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Xaris posted:the most surprising thing about this was finding out 3M still had a pension plan. but there's good news at the end I forgot to sign some form with 18 months of being discharged and half of my pension is in a differed annuity. Is that the same thing?
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Jan 10, 2024 15:22
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Ardennes posted:The Japanese Yen is also at some of its lowest levels since the 1990s as well. The Yen lost about 40% of its value since mid-2020. ah, konnichiwa
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Jan 10, 2024 15:24
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cool av posted:their employers pay their health insurance and they live & garage their cars in an all white suburb so homeowner/car insurance rates are low median new car payment is ~$700/mo as of last year
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Jan 10, 2024 15:25
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Beached Whale posted:Whenever I'm in the waiting room here at least half the people had to drive out 2+ hours and they're only there to talk to the doctor for 5 minutes and maybe get some blood testing. There's millions of people who have to do this because we decided people in places like Erie or Wheeling aren't economically worthy of anything beyond a couple of GPs who hate their jobs and hate you. A friend of mine's father had to come into Pittsburgh to have a tumor removed. He lives about two hours away in Indiana, a university town, and there was nowhere else to do the surgery in between.
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Jan 10, 2024 15:29
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Asproigerosis posted:Medicare advantage has been the quiet Medicare privatization effort that's getting close to completion. Yep, they cut all the 'excess' capacity for economically useless people in the rural areas of western and central PA, the next step is to cut the 'excess' capacity in the population centers until there's just enough capacity for the concierge doctor types who spend a lot of money on elective poo poo.
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Jan 10, 2024 15:30
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maybe try rebuilding your planes first? 
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Jan 10, 2024 15:40
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fun day tomorrowquote:Mortgage rates increased again slightly to start this week, but remain in the 6% range. The next big economic indicator comes Thursday with the release of the monthly consumer price index. If it is higher than expected, signaling there is more to do to curb inflation, mortgage rates could move up even more. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/10/mortgage-demand-jumps-nearly-10percent-to-start-the-year-even-as-interest-rates-tick-up-again.html
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Jan 10, 2024 15:42
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Xaris posted:the ideal economy is one which capital in fictitious and infinite form creates more capital, the ultimate paperclip The fun part is that the Ukraine war is revealing that neoliberal rot has destroyed Capital's ability to wage a sustained war and the "nuclear" sanctions the West leveled at Russia have largely backfired. The West is fundamentally unable to enforce hegemony when challenged, and it's only a matter of time before someone (China) starts seriously pressing the advantage.
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Jan 10, 2024 15:50
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https://twitter.com/WhatLayoff/status/1745096436310528028 https://twitter.com/theITW/status/1745083519527686441
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Jan 10, 2024 15:53
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Amazon sucks.
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Jan 10, 2024 15:55
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shrike82 posted:yeah it's still quite amazing how well the US has done compared to every other country over the past couple decades no dude that’s about 13 people you know who did that not a generation
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Jan 10, 2024 15:58
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i am harry posted:no dude that’s about 13 people you know who did that not a generation His "six figures are where people start nowadays" gimmick gives him away, the median personal income in this country is $44,255 per the Census 2021 ACS
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Jan 10, 2024 16:04
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https://www.post-gazette.com/business/tech-news/2024/01/10/shapiro-government-openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-cmu/stories/202401100064quote:
this guy was the alternative to the open nazi candidate
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Jan 10, 2024 16:07
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I'm not surprised at all to see state governments be the first to use lovely AI to degrade services and shrink payrolls.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:13
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:His "six figures are where people start nowadays" gimmick gives him away, the median personal income in this country is $44,255 per the Census 2021 ACS National statistics are meaningless, especially median. Is income even normally distributed anymore? I'd bet that in the big cities where high paying jobs are still concentrated there's a bimodal distribution where a big chunk of people are getting paid jack poo poo but also there are a ton of people getting paid $150k+, but not many in between.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:15
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There's like 6 different USAs at least and it's increasingly pointless to lump them all together.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:16
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Twerk from Home posted:National statistics are meaningless, especially median. Is income even normally distributed anymore? I'd bet that in the big cities where high paying jobs are still concentrated there's a bimodal distribution where a big chunk of people are getting paid jack poo poo but also there are a ton of people getting paid $150k+, but not many in between. yeah that’s what’s happening but the people who aren’t getting paid 6 figures are literally invisible to shrike and the American government.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:16
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Twerk from Home posted:National statistics are meaningless, especially median. Is income even normally distributed anymore? I'd bet that in the big cities where high paying jobs are still concentrated there's a bimodal distribution where a big chunk of people are getting paid jack poo poo but also there are a ton of people getting paid $150k+, but not many in between. Per the 2021 ACS average personal income is $63,214 vs. the median $44,225 which would be a part of accounting for that skew, but America is a big country with a lot of people in it and the great majority of them are making way less than six figures. https://data.census.gov/table/ACSST5Y2021.S1901?g=010XX00US$0400000&tid=ACSST5Y2021.S1901
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Jan 10, 2024 16:21
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Average cost of ownership in total for a car in 2023 was around $10,200 for a used one, $12,500 for a new one. I'm hooting and hollering at $5630 for transportation I'm the $17,000 of completely unaccounted for "shopping", and using the (legitimate for many people) excuse of "it's hard to find time to cool" when they have a full time live in housekeeper Lol .
