She was still in the dark until the moment she gave birth and her baby girl was immediately taken away, said Harrison Stark, senior staff attorney at the ACLU. She had no idea that while she was in labor, hospital officials were relaying updates to the state — including details of her cervix dilation — and had won temporary custody of the fetus. At one point, the state sought a court order forcing the woman to undergo a cesarean section

That part is messed up, someone should know about losing custody long before it happens, I could believe maybe there’s some justification about the unborn child being harmed if the mom knew?

But it doesn’t seem weird to me for there to be a list of pregnant people they want to keep their eyes on. I have a co-worker who was visited by an agency before their first kid was born to check out his house and they made some recommendations. The reason he was on their radar is as a kid they had to intervene with his parents, so they wanted to be sure the cycle was broken. He’s a great dad to 3 kids now and no issues, they’re just doing their job

To me it makes total sense for them to identify and track potential problem parents

Not sure if it’s the same everywhere, but if I pull a dividend I don’t pay tax initially, but when I do my income taxes it’s part of my income and I’d have to pay tax on it then

I just checked back and that picture is gone from the article. It had a crowd of people with 4 or 5 if them holding up signs on what looked like printer paper with messages like “protect our students” but the signs and fonts looked unnaturally crisp, almost like a meme template

I don’t agree with his Bart-killing policy… but I do approve of his Selma-killing policy

Why does the picture in that article look so fake? Is it just the lighting? The signs look like a terrible photoshop

“We want tourists that come to enjoy the country and the culture, but not tourists who come for sex.” Hamat Bah, Gambia’s minister of culture and tourism, also stated in a television interview: “If you want a sex destination, you go to Thailand”; a statement for which he later had to apologize

Wild comment

I’ve noticed the same, and it’s horrifying when you think about the cost of all those ads and how it’s mostly funded by people with gambling problems

How do you define ‘corporate’ ownership? If you can own 100 properties as an individual, does that count as ‘corporate’?

It’s how you report the income. A corporation pays corporate tax rate on profit. An individual pays income tax. If someone wants to pay the individual income tax on 100 properties, that’s awesome. 33% over 250k. Corporate tax rate can easily be half of that.

Plus filing your taxes is waaaaaay easier having a corp hold all the assets and generating revenue, and the individual as an employee who draws a salary. If you’re just an individual with 100 properties and you get audited, you’re in for a bumpy ride trying to pick apart personal vs rental purchases

But he was just talking about engineering things on the internet, as far as I can tell. Doesn’t feel like he should need a license for that

Seems like someone on the NC Board of Examiners and Surveyors didn’t like being called out so they tried to bully him into stopping and it backfired