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[pliant karma]

[dapper wren]

what am I supposed to say...
I feel that illegal migrants shouldn't be in the country and legal migration is the way to go?

[pliant karma]

I'm here running on hopes and prayers for the final next week

whole class runs based on quizzes and the final

[dapper wren]

at least that's what it seems like

[graceful mortar]

soo thats with me choosing to take a zero on the final exam 💀

[pliant karma]

Funny enough I an flunk the final and still pass

[graceful mortar]

yeah my math class is like that :/

[dapper wren]

Fake being sick, see a doctor and skip your final for a guaranteed 86%

Unless they make you retake

[graceful mortar]

this one is brutal

[pliant karma]

High school me would die just seeing a score lower then 90%, but college I am just trying to pass

[pliant karma]

they still make you do it, no exceptions

[tardy terrace]

I was specifically talking about your statement of "more illegals than immigrants"

[dapper wren]

Ugh

[dapper wren]

That's what it seems like to me, it isn't a fact

[graceful mortar]

this class is in teh way of my 4.0 semester 🙁

[pliant karma]

rip that's my language of film class also

D is still passing at least for all my ctva cources but I gotta get a C or higher in that class and another one to take the production electives.

[graceful mortar]

it depends on if she is adding as much extra credit points to the final i did them all. if i get 110% on teh final i get my 4.0 semester

will proably be a B , but im TRYING

[covert cradle]

majority of the grade coming from quizzes and exams is fire. I hated classes that had huge portions come from assignments and other busywork bullshit

[pliant karma]

I don't know my grade in another class since the professor is going off the incomplete/complete system.

But as long as I do the bare minimum with some of the extra engagement I should be fine

[graceful mortar]

not when 50% of your WHOLE grade is 2 assessments

im struggling because the midterm allowed materials changed. and i didnt know that. so had to run raw with no formula sheet, etc.

proud of my 65 considering that i went in expecting to use the materials i had mock exam with and had literally nothing.

[covert cradle]

I disagree, that's perfect to me. I've always done extremely well on tests, but I struggle to do any busywork bullshit for things I already know/understand. I would always spend my time learning new things instead and forget to do them

[fossil frost]

tests dont check for knowledge, they check for your ability to remember things. they dont test application of those things you have remembered.. thats why they want you to do that "busywork bullshit"...

if you cant apply those facts you memorised, you have learned fuck all.. you have just memorised strings of text

[graceful mortar]

well yeah, until you get 65 points out of 100, and that 50% category only has 200 points availbe for teh course. that dropped my grade 25% on its own!

[covert cradle]

I get that some folks need busywork bullshit to learn, but I do not. Learning isn't a one size fits all

[fossil frost]

doing the practical work, doing the application of those things you read, IS learning, its learning how to apply the knowledge, if you cant apply it, you dont fully and truely understand it

[graceful mortar]

since midterm been only able to claw back 3% even doing any extra credit and getting 100% on quizes and homework...

[covert cradle]

Never said it wasn't. I have always done practical learning. It's how I've learned effectively everything I know. I still don't need the busywork bullshit. Busywork bullshit is repeating the same practical learning that was already done during the initial learning. I understand that some people need to repeat it, but I do not and it should not have had an impact on the grade

[fossil frost]

tbh, i dont care either way. was just trying to give you advice as somebody who has been through school, been in the real world after that, and currently has children in school who are probably close to your age.. dont want my advice, thats fine

[graceful mortar]

soo you want to be educated in a system where the standards arent the same for everyone? what to stop favorites doing nothing and getting A but you being hated putting in a TON of hours and work and getting a D?

sigh education is so expensive :/

[fossil frost]

being employed is expensive

[brave wolf]

Autism maxing

[covert cradle]

Just trying to point out your advice makes no sense in the context of whether busywork completion should be padding grades. Whether or not busywork should be given is a separate matter.

[graceful mortar]

not looking forward to next year

[fossil frost]

as i said, my ability to care, has gone

[covert cradle]

What?? Favorites? The standards would be the same, but yes I do believe the system of learning should take into account the differing abilities of people. ALP exists for the other end of the spectrum.

