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Over what timeline will industry come back? And are $5,000 or $10,000 in 2025 dollars washer and dryers acceptable to Americans?

It’s possible all economists are wrong. It is more likely they aren’t. Tariffs are going to hurt middle and lower classes.

Correction, ignorant and misinformed Americans don’t want these things and do not care.

Let’s stop pretending that the individuals who voted for this administration actually wanted most of what it is doing. The majority voted off of feelings and will not like the end result. There is a lot of explaining away the stupidity and I find it really annoying.

It’s not a difference of opinion that Tariffs will cause a rise in prices, no matter what the current administration says.

But… isn’t the AI going to parrot those travel blogs?

If the live audience was outraged by his Nazi salutes, I wouldn’t care so much.

The fact he did two Nazi salutes to an applauding audience with smiles is deeply concerning.

But was the complete annihilation of all safety measures on twitter and chasing away most advertisers necessary to accomplish that? Couldn’t he have bought twitter, truly kept it an open place to discuss topics with less misinformation, kept his advertisers, and still shit post and donate his way into the White House?

He undoubtedly slashed spending, but didn’t he also tank revenue? The question I have is was any of that really necessary for him to get to where he is right now?

Move fast and break things mentality over the boring strategy of letting a hiring freeze slowly work. It’s also psychologically challenging the people that stay to “admit” they can’t get a job in the private sector, which helps the Elon narrative. They want to make government employees feel bad.

Plus these people are unlikely to ever get paid. This is all operating outside of congress. If the institutions survive at all this could become a mess of expensive lawsuits and settlements. But I suppose their intention is to permanently cut Congress out of the picture.

I don’t see the call to action. It describes perfectly the feeling of hopelessness I’ve had for years now. The election was the last chance and everyone blew it.

Remember when they said they’d get to the bottom of the “drones”? Don’t be so easily distracted from what they are doing to the country.

I think it needs to be stated as a matter of fact that Vance has demonstrated he doesn’t hold a position if it isn’t advantageous to him. Which is normal for politicians, but in his case very extreme.

So not to take anything away from the rest of your comment but that part of it should be disregarded.

This is a good point I had not considered. I suppose these ratings are hidden from us, besides being folded into the overall rating?

Wrong. YouTube shorts ruined the app for me. No way to disable them.

Why? I don’t understand what working at Microsoft has anything to do with this.

And I found the entire article very informative with little room for bias.

I like the design. I do not understand the $700 price beyond coffee nerds are used to paying that much for equipment. I’ll wait.

Isn’t that the starting price? Insurance and countries can buy in bulk and bring it down. Then overtime doesn’t the price come down due to competition from generics?

I pay for Kagi monthly and enjoy using it.

But this is ridiculously expensive: > $25 for 1000 queries

If everyone did that, the opponent would set up a SPAC that would text in support of the candidate knowing it would cost votes.

Probably the best outcome that could be expected for all involved. What a bizarre story though. Even if it causes a chilling effect on future leakers it did not make the US government look better at all, from my view.

I think that burned up before exiting our atmosphere.

Didn’t congress pass a gargantuan bill a few years back for this?

I mean this seriously. Why not both? I don’t see the problem with having multiple types of relationships with people, including sex. As long as everyone is on the same page (consensual, they know it’s casual, etc.)

Sorry for your loss and glad you’re doing better.

Senior living centers are often atrocious and still can set people back over $10,000 a month. I think a program could be designed without being a handout.

One option could be if you’re going into a government run senior living center you need to pass that money down to whoever was going to inherit it/receive it through donation. And that has to be a taxable event to cover the cost of the subsidy on senior living.

People would hate that option because no one likes taxes but the private market is not getting us where we need to be. If people don’t like the option, no subsidy for them and they are free to figure out their own senior care. That money goes surprisingly fast.

I bet this isn’t the entire solution but it seems like a really good part of it. I know seniors are snapping up Ranchers in the US, which takes away a starter home option for people just getting into homeownership.

I find Windows 11 so offensive with its telemetry and pestering for sharing additional information that I am not at all lured away like I once was by the promise of the Surface.

I hope others feel the same and they revert to how Windows 7-10 was. I absolutely hate the experience every time I interact with a fresh install. But I don’t see a future where it gets any better.

“DuckDB in general keeps surprising me with these unobtrusive low friction integrations.”

I couldn’t agree more. DuckDB has been fantastic. I originally started playing around with it for poking at parquet files, but often use it for CSVs, JSON, whatever.

And another thing to note is duckDB plays really nice in a Jupyter notebook. Very useful when playing around with different data.

Either you should speak with someone or you’re not being genuine. Sorry that your experience led you to believe you’d rather be homeless.

Nothing wrong with finding a new hobby but this is a stereotype of tech workers. If it isn’t woodworking, it’s beekeeping or some other perfectly fine side quest.

I have a small issue with the way the people who get into these hobbies are so bitter. Every job has stuff like this, we aren't special.

Cancer treatment is way better now than even a few years ago. Miles ahead of the 90s.

The bee population in America is supposedly growing very quickly thanks in part to tax breaks in Texas.

Global poverty is way down. Large part of that is China.

Gay rights have come a long way. Not perfect, but it’s nice that generally people can be more open about who they are.

I absolutely love all the open source projects out there for almost anything I want.

Yeah, we could be doing better. Much better. But it’s actually unlikely we will hit the worst case scenarios for climate change. The developing world is going to get rocked by the 2+C temperature increase, but it won’t be an extinction event, there is still more we can do, and there is much less denialism than the 90s or 00s.

Am I touching too much grass?

I had to look up “opening the kimono” and it’s kind of an interesting tangent.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/02/360479744...

We’re essentially talking about the Fermi paradox. I think speculation is expected and the channel is upfront about their cited research.

Your comment could apply to any one commenting on these topics and so I am confused.

Kurzgesagt has many videos on this topic. In one video, they point out we may actually be in the right place at the right time and could be one of the first civilizations. This seems egocentric at first, but if you consider how chaotic the early universe has been and how relatively calm things are in the last billion years, it does make sense.

Also, I learned recently that we don’t have as much time with Earth as I originally thought. We have a few hundred million years to figure out how to colonize other planets or live in space before Earth becomes radically different and potentially unlivable. I imagine most civilizations get snuffed out like this.