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If there’s one thing we’re good at, it’s moving rocks around

Yup. It’s a pretty wondrous material, except the bit about causing cancer.

This just sounds like they’re going to contract PragerU to rebrand their videos and then someone will pocket billions of dollars.

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And thinking of it this way… if you cash out and lock in losses and stop investing, you’re likely to never or greatly delay your retirement. If you keep investing, even with catastrophic losses in the market, you’ll be buying at the bottom and if you’ve still got enough time before retirement, you should still make it.

Removing the need to do any research is just removing another exercise for the brain. Perfectly crafted AI educational videos might be closer to mental junk food than anything.

Android Messages and Facebook Messenger also pushed in AI as ‘something you can chat with’

I’m not here to talk to your fucking chatbot I’m here to talk to my friends and family.

“If Kamala is elected the economy will be destroyed” - cons in October

“Going through the hardship is patriotic” - cons now

If the 1920s really are repeating then, if we survive the Trump administration, we’ve got a modern version of the New Deal on the way.

He’ll be making posts from his deathbed. As bleak as things are right now, I really hope he never thinks he didn’t do enough.

I miss clear plastic cases. That was the peak.

Honestly this has kind of been reassuring as it seems that things that are behind the scenes are as dumb as what’s on the surface.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers

Literally “we’re big so we’ll make money” with no thought on the product actually being offered.

Hilarious.

In 2024, stocks were high, jobs were strong, feds were cutting rates, inflation was under 3%… Biden did it, the soft landing from COVID. Anyone who paid any attention knew the economy was in a good place and, four years in, only Biden’s admin would have had any affect.

Part of me is weeping for this nation, but another part thinks the nation deserves it for being so fucking stupid.

Executive Orders are closer to press releases than they are to law. They can say pretty much anything - whether those things are enforceable or even consistent with reality is up to the courts.

If I was a brain worm that had taken control of a US politician, the first thing I would do is say that the worm is dead.

Yup. Used to do this with Reddit. I’d find a niche subreddit on some topic I was having trouble with, try and write a detailed post of what my problem was, try and include as much information as I already knew and checked, proofread it so I could ensure people understood what my problem was, and in the process something would click and I’d figure it out.

“he has to” does he though? He has enough money for him and his entire lineage to live lavishly for eternity. He can dip out today and stop working forever, relax on a beach, and disconnect from the world like Tom from MySpace did.

He’s not being forced to do anything.

Most people (I hope, I don’t tune in too much) deny that the climate is changing. They just deny that human activity is causing it.

So they see all the wildfires and hurricanes and heatwaves and biodiversity collapse and coral bleaching and give a big shrug and “eh, whaddyagunnadoaboutit”

He’s completely set with pensions. And I am unsure if index funds were specifically ruled out. The article doesn’t really detail his wealth, and there’s no way someone with his intelligence and pragmatism has completely bungled his finances.