“We’ll try anything as long as it fits in our exact worldview and doesn’t inconvenience us in any way whatsoever”
Meanwhile remote-first companies are saving money on office space and can use that to hire more people, while also immediately being greener than a company with commuters that have to worship the concrete temple.
I doubt they want my fun and safe math optimizations either tbh
I think a lot of the Republicans are simply not going to go out and vote this election, while I think the potential Democrat voters have a strong urge
Don’t worry, republicans and their tankie allies are doing everything to make everyone think about the genocide in Israel, rather than how much worse the genocide in Israel could be under Trump.
Democrats might actually have a lower turnaround this time around.
Would rather they just be sued to hell and skip the back part.
I’ve put in 60 or 70 hours of work this week. Productive. I’m a software engineer. In my normal 40 hour week there’s at least one day where I do nothing and then the other days have 2-3 productive hours.
Why? Because the project is falling behind and this one is being led by our CEO. We have like 20 employees. I save his ass, I’ll probably get a raise out of it.
Wow, POV is used correctly for a change!
When did I ever say it’s about hard work? You’re either born into the middle class, or you have to get lucky af. 80 hour weeks at a shit job will kill your health, not raise your socioeconomic status.
I never said it’s something everyone can attain (I WISH it still was), but it does exist. For now. It’s shrinking hard and becoming a thing of the past though. And unfortunately mostly middle class people are dropping down to working class, rather than going up the ladder.
Personally I aim to retire around the age of 50, or do entrepreneurship for fun after that point. Definitely don’t want to work for someone else. If I attain that and my net worth keeps rising despite me not having a job - would you still consider me working class? I know I wouldn’t consider myself to be upper class even then.
There’s no one singular definition of middle class anyway.
Middle class means being able to work your way up to not having to rely on work or pension to live.
If you’re working class, you don’t even have that option. You work until you’re so old you have to retire, no long sabbaticals in between or anything. You won’t go traveling the world to do soul searching. Your kids are either taking student loans or GI bills or just not going to college.
Middle class isn’t a 100k income in much of modern America though. Depending on location I’d say it’s more like 200k to 600k per household at minimum to be middle class. So yes, the middle class has shrunk considerably.
The middle class definitely exists. They still share class solidarity with the poor.
Middle class means you can lose your job, stay unemployed for a year or 2, and keep your home, keep the kids fed. You’re closer to the poor obviously, but you have some peace of mind. You’ve probably got some investments to provide a little bit of extra income to help you through the difficult days.
Basically, I’d categorize rich vs middle class vs working class as “could never become homeless”, “unlikely to need to worry about becoming homeless unless something major happens” and “could easily become homeless if unemployed for a while”.
Of course, if anyone’s wealth is actually trickling down, it’s the middle class, not the rich. Because the middle class actually spends some portion of their money instead of hoarding it.
Back in the day, I went through a Libertarian phase. I supported Ron Paul.
You and the entirety of reddit in the 2012 election I think. To be fair, there’s plenty liberals and libertarians agree on. Unfortunately, you can share some common beliefs with someone and they can still be a piece of shit.
Ideas more broadly = information
Just about any information that self-replicates it using humans, could be considered a meme.
He didn’t declare himself the winner. The voting system is a bit more complex and while it’s possible to completely override the election results through the electoral college, usually what happens is that the blue candidate gets a lot more votes in populous states with big cities (California, NY, etc), but as soon as you’re one vote ahead in a state, the extra million or 2 don’t matter.
Something that’s been proposed to combat this without moving to an entirely new model, is for states to no longer be all or nothing. Instead of candidate A getting 60% of the votes and 100% of the EC vote, they’d get 60% of the EC vote and the other guy would get 40%. Then all votes would matter, rather than only swing state votes.
Technically no longer need to be married for that in modern society
No thanks I don’t wanna do that again
That’s one way to publish an iOS app via Xcode if you don’t have a Mac I guess
Bet the person who did it has ADHD and got into hyperfocus mode on a silly “what if” idea and worked on this nonstop without taking a break to go pee, much less eat or hydrate
Human nature is the real issue tbh. Scarcity was always the easier problem.
People are in denial: AI is a good thing.
Not in our broken ass system. First we need an economic system where people want to, but don’t need to work.
I got a knock last night. I had to apologize and say there’s no candy - I don’t live in the US. We have our own similar traditions on St. Martin’s day and St. Catherine’s day. The article for the latter even describes it: Wiki, though for either day you can click on the Estonian Wikipedia article to get a more complete description.
I suppose in the coming years I’ll have to start stocking candy for Halloween too because I don’t really want to disappoint a bunch of kids. Though to be fair, I don’t think they did much trick or treating anyway, they mostly just opened their bag and asked for candy - so it felt kinda lazy. When I was a kid, I remember groups of kids would come knock on our door for either Mardipäev or Kadripäev and they’d usually have something like a song or dance prepared, or at least told us riddles.