Karl Barks posted:

tech bubble is real but i think it's really centered in silicon valley. ie. if the bubble bursts it's mostly going to affect north california

Former Everything posted:

hey guys a high school friend shared this post on facebook from renowned economic expert timothy clemmons

here's some handy advice for you to survive the upcoming apocolypse:


sounds like the impending economic disaster is due to obummercare destroying all are jobs and are economy and also because trump can't work his magic deals

just some tips and now ive done my job and its not my fault if you dont sink all ur money into gold and bitcoins to survive the disaster

Agean90 posted:

not everyone wants to live in a state that has one kinda nice maybe city and the rest of it is filled with white supremacists.

Kromlech posted:

The postal service? Are people mailing bit corns now? God I'm old.

zeal posted:

if the tests only gauged whether someone's smoked in the last day, instead of the last 2 weeks+, this would be a whole different conversation

Lindsey O. Graham posted:

they normally don't use those for employment

the piss test is the standard

Over Easy posted:

As long as no robot takes the job of being a rich rear end, the market will correct for any eventuality.

Main Paineframe posted:

we haven't even automated away all the train drivers yet, why the gently caress does anyone think we're gonna automate away truck drivers?

anime was right posted:

call to action posted:

I don't know about y'all but I got the gently caress out of stocks in my IRA and 401(k) two months or so ago and I'm ready to buy at the bottom

Digiwizzard posted:

What on earth would the point be? The rich only exist in relation to the economy that provides them with structural power. That economy doesen't exist without the enormous populations and resource consumption that allows it to function at this scale. They could spend our last energy resources committing massive genocide, and then live the rest of their days scrambling in an abject poverty on a ruined planet. Hooray?

Stairmaster posted:

That might actually cause the sun to explode. There's a paper on this and the summary of it is that even though the suns like thousands of degrees most of it is still colder than a nuclear explosion so that's why all the hydrogen isn't immediately used up in the fusion process. However if you were to set off a nuke within the sun that could spark a chain reaction.

Stairmaster posted:

http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=34277

call to action posted:

so you're just gonna take my house from me? hmmm... no.

Agronox posted:

seems legit

http://www.youxiamotors.com/english.php/Youxiax/index.html

quote:

Talking to a car is an imagination in the 1982 American drama Knight Rider X, but now, we can turn it into a fact. With our YOUXIA X motor, you are possible to give order to the car in various sentence structures to display your favorite music, send messages, make a phone call, control the air conditioner, etc. What’s more intelligent is that, it is capable of talking to you initially, for example, in case you forget to turn on the headlights it will remind you. So it is truly a motor able to talk or a friend for you！

Tiberius Christ posted:

Is there really so little to invest in that companies are buying back their own stock and investing in bitcoin sending the prices skyrocketing?

Rhesus Pieces posted:

https://twitter.com/business/status/923896028721504256

totally not bubble behavior

Shear Modulus posted:

he's actually very good at the most important thing of running a business which is to wring a lot of work out of your employees and pay them far below the value they create

Jose posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/16/oil-and-gas-shares-dip-as-norways-central-bank-advises-oslo-to-divest

logikv9 posted:

i think the whole point of the buttcoin alternatives is to make custom hardware mining infeasible

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Some adjuncts sleep in their cars. One woman talked to the Guardian newspaper about turning to prostitution. In 2013, the story of one adjunct’s lonely death went viral.

Margaret Mary Vojtko, 83, was found unconscious on her front lawn after a cardiac arrest. She had been let go after teaching French at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, making $25,000 in busy years and less than $10,000 when the school reduced her load. She was buried in medical bills for cancer radiation treatment. Her furnace was broken. When she died, she lay in a cardboard casket.

A union representative told the story in a newspaper column. Even as the school’s leader called the account "sadly exploitative" and detailed Duquesne’s efforts to help Vojtko, adjuncts nationwide shared the hashtag #IAmMargaretMary.

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Mare Conklin, who made $22,000 last year teaching English and tutoring, has embraced the union effort "for the people I have known whose lives deteriorated horribly and rapidly because of their adjunct status."

"I see friends with credit cards maxed out, on food stamps," she said. "They are living like homeless people, practically, with professional degrees, working as professionals."

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Tara Blackwell didn’t plan on making adjuncting a career, but "life gets in the way sometimes."

Blackwell’s kidneys failed two years ago. She gets dialysis between online biology classes and said landing a full-time job feels impossible.

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As a symbol of the weary adjunct, Robert Ryan has become larger than life.

He came to USF as a freshman in the early 1970s, a sensitive English major with a quick and charming brilliance. He shunned parties, preferring books. He suffered no fools.

"There was a shield between him and the world," said Benyo, his friend. "I think the world pained him too much to allow many people in."

Eventually Ryan became an adjunct and even more of a recluse. He refused dinner invitations to grade papers. His cluttered apartment became a hoarder’s fortress of student essays, bags of M&Ms, literature anthologies.

"I’m absolutely certain the students under his tutelage never knew what great care or time or patience he took with their work," Benyo said. "Everything he could be critical of to raise their abilities, he did, on hundreds of hundreds of thousands of papers."

Ryan slept on a water bed. When it leaked, he slept on a pile of coats. This was his trademark stubbornness, which translated to his health. Insurance or not, he wasn’t the type to get a check-up, even when his shoulder began to hurt.

Then there was a lump.

Renal cell cancer ate him alive. Tumors grew on his jaw and head. He could grade just two papers before needing to lie down, but he kept trying.

"Bob was an English professor first and foremost, and to give that up would have been an affront to his entire character," Benyo said. "And he needed the money."

His stepsister, Kathryn Ryan, said he couldn’t help but work until the very end.

(...)

He had kept driving to the University of South Florida even as he lost the use of his left arm. He had kept teaching English, even as tumors ravaged his mouth so that he could hardly speak.

He was a military kid, after all, accustomed to duty. But he was also an adjunct professor, making a meager living by patchworking part-time classes, and he needed the money.

He left a note in the windowless cinder block room he shared with two other adjuncts: "Both bookshelves are yours."

As he walked to the parking lot with his best friend, Ryan had to lean on something every few steps, tears rolling down his face.

Since his death in June at age 62, Robert Ryan has become something like a martyr to a group of USF adjuncts battling the administration for the chance to unionize.

Even those who haven’t met him tell the story of a dutiful man worn down by the indignities of this uncertain life, who served USF for 20 years without employer-sponsored health insurance, without job security, making a few thousand dollars per course.

Before he died, Ryan had signed a card endorsing the union effort. Now some adjuncts plan to frame it.

An Apple A Gay posted:

dead mall vids on youtube next bubble

Main Paineframe posted:

c) collapse of the American Empire, as decay and corruption paralyze the government and cripple our domestic and foreign policy to the point where we become a has-been power like England or the Ottomans

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a) total fascism, genocide of non-whites, decline into a corporate-run cyberpunk Nazi hellscape. possibly a military coup