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Jan 10, 2024 16:24
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i am harry posted:yeah that’s what’s happening but the people who aren’t getting paid 6 figures are literally invisible to shrike and the American government. shrike was never very good with statistics.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:26
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Doomsday Economics: 1989 (Taylor's Version)
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Jan 10, 2024 16:27
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Twerk from Home posted:National statistics are meaningless, especially median. Is income even normally distributed anymore? I'd bet that in the big cities where high paying jobs are still concentrated there's a bimodal distribution where a big chunk of people are getting paid jack poo poo but also there are a ton of people getting paid $150k+, but not many in between. It's not really meaningless, though. The median is still telling you that the bulk of the population is making absolutely nowhere near that much money, and the average being only moderately higher really reinforces that. The fact that there are certain areas where the income distribution looks drastically different from the national income distribution isn't really all that interesting.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:30
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why did airlines keep buying these stupid planes even after the accidents are there not other planes they could have bought? i don't understand planes
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Jan 10, 2024 16:30
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Zokari posted:why did airlines keep buying these stupid planes even after the accidents Their business is issuing credit cards and gaming rewards programs, the part where they load people into airplanes and make them fly routes is a side hustle.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:34
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RadiRoot posted:bitcoin will crash big this year, it has to already down 6% this morning, but not enough.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:35
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Zokari posted:why did airlines keep buying these stupid planes even after the accidents there are three airliner manufacturers: ABC - Airbus, Boeing, or China's Comac I think it should be obvious why an American airline would go for Boeing despite the bad planes
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Jan 10, 2024 16:36
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Zokari posted:why did airlines keep buying these stupid planes even after the accidents everything is being run by the failsons of failsons who have completely lost the plot
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Jan 10, 2024 16:36
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all the comments are blaming dei. nothing about corporate greed. jfc
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Jan 10, 2024 16:37
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-banks-mileage-programs/675374/quote:Airlines Are Just Banks Now
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Jan 10, 2024 16:38
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Oil has to get up to like $120+ for a real Bitcoin crash. Also, making $100,000k in New York in 2024 comes out to about 35k in other parts of the country; it is basically like talking about the average income of Europeans and then talking about how someone in Luxemburg and rural Greece are basically living the same lives. You pretty much have to go metro area by metro area at this point. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 16:42 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jan 10, 2024 16:39
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This was due to woke hirings
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Jan 10, 2024 16:40
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“this is because of the blecks”-elon musk thought
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Jan 10, 2024 16:41
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-banks-mileage-programs/675374/ lol
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Jan 10, 2024 16:48
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Twerk from Home posted:There's like 6 different USAs at least and it's increasingly pointless to lump them all together.  Last time this came up, midwesterners disagreed that they share a culture with the Yankees, despite those areas being settled by New Englanders who went through the Hudson Valley.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:54
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Frosted Flake posted:
lol I never noticed before that it split the Alaska panhandle from the rest of Alaska
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Jan 10, 2024 16:58
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Frosted Flake posted:
Clearly nothing happened in between now and when they were settled to make these distinct areas
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Jan 10, 2024 16:58
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Zokari posted:why did airlines keep buying these stupid planes even after the accidents
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Jan 10, 2024 17:00
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Wolfy posted:There literally are no other planes. The A320 family, the 737s competitor, has a production backlog of like 6000 planes. Embraer makes a plane that flies the same sort of routes the 737 does though? Last time I flew to Florida it was on one of those. e: looks like Embraer doesn't go above 150 seats
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Jan 10, 2024 17:01
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Embraer makes a plane that flies the same sort of routes the 737 does though? Last time I flew to Florida it was on one of those. In the US those planes are limited by the "scope clause" so we aren't allowed to actually fill them up with their capacity of passengers, but in exchange the pilot's union allows the pilots who fly those planes to be paid 1/4 as much: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_clause
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Jan 10, 2024 17:02
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I don't know if the Chinese manufacturer is ready for prime-time yet, but you can bet the first American airline that even thinks about buying Chinese planes is going to have Washington all up in their poo poo in a split second.
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