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> CPI inflation would suggest that the current cost ought to be about $692. Rent alone will probably blow that. I live in a burnt out rust belt shithole city and I’m struggling to understand how rent is this high. I pay…
How you define “rely”. I’ve certainly seen trust fund kids who’s success is anchored on “daddy gave me a sweet job at his company” and others who’d be dead or in prison if it wasn’t for the constant money poured into…
> Expecting to own a high end house in a dense metro are on its own, is a pretty insane expectation. High salaries and an industry boom over the last decade created a sort of whiny arrogance amongst software developers,…
I may have ended up that way if I hadn’t gotten into software as a teenager. Luckily a did and the timing was right for me to make some sort of decent career out of it. I did live independently prior to going into…
> We're probably just a few short years away from the current generation of right-wing populists Right wing populists are nearly as useless as left wing populists now. The people they put into power and now betraying…
> Personally I think data centers should pay a 100% fossil fuel tax. Markets respond to incentives. Yes, by changing the incentives to align with their desires. I guarantee if a politician had a serious chance of…
> i think you need to catch up Likely futile though. The way to get jobs now is through network and connections. If OP doesn’t have those already, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to “catch up” in a reasonable amount of…
> after buying his way in with trump with his 250M donation to create a new part of gov that was not democratically assembled I’ll add: after these people spent years whining about “unelected bureaucrats”.
I’ve been in a bit of creative/intellectual rut the last few years, but before that there were a handful of things that intrigued me in the last 5-10 years. Most recently, I became interested in the field of…
> There is plenty of surplus labor available with the right economic incentives. Instead the “Economic incentives” go to the Chinese owners who then learn that Americans are not interested in working in a sweatshop and…
I just wait till I feel I have too many and just nuke them all at one lol.
> This paints everyone as right or left, which I don’t find accurate or helpful. I’d argue it’s incredibly helpful. I live in a state with a couple contentious elections coming up. Something I’ve noticed is no one seems…
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> CPI inflation would suggest that the current cost ought to be about $692. Rent alone will probably blow that. I live in a burnt out rust belt shithole city and I’m struggling to understand how rent is this high. I pay…
How you define “rely”. I’ve certainly seen trust fund kids who’s success is anchored on “daddy gave me a sweet job at his company” and others who’d be dead or in prison if it wasn’t for the constant money poured into…
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> Expecting to own a high end house in a dense metro are on its own, is a pretty insane expectation. High salaries and an industry boom over the last decade created a sort of whiny arrogance amongst software developers,…
I may have ended up that way if I hadn’t gotten into software as a teenager. Luckily a did and the timing was right for me to make some sort of decent career out of it. I did live independently prior to going into…
> We're probably just a few short years away from the current generation of right-wing populists Right wing populists are nearly as useless as left wing populists now. The people they put into power and now betraying…
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> Personally I think data centers should pay a 100% fossil fuel tax. Markets respond to incentives. Yes, by changing the incentives to align with their desires. I guarantee if a politician had a serious chance of…
> i think you need to catch up Likely futile though. The way to get jobs now is through network and connections. If OP doesn’t have those already, it’s unlikely they’ll be able to “catch up” in a reasonable amount of…
> after buying his way in with trump with his 250M donation to create a new part of gov that was not democratically assembled I’ll add: after these people spent years whining about “unelected bureaucrats”.
I’ve been in a bit of creative/intellectual rut the last few years, but before that there were a handful of things that intrigued me in the last 5-10 years. Most recently, I became interested in the field of…
> There is plenty of surplus labor available with the right economic incentives. Instead the “Economic incentives” go to the Chinese owners who then learn that Americans are not interested in working in a sweatshop and…
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I just wait till I feel I have too many and just nuke them all at one lol.
> This paints everyone as right or left, which I don’t find accurate or helpful. I’d argue it’s incredibly helpful. I live in a state with a couple contentious elections coming up. Something I’ve noticed is no one seems…
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