In my field, no one gets severance.  If there is downsizing...we are sol.

also, China is going to keep slowing.  China’s productivity per capita peaked in 2005.  Their labor pool as a percentage of the pop is shrinking. They are now the oldest country in the world and their population, which was estimated to peak in 2030, then restimated to 2025 (this was pre covid), is now, based on the…

its not regulations at all.  Its not even newer sources of energy.  Shale and fracking are just eating coals lunch. 

....at this point we should get out the guilletines and round up all the billionaires. Seize all their assets. Some not completely shit heel ones will get screwed...i can live with it. I wish more news articles would identify the literal board of directors and 5 largest shareholders (and if it is Vanguard or some…

he paid 11 billion because he took stock options. He lives off of personal loans taken out against this stock, and then gets to deduct the interest and pays no income tax. Damn right he should have paid 11 billion. I dont care that he has paid more taxes than me...as a percentage of income and wealth he sure as shit…

the US has just divulged into a full on Asshole contest.  The GOP only wants the loudest most obnoxious hypocritical candidates (like their party is now comprised of the bad guys form John Hughes movies...if those movies were just overtly and aggressively racist (as opposed to overtly and passively) and rated NC17)…

ok, that is not the normal situation.  Most people do not have 3 figure mortgage payments.

My gf just got rid of her 2006 Mazda 3 which needed like 7k in repairs.  I bought my 2016 Mazda 6 in early 2007.  Used.  It was the dealer car, and only had 3400 miles on it.  19k, taxes and closing costs all in there.  Anything above 500 a month to me is just...dumb.  Each to their own, i wont tell other people what…

Where the fuck do you live that 30k down constitutes at least 20%.  That would be a 150k house or lower.  If a house was 150k near me my fiance and I could outright buy it.  Any home between 450 and 500k needs a 100k or work near me or is in a town with absolutely awful schools.  20% on 500k is 100k down.  Wish I…

well its not like we have cut taxes on the wealthy over the last 40 years, and it somehow coincides with median inflation adjusted incomes having been stagnant since ‘78.  None of that could be a factor in any of this.

i can google it right now.  Im not getting a job doing this...id like to be able to eat more than expired ramen noodles for the dollar store and i assume that would be what they would pay for it.

“Wonder Woman ‘84 is a pretty large garbage heap” could have just ended it there.

that last part....the timer is ticking.  I dont think GTA6 is out before 2024-25 at best.  Climate change is occuring at an exponential rate...so we are going to go from bad, to worse, to holy fuck, to fucked really quickly when it goes.  Some glacier the size of a small country is going to break off in antarctica and…

Yeah, going to be interesting to see what gta6 looks like. All their head writers who wrote RDR2 and GTA 3 to 5....the all left. Plus, their devs have worked on just two games since 2013, RDR2 and GTA 5.

ill say it.  I was someone who said i cared more about fidelity than frame rate.  That was old Crom, his views on frame rates are suspect at best.  New Crom...he plays everything on performance mode.  At 30 fps I feel like im looking at the screen with vasoline smeered on it.  Im sure part of it is the decaying vision…

.....seems like Rockstar should invest the money to put RDR into the RDR2 engine.  Like that cant be crazy expensive...im sure it costs far more than i would think, but still, no way is that not profitable for them.  It also keeps Red Dead fans partially satiated, since no way do we get a RDR3 till closer to 2030...if…

yeah, i know playing cards to other card/board games.

but his wealth is tied to the value of the stock.  Sooner or later that house of cards is going to fall apart.  All financial frauds, which tesla certainly is, do.  

eh, median, and standard dev should be enough.

There is another wave going around in the NY-NJ area.  Have heard of multiple people coming down with it.  No one i know, but people i work with in other companies.