Lots of gaps, but no one is taking apprentices. I know 40+ kids who started with school, and couldn’t get hired as anything but labor. Union shops are the only ones that’ll train anyone where I’m at. HVAC, plumbing, masons, doesn’t matter what trade. No one is hiring.
The meme in the cave where they’re like, “Sure the world was destroyed but for a while we made great returns for shareholders.”
Understandable. The Kurds have been routinely rat fucked by such ambiguous proposals before. Protections in writing doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Shouldn’t and doesn’t are two different things.
There’s an old saying in economics. “The market can stay irrational for a lot longer than you can stay solvent.” It feels very applicable.
I would tend to agree with you, but I do think the OP has a point. Even by Christian standards (which is a low bar) American evangelicalism is a whole different level of evil, and isn’t even Christian except in the broadest sense of the word. It’s just hateful extremism with a coat of Christian iconography.
Canon fodder and stagnant trade markets with no apprenticeships. This is the glorious future you’re recommending?
Look for union work. The only way to play this game is numbers. Build unions, organize, protest, and vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.
If you want a future, stop looking for motivational speeches from people who live large at your expense. If you try to succeed on your own you will die alone. Link arms with your brothers and sisters and pull together.
They cannot stop all of us.
RFK is a lawyer. An old lawyer. You couldn’t fill a thimble with what he knows about science. El Sayed has a medical degree.
RFK is full of shit every time he opens his mouth about science. But you would expect that since he’s an expert in a field that has absolutely nothing to do with science.
Really, it’s not that big a deal, it was kind of a silly semantics game to call it “Associate Membership” anyway. It was more about headlines provoking the Coppertone Fascist. That a trade deal is cut is the important part.
Every minute they spend doing their jobs is a minute they aren’t soliciting donations. What they mean is they don’t have the resources to beg for money, pass legislation, AND prosecute Trump at the same time. I know which of those things I don’t consider a priority, but they feel otherwise.
But think of all the missed fundraising opportunities if they have to spend time doing their jobs!!!
No. Not a single soul is surprised by this, including the people who voted for him anyway. They knew. Some didn’t care. Some considered it a selling point.
Oh, I don’t think you should include Meta on that list. I have a sneaking suspicion they’re going to be the Lehman Brothers of this crash.
Oh but private retirement funds are so much more “efficient” and have no bureaucracy! That’s what they tell you anyway. About as useful as private health insurance.
Wouldn’t matter much anyway in this case. They were always going to find a way to stick us with the bill. Hope everyone is ready for Great Depression 2: AI Slop Boogaloo!
Yeah, I can buy a 10 year old 1080. If someone Thanos Snapped Nvidia out of existence tomorrow that will still be true. AMD and Intel aren’t nearly as far out over their skis as Nvidia and someone’s going to pick up their IP portfolio. TSMC doesn’t care who is ordering the chips they print, they’re just going to print whatever makes them money. So yeah, it sucks to work for Nvidia in that case. It sucks, though not nearly as hard, to be deeply invested in Nvidia, but they didn’t have to bet the farm on Tulips either.
Right, like that makes a gigantic difference. The Hope Diamond exists to, but 45ct diamonds aren’t a consumer good.
You can’t buy a GPU NOW, and if Microsoft is so over committed to AI that it takes them out entirely and they completely tank when the bubble pops, then we were in far more danger from their bad decisions than we are of losing them.
I know it’s scary. It should be. We are all in grave danger because of them. There IS no good outcome here and they knew, or should have known that before they started down this road. If we keep saving them from their bad decisions, they’re just going to keep making them.
Absolutely not. And woe be to the politician that says otherwise. These companies need to fail cleanly because they cannot be allowed to think their recklessness is condoned by the people. No net for anyone involved with this bullshit. No bank, no private investor taking losses on what is unequivocally an attempted murder of their neighbours should be given refuge. They should be thankful we’re not calling for prison.
We don’t. The demented CEO tell them what to think.
Well, yes but also, it might be. Not like, a Terminator scenario, but more in the, as long as all the wealth being spent on it being a lost opportunity cost to do something about all the other important things that aren’t being funded. I’m not worried about the slop factories out competing us qualitatively, but rather choking out every other part of society because a bunch of idiots currently control all the purse strings.