Nix Panicus posted:

lmao just remembered that extended SNAP benefits ended last week because they just couldn't find the money to keep it going

Yudo posted:

This banking thing seems pretty easy we should all get into it.

Antonymous posted:

how come the page count number is so low I thought number go up

Paradoxish posted:

There was a reason that senators were talking about a bailout within hours of things kicking off. People should honestly be livid at the government response here.

err posted:

The US has a lot of tools to maintain dollar hegemony. Other countries are trying to chip away at us though. They smell blood.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

there is no way that Greece number is accurate

e: or malta

SKULL.GIF posted:

Yeah it's this. Yahoo almost immediately swept the legs out from Tumblr and the userbase fled en masse.

The exact same thing is gonna happen to Reddit when it IPOs.

Father Wendigo posted:

Ooh, that looks like an interesting reaOh God I am not paying $292

anime was right posted:

the best part about all of this is there are no other search engines besides google and bing. if theres a search engine that you think is run by someone else? guess what, its just modified bing or google results

Justin Tyme posted:

Train derailments are totally normal (because the tracks are all 80 years old and warped to poo poo, and no we won't fix them)

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Back during the 2008-2009 mortgage crisis, people were just straight up being foreclosed on and evicted from properties they were current on payments with. There were "document recovery companies" whose entire job was to "recover" (fabricate) documents saying that these homeowners were in default.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/duke20101118a.htm

https://seekingalpha.com/article/228983-foreclosuregate

zetamind2000 posted:

The average sheriff's department having assault rifles and at least one apc puts a damper on things

Grapplejack posted:

to be fair that is a really nice kitchen

I agree though vancouver streamers that own property shouldn't be allowed to complain about money stuff

Orvin posted:

McKinsey is helping my company with a plan to become a utility of the future.

StratGoatCom posted:

Yup, the bubble is near the top - trouble is, I think it's liable to take much of the economy down with it.

Ironically, I think Mistral may be one of the lasting outfits because they're planning a product compliant with the draft european law.

jemand posted:

It's still not a GOOD llm use case.

Mola Yam posted:

it's possible, with how janky this thing is, that they "just" lost comms and successfully surfaced and are bobbing around somewhere in a sealed vat

Nuclear War posted:

They're rich. they'd be able to pilot it through Superior Work Ethic

Brimruk posted:

On a long enough timeline nature is healing and I think that's beautiful

Is it this forum that was posting about the billionaire tech guy that eats 300 supplements a day and boofs his son's blood to stay young forever but still looks like poo poo and will inevitably die?

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

conserving energy is for cucks —— don’t listen to ERCOT!!!

mycomancy posted:

I spent my lunch break looking into how much coal and oil waste is generated and now I'm absolutely 100% convinced anti-nuke power is supported entirely by International Capital. I also haven't gotten legitimately angry in a while and boy howdy did this do it.

mycomancy posted:

The thing is I never knew how much more toxic fossil fuel power is vs. nuclear. I think most people have heard this and think, "oh sure, you make 50% less waste with nukes but it lasts forever," but in reality it's four orders of mother loving magnitude more waste from fossil fuels and the toxic coal and oil waste lasts forever as well, but they don't decay like nuclear waste does.

RadiRoot posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1670967257432834048

china seeing lesser exports. recession imminent!

Morbus posted:

he thought there was 96 hours of air because he left the hatch open for 96 hours before they begin their voyage.

Mr Hootington posted:

The funniest outcome is the sub is found, but only 1 person is alive and it is obvious they murdered each other.

Lacrosse posted:

700 migrants lost their lives recently and nobody gives a drat, but a handful of billionaire dipshits with a death wish go missing and everyone loses their minds

skooma512 posted:

* PAUL-HENRI NARGEOLET. The 77-year-old French explorer, whom media say is one of the five on board, is director of underwater research at a company that owns the rights to the Titanic wreck.

gradenko_2000 posted:

it's always "he's 19 years old" and not "he's still the son of a billionaire who would never want for anything in his life"

they keep hammering the age part because looking at these people through the lens of class means none of them are sympathetic!

Frosted Flake posted:

“That may involve spending more than BAH and getting rid of pets.”

lol why can’t we retain anyone?!

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

To be more serious, though: the '00s gave us W, 9/11, and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Zodium posted:

an economy can never be fully fictitious or financial. the transition to a service economy reflected the imperial core bourgeoisie's striving for material independence of the local proletariat through leveraging labor in the periphery, as far as possible reducing imperial core labor to non-critical functions such that they could not threaten the system's stability by withholding labor anymore. its contribution is supposed to be negligible; this was a central element of the wholly decentralized economic relations produced under cybernetic capitalism. as of covid, that's been ending. as the imperial core increasingly loses its hold on the periphery, the core bourgeoisie correspondingly becomes forced to increasingly rely on the local proletariat again, which is why they're bringing home the oppressive measures once reserved for the periphery. the machinery will do whatever it can to maintain stability of the system. it will do so by a kind of verticalization of the current horizontal structure, i.e., a smaller system that presses down on the local proletariat rather than co-opting it as well paid office workers administrating the machinery which exploits the periphery, and it will be worse for american and european workers, who will experience intensified exploitation and worsening material conditions, but potentially better for the periphery.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

tiktok likes to show me videos of Indians preparing chicken biryani in gigantic pots that they then serve to hundreds of people at a time and it makes me think that that kind of mass food prep is an example of "productive forces" that socialism could/should harness as a counterpoint to individual households having to cook their own meals for just 1-3 people over and over

like, if we're going to look at restaurants, and even gig economy food delivery, as capitalist affectations, then the response is having a lot more canteens and pantries

Orvin posted:

I have never watched Babylon 5, and decided to give that a watch. Found out it is only available on the free services. And bonus that Roku’s service is supposed to have ads, but an ad blocker I had previously installed on Firefox manages to seamlessly skip the ads.

Might work for the other free services if you are watching on a PC or streaming from PC to a TV.

gradenko_2000 posted:

anyway I was reading Bernie Sanders's latest book and he brings up a point that I'd never quite grasped before: the specific way in which automation is pursued, developed, and implemented ends up being expressed in a very specific (one might say "mutated") fashion because of how capitalism means it's only done with the goal of eliminating labor and dodging taxes

if you have ten employees making doohickeys, you have to pay them, and you have to pay a payroll tax for employing them

you don't want automation that makes the job safer, you just want automation that eliminates as many of those ten employees as possible. You might not even be pursuing automation that's more productive, because the thing you're really trying to get away from, is paying their wages, and paying the payroll tax

and because this is the only goal of automation, there are avenues of automation that are never explored. I suppose it's similar to how in pharmaceuticals, "treatments" are more popular than long-term cures, or procedures that cater to rare conditions, because those things are not profitable

xiaoren posted:

All else equal, doesn't more productive workers mean less workers, though?

Complications posted:

Counter argument - slash the jobs, keep your price the same, use the increased profit margin to take out loans, buy up your competitors until there are only a handful of companies around who did the same thing, then everybody raises prices by 300% while lamenting increased costs due to insert crisis here in press releases and celebrating massive profits in shareholder conferences.

Bam! Everyone wins.

Shear Modulus posted:

The owner of the dick sucking factory extracts rents from every dick sucked