FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
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- Comment on The history of New Year's Eve, from ancient Babylon to Times Square 13 hours ago:
Interesting stuff all around. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 21 hours ago:
I do admire that Canadians voted with their money against Trumpian interests.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 22 hours ago:
The point isn’t AI.
The point is that Harris doesn’t differentiate herself enough from Trump’s politics for her election to mean a whole lot if you’re a working class voter or impoverished in the US, and that’s by her own admission. She literally said publicly she shouldn’t diverge from Biden’s politics.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 22 hours ago:
I voted Green.
We don’t ever get to have a positive political outcome because of the people you vote for.
- Comment on Dying Light 1 day ago:
I’m glad that feature’s int here for you, in that case.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
I no longer believe things will change for the better within my lifetime.
Funny. That was sort of the subject of a YT video I made today. Basically the whole of my working life has corresponded to the decline of economic liberty for the working class and working poor, so I don’t really celebrate New Years. I expect every year to be worse than the one before.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 day ago:
My number is between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. It’s enough to live off investment income in a 4% down market, and that’s all I will realistically need to have a comfortable life without having to touch the nest egg itself. Psychologically, there is no difference between having $10,000,000 and a billion, so it would seem to me that the upper limit of need is $10,000,000.
As soon as I hit 2-3 million I will retire, no matter how old I am.
As far as ‘life changing’ goes, I was fortunate to have a few thousand to invest when the market tanked in 2020. Those few thousand turned into $35,000, which I used to pay off my student loans and put a down payment on a condo. It wasn’t fuck you money, but definitely life changing.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
Honestly didn’t know that. Could you point me to a source where I can read more about it?
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
Not if said Dem actually does something about it. (Unlikely)
Problem is that, if we elect a Democrat, it will be a fabulously wealthy person with no empathy or understanding of the working class and working poor, so the likelihood that they will do anything about it is minimal. Remember when Obama had the balls to walk into Flint, pretend to drink a glass of water, and tell all of those people whose water had been poisoned that everything was a-okay? That’s what I mean. Zero empathy.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
neither batshit tarrifs,
That’s true. Harris, though, like Trump, wouldn’t be doing anything to regulate LLM’s or their financial fuckery, and that is going to be catastrophic when the game of financial musical chairs stops.
insane dissolution of trust
Also a good point. The American brand would be more or less intact, at least in the short-term, but I tend to think that all Harris would do is just maintain better PR, because her policies economically wouldn’t be different enough from Donald’s to keep the AI bubble from eventually popping.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs
They already have. It takes 1.5 to 2 years for trade deals to be negotiated and then put into effect. In the coming years when these deals take effect, and trade is routing itself around the US as much as possible rather than through it, people in the US are going to learn a very difficult economic lesson.
On the plus side, maybe the notion of American Exceptionalism will diminish a bit, which is long overdue.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 day ago:
What, exactly, wouldn’t be happening if Harris had won?
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
I wanted to like it but I hate the partying mechanic so much.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
TG Sims me with its banger of s demo.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 days ago:
I think they’re making a Pirates of the Caribbean joke.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 days ago:
Beat me to it, ya scalliwag.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 days ago:
Have they actually been indexed?
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 days ago:
No.
Not everything got torrented after music streamers came into prominence.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
That’s good to know. I built my first structure the other day: a log cabin. The roof is butt ugly, but I’m proud of it.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
I REALLY like Enshrouded. Played about eight hours of it over the last two weeks, but liked it so much I’ve decided to put it down until full release.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
Good so far. I’m doing a lot of the side quests, but the prologue was good without being unduly difficult, and did force me to think a little creatively.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
Yup, the launcher is now optional and there’s an offline mode. My biggest annoyance was that, when I launched it the first time, it played an ad for the new game featuring the main voice actor.
I wouldn’t be playing it otherwise. They added a Dark Souls-esque invasion mode where you can jump into other people’s games as a zombie, and I HATE that mechanic.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
Dishonored 2 is awesome. You’re in for a treat.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
I think 3 was the last one I played too. Amazing game, but they feel like Madden or Dynasty Warriors to me. There just isn’t enough difference between the various entries to make it interesting for me, so I never bought any of the newer ones.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
Love that we’re all finding cool stuff we forgot about in our backlogs and saving money this year. :)
- Comment on Dying Light 2 days ago:
I’ve heard a lot of good about NMS. I’ll have to give it a try sometime.
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- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 5 days ago:
Invest it.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 5 days ago:
No.
When the AI bubble bursts, those with money will invest and hoover up wealth and assets at a 90% discount. The vast majority will continue to scrape whatever life they can together and try to survive, and the government will enforce ever more draconian austerity policies.