medium_burrito's comments

Strong agreement here. For the net-contributor class, it's absolutely brutal.

1) Incomes are lower than they used to be in the US and Europe than they used to be. Lots of talk about Europe's social saftey net, but less about the lack of well paying jobs (especially compared to the US).

2) Instability of work- our generation does not expect to have one job their whole life. We face being laid off without warning even from very well paying jobs. Unless you are financially independent, this makes it scary to plan for the future.

3) Living far away from parents + family that provide free childcare.

4) Several massive recessions that have severely damaged the professional prospects of the younger generations, to the point where they have significantly less wealth than previous generations did at the same age.

You are not the only person; it's miserable.

Let me add (3), the editor interface, possibly the most infuriatingly bad software I've had to use (for work) in the last few years. And I am routinely exposed to awful software.

For another pillar of this scary new age, look at the absolute willingness of big tech to censor anything that goes against the message of those in power.

In almost every situation like this, every principal player is an asset of some organization. An intelligence agency would be stupid not to be supporting every side of the conflict.

Honestly, for the stuff I read I totally care more about the opinion of "enthusiastic amateurs", so yeah, honey badger don't care.

The more interesting part of the article is "In 2018, The Writers’ Union of Canada found that, after factoring in inflation, Canadian writers are making 78 percent less than they were in 1998", ie inflation ie a giant motherfucker, and thanks governments everywhere for fucking the younger generations out of a future.

Dams are incredibly damaging. By contrast, every time we have a nuclear disaster, the no-go zone becomes a wildlife paradise.

I think the reason it hasn't hit consumers more is because most consumers cannot afford assets.

The best analogy I can make is Ecuador, which although one of the poorest countries in SA has very high prices on average. It was explained to me that this is because government salaries are pegged to a certain rate, and that basically forms the middle class. All the poor cannot buy stuff anyway, so the high prices don't really matter in that sense.

So much bullshit. Penises are literally the favorite thing of many men across human history to draw, in all shapes and sizes, any preferably the most public location. It was even a plot point of a major movie a few years ago.

"The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."

Executive Outcomes returned this last year, IIRC. They pulled off some extremely crazy thing in Indonesia a long time ago, and still have access to top talent.

Absolutely. 5th generation warfare, motherfucker.

The Russians are the world's undisputed masters of this, so it's time we paramilitarize back.

Also, time to fuck Russia, hard. Putin's parkinsons won't come soon enough, and what comes after might even be worse. We should offer a visa for every Russian woman under 18. Starve the country of mothers, and their birthrate is already abysmal.

Older demographic, less climbing. Same reason why racy xc geometry went away.

This is American techbro poor, where rampant asset inflation has been occurring ever since the government has been more or less printing money, and now buying corporate bonds (BOJ of course is the ghost of economy future here, having done this since the late triassic).

Not really a purely American problem- everybody else has this too- which is why young people are so pissed everywhere that they have no future.

Did you visit one of the armored car dealerships in Polanco? They are badass.

For the first time in my life I've seen private security in my neighborhood. We're in one of the poorer areas of the city (ie $1-2.5m houses), so perhaps people cannot afford to leave?

I've always thought security on demand was a great idea- the real killer app in my mind is having a map online of which houses the private security company protects, so as to create an incentive for people who aren't paying to get protection as the thieves know what's ripe for the picking.

Idaho has become very expensive in the last few years. It's basically Western Wyoming, but for poors.

Unfortunately that doesn't work for those of us that need to run compute intensive tasks, like browsing the web, or compiling stuff, or running docker.

There's this stupid dream that the computer needs to be light and fanless and thin and sexy. It doesn't need to do that. I'm happy if it doesn't melt while trying to run some software I need to do my job.

Wouldn't it be faster to crash a few of comet/icy moon/etc into the atmosphere? Then a decade later put big nuclear powered magnets in orbit to generate a magenetosphere so the new atmosphere won't evaporate after a hundred million years?

Much of the US infrastructure is complete shit. Sure, it's not Somalia, but the fact we are even having the comparison is ridiculous.

We do have rolling blackout on occasion. We do have non potable water on occasion. We have completely fucked up roads and failing bridges. We don't have underground powerlines in most places.

The article doesn't say it of course, but the big question is what happens when the government keeps the dole, at least past midterm elections?

There's tremendous automation happening right now, and it'll accelerate, to the point where if the government waits 2 years, a good portion of those jobs likely won't exist, and the government will never be able to get rid of the dole.

It's kind of like quantitative easing infinity, except for the poors.