So what I’m hearing is, vandalizing Cybertrucks is effective.

The kleptocratic oligarchs really won’t regret it, and they don’t give a fuck what the rest of us think.

We need to make them regret it.

Getting into Yale is easy! It’s yust getting out that’s hard.

I agree with you, as long as you exclude the big cities like Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinati.

That’s how it works in every state. There are no “red states” or “blue states;” only blue cities and red countryside.

I live in a city famous for it’s bad traffic, but prefer driving a manual anyway (when driving a car, at least – actual first place goes to riding my bicycle).

Hi, !fuckcars mod here. I absolutely love my manual transmissions and unironically fully endorse this meme.

I think you might be surprised at just how much crossover there is between car enthusiasts and people who hate car dependency. Cars ought to be like horses: they should be available for enthusiasts to play with, but it should be wholly unnecessary and considered kinda ridiculous to use them as routine transportation, especially in cities.

Frankly, I would prefer it if all transmissions were manual, as it would help encourage people who see driving as a chore to use other transportation modes instead.

Yeah, part of it is definitely lack of “third places” (i.e. issues of car dependency/bad zoning) and declining social institutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgNrshVdMw

The secret ingredient is crime. The casinos were fronts for money laundering and “failed” on purpose as part of the scam.

can you really copyright your comments?

By default, everything you write, from a novel to an Internet forum shitpost, is not only copyrighted by you but also “all rights reserved.”

What that guy is doing is (a) making his writings more available for reuse than they would be otherwise, and (b) making a point about how fucked-up it is that corporations treat stuff posted to social media as if it were a free-for-all they could use however they want.

Andreessen had fuck-all to do with Firefox. He had worked on Netscape Navigator (which changed names several times over the years and is now known as SeaMonkey), but he had left Mozilla years before Firefox, which was a from-scratch rewrite, became a thing.

In that regard – writing shit code that was best thrown out – him and Eich (the fucker who inflicted Javascript on the world) are quite similar.

Finally somebody other than me says it!

I’m pretty skeptical about the notion of being able to time the market in general, so changing my asset balance at all based on external factors (i.e. not my age-based glide path or whatever) takes some pretty extraordinary circumstances re: systematic and sovereign risk. Frankly, weird stuff like gold and options have been outside my scope of contemplation up to this point. Maybe I should revisit that.

Anyway, concretely, what I did was just exchange a bunch of VTSAX for VTIAX. I don’t know what the country breakdown of VTIAX is, and I honestly don’t want to care (although I acknowledge I may be forced to, at some point).

Sounds like they’re working their way through the list of “solutions,” getting closer and closer to finding a “final” one.

If the co-op is purely doing contract work and the contract ends, how are they able to continue to pay workers on the bench?

I think this is the buried lede. How much is income reduced to tech workers vs traditional employers? Without strong social safety nets in the country a co-op with a much lower salary may not be a viable option because unemployment would leave the former workers without resources to live on.

I feel like the answers to these would be related. One answer could be that the organization maintains a large fund to act as a buffer to maintain salaries between contracts instead of operating “paycheck-to-paycheck.” An even simpler answer could be that the co-op chooses to take on a large number of small contracts instead of a small number of large ones, such that the revenue is relatively consistent to begin with.

They also flow from corruption (regulatory capture/failure to enforce anti-trust and other consumer-protection law). It’s hard to say whether that is itself a cause or result of wealth inequality, though.

I just massively shifted my retirement accounts from being ~80%/20% US/international stocks to more like 50/50. I’m increasingly doubting myself and thinking I ought to shift the ratio even more.

Some of the graphs are useful, but the message that site is pushing is weird gold-bug propaganda.

I’m not saying the Supremacy Clause isn’t a thing. What I’m saying is that SCOTUS has no jurisdiction to decide if a state law violates that state’s constitution.

SCOTUS has no jurisdiction over state constitutions.