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- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 3 days ago:
NYT endorsed Iraq invasion even though there was no evidence of WMDs and the rest of the world was against it. Surprise, no WMDs were found.
Interestingly, some companies did steal billions upon billions of dollars and we blew the national debt up. Strange that outcome …
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 week ago:
They don’t need to be affordable, they will be subscribed to. What, poor, you don’t have the iRobot subscription?
- Comment on ‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults 1 week ago:
I think it’s due to historic risk management - even 50 years ago Germany was far from settled and secured compared to the US economically or politically. Many other countries were similar and didn’t take seriously the seismic risk changes of the past few decades. Now they are.
- Comment on FTA: India and EU set for 'mother of all deals' as Trump's tariffs bite 1 week ago:
It will be interesting to see the line Europe takes with India re:their dealings with Russia, this was a lever the US pressed on to get India to restrict oil imports from Russia, presumably the EU has even more at stake in kneecapping Russia’s income sources.
- Comment on Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week 2 weeks ago:
The majority of their employees are in warehouses. They have more than 1 million employees. Most people don’t have options, even white collar workers are outmatched in the employment relationship when they depend on income to survive month to month. Few are those who have the relativve luxury of employer political alignmnet.
People can barely feed themselves. The federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 19 fucking years. Think about the implications of that in a high inflation environment. That is work for no pay essentially.
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 2 weeks ago:
Who didn’t need this in their life? I’m so glad the CFPB has also been disemboweled.
- Comment on 5 Malicious Chrome Extensions Targeting Enterprise HR Systems 2 weeks ago:
Not sure why the down votes for the article, maybe the article was updated after you read it but these were listed:
"DataByCloud Access — Posed as a productivity or security-related tool while secretly harvesting session tokens.
Tool Access 11 — Intercepted authentication data and blocked access to administrative and security settings.
DataByCloud 1 — Exfiltrated authentication cookies to attacker-controlled servers.
DataByCloud 2 — A variant with extended persistence and administrative interference capabilities.
Software Access — Enabled bidirectional session hijacking and long-term account takeover. "
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 2 weeks ago:
Subpoena?!? those were for the before times. Now just say you’re investigating a murder while looking for a woman calling abortion clinics, no legal access, review or consequences for breaking the law.
- Comment on Ending a relationship during the dating phase is a positive outcome. 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on L.A. Rams Owner Stan Kroenke Becomes Largest Private Landowner in the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
The company that, with Amazon and Tesla, is suing to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional so unions can have the final stake driven through any organized resistance to fascism?
The company that has refused to sign a union contract with their stores who have voted to organize?
Haggis dressed as 🐑
Fuck trader joes
- Comment on U.S. Credit Card Debt in 2025 3 weeks ago:
The beauty of proportionate statistics
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 3 weeks ago:
Drones are the industry in the last 6 months. It’s just beginning.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 3 weeks ago:
They’ve not even started for most of the domestic and consumer uses. They’re only just scratching the surface of commercial and military application.
In 30 years people will have subscriptions to a drone service that will take x# of packages for them within their city/geography per month/year with weight tiers. Etc. errands and single use car trips and commercial trips in the last mile will drastically decrease.
The skies will never be as they are again. The generation growing up right now will be the last to have been able to look up at the vast expanse without some buzzing. Whirring distraction.
- Comment on US economy added 50,000 jobs in December, capping off one of the weakest years of job gains in decades 4 weeks ago:
The administration, if anything though, would want to pull the numbers down, to show weak hiring/job losses as that would compel the fed to more aggressively lower rates. This is because they want to lower rates to juice business profitability and maybe accidentally help a few Americans so they might get reelected. That paradigm is basically changed though because lower rates no longer leads to much job creation delta, businesses hire pretty much when they need to regardless. It’s not 1970.
