Counterproposal: leave the tax as is, stop the war in Iran, commit to no new wars of choice. No more Cuba invasion, Greenland takeover, or all the other stupid stuff people are talking about.
Given its track record, the less this administration does, the better.
I mean, commuting was unaffordable for a lot of American workers beforehand, too. I knew a guy that worked at a grocery store, had his car destroyed by an uninsured driver, and when he had a night shift, there was no public transportation. He had to shell out more in Uber and taxi to get to and from work than he made on his shift.
It’s just a lot more, I guess. At least, EVs will start selling again, right?
Imagine you are so dumb, you decide to rename your company for its biggest failure, and then you get to fire everybody else because they are redundant. Facebook renaming itself Meta is like Tesla changing its name to Cybertruck Inc.
I can’t wait until the AI bubble is over and drags the worst people under.
Absolutely. But the founders are heavyweights in the field and I had hope. I guess it’s cold fusion two, too good to be true 😭
The part about TAE is devastating, as a lot of people had high hopes they would come up with a fusion reactor. Them being sold to TMTG probably means it was BS all along.
That is a really good idea. I think we saw something similar already happen, in the coordination of the whole RobinHood / GameStop event. In that case, Reddit functioned as the “trusted platform” you are talking about, and I think it failed massively at the trust piece in the long run.
It all fits nicely into one of the problems of Capitalism: it used to be really hard to find capital, but easy to find resources and labor, so the economy was logically structured around capital. The reason capital was hard to come by was lacking information flows: it was hard to connect sources of capital (people with money) with sinks (projects, like factories). That’s easy now, so it’s time to restructure the economy away from capital as its controlling interest.
We are starting to see the long con of it all: on social media sites, the value is almost entirely in the labor (people participating, content creators), but the control is all in the capital (site ownership). That’s the reason why social media sites eventually fall apart, because control and value are misaligned.
I mean, the moment they make you pledge something about liberty, you know it’s phony. You are either free or you have to recite the pledge. You can’t have both liberty and mandate for the same thing.
Having worked Silicon Valley through two boom-and-bust cycles, my impression is that these people hurt because they don’t understand their success. What I mean is that the Internet is a random multiplier: if you have the right idea at the right time and the right structure, you become almost infinitely rich. If you lack anything in the combination, you get nothing.
Take Facebook: the idea had been floating around for a while, but successive implementations suffered from technical, then legal issues. Then Zuck comes along, steals the idea, implements it successfully and boom, you have an infinillionaire. But when the same guy comes up with the next idea, it fails. Then the next one fails. Then the Metaverse happens and the failure is astounding.
It’s basically a lottery, where your startup is the ticket. One person wins, a million plays for nothing. The winner is selected at random.
But people hate that idea, so they come up with stupid “logic” justifying why Zuck won and Yang (Yahoo!) failed. You can’t imagine how many people in Silicon Valley devour Ayn Rand’s ideology, how many believe in genetic racial superiority, and other fairy tales. I was always surprised they didn’t go for divine intervention, but they are largely agnostic.
VISIT TO THE PLANET OF THE ORANGE MONSTER!!!
I was actually expecting the opposite: that there would be lots of bans because Blahaj is such a visible target for trolls and haters.
I am very happy that the communities there are peaceful. Y’all deserve to flourish and grow and be your best selves, and the rest of us doesn’t do enough to deserve you.
I think that’s the key. Obama increased the debt - to get out of the Great Recession. Trump increased the debt - to give billionaires and corporations huge tax cuts. Biden increased the debt - to stimulate growth in green industries and manufacturing. Trump increased the debt again - to give billionaires etc etc.
Just the idea that the yearly budget of the Pentagon is going to go from $800 billion pre-COVID to $1500 billion indicates the people are not a priority.
You are very welcome and thank you! It used to be my home, too, and I absolutely love love love it. One day, I’ll be back and the remaining 23 14ers will be very afraid!
Definitely not little, it’s actually the 8th-largest state of the USA, and larger than many countries (it’s a little smaller than Italy). It’s a weird one, because the West and East side are totally different: mountainous on the West side, flat in the East. The population lives mostly on the border between the two side, is very highly educated, mostly liberal for the USA, and is absolutely obsessed with the outdoors.
The mountain side boasts some of the most gorgeous landscapes on Earth. The orogeny that led to their creation was rapid, unusual (in that it was mid-craton and not on the edge), and recent, so that they are jagged and rough and wild. If you’d like to get an idea, just look up “San Juan mountains” in your image search engine of choice.
In my experience, a lot of the bloat in software comes from the decision to specifically pick user interface designers that know nothing of software engineering. The basic idea is that the user should get the perfect interface for them instead of whatever monstrosity is more convenient for the developer.
I agree with the sentiment to a large extent, but the limit should be where the change slows down the software significantly. That doesn’t mean the user interface shouldn’t have features that are very expensive at run time, but it does mean that there should be a dialog about cost and benefit.
For what it’s worth, I had the same instant reaction as @[email protected]. In particular, (a) if he’s nearing retirement, then he’s way too young for the type of behavior, and (b) the belligerence and anger reaction when contradicted match what I’ve seen with family that had dementia, and it sounds like that’s new.
As for the question at large, I can’t confirm your experience. Where I live, older people behave just like younger people when it comes to stating opinions or telling stories. They are more stuck in their ways, no doubt, but I guess it’s harder to change the way you do things if you’ve done it successfully one way for 40 years.
20% income difference? Wait until you hear about the cost savings of not having unplanned children!
The issue CFIUS seems to have is that Lumileds’ product portfolio relies on compound semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN) chips
Wud? GaN technology is everywhere these days, including in tons of USB chargers imported from China. That can’t be the real reason.
Music is a weird art form, because something sounding familiar is very important to our ear. Many people have a really hard time liking music that is too foreign to their taste and end up sticking with only a select few genres.
Where familiarity is important, AI can deliver easily. I would think as much as we hate the idea, there is a pretty significant market for AI-generated music, specifically because it’s so predictable and follows convention to a tee.
Fair enough. Although then Boris Johnson won the election, so someone was happy with his shit show Brexit, no?
Don’t you worry! All that communist budget balancing is done off the backs of hard-working billionaires, who are ready to flee the authoritarian hellhole and its sky-high taxes for places where their humble contributions are not punished! /s