed the flaw. These certs are not good for training the next generation of builders or AI; they reward test-takers, not innovators.

My Focus? Real Skills.
I'm done with the cert lottery. That's why I'm focused on platforms like Hack The Box (HTB), where actual skill, ingenuity, and coding ability are the only things that matter.

What do you think? Are these high-cost certifications still a reliable standard, or are they a financial gatekeeper?

#Cybersecurity #InfoSec #CyberCertifications #OSCP #HackTheBox #SkillsGap #PrivilegeCerts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20

atleast i will be able to say i applied to every pentest firm, and offered them all a chance to hire me. before we move into pentesting company phase lol

demo of the neural network display page, version 2.0. no real data sorry but i wanted to show the cool mapping system. so i can better debug things.

i wonder how many vulns are in our code put there on purpose xD

i have some sneaky ideas, to prevent stealing. like hiding a port knocking sequence into the code, so it opens up like a flower to a bee. which would be easy to hide, and some other code fucnitons. sneaky code, but that wouldn't serve me well with public code. though it would be interesting if people could spot the vuln i hid.

i get my ideas learning from malware.

#science #programming

well i tried listening to friends on linkdein but they were all delusional, in the idea i could get a job xD . so the whole expierence on linkdein was to me a huge waste of time and engery xD

IM NOT A HACKER, IM A SCIENTIST!!!

#hacking #science

you ever think politicians made up lies about stem cells, so we couldn't find cures?

before we eat the toxic page, we will first develop security protocols, and treat as toxic

me self reflecting

im have moved into the next arrea of research for the ai system learning abilities. which will be key in it operating like warp.

im actually having to go dig into the ai system for learning . make the improvements i didn't really want to make to the ai system.

so im isolating the advanced ai ssytems to the achrivest ai system. the oth4er ais dont need brains like they do .

i have been digging deep into how language models work in an ai system . i was wildly off in some aspect but spot on with some of the ideas i was shown. i like to thank god more than myself. im pretty stupid lol

im going to make a widgt for a website you can upload azure logs and it makes a map with all the logs and cars n stuff.

xD though xbow may be cell i gohan lol