pdxfed
@pdxfed@lemmy.world
- Comment on U.S. Credit Card Debt in 2025 6 days ago:
The beauty of proportionate statistics
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 6 days ago:
Drones are the industry in the last 6 months. It’s just beginning.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 6 days 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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” 1 week 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] 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Consequences for thee
- Comment on Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined 5 weeks 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’ 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Your response is also supposed to be legally in French.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 1 month ago:
What about 6 minute abs?
- Comment on Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst 1 month 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.
- Comment on Bye, Copilot: Microsoft is making Copilot a hands-free experience on Windows 1 month ago:
Some Southwest pilot is going to enter the cockpit on an upcoming flight and fucking Clippy will be in the 2nd chair.
“Hi, change of plans from our new VC owners. What can I help with? Want to hear the newest kPop Demon Hunters song?”
- Comment on Wall Street Is Paywalling Your Kids’ Sports 1 month ago:
Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
- Comment on The rich are ‘renting’ out their idle gold bars for income as prices remain at historic highs 1 month ago:
Probably some stablecoin bullshit; they have to have assets to back a coin to .ale it seem legit, as long as use of coin goes up faster than price gold they’ll be able to keep up the scheme? Wonder how that’s working out in the last week with crypto crashing
- Comment on Trump scraps tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit in a push to lower grocery store prices 1 month ago:
I don’t eat much beef but have seen prices rise along with everything else in the last 5 years but assumed it was just general gouging. Read an article last week that detailed how climate change (damaging crops and yields), increased feed cost and international competition have made many generational beef ranchers selling off stock in the last few years as they can’t afford to feed them.
- Comment on 'It's Time for a Debate About Who Owns Our Media' Says Leader of the UK's Trade Union Movement 2 months ago:
While easy platforms to start on, unions driving more energy into social platforms oligarchs and governments own, can buy or control is not the greatest idea. The idea that follower counts are real, that “impressions” equal influence or even action are stretchers created by the marketing ideas that sold social media in the first place.
- Comment on FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs 2 months ago:
Corporate welfare for them, austerity for you. Tax cuts for them, sorry not enough to fund social security we’ll have to raise retirement age or cut benefits.
- Comment on [Video] Anti-ICE protesters hold a 80’s themed yoga class outside the Portland ICE facility. 2 months ago:
Bad ass mofos, every one.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 2 months ago:
I love that the article has the insane quote suggesting kicking out 55 million visa holding immigrants, and this quote says 30 million illegals… that’s 85 million people. That’s more than a quarter of the entire US population of ~340m. They propose, in a time of worker shortages, when basic needs aren’t being met to remove 1/4 of the people living here.
If you can look past the blatant racism and xenophobia that is driving by political ends I guess we can trust that this new “land grab” of available homes would be efficiently, effectively and responsibly distributed to those in need in a way that ensures continuity of communities, neighborhoods, cities, tax bases…don’t even want to imagine. America is falling apart and has been for 30 years. We’d go full RoboCop.
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 2 months ago:
“and just one more initial on page 452 sir, oh the coughing fits don’t bother me. We do need to get these sign and notarized before you expire.”
- Comment on Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’ 2 months ago:
Had me in the first half ngl
