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People are simply under the thumb at home and work and have been for sometime. It's when the economy really takes a turn for the worst that we will see more people cracking from the pressure.

A few coworkers on my team were clearly clinically depressed.

It's not though. I've visited friends there anually for the last 15 years. Last year I genuinely feared for my life and this summer my friends totally understand why I'm refusing to enter city limits.

Could mean people need to sell their shitcoins in exchange for 'real' money in order to afford rent, food, gas and student loan payments while they still can.

How do you all feel about you and your employer making it out unscathed?

In my case, I'm 2 years into being an indispensable engineer at a publicly traded midsized company. Unless they decide to shut down our business unit, I should be in good shape.

Their last funding round was a Series A nearly 3 years ago.

I had a similar thing happen to me. I disputed the charge via Credit Karma, explaining that the service never worked so I never paid. It was removed within a few days.

BTC price goes back down to 2018 levels like the ARKK and IPO etfs, fast.

Energy, Consumer Staples and Utilities from my research.

I know, these armchair economists ITT speak with such certitude about a complex system rife with unintended consequences.

Listening to audiobooks while playing American Truck Simulator. It's like taking a road trip without leaving the house.

Declension

Ally Invest has no commissions and an API. I manage my portfolio in python an Jupyter lab.

Live frugally. Build your credit. Have a full time remote job and 2 years of W-2s. Move to a state like Florida and Texas where homes are affordable.

Curious what you see in the near future for the city. I've visited friends in PDX annually for years, but last year I didn't feel safe and this year am avoiding it altogether. Even going so far as to avoid freeway routes where I might risk a carjacking or rock throwers.

No relationship implied. Here is a link concerning middle management: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-re...

As for the social science of marriage, I don't have a link but recently read in a textbook how marriage satisfaction consistently declines year after year for both partners. With men's satisfaction dropping faster in the first few years with women's overtaking them by year 7 or so.

Here is a chart that is similar to what I am referring to: https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology2ndedition/wp-c...

Look into the social science of marriage, parenting and middle management. It was bleak before the pandemic and odds are it's become worse.

My wife keeps looking at me like a piece of meat. I wouldn't mind if she wasnt vegan.

The other day was take your kids to work day and my daughter was excited to go for some reason. By midmorning I could tell she was disappointed. At lunch we were all sitting together and she started crying. Folks gathered round to comfort her and ask what was wrong. She turned to me and asked "Daddy, where are all the clowns you said you worked with?"

Walk into a whiteboard interview scowling at the candidate and write

5Q + 5Q = ?

Tell them to solve it. When they write 10Q say "You're welcome"

Whatever is on sale this month at Costco.

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism by Joel Kotkin

What do you think happened in the jakes? I'm in the voluntary homosexual encounter hypothesis camp.

I've started listening to audiobooks while playing American Truck Simulator weekends and evenings. It's like going on a road trip without leaving the house.

Must be Portland

I'm 42 and have stopped paying attention to titles and all the traditional organizational paradigms that are losing relevance.

I feel like the ability to work from home in my sweats on simple problems as a senior engineer and receive a 75th percentile income relative to my neighbors in one of the best neighborhoods in my new home state is the most societal progress I will ever experience in my lifetime. I'm a lifelong bachelor by choice. Why bother striving for anything career wise when I am on track to retire comfortably to focus on my mostly free hobbies no later than the age of 50? For a house with a 3rd bedroom I don't need?

No, best to appreciate what I have and leave the striving for the next generation of engineers.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the narrator feigns being deaf and dumb.

A lot of companies are dysfunctional and their hiring managers are incompetent. Never take it personally or let it affect your self esteem. I witnessed this first hand in 2018 when doing rounds via Triplebyte. A good proportion of those companies who rejected me either went under or are about to go under. Luckily for me I landed at a publicly traded employer and my former employer had their liquidity event. I don't plan to interview ever again if not absolutely necessary.

Overreach by the far-left wing of the Democratic party leading to an Independant and slightly left of center revolt and Republican landslide in the midterms.

Crime, homelessness and drug problems continuing to get worse to the point where places like Portland Oregon either collapse into chaos or are forced to do mass sweeps / arrests.

Divorce rates climbing while marriage and fertility rates decline.

Make crypto no more than 25% of your total investment portfolio if you are under 30, no more than 10% if you are over 30.