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Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

It's pretty funny that nuclear boats and ships have 10+ year refueling intervals but we can't use this incredible technology domestically anymore

Humans are really bad at evaluating statistical risk and it's loving us over and over again.

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Skaffen-Amtiskaw
Jun 24, 2023

Paradoxish posted:

Humans are really bad at evaluating statistical risk and it's loving us over and over again.

Not me. I know my risk of dying in life is almost 100%.

Mola Yam
Jun 18, 2004

Kali Ma Shakti de!
folks at the top have been told that things are wrapping up soon, and no, there's not really anything (politically viable) to be done about it

so the next couple years are just going to be the Premium Consumer version of strip-looting the supermarkets, before things get untenable for the masses

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

Mola Yam posted:

no, there's not really anything (politically viable) to be done about it

the scary thing is, the plutocrats actually believe this. the latest Death Is Just Around the Corner episode had a good talk about it imo

blue squares
Sep 28, 2007

right before the Great Depression the stock market was at all time highs with technology stocks leading the way

Mola Yam
Jun 18, 2004

Kali Ma Shakti de!

Xaris posted:

the scary thing is, the plutocrats actually believe this. the latest Death Is Just Around the Corner episode had a good talk about it imo

thanks tried listening but unfortunately this appears to be from the "single host reads what should have been a blog post with an insanely wet mouth" genre of podcasts

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Xaris posted:

the scary thing is, the plutocrats actually believe this. the latest Death Is Just Around the Corner episode had a good talk about it imo

The most fun part about this post is that the podcast asks me to buy a premium tier download

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

blue squares posted:

right before the Great Depression the stock market was at all time highs with technology stocks leading the way

Can't have another Great Depression if you freeze the stock market at a peak like Nazi Germany! *taps head*

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


blue squares posted:

right before the Great Depression the stock market was at all time highs with technology stocks leading the way

We hadn't trashed the planet yet in 1929

Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

Xaris posted:

it's right there in the title, clean natural gas. it's natural, organic, gmo-free.

gas marketing guy: theyre freaking out about microplastics right? lets get ahead of this thing. with clean burning natural gas, we put NO micro, macro, or nanoplastic into the environment. its good for you. breath deeply.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


anonumos posted:

Chatgpt has probably created more copy in the last year than legitimate reporters have created in the last decade. Said copy is now being fed into the indexes and hash databases of the entire internet, marked as user generated, not robot created. This is tainting robot created data every where. It's filling terabytes of storage for every item. If you understand how the internet really works, this is beyond troubling. All the metadata that helps us navigate the internet is tainted. It's impossible to trace the origin of all the bad metadata. It's hard to tell good, solid metadata from the top-to-bottom-machine-generated metadata. It's getting worse, rapidly.

[Steve Brule] the internet couldn't hack it

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things

the popes toes posted:

US appeals court curtails EPA's ability to regulate PFAS under toxic substances law

A federal appeals court has vacated two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency orders prohibiting a Texas plastics treatment company from manufacturing toxic “forever chemicals”

Wonder who appointed the judges involved who decided they know better than the EPA

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


silicone thrills posted:

Wonder who appointed the judges involved who decided they know better than the EPA

Senator Carper voted for the Chief Judge in the trial, Priscilla Richman, in 2005. :) So did Clinton and Obama. But Biden didn't somehow.

Judge James E. Graves Jr., who also was on that three judge panel, was confirmed by voice vote after Obama nominated him. Judge Wilson, quoted in the article, somehow didn't get any Democrat votes in his confirmation hearing.

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Nichael posted:

Senator Carper voted for the Chief Judge in the trial, Priscilla Richman, in 2005. :) So did Clinton and Obama. But Biden didn't somehow.

Judge James E. Graves Jr., who also was on that three judge panel, was confirmed by voice vote after Obama nominated him. Judge Wilson, quoted in the article, somehow didn't get any Democrat votes in his confirmation hearing.

Biden was probably home with shingles or some other old man disease

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

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The most fun part about this post is that the podcast asks me to buy a premium tier download

oh i was just rehosting it from patreon, i dunno whats a better mp3 host i just selected the first option. thats on me

the popes toes
Oct 10, 2004

Look. You can't just march in there and capriciously stop a company from dumping toxic chemicals into rivers. They could go bankrupt. Trust the process.

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

the popes toes posted:

Look. You can't just march in there and capriciously stop a company from dumping toxic chemicals into rivers. They could go bankrupt. Trust the process.
technology will fix it anyways if things get really bad anyways.

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
speaking of energy.. BULL OIL MARKET 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

quote:

Oil executives talk down rapid shift to green energy as profits boom
Fossil fuel companies sound emboldened at Houston gathering despite new warnings over climate change

Big Oil used an industry conference this week to argue against a rapid transition to green energy, as fossil fuel companies are emboldened by high demand and record profits despite rising alarm over climate change.

Executives attending the annual CERAWeek get-together in Houston expressed confidence that fossil fuel consumption would continue growing, just months after world leaders at the COP28 climate summit pledged to begin “transitioning away from fossil fuels” and triple the use of renewables by 2030.

“The environment right now is very positive for the oil and gas industry,” Alan Armstrong, chief executive of Williams, the biggest US gas pipeline company, told the Financial Times.

“Roll the clock back four or five years ago, they were like: ‘Oh, it’s all going to be renewables and batteries’ — and now they’re saying: ‘Wow, wow, this is going to be way too expensive.’”

The bullish comments at the event — which boasted a record attendance of more than 8,000 delegates — came against a backdrop of record temperature rises and growing scientific concern over the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions to tackle climate change.

Liam Mallon, head of ExxonMobil’s upstream business, said that the “brutal reality” was that the world was “not yet at a point where the big customers are willing to pay for the cost of this new energy and the consumers probably don’t really know the cost of it”.

“Until such time as there is a market-based economy and everyone understands the cost of it, consumers are paying more than they need to be paying for energy — simple, it’s not that complicated,” he said. “You can argue green all day and NGOs all day, but those are the facts. I think that message is beginning to resonate.”

Industry heavyweight Shell last week weakened its target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. BP, which dialled back its own climate targets last year, touted the potential to grow its oil and gas operations in the US’s Permian Basin at the conference.

US oil and gas production have smashed fresh records in recent months and the country now pumps more than any other nation in history. Meanwhile, surging prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have propelled producers across the world to report record profits in the past two years.

“We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas and, instead, invest in them adequately reflecting realistic demand assumptions,” Amin Nasser, chief executive of Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer, told delegates to the conference this week.

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

blue squares posted:

right before the Great Depression the stock market was at all time highs with technology stocks leading the way

20th century: tragedy, 21st century: farce

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
the new shoeshine boy moment is everyonne going balls deep on nvidia - literally cannot lose it's impossible

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Strep Vote posted:

20th century: tragedy, 21st century: farce

anonumos
Jul 14, 2005

Fuck it.

Xaris posted:

speaking of energy.. BULL OIL MARKET 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

BURN BABY BURN

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

Mola Yam posted:

lol it's absolutely so they can revoke pass access to the buildings

i heard about a pre-covid version of this, where there was a fire drill and everyone went to stand out in the carpark, and then they announced that if you still had a job your pass would let you back into the building



Engorged Pedipalps posted:

Building access and access to company data

If they send you home to work remote they can remote wipe your device or lock out your computer and VPN access, without worrying about you getting wind of the layoffs in advance and offloading everything you have onto thumb drives or your personal email

It's also easier to stop you from comparing notes about why you got laid off, what severance packages you were offered if any, and to keep you from getting other coworkers to forward you your data, your contacts, etc.

A very good piece of advice to those working in corporate: keep a personal Google drive and docs account, keep your contacts, your personal notes, and copies of anything you feel you have a proprietary claim to in these places. You can lose access to your work account before you even know you're getting fired, and only universities and public institutions are likely to let you have a copy of your files on the way out


so you guys just work for scam companies i see :v:


some of the poo poo I've read here is just... were you guys just tricked into some Crypto Scam shell company or something?:wtc:

I R SMART LIKE ROCK
Mar 10, 2003

I just want a hug.

Fun Shoe

BornAPoorBlkChild posted:

so you guys just work for scam companies i see :v:


some of the poo poo I've read here is just... were you guys just tricked into some Crypto Scam shell company or something?:wtc:

I've worked for Fortune 500 companies that do this. sorry but this isn't unique to trash tier companies

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?
If you work in an industry where that kind of behavior isn't commonplace then you actually just work in an industry where that kind of behavior isn't commonplace yet.

It's also not new. Everyone gets the day off and some people don't come back the next day was extremely common in 2007-2008.

edit- my dad got laid off from a machinist position in the 90s in a very similar way, too

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

Google installed giant spring loaded catapults under everybody's chair for the same reason

palindrome
Feb 3, 2020

You get called into a meeting on friday afternoon. they tell you you've been let go, you get escorted directly from the room out to the parking lot by a security guard. You can visit the next week and collect a cardboard box with the personal property you left at your desk. hopefully.

working remotely just makes this process much easier I suppose. I did once work with a guy who refused to return his cheapo work laptop after being fired though. I think he probably ended up keeping it, he started sending unhinged emails about challenging him in the boxing ring to redeem his name, etc. lol

palindrome has issued a correction as of 11:21 on Mar 24, 2024

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things
I worked for a nearly 100 year old company that did the separate people into different conference rooms and then did a wide call of "if you are in conf room x and y leave you laptop in the room then leave and everyone else still has a job on monday"

I went through a layoff every 6 months between 2018 and 2022. They did it differently almost every time. The worst was "were going to have a layoff in 2 weeks so uh ruminate on that" and everyone was stir crazy by the end and when i rolled up to the office that day there was tons of puke in the parkinglot and seagulls feasting.

In 2008 i just got my hours cut which forced me to quit. Because fedex was full of assholes who didnt want people filing for unemployment.

palindrome
Feb 3, 2020

hours cut is rough, I imagine one needs to be 100% not working to receive the unemployment benefit

palindrome has issued a correction as of 14:01 on Mar 24, 2024

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

Mola Yam posted:

thanks tried listening but unfortunately this appears to be from the "single host reads what should have been a blog post with an insanely wet mouth" genre of podcasts

Thanks for the write up. That's extremely my poo poo

Actuary X
Jul 20, 2007

Not really the best actuary in the world.

Paradoxish posted:

Humans are really bad at evaluating statistical risk and it's loving us over and over again.

Having worked for insurance companies for many years, can absolutely loving confirm this.

Skaffen-Amtiskaw
Jun 24, 2023

Gonna get into a beachside timeshare in Miami funded by my crypto and Apple stock. Who’s with me?

Nodelphi
Jan 30, 2004

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

Ham Wrangler

anonumos posted:

Chatgpt has probably created more copy in the last year than legitimate reporters have created in the last decade. Said copy is now being fed into the indexes and hash databases of the entire internet, marked as user generated, not robot created. This is tainting robot created data every where. It's filling terabytes of storage for every item. If you understand how the internet really works, this is beyond troubling. All the metadata that helps us navigate the internet is tainted. It's impossible to trace the origin of all the bad metadata. It's hard to tell good, solid metadata from the top-to-bottom-machine-generated metadata. It's getting worse, rapidly.

It’s like waaaaay back in the day when errors were caught in encyclopedias and it was like the facts of the world suddenly shifted.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


(They recommend having a separate bank account for “entertainment” (gambling) and only gambling the money in that account)

Rectal Death Alert
Apr 2, 2021

"Experts say you really can quit any time you want so it's okay to do it a little bit just this once"

Nodelphi
Jan 30, 2004

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

Ham Wrangler

Rectal Death Alert posted:

"Experts say you really can quit any time you want so it's okay to do it a little bit just this once"

It’s like the guys in the early 2000’s who used to guest lecture in medical schools about “proper pain management” which boiled down to give as many as you need, if it’s legitimate pain, a patient can’t get addicted!

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa



Lol I thought that was a popup menu to bet directly on the tv

Orvin
Sep 9, 2006




Have they integrated any sort of loan service inside the gambling apps yet? Things are pretty bad, but that will be when things get especially horrific, when you can auto apply for a payday loan inside the gambling app to get the crazy parlay set up in time.

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


AARD VARKMAN posted:

Lol I thought that was a popup menu to bet directly on the tv

Fubo already has a multi game view so you can track all your bets, a partnership with a sportsbook and integrated betting is absolutely the next step

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