- Comment on YSK: House flies always launch backwards, no exceptions. Creep behind them and they'll jump into your crushing hand. 4 weeks ago:
Build him a garage and leave the door open and watch him lose his mind trying to get one of his buddies out of it.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
It’s because when so much money/power has pushed so long for people to make decisions based on money and not logic, we’ve now arrived at the point where even “the emperor’s new clothes” type moments can’t rein in the insanity; executives are bonused off this garbage and most employees who do know better–thanks to orgs’ own internal propaganda and structures–have given up caring and just publish the garbage and clock out(as they should).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That food heart was 100% created by a Zelda fan.
- Comment on Millennials are giving up on the thought of ever buying a house and experts estimate fewer will become homeowners 1 month ago:
“by retirement”
Another thing millennials will broadly never approach. Between systematic under-pay with 2-3% increases in wages, high inflation, exploded housing costs, predatory financial system (credit cards, BNPL), etc. I’d guess 5% of people will actually “retire” in the normal sense of stopping work in their 60s.
Physical and mental health are so affected by the vice in which Americans are crushed, many will not live to see retirement anyway.
- Comment on Donald Trump scores 'F' grade on economy: Poll 1 month ago:
Civics, personal finance, debate and English went ungraded as he did not show for a single class of any.
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 1 month ago:
Consequences for thee
- Comment on Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined 1 month ago:
Sounds like a good chance to optimize capitalism to make sure they get the other 49% as well!
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says people need to find success in traditional factory jobs again: ‘Every successful person doesn’t need to have a PhD’ 1 month ago:
Alternate plan: Golden visa program that went live today allowing the rich and powerful to buy citizenship that the fascist right claims has to be protected. Protected from the poor apparently while allowing criminals and thieves from everywhere else to buy their way in. Companies can buy on behalf of their employees, which will of course suppress wages, which is the whole point.
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 1 month ago:
He’s deliberately making the point accessible because he’s writing for all levels of readers, including Americans.
He won the nobel prize for economics and was one of the few sane voices during the great recession.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
Great article, brave and correct. Good luck getting the same leaders who blindly believe in a magical trend for this or next quarters numbers; they don’t care about things a year away let alone 10.
I work in HR and was stuck by the parallel between management jobs being gutted by major corps starting in the 80s and 90s during “downsizing” who either never replaced them or offshore them. They had the Big 4 telling them it was the future of business. Know who is now providing consultation to them on why they have poor ops, processes, high turnover, etc? Take $ on the way in, and the way out. AI is just the next in long line of smart people pretending they know your business while you abdicate knowing your business or employees.
Hope leaders can be a bit braver and wiser this go 'round so we don’t get to a cliffs edge in software.
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 1 month ago:
Oh and we’re not going to tariff luxury cars but do have enormous tariff on jeans and bananas. Wonder who would possibly benefit from such a system design? I’m not very smart so can’t quite put it together, a total mystery.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so financially strained they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 1 month ago:
No, no there’s is the fanciful one where jobs they don’t yet exist should determine how people approach their career since that’s how far ahead businesses plan supply chain.
Who wouldn’t want to make a career decision based on a new experiment to reverse 50 years of off-shoring through genius tarrifs that get reversed because of the ever-changing whims of a toddler and his handlers? When the end game is of course fully automated robotics, why wouldn’t people want to start off in an industry that clearly will replace their career with a blanket the instant they can?
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
Yeah then Elon can blackmail them instead of someone else
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
Your response is also supposed to be legally in French.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 months ago:
What about 6 minute abs?
- Comment on Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst 2 months ago:
Housing and sales demand are at least a 6 month boat to start to see changes based on policy and runs much more on interia.
The fed is already starting to cut rates in the summer/fall. Trump will replace Powell in May when his term ends and probably announce it sooner than that, maybe Jan. Mortgage rates will start to drop and the next great reinflation will begin.
Sales started slowing years ago and the only reason why articles like these have started to appear in the last 2 months is the bubble is cracking and will start to affect the broader economy e.g. banks so they have full court press on gov to reduce interest rates for Dec. Getting the average consumer/voter scared helps this.
