SJ0

@SJ0@hilariouschaos.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Economy Adds 227,000 Jobs In November⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have warned about this with respect to these numbers before, and I’m going to warn about them again: you really can’t trust the employment numbers right now. The amount of downward revisions in the past 2 years is absurd, including one 800,000 job downward revision prior to the election. It’s entirely possible and even probable that these numbers will be revised further downwards.

  What I actually expect is for a lot of numbers to keep looking better than they really are until about January 20th. And then suddenly a whole bunch of stuff is going to end up looking the way it really is…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky starter pack:

  Oh god, I can’t show this! What the hell, Bluesky! What’s wrong with you!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the three ‘nevers’ of your life?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it obvious?

  I’m never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US justice dept pushes to break up Google in search monopoly case. Chrome, Android in line of fire⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In some ways, the DOJ would be doing google a favor. I mean, Google search is the thing that makes them money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders & Trump Against Credit Card Interest (Usury)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, schemes like this tend to have big bad consequences.

  Force credit cards to charge only 10% interest and immediately many people will lose access to credit cards altogether, or alternatively will have to pay high annual fees regardless of their responsible use of credit, or will have tiny credit limits, or will have to provide their credit card company with the full dollar amount of their credit card prior to being given one. A final effect could be the poor who are affected going to super high interest lenders like payday loans or in the event that even those loans are regulated, even organized crime.

  The problem is that unsecured credit lines like credit cards are the most likely forms of debt to be defaulted on, and if banks can’t recoup those losses, then they won’t provide the product. People can blame capitalism for this, but ultimately a similar kind of government program would need to be similarly limited lest the program just become a free money pit as many poor people assume credit cards are.

  Now maybe that’s the point, and we want fewer people in less debt, and to force them to live within their means. I’m not necessarily opposed to the idea, but you can’t just do it. You’d have to change the banking and monetary system (for the better). You literally can’t have the current monetary system without debt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president wins majority in parliament⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the whole starvation thing won’t get any better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says his mass deportation plan has ‘no price tag’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole “while upending the economy” thing is really obnoxious.

  I’m so sorry that your illegal wage slaves are going away and you’ll have to offer legal residents living wages. My heart bleeds purple piss for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What advice would you give to someone half your age?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t feel like it, but you can have that life you think is unattainable. You can find a wife, you can get a home, you can have a child, and there’s a good chance you’ll like it. You have to pick your hard, maybe you don’t get to live in the capitol city and go to the club every night, but try to be consistently virtuous and you can succeed even in a world that feels stacked against you. Remember that you only exist because thousands of generations of your ancestors made it through harder times than this.