Nothus posted:

despite the fact that because flying is more miserable than ever and the pilot shortage is so dire that they're both trying to force retired pilots back to work and cutting training requirements

genericnick posted:

FlapYoJacks posted:

Just cut your insane parents out of your life; then you won’t care when things like this happen! Bing bong so simple.

DancingShade posted:

The consequence of people having kids later and later is new adults that haven't even reached middle age yet themselves having to confront end of life care scenarios for their parents.

Add to that the very real prospect of "work until you're dead" for most people anyway and you have kids who can't financially support ailing parents nor even afford having kids of their own.

There will be no motivation or momentum for change to address any of this until its a problem for the majority so the initial people learning this firsthand will unfortunately be more or less on their own. Fun times.

edit - of course with the fact young people will likely be unable to financially support themselves leaving home in the future maybe we'll return to seeing 3 generations in one household.

Glumwheels posted:

Imagine being an only child and dealing with this and thinking about it constantly. Thankfully my parents lucked out in their retirement and now I or they don’t have to worry about them. They don’t have to stress about anything anymore.

Now if only we could be so lucky with my in-laws. Thankfully they don’t have to worry about healthcare but their taxes and home are a major issue and it all falls on my wife who is the oldest since her two sisters are a mess. My SILs are not prepared for what’s coming when my in-laws go.

asia.nikkei.com posted:

TAIPEI -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said it will push back the start of mass production at its plant in Arizona to 2025 due to a shortage of skilled workers and technicians needed to move equipment into the facility.
TSMC Chairman Mark Liu said the world's biggest contract chipmaker is entering a critical phase of handling and installing some of the "most advanced equipment" at the plant, its advanced first chip facility in the U.S. in more than 20 years. Mass production was previously slated to begin late next year.

"We are encountering certain challenges, as there is an insufficient amount of skilled workers with the specialized expertise required for equipment installation in a semiconductor-grade facility," Liu said. He added that TSMC is sending experienced technicians from Taiwan to make up for delays and the lack of trained local workers, confirming a Nikkei Asia report last month.
Construction of the Arizona plant began in mid-2021.
"We expect the production schedule of N4 process technology to be pushed out to 2025," the chairman said, referring to 4-nanometer chipmaking technology.

TSMC, which serves global chip developers including Apple, Qualcomm and Nvidia, is seen as a barometer of the wider tech industry. On Thursday, the company again revised its full-year outlook downward, citing a slow recovery in China and prolonged macroeconomic uncertainties. It now expects a 10% decline in revenue from 2022. In April, it trimmed its annual revenue target from mild growth to a "low-to-mid single digit percent" decline.

The chipmaker also reported its first drop in quarterly net profit since 2019 on Thursday amid a slump in the consumer electronics market.
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mawarannahr posted:

Skill issue
TSMC delays U.S. chip plant start to 2025 due to labor shortages

mawarannahr posted:

When they do decide to run full autopilot, you're not gonna get a choice, so hopefully air travel dies for other reasons soon

DancingShade posted:

End of life care is crazy expensive in relative terms for a working class individual. It will be inter-generational living or else people dying in the streets / woods like we've reverted to pre Victorian era London.

In fact forget caring for relatives. I can see our society reverting back to flophouses for the working poor. Where you slave away all day just to get a nightly bunk in the poor house.

There will still be mansions of course. Nobody will see what the insides of those look like except the help.

StealthArcher posted:

I remain incredibly thankful my parents continue on track to be the kind who stay healthy into their 90s and die together one day doing skydiving or similar.

is pepsi ok posted:

https://twitter.com/Barchart/status/1681835247208476672?s=20

trevorreznik posted:

This is the only quote I found interesting:
Homogamy—marriage within the same socioeconomic class—has soared to levels not seen since the pre−World War I Edwardian era.

If this is true, and based on parent's wealth (because there's no way it can be based on spousal earnings when women weren't in the out of the house workforce), I wonder what's making this happen. Social media/dating apps is too easy of an answer, but I'm grimly wondering if we're actually in the Gattaca world where every partner is looking each other up online.

Frosted Flake posted:

Marriage Markets is a good book on this

Basically people meet at work or university, and both of those are obviously classed

StrugglingHoneybun posted:

This is dumb


Get an ARM, then you get the rate drops for free without refinancing. Bing bong so simple.



No actually, I was in a coma from 2006-2013, why, what happened?

trevorreznik posted:

Where were they meeting before that wasn't as classed? Certainly not via friends, family, church.

Nothus posted:

Realtors are selling the refi gamble hard and nobody really has a choice, it's just cope you tell yourself to not feel so bad about getting bent over while your friends brag about their 2% locked-in mortgages

Raccooon posted:

How does Boston dynamics make money? I feel like I have been seeing their stupid dog robot for 15 years. They appear to have zero practical commercial applications so far.

rex rabidorum vires posted:

Narrator: they became weapons.

Car Hater posted:

I thought they were conceived of as a weapon

ram dass in hell posted:

reddit is certainly an R place iykwim

Burn Zone posted:

::

we had boston dynamics out last summer demoing the dog for us.

they made a whole platform out of it. BD makes plug-and-play modules and they have an SDK so you can make your own. it legit uses a DB-25 serial connector for the modules.

as for uses, imagine an environmental sensors package and an arm to open doors or close valves combined with an environment hazardous to humans (industrial accident type poo poo).

it actually feels inhumane to kick the thing, but they let us do it to show how self-stabilizing it was. at one point a group of us boxed it in to test its obstacle avoidance. it freaked out and started bouncing its feet and glitching out in kind of a dance. the rep made us stop lmao

also rich people use them as guard dogs, BD told me they refuse to make it into a weapon so it will only report back on an intruder not attack them.

spacetoaster posted:

Geez. Just have kids when you're 20 so you're still young enough to play with them as they grow up.

DancingShade posted:

I've always wondered what motivated people to spend multiple thousands per year on an overseas holiday to [insert destination here], every year. Like I get you want to have fun but can you not "have fun" on a slightly more modest budget ideally closer to home?

I don't think I have much of an adventurer heart. Or maybe I just see better and more efficient uses for the currency with regards to fun return.

triple sulk posted:

still really loving how 90% of the job listings on linkedin are six month old reposts or third party recruiters

RadiRoot posted:

https://twitter.com/business/status/1682011251038208005

disney getting desperate. maybe we can pool our resources and buy an IP.