[gilded quest]

Ahh ASU extra fees

[graceful mortar]

arbitrarily assigning grades WILL result in favorites played and a massive void between work loads student to student. and "vibe grading". you don't want this. the standard curricilim and standard final exams are there for this exact reason. .... otherwise slip your professor $250 and get an A without every attending class....

[graceful mortar]

no ...

[graceful mortar]

have u seen ASU costs?

[teal estuary]

to some extent this should be done. if the education system tailored itself to everyone's needs, it would be better for everyone
forcing everyone to do the exact same thing in an extremely rigid way is bad for everyone
notable that im not advocating for a system that allows bribery, but some flexibility is a good thing

[covert cradle]

what are you on about?? At what point have I ever said anything remotely like this?

[graceful mortar]

"I understand that some people need to repeat it, but I do not and it should not have had an impact on the grade" so what i laid out is how it will play out

[echo sluice]

https://tenor.com/view/discord-discord-drama-spongebob-popcorn-tv-gif-26893400

[covert cradle]

No you made up some contrived strawman scenario about making grades arbitrary, which has literally nothing to do with whether busywork should have a significant affect on grade

[graceful mortar]

you wanted it to be for some, but not others. so not standardised.

[graceful mortar]

not looking forward to next year
current per credit hour $93 ➡️ $999-ish (sliding scale, " the more you buy the more you save") for 117 CR ➡️ $2,500 per cr for 24 credits 😭

[naive niche]

Sorry for not answering, should this be fine or is this a concern

I feel like i cant manage these cables due to them being short, but at the same time i cant really leave em like this....

[covert cradle]

I was talking about whether someone needs the busywork in order to learn, which is why I support it existing and being given out. I just don't believe meaningless busywork should have an impact on grading in any case. I would want to have just projects, exams, and quizzes for grading.

[graceful mortar]

this year was $2,400. then its $26,000 for the next 4 (assuming no price hikes ... ) , then $60,000 for the final year. 😭💀
why cant it just be free education, paid if you cant maintain 2.5 GPA on core?

[graceful mortar]

so you are saying homework should be worth zero

[covert cradle]

well no, projects are still homework and they actually assess understanding

[graceful mortar]

but then people just wont do it and fail. and since pass rate determines federal aid $$ for schools... and their national grade (starting next year) and can be banned from ANY federal $$ and ability to generate loans for services ..... that wont happen

[graceful mortar]

so practice of taught materal shoudl be zero

[graceful mortar]

this is for USA

[covert cradle]

Now that's a whole separate angle. Like I do get why they do it, but that doesn't actually make it reasonable

[covert cradle]

yes. Things that are "as-needed" should have minimal to no impact on grading. Forcing everyone to do it just wastes time that could've been spent with more learning. I spent my time learning programming and my grades suffered severely for it because I just never never did the busywork. I was punished for wanting to spend my time wisely

[graceful mortar]

in the end i will have paid $164,000+ for just Tuition....

can you imagine going out of state 👀 it would cost 50% more per cr at my cheap local school ... it would go up 160% MORE vs in state ...... at the out of state school i wanted to go to... and thats a public school ... can you imangine private?

[graceful mortar]

but the lack of personal motivation and accountability... in therory college sets you up fo r the basics of the workplace.
like yeah in the real world if you are good at your job you will replace 3 workers and get paid the same as your peer who can BARELY handle the base workload, and all your "reward" will be is "good job you really help us out" 💀 ... but ideally you do 3x teh work for 3x the pay. but u know thats not how it works, maybe you get 10% more while reducing company labor costs by 60%

[alpine gale]

Ah righto, those fan cables can be tough to manage. What I do usually is rotate the fans so the cables come out of the fan housing closer to the motherboard, then use small strips of Velcro to bundle up the cables as best I can.

