Justin Tyme posted:

Whining about unfair competitive advantages re: critical climate change related technology

Retromancer posted:

Multiple people at my job this year have "retired" and then died a week later.

Willa Rogers posted:

mawarannahr posted:

lol at buying a watch from a goon

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1773022944324620784?t=q7A3rVaTXeEL5b_aFmgBhg&s=19

Ammanas posted:

i mean I doubt thats true but its very common for men to retire and die soon after, its an interesting correlation between losing purpose and meaning (insanely sad), lacking structure to prevent turning into an unmoving potato/indulging in bad habits and retiring only when they're literally unable to keep working.

ex post facho posted:

poop island: still pooping in the rivers
https://twitter.com/NicholasPegg/status/1772918533011214368

euphronius posted:

social security retirement age is 67 for non boomers

social security could easily be fixed by removing the cap on the wage tax or you know just funding it generally

anyone who does anything remotely physical for work is wrecked by their 50s and can barely move in their 60s. fink wouldn’t know this

Ammanas posted:

i mean I doubt thats true but its very common for men to retire and die soon after, its an interesting correlation between losing purpose and meaning (insanely sad), lacking structure to prevent turning into an unmoving potato/indulging in bad habits and retiring only when they're literally unable to keep working.

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1773022944324620784?t=q7A3rVaTXeEL5b_aFmgBhg&s=19

euphronius posted:

can you imagine a more evil statement ?

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1773022944324620784?t=q7A3rVaTXeEL5b_aFmgBhg&s=19

loquacius posted:

GOOGL and GOOG being separate entities sure does seem like shady backroom poo poo intended to avoid taxes and/or antitrust action

They even have the same logo

SKULL.GIF posted:

Quite literally "use it or lose it" is how our bodies work.

mawarannahr posted:

lol at buying a watch from a goon

Engorged Pedipalps posted:

That's exactly it, Verizon is (was?) split in the same way. Because they're legally distinct entities they're barred from cooperating in some very specific ways but it's generally possible to end run all of that poo poo by paying enough intermediaries. American capitalism working as intended.

Ammanas posted:

i mean I doubt thats true but its very common for men to retire and die soon after, its an interesting correlation between losing purpose and meaning (insanely sad), lacking structure to prevent turning into an unmoving potato/indulging in bad habits and retiring only when they're literally unable to keep working.

kreeningsons posted:

the one thread in YLLS that didn’t miss a beat after Covid hit was the watch thread. the fashion threads are still pretty much dead compared to what they used to be. but the watch thread is still teeming with people that post about buying multiple watches costing multiple thousands of dollars each per year.

FizFashizzle posted:

Feels like targets goal is to become if not primarily than substantially pickup only.

Browse the app, set a pickup time, drive your bro-dozer through the lane and a red shirted wage slave puts your order in the truck bed.

Tipping not required but appreciated!

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Verizon definitely used to (maybe still does?) split the wireless business from the rest and hold it as a private company. I believe Vodafone also used to own half the wireless entity

Exodus1984 posted:

Maybe, seems more like they've decided to focus on it as a way to stand out. I don't mind doing Target pickup orders on the way home from work. That said, would be wonderful if they trained their people to not bring me rotting potatoes/onions and horrible looking produce.

post hole digger posted:

everyone who committed ppp loan fraud was smarter and more clear-sighted than me. what a fool i was

Retromancer posted:

I kick myself weekly for not having a random LLC that I could have used to get free money from the government.

post hole digger posted:

everyone who committed ppp loan fraud was smarter and more clear-sighted than me. what a fool i was

Popoto posted:

meanwhile they're making sure in canada that anyone that mistakenly took CERB is now on the hook for paying all of it back. its very important you see to make sure that the people that had no money and panic applied now owe even more. it is sound fiscal policy!

Popoto posted:

never stop cumming

Gorson posted:

Hobbies used to keep people going. Anyone remember those? It's what we did before smartphones.

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1773022944324620784?t=q7A3rVaTXeEL5b_aFmgBhg&s=19

fortune.com posted:

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling out China’s ramped-up production in solar energy, electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries, calling it unfair competition that “distorts global prices” and “hurts American firms and workers, as well as firms and workers around the world.”

Yellen, who is planning her second trip to China as Treasury secretary, says in remarks prepared for delivery Wednesday in Georgia that she will convey her belief that Beijing’s increased production of green energy also poses risks “to productivity and growth in the Chinese economy.”

“I will press my Chinese counterparts to take necessary steps to address this issue.”

China is the dominant player in batteries for electric vehicles and has a rapidly expanding auto industry that could challenge the world’s established carmakers as it goes global. The International Energy Agency, a Paris-based intergovernmental group, notes that in 2023 China accounted for around 60% of global electric car sales.

Yellen’s remarks are to be delivered Wednesday afternoon at Suniva — a solar cell manufacturing facility in Norcross, Ga. The plant closed in 2017 in large part due to cheap imports flooding the market, according to Treasury. It is reopening, in part, because of incentives provided by the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act, which provides tax incentives for green energy manufacturing.

The firm’s history is something of a warning on the impact of oversaturation of markets by Chinese products — and a marker of the state of U.S.-China economic relations, which are strained due to investment prohibitions and espionage concerns, among other issues.

China on Tuesday filed a World Trade Organization complaint against the U.S. over what it says are discriminatory requirements for electric vehicle subsidies. The Chinese Commerce Ministry didn’t say what prompted the move.

The European Union, also concerned about the potential threat to its auto industry, launched its own investigation into Chinese subsides for electric vehicles last year.

“In the past, in industries like steel and aluminum, Chinese government support led to substantial overinvestment and excess capacity that Chinese firms looked to export abroad at depressed prices,” Yellen said. “This maintained production and employment in China but forced industry in the rest of the world to contract.”

“These are concerns that I increasingly hear from government counterparts in industrialized countries and emerging markets, as well as from the business community globally,” she said.

The tone of Yellen’s speech stands in contrast to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who met with American business leaders in Beijing Wednesday and called for closer trade ties with the U.S. amid a steady improvement in relations that had sunk to the lowest level in years.

Xi emphasized Wednesday the mutually beneficial economic ties between the world’s two largest economies, despite heavy U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports and Washington’s accusations of undue Communist Party influence, unfair trade barriers and theft of intellectual property.

Exodus1984 posted:

That said, would be wonderful if they trained their people to not bring me rotting potatoes/onions and horrible looking produce.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

i think they're actually clawing back some of the PPP loans here via the massive IRS hirings they did, but it's gotta be for like the dumbest of the dumb. Nobody who REALLY ripped off the government, those loans have already been forgiven lol

Ammanas posted:

i mean I doubt thats true but its very common for men to retire and die soon after, its an interesting correlation between losing purpose and meaning (insanely sad), lacking structure to prevent turning into an unmoving potato/indulging in bad habits and retiring only when they're literally unable to keep working.

sullat posted:

The IRA wasn't involved in the PPP loan process.

Gorson posted:

Hobbies used to keep people going. Anyone remember those? It's what we did before smartphones.