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Akratic Method: Mar 9, 2013; It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

011224_5 posted:

[Doomsday Economics] a daily, $50, 75 minute login, Mass Casualty

I guess you'd be the one to know about $50 a day in logins. Although it doesn't seem like you ever manage to get 75 minutes of posting out of the deal.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 02:40

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# ? May 26, 2024 08:26

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

loquacius posted:

Bummed I missed daycare costs chat. People are always shocked when they hear how much daycare costs.

The baseline appears to be "how much would you make from being able to work because your kid is in daycare? Ok that's how much it costs." It is unsustainable and ridiculous in an economy where you need two incomes to sustain a household

remember when they were promising universal pre-k

# ? Jan 13, 2024 02:42

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

loquacius posted:

Bummed I missed daycare costs chat. People are always shocked when they hear how much daycare costs.

The baseline appears to be "how much would you make from being able to work because your kid is in daycare? Ok that's how much it costs." It is unsustainable and ridiculous in an economy where you need two incomes to sustain a household

Keep it going, it's better than tipping chat.

People have told me (people are saying it!) they pay 1800 a month per kid per month. That's more than my entire rent...in Los Angeles.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 02:50

Vox Nihili: May 28, 2008; Can't post for 5 hours!

We're going to be paying ~$1,650/month for infant (think 10-18 months old) daycare.

Most nearby places are much more expensive, have waitlists, or both. I plunked down the sign-up fee in cash when I found out there was an opening at a smaller, local place that isn't "in-home."

# ? Jan 13, 2024 02:56

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

That's still higher than my L.A rent lmao.

I wonder if you have to get on waiting lists for daycares before the kid is even born. Like, how do you put a name down when the kid doesn't even have a name yet?

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:03

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

skooma512 posted:

That's still higher than my L.A rent lmao.

I wonder if you have to get on waiting lists for daycares before the kid is even born. Like, how do you put a name down when the kid doesn't even have a name yet?

Baby Boy Lastname

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:04

Mustached Demon: Nov 12, 2016

i am harry posted:

can anyone name a single country other than USA where it doesn’t go like this

___
country’s revenue service: “how much did your employee make this year?”
employer: “this much”
revenue service: “and let’s see the data on how you withheld money from their paycheck to cover taxes.”
employer: “here it is”
the end
_____

yeah but turbotax needs to rake in billions

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:10

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

skooma512 posted:

That's still higher than my L.A rent lmao.

I wonder if you have to get on waiting lists for daycares before the kid is even born. Like, how do you put a name down when the kid doesn't even have a name yet?

Yes, you do. It is mostly for legacy parents who have an older sibling in the older program. The second time I heard it I dead stopped the facility tour and said out "That's hosed that I gotta pray that some bitch has to have a miscarriage for my daughter to get an infant slot here. Goodbye, take our number off your list."

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:18

Benagain: Oct 10, 2007; Can you see that I am serious?; Fun Shoe

skooma512 posted:

That's still higher than my L.A rent lmao.

I wonder if you have to get on waiting lists for daycares before the kid is even born. Like, how do you put a name down when the kid doesn't even have a name yet?

i mean, yeah. We held a slot for our kid., bout six months before she was born. They put it down as "so and so couple's kid"

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:23

Twerk from Home: Jan 17, 2009; This avatar brought to you by the 'save our dead gay forums' foundation.

skooma512 posted:

That's still higher than my L.A rent lmao.

I wonder if you have to get on waiting lists for daycares before the kid is even born. Like, how do you put a name down when the kid doesn't even have a name yet?

My experience has been that center based childcare costs more than rent no matter where you are. Since having kids we've spent more on childcare than housing both in Houston and Nashville, and so does anyone else we know with kids who we know well enough to talk to about that.

If a childcare place has an insane wait-list it's because they are both decent and around or under market rate.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:29

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Y MILLENIAAL NO BABBY

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:30

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

yeah what's causing prices to go crazy, i thought nobody could afford kids

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:31

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

i say swears online posted:

yeah what's causing prices to go crazy, i thought nobody could afford kids

No one can afford kids, so people with money are paying up for daycare, which means care centers are charging more until the people who actually have money are hitting their limits.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:42

Palladium: May 8, 2012; Very Good
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surely free markets of individual rationality will solve this mess

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:43

Complications: Jun 19, 2014

Mustached Demon posted:

yeah but turbotax needs to rake in billions

this is blatant h&r block erasure and I won't stand for it

the green square should also burn

# ? Jan 13, 2024 03:46

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

lmao i just got a notice of data breach from 23andme

i love the future

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:04

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lmao i just got a notice of data breach from 23andme

i love the future

your clone is already the size of a small dog

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:07

Spaced God: Feb 8, 2014; All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1745873328894869933?s=20

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:09

Palladium: May 8, 2012; Very Good
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wait is that a grand for the filmiest chair imaginable

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:11

FirstnameLastname: Jul 10, 2022

Palladium posted:

wait is that a grand for the filmiest chair imaginable

thousand pack but they're the size of playing cards

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:13

Taima: Dec 31, 2006; tfw you're peeing next to someone in the lineup and they don't know

Palladium posted:

wait is that a grand for the filmiest chair imaginable

some of this kinda stuff is about doing cagey transactions. buy something shady and then get told �buy this listing�.

I get up to some shady poo poo myself so I would know. One time I got told to go to this weird website and buy hundreds of packs of business cards which let us do a credit card transaction for a completely different, illegal other thing. :shrug:

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:42

spacetoaster: Feb 10, 2014

Sydin posted:

Firewood number through the roof!

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:50

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lmao i just got a notice of data breach from 23andme

i love the future

pretty sure they've already had like 2 or 3 widespread breaches already? is this new or just them officially acknowledging it months later?

i never did one of those lovely things and never will.

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:51

Mandel Brotset: Jan 1, 2024

euphronius posted:

I can�t read the whole tweet tho

this is funny on its own as an indicator of enshittification

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:56

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Xaris posted:

pretty sure they've already had like 2 or 3 widespread breaches already? is this new or just them officially acknowledging it months later?

i never did one of those lovely things and never will.

i'd hadn't seen one before from them but i could easily believe it

did it for my grandma, we're trying to track down some extended family on the confederate soldiers' side

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:57

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

i think that since it's called "X" now tweets should be called kisses

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:57

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Xs are hugs and Os are kisses

# ? Jan 13, 2024 04:58

sleep with the vicious: Apr 2, 2010

dk2m posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/12/why-landing-on-the-moon-is-proving-more-difficult-today-than-50-years-ago

turns out that losing institutional knowledge and letting the free market create a bunch of private companies that constantly crash is a bad idea

Elon Musk himself is the modern Apollo Program, except he gets to crash everything and buy lovely apps instead of doing anything

# ? Jan 13, 2024 05:06

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i'd hadn't seen one before from them but i could easily believe it

did it for my grandma, we're trying to track down some extended family on the confederate soldiers' side

yea looks like there was one in october, followed by another one in december. so this is probably them acknowledging the december one. plus like another half dozen or more ones from like 2019-2022

anyways i'd wager the information is probably not that valuable, but who knows

# ? Jan 13, 2024 05:09

LonsomeSon: Nov 22, 2009; A fishperson in an intimidating hat!

Shear Modulus posted:

i think that since it's called "X" now tweets should be called kisses

i fully concur, also gently caress you for having this idea

# ? Jan 13, 2024 05:27

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

Woke Mind Virus posted:

# ? Jan 13, 2024 05:47

OBAMNA PHONE: Aug 7, 2002

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

lmfao

https://x.com/thestalwart/status/1745885128826483100

rawdoggers 4 trump

# ? Jan 13, 2024 06:06

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

Taima posted:

some of this kinda stuff is about doing cagey transactions. buy something shady and then get told �buy this listing�.

I get up to some shady poo poo myself so I would know. One time I got told to go to this weird website and buy hundreds of packs of business cards which let us do a credit card transaction for a completely different, illegal other thing.

buying a tshirt and telling them to donate it (or never make it, idk) as payment for an indexer

# ? Jan 13, 2024 06:09