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lower middle class and struggling people can't afford to eat well and don't have the time to cook. this probably won't change for another 30 years. sadly, most will probably die before this problem is fully addressed.

don't worry, all the rich educated people already know exactly what the deal is. just take a look at any expensive restaurant menu or high end supermarket in california, texas, new york, etc.

i'm not the person who posted the original message.

a lot of this stuff just devolves into sex scandals. fame and fortune and all that.

> As an average-looking man from an average family, if I want to attract a woman I need to be successful. The more successful I become, the higher quality of woman I can get.

be careful with this line of thinking.

if all you're looking to do is attract a mate with all that money, you're better off investing that time into acting lessons, music lessons, and athletic training.

or you might find out the hard way that being a charismatic, guitar-playing tri-athlete is going to land you a higher quality and more loyal mate than $10 million in the bank ever will.

it seems like a lot of these problems can avoided by simply staying in one spot longer, i.e. 6 months to a year. i'd say anything less than 3 months and you're basically just a tourist.

i've lived in my current spot for 6 years and i still find new things less than 1 km from my house routinely.

because it's untrue. you just aren't skilled or experienced enough to get a good job.

"the only way..." usually is a made-up fact designed to fit a circumstance.

i started out in tech as a teenager doing data entry and software installs. if you haven't done a similar job yet for at least a year or two, re-evaluate your expectations.

if you have enough money, there is no risk.

you simply call the bank, and tell them to credit you the money back, which they do immediately, and then they launch an investigation into the felony crime which occurred. they'll send you a couple of affidavits to sign in the mail later.

it's even easier with a credit card because the money was never taken to begin with.

and get this, with amex you don't even have to call, because they call you, and you tell them which charges you want deleted, while they send you a new card.

not having money totally sucks in comparison.

the official inflation rate isn't accurate, as it doesn't take into consideration any of those things you just mentioned.

i'd say $60k 20 years ago is more like $120k today... and that's being generous.

> Then you have a bunch of undereducated, inexperienced people who want a lot of stuff.

it's already happened, and it caused the subprime mortgage crisis and the college debt crisis. not to mention the up-and-coming problems of payday loan debt, credit card debt, and subprime auto loans.

sexism aside, that's textbook un-professional behavior and i wouldn't accept it from a female calling people little boys as a pejorative, either.

tell your manager about it. it's part of the manager's job to deal with stuff like this. if your manager refuses to do anything about it, either tell your coworker yourself or leave.

> I think most people who live here would consider themselves liberal

orange county and san diego county are the two most politically conservative counties in california.

> but they don't realise it.

it's hilarious you think that people who send their teenage kids to live overseas indefinitely and pay $40k/year for a basic high school education "don't realize" what they're doing.

this has been happening since the 90s. there were at least 2 or 3 of these kids at my high school in california.

this is great for active buyers and sellers but for just doing research/wasting time, do you know how to see finished auctions? is that a pay feature for dealers?

this culture of abusing your workers spills out into the US workforce as well. i've known people (us citizens) who have had to send lawyer letters to get their invoices paid by these consultancy firms, who aren't used to getting pushback from their servants. sometimes in the tens of thousands of dollars for high end work.

of course the bad behavior stops immediately when they get a nice little letter with an american law firm's name at the top of it.

they're scumbags.

the scientists that got laid off, and then found funding elsewhere.

you're not doing meditation any favors by promoting it in this light.

the problem is in many circumstances the entire management or operations teams can be forcibly removed by investors etc. many of these companies are all volatile, high growth venture-backed companies with financial and corporate shenanigans being pulled left and right.

i wouldn't say the risk is attitude, or intentions. you know what they say about good intentions...

if you run a company or product, it's on you to make sure your data is recoverable and your product is fixable in the event of an outage.

expecting a vendor to tell you exactly how they're going to fold is something they can surely dream up and send to you so you feel better about the nature of the universe, but something you shouldn't really rely on.

in other words, assume the worst will happen, despite assurances of the contrary.

people pay good money to maintain expensive piles of shit.

uh, all of those old cars smelled absolutely terrible and were burning leaded gas.

the secret service will.

radar, and shotgun. i.e. miniature phalanx. if they can blow a seaborne missile out of the air i think a drone shouldn't be that difficult.

also see: shotspotter.

the entire apple ecosystem is a non-stop barrage of notices, warnings, and requests, from all apps and the OS.

even if you try to turn it all off, they still come at you relentlessly. it's exhausting.

i agree with you, and it should be pointed out that prop 13 essentially prevents the state from literally kicking out everyone who can't afford to pay taxes on a home that's now valued at 5-10x what they bought it for, i.e. pretty much everyone that was here before the year 2000.

well, well. edison and tesla, finally working together again.

i was trying to make that point w/ the network and IO buffer statement, but that describes it much better.

if you believe in unbreakable encryption, sure. but i don't. now it's traversing an unknown number of systems, every time you view or edit.

those documents exist in some form, either partial or whole, in your local system memory, video memory, and probably a filesystem cache of some sort. they also traverse your network subsystem and other IO buffers/subsystems.

a root level compromise on your system can see any of this stuff in plaintext as it gets shifted around.