[naive niche]

thanks for the advice, you are a hero💯

[covert cradle]

Personal motivation and accountability? I wish there were some stats for this, but I'm quite certain the majority of people cheat on their busywork assignments.
Second half is tangential to the matter, but yes work fucking sucks for that

[fossil frost]

your reward for doing the job of 3 people is that they will expect you to do the job of 3 people from then on, and if you back off even slightly, and "only" do the job of 2 people... managers start to notice your "lack of productivity" because you arent killing yourself for them

[graceful mortar]

$168K, HS Diploma earns (1.7M) vs bachelor's earn 130% more than than HSD is worth it i guess lol ... associates make 30% more than baseline.

[fossil frost]

thats an average, there are always outliers. like me. i finished after what Americans call high school, but we call 6th form or college in the uk (high school finishes at 16, college is 16-18, university, where you get a degree, is 18+).. i out-earn almost everybody i know

i did do the 2 years of college in 2 months, passed it, and instead of doing nothing for another almost 2 years, i started another round of college courses, harder ones, that took a further 6 months.. then i had a year off doing nothing 😄

[graceful mortar]

Yeah, what we've done starting this semester is a lot of my teachers have morphed away from it . Where like what would normally be homework and contributing to the grade is now graded at zero but you can earn bonus points for doing the practice... (Self empowerment)
The problem is, that means that every other category had increased weighting then it did before, leading to a slightly unbalanced grading situation.
But since ai and cheating and all of that has gotten crazy they just at this point weigh super heavy in class assignments.

[graceful mortar]

EXACTLY! And no promotions because why promote you then have to hire 3 to replace you??

[fossil frost]

promotions dont come from hard work, they come from playing the game, in the right way, at the right time

[graceful mortar]

Yeah I ment more like for like, same company same role same pay vs work actually completed.

[graceful mortar]

Online? Was that worth it? you gave up all that networking opportunity for future job growth and potential earnings/projects.

[fossil frost]

work completed is irrelevant, work perceived to have been completed is what matters

[covert cradle]

I was last in school long before AI and everyone still would cheat on busywork. I can only imagine things have gotten way worse and now it's actually expanded to proper projects being cheated on heavily. If you wanted to cheat on a project back in the day you'd have to pay someone to do it for you

[fossil frost]

noope, in person, this was over 20 years ago

[graceful mortar]

Ahh so no actual per minute KPI for your company.

[alpine gale]

And this is why I never get promotions! 😏 I'm here to do amazing work, collaborate with others (who are actually willing to collaborate), and go home at the end of the day. Only once have I worn the hats of 3-4 people's jobs and done work way outside of my regular duties. Got taken advantage of hardcore. Never again.

[fossil frost]

its why job hopping is a thing, people either dont know how, or dont want, to play the game. its easier to bounce around every 2-3 years when the "automatic" pay increases turn into below inflation pretend pay increases.

[alpine gale]

Sadly, true. People still care about optics more than doing actual real work, and often more than doing the work correctly. I understand 80% perfect and finished is better than 100% perfect and unfinished, but also... I have come to realize lots of places don't really put in enough time and effort for the amount of hours they use to complete X task, resulting in "okay/good" work that could have been closer to "amazing" work had someone from outside been asked if there's a better way to do the work.

[fossil frost]

also, if you died tomorrow, the company wouldnt give a shit beyond them being annoyed at the cost of having to find somebody new

[gilded sandal]

Hi!

[fossil frost]

recruitment is super expensive.. far more expensive than giving somebody a pay increase they deserve.. yet companies still seem to think that people are not worth the pay increase, but the recruiter who does next to fuck all, gets paid 30% of your yearly salary (on top of your salary) for putting your name forward.. is apparently worth it

[alpine gale]

Very true. Something I hate, not because I don't understand that's how the game is played, but because the mere thought of networking with people "for the chance of something" isn't worth the squeeze for my brain. Socializing of any kind very quickly exhausts any semblance of energy I awaken with each day.

[fossil frost]

im in the same boat as you on this.. but my way of phrasing it is shorter.. i "cant be arsed" 😄

i have a limited amount of energy to spend during any given day, i want to keep as much of that energy as i can for doing things i like doing.. "other people" are not something i enjoy 😄

[rough kite]

i NEED help with bufferbloat does anyone know a fix

[alpine gale]

Right? Last place I consulted with didn't seem to understand this, and they were a freakin call center. 🤔 Y'all know how much it costs you to support customers, yet you'd rather tenured employees quit so you can hire cheaper replacements... Not factoring in the $20,000-$50,000 hiring + training costs.

[fossil frost]

several times i have been asked to "go to this networking event, for the benefit of the company, in future, it will benefit you too"... my response was "i would rather go swimming in a volcano"

[alpine gale]

Creating a #1027757333117415424 post with as much detail as possible (your internet package, provider, modem model number, etc.) and what you've already tried is a great place to start.

[rough kite]

thanks

[alpine gale]

Mhm. If it's an event I want to do, like say a once a year holiday party, sure, I'll maybe go. But if it's a mandatory"quarterly team building event" that I'm not being paid for, nope.jpg - such events being unpaid are illegal where I live anyway.

[fossil frost]

the place i work at now, we had a HUGE surge over black friday weekend.. customer support calls went through the roof... so.. CEO said that anyone who has ever worked on the phones, needs to drop what they are doing, to ease the pressure on the call centre, and issued a 3 page training document "this is the tree to follow". 4 days. continued to pay them their regular salary (which for people who "moved up" from the call centre, is significantly more than they were getting at the call centre), and paid all call centre staff 1.5x for that week.. because "if we cant speak to our customers, if we cant answer these calls, we're done"

[tall dagger]

team building exercises always suck.

[silver sun]

689

[fossil frost]

last one of these my previous company had, i had no choice, so i got super drunk at the free bar the night before, overslept in the hotel, missed the team building, and drove home

[alpine gale]

See at that point, pay and doing the jobs of 2 or more people aside, I'd also be more concerned with the "here's a quick slapstick process doc to follow" because that's how you very quickly end up with all kinds of broken things on customers accounts. Consistency is so very important if you're in it for the long term. If you can make consistency work, then okay sure maybe, but in my experience... Temporarily bringing people back into a role they "used to do" on short notice usually results in all the accounts they work with being negatively affected in some way.

[graceful mortar]

i did it 3 companies in a row..... parents always said work as hard as you possibly can, and you will ger paid more .... nope... 3rd one i watch them promote someone who MADE me do his managemnet job... without the pay.

[fossil frost]

the slapped together document was to answer all the "where is my item" calls, all the basic calls that didnt need training. and all the actually experienced and trained call staff could answer the calls that needed somebody to actually DO something

[tall dagger]

now that is how to do it properly. get horizontally drunk, sleep , avoid the childish bullshit, go home and get some food to kill the hangover

[alpine gale]

That sounds like it was done somewhat well. At least, as an outsider, compared to what I've experienced. Still shouldda paid a nice bonus to those who jumped in though.

[tender glade]

Gamers

[graceful mortar]

people though i was INSANE for requesting 9% year over year .... umm inflation is 4% so thats 5% actual, but my responsibilities DOUBLED the prior 12 month (not included in previous wage request)

[tender glade]

Quick question, what should you do if the clearance between the beefy ass cooler and the gpu is too small to stick your fingers in

I need to hit the pci release lmao

[graceful mortar]

if i give you a wage i cant take it away later. i can always cut costs 30% by paying new hires less going forward, theri laifetime raises at teh compnay will stop right below what you currently make

[covert cradle]

Got any plastic pokies that come with repair kits and such?

[tall dagger]

ballpoint pen with the lid on?

[fossil frost]

tbh, ive always been told that 15% is where you start to "need to think about whether its reasonable or not"

so, 12-14% is usually where a company should just say yes to avoid pissing the employees off

[tender glade]

That’s the clearance I have

I got her out!

[tardy terrace]

[tardy terrace]

Upgrading gpus?

Ohhhh my god this ultra sunrise monster is delicious

it's like sunny d :D

[tall dagger]

new monster?? what country - the latest one ive seen here in the uk is the lando norris one and its awful.

[calm swan]

white monster takes

[sage quiver]

I come up with a new solution every time this happens lol

Don't recommend the kitchen knife method

[graceful mortar]

Over inflation? Or total independent of inflation? Like buying power or just $onut listed in bank account?

Most companies give on 1-2% pay raises which means with 4% inflation you lose 2% 🫤

[tardy terrace]

holy shit jawa nooo

bestie nooo

[sage quiver]

It was only a little scratch ok

purely cosmetic

[fossil frost]

On average, 15% "is about right". Depending on inflation, it's either ok, or really good

[gilded quest]

What are the "fee" line items if they aren't fees

[graceful mortar]

Hmm. Maybe 10-20% over a decade. Not amazing.

Just using CPI inflation calculator... My buddy makes LESS at Oracle after 6 years than when he started, but he's a shift manager... Oracle was also hiring new hires 20% above his wage about 1 year ago .... Like bro you are their manager, (treated as an additional responsibility over the normal Workload) and make 20% less with 5 years experience...

[gilded quest]

Yeah they charge a base tuition amount
Then if you want to take anything that isn't the most basic class, you have extra fees
Special class fee, honors college fee, engineering school fees

Fee processing fee

[graceful mortar]

Not ASU was what I meant. ASU per class fees are much higher iirc. Hell they are literally 10X the cost per class...

[gilded quest]

Now you've lost me

[graceful mortar]

The MAT fee is new, because they needed to shore up the department now that they aren't requiring text books so there is no % of sales sharing going on anymore. And MAT is $$ because it's the biggest deficit in this state.

Most HSD graduates need 3 semesters of remedial math to reach college level classes.

[graceful mortar]

I was just saying it wasn't a bill from ASU.

[real fox]

Hi

[gilded quest]

Ah

[tender glade]

No! Taking my second pc to Saudi

[tardy terrace]

Oh you're headed back?

[tender glade]

For a month yes

[tardy terrace]

Merry travels 💕

[tender glade]

I’m a little bit tired of America, gonna go chill with friends

[tardy terrace]

I don't blame you tbh

[tender glade]

I was able to get this ticket for free as per SACM rules!

so I might as well haha

[tardy terrace]

Oh yeah you mentioned that last night :D

[fossil frost]

15% every year, will compound to much more than a 15% average over 10 years

[tender glade]

Can’t trust a 2070 to be hanging off a pcie and 2 screws across the ocean

So it’s just better to take it apart for now and put it back in when I get there

[graceful mortar]

Oh I know, just saying what I have seen here locally. 5% the company would act like you a were a massive burden. Not uncommon to get 0 raise a few years in a row.

[tender glade]

The dh-15 ain’t going anywhere though

[fossil frost]

the company i left this year, gave 0%, and silently scrapped the contractually obliged bonus

which is why i left

[alpine garden]

Which support section should I use if I need help with a power supply installation?

[steel dragon]

Tried my best

[graceful mortar]

The affordability crisis locally has lead to poor treatment by employers as a whole. Like what else you gonna do when we all pay low AF? Not like you can survive without a job when gov housing wait list is over 40 months for "critical" cases (people with kids)

Meanwhile
General Average (ZipRecruiter): ~$27/hour (median), with a wide range from $17 (25th percentile) to $34 (75th percentile) for typical jobs.

[echo path]

And I bet it looks so clean above

[steel dragon]

Looks like this

[echo path]

damn

[steel dragon]

Tv is lgg5 55”

[echo path]

oh that's why it looks so large 😅

[tardy terrace]

tv monitors lets goooo

[steel dragon]

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

[echo path]

See TV's aren't curved screen though

[steel dragon]

I will be sticking with tv monitor my entire life

[echo path]

Nah I like me self some actual monitors

Except for living room PS5 gaming

[tardy terrace]

50", 4k120

[echo path]

LED or what?

[steel dragon]

I wanted to wall mount but I have a standing desk

So I have to put it on my desk

[steel dragon]

G5 is tandem WOLED

This thing can actually blind u

[echo path]

lmao

that'd be much more suitable for a living room where there's bright lights and windows

compared to a dark, dim bedroom where just about any brightness would work

[steel dragon]

I like to turn all my lights off when I game or watch content

With hdr this thing is actually crazy

[echo path]

See imo for watching anything projectors don't even compare to TVs

[steel dragon]

Not going to hide this

It’s a mess behind my monitor

[echo path]

you're gonna make it into a ltt vid

[steel dragon]

lol

I always miss the submission

[echo path]

lmao

[rare otter]

@prime oar

Hiii

[rocky epoch]

Oof

[muted relic]

Someone get Elijah, Belle Delphine is back online

[tacit falcon]

How can a Microsoft Xbox one controller play up so much connecting to a Microsoft windows pc via Bluetooth

[winged spire]

if paramount buys warner brothers im gonna lose it

108 billion all cash lmao

[jade spoke]

but where did they get such amount of money all in cash 😭😔?

[winged spire]

tencent

lmao Chinese gov financing it

oh

the saudis are

among the guy's dad and some other rich asshole

[fossil frost]

hollywood want WB to stay in hollywood. also, David Ellison is Larry Ellison's son (guy who owns oracle, and most of Hawaii)

[inland cairn]

wsp

[winged spire]

SpaceX is going public 😐

[fossil frost]

exit strategy for musk

[winged spire]

There’s no reason to exit now

SpaceX is doing nothing but skyrocketing in value

[fossil frost]

i would say that in his position, he knows something we dont

spacex wont be doing anything that isnt in musks own express interest , if they are going public, its because it directly benefits him

[winged spire]

It obviously would benefit him

It liquidates him

SpaceX being worth 800b doesn’t mean anything until you sign the sale agreement

[fossil frost]

he wants to be the worlds first billionaire, which is only theoretically true right now, he needs to realise those valuations in order to make it an actual fact

and by worlds first, i mean, 3rd of 4th, behind the various people in the saudi royal family that got there a few years ago but hide it and keep their mouths shut about it

[harsh quartz]

trillionaire?

[fossil frost]

like when everyone says nvidia was the worlds first trillion dollar company, and it wasnt, it was aramco

[winged spire]

Who thinks that lol

[fossil frost]

apple and nvidia have both been spoken about, quite widely as the "first trillion dollar company" with apple having that name because of the market making it that way for a few seconds one day (VW had that too i think), and nvidia holding onto that valuation

aramco beat all of them, and kept the valuation, years ago

[winged spire]

Apple did nearly a decade ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/02/apple-becomes-worlds-first-trillion-dollar-company

Nvidia crossed 1 trillion in like 2020 lol

[fossil frost]

aramco was "official" in 2019, because thats when it hit the stock market, but when it hit the stock market, it was already valued at 2tn

not saying aramco are the good guys in any sort of way though, they are equally as evil as all these other companies that exploit everybody at every possible opportunity

[halcyon spade]

https://www.youtube.com/live/d-BDeU3R5ic?si=PixDSavyAZLxKWzy Expedition 33 to win GOTY 🙏🏻

[graceful mortar]

see Kollege is affordable :/

that final line is diffrence

just "work while you attend" 💀

[fossil frost]

Just do what I did, be born in the 80s, join the work force when you didn't need college, and buy a house in the early 2000s just before they became unaffordable for everyone

[winged spire]

What university

This is gotta be for an out of state at a nice ass college

That’s how much it would have cost me to attend Colorado school of mines

Plenty of cheaper options out there

[gilded quest]

Is that tuition or inclusive of all living expenses

[dusky jacinth]

I remember that... And then remember how quickly they hemorrhaged hard back in 2023, then got nearly shafted last year.

[winged spire]

Apple is doing real nice atm

Especially considering how far they’re separated from the ai bubble

They’re paying open ai but they’re definitely well insulated from the bubble imo

