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End of the party of Trump, maybe. They’d still probably invoke his name at every opportunity.
End of the party of fascism and nihilistic corruption? No way, he’s a figurehead there.
End of the party of Trump, maybe. They’d still probably invoke his name at every opportunity.
End of the party of fascism and nihilistic corruption? No way, he’s a figurehead there.
I got a call from this woman in Boston, out was just a product activation call so I had to read her a 20-character activation string. We use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for those, to reduce confusion over the phone.
The last character was Y-Yankee. I followed that up with “but I guess that’s a politically incorrect word around Boston, huh?” And she goes on an absolute tirade about how people are way to sensitive, throwing out a few racist dogwhistles along the way.
I just said “Ma’am, I was making a joke about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.”
She went silent for a few seconds and hung up on me.
Ooh, and they’re deficit deadlifts too. Nice.
This headline uses “millionaires” to mean “people with over a million dollars in annual income” rather than “people with over a million dollars in net worth”
That’s not your run of the mill “successful career with a healthy 401k” millionaire, that’s at least ten-millionaires, mostly hundred-millionaires, and possibly some billionaires by net worth.
You don’t even need “power hungry mods” for that to go wrong, you just need mods who don’t care. That’s EXACTLY where Facebook and Twitter are right now. Getting content removed there is basically impossible, I’ve reported people for death threats and was told they never violated community standards.
If the platform isn’t going to moderate itself, the users should be able to.
While it’s true that the downvote often gets abused as a way to stifle otherwise-good discussion, without it it’s hard to deal with discussion that truly should NOT be happening.
There’s a reason election denial is more common and looks more legitimate on Facebook and Twitter. It’s because they don’t have a mechanism for people to nuke that discussion out of the top of the thread.
The GameCube was pretty mediocre as a console, but SO MANY of its games have aged like wine.
“Likely” is a huge stretch. “Possible” I could buy in some states.
There was some social commentary in that golden casino planet where the rich lived in excess while the poor barely got by (pay no attention to the Jabba behind the curtain)
And, of course, they cast minorities in leading roles!
I still have a sound card, because I have a stupid sound bar that works great except it only takes optical audio input.
Prob aren’t getting severance nor unemployment if you get fired for 2 weeks of no-call-no-show.
alarmist, cost, growth, “India and China,” innovation, and resilience
“China is the worst polluter on the planet and they need to do better”
[China invests heavily into green technologies]
“NO NOT LIKE THAT!”
Because unemployment isn’t really that low. When we talk about “people here now who could use those jobs”, we’re usually talking about people in dead end jobs that could use a career job.
So great, pull them into our elder care system, give them a career level up…now their old jobs are still unfilled. And while we’re super shitty as a country towards entry level service workers, we also as a country really want those jobs to be filled. So we’d need to fill that gap in the employment pool somehow.
It’s the “all your eggs in one basket” problem.
Just in case you misread the title (because I did at first), Namibia is explicitly not looking into other people’s pants now.
Why did it take until 2024? Humans being humans, I guess. Gotta go after some “other”.
“How long has it been since we’ve waltzed?”
“Oh, Gomez…hours.”
Progressive tax brackets. This hypothetical tax is only on money earned over 10M/1M.
“In a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling the shovels”
Nvidia is the shovel-seller right now. A couple of AI companies will probably get huge, 99% will fail. But Nvidia is getting paid by them all.
Disjointed