Mola Yam posted:

feel like no one's even taking the bait with the debt ceiling stuff this time around

too tired to go through the motions

Mola Yam posted:

feel like no one's even taking the bait with the debt ceiling stuff this time around

too tired to go through the motions

anime was right posted:

every single one of these AI articles reads like this poo poo:

mawarannahr posted:

the notion of fungible PTO that you can donate or exchange, that you are allowed or even encourage to donate to a coworker who has run down their own days due to illness, is incredible

Not a Children posted:

I regularly get work emails asking for PTO donations for emergency contributions, maybe once every other month

my company is a nonprofit lol

RadiRoot posted:

Mola Yam posted:

feel like no one's even taking the bait with the debt ceiling stuff this time around

too tired to go through the motions

Xaris posted:

why hasnt joe biden banned tiktok already?? what's the hold up

git er done joe

Cuttlefush posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's pretty cool that all the economic arguments for what will or won't solve the housing crisis doesn't even reckon with the problem that anyone constructing new homes is going to be building shoddy deathtraps

cool av posted:

all of whatever those guys said plus death penalty for executives of homebuilding corps who end up killing anyone

Acelerion posted:

I've often wondered how house go up is going to square with construction that falls over in 10 years

Taima posted:

Are PTO donations normal? That's so loving weird.

In tech we avoid the issue entirely by having "unlimited PTO" that is politically fraught to use too much of, so in short, completely different and arguably worse problems, yay

Hoot going crazy was not on my bingo card.

The most hosed up part is that despite some whinging and general razzing of his modding, he had been largely accepted. Does anyone know what pushed him over the edge?

It's just sad. It's such a huge self own. But I guess given his recent behavior, he really was the wrong person for the job.

Feel better Hoot

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's pretty cool that all the economic arguments for what will or won't solve the housing crisis doesn't even reckon with the problem that anyone constructing new homes is going to be building shoddy deathtraps

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's pretty cool that all the economic arguments for what will or won't solve the housing crisis doesn't even reckon with the problem that anyone constructing new homes is going to be building shoddy deathtraps

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's pretty cool that all the economic arguments for what will or won't solve the housing crisis doesn't even reckon with the problem that anyone constructing new homes is going to be building shoddy deathtraps

quote:

At one point mobile home units were around 50% of the number of single family homes built.

Acelerion posted:

I've often wondered how house go up is going to square with construction that falls over in 10 years

quote:

OTTAWA -

One of Canada's largest labour disruptions has entered a sixth day as the union representing thousands of striking public-service workers looks to hamper access to ports.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada says more than 100,000 of its staff remain on strike, some of whom will move their picket lines today to strategic locations more likely to have an impact on the federal government.

Oglethorpe posted:

canada on day 6 of a strike

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/public-service-union-strike-day-6-pickets-target-locations-with-more-impact-1.6368092

Mr Hootington posted:

Thread title

ikanreed posted:

Planned obsolescence makes number go up faster

Twerk from Home posted:

There's nothing new about this. Id actually bet that the average or median 80s or 90s built house is much worse than this. The modern shitpiles are more likely to have better electrical and roof drainage.

And if you go older? https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-mobile-home

The 70s, we were building 600,000 mobile homes a year. Tons of those 70s mobile homes got put on foundations and people have done additions to them and they are hiding among site-built houses like a landmine for future buyers.

Taima posted:

Are PTO donations normal? That's so loving weird.

In tech we avoid the issue entirely by having "unlimited PTO" that is politically fraught to use too much of, so in short, completely different and arguably worse problems, yay

Hoot going crazy was not on my bingo card.

The most hosed up part is that despite some whinging and general razzing of his modding, he had been largely accepted. Does anyone know what pushed him over the edge?

It's just sad. It's such a huge self own. But I guess given his recent behavior, he really was the wrong person for the job.

Feel better Hoot

gradenko_2000 posted:

I remember reading David Ricardo in what must have been 2018 and coming to the conclusion that if one were running a business, that you would have to treat your [dead] capital as an amortized, on-going expense from day 1, with the intent of having it "paid back" by the time the warranty runs out, or by the time you expect the thing to break

that is, if you buy a 10,000 dollar bakery oven (or however much such a thing costs), and it has an expected lifespan of five years, then you'd need to account for a cost of 167.00 dollars a month, so that you'd have the cost of the thing socked away and can replace it exactly five years later (and adjusting for however much the price of a new oven is going to be by that time)

this is obviously not a novel idea, but then I started looking at it from the other side and none of it made sense: if you're a manufacturer of... electric fans, eventually you're going to hit a point where everyone in your reach who might foreseeably want an electric fan already has one, and if your fans are built to last, then people are just going to stop buying fans, because they already have one, and the only other sales you'll get to make are people replacing their fans once they break... but that's not enough sales to make your firm sustainable

you could expand your market by beating the competition and increasing your reach to more people who don't yet have fans, but that's still going to hit a wall eventually

you could diversify by making more than just the one product, but same thing - the inescapable logic is that everyone who will ever want your product will already have it, and then what?

and I know that what I'm essentially describing is The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall, and in turn explains the capitalist logic of planned obsolescence and the conversion of everything into X As A Service, but like... and then what???

Acelerion posted:

I've often wondered how house go up is going to square with construction that falls over in 10 years

Justin Tyme posted:

Those prefab "small" homes that are super modern and only like 800-1000 sq ft look nice and makes you go "aha! A prefab home built in a factory! It must be dirt cheap and the solution to our housing woes!" And then you see like "starting in the $400's". Same with "3D printed" homes, those are a huge grift and won't go anywhere.

I know its probably a volume thing but it always pissed me off that they charged that much when they're basically bougie trailer homes and trailer homes themselves cost as much as what a starter home did in the 90's.

Justin Tyme posted:

Those prefab "small" homes that are super modern and only like 800-1000 sq ft look nice and makes you go "aha! A prefab home built in a factory! It must be dirt cheap and the solution to our housing woes!" And then you see like "starting in the $400's". Same with "3D printed" homes, those are a huge grift and won't go anywhere.

I know its probably a volume thing but it always pissed me off that they charged that much when they're basically bougie trailer homes and trailer homes themselves cost as much as what a starter home did in the 90's.

anime was right posted:

one of the coolest things trump did was make it so IRAs for people that were like 60ish when he did the new tax law didnt have to sell all their poo poo in 10 years but anyone who is effectively a millennial inheriting an IRA has to sell it all in 10 years period, which greatly reduces the amount of money you can make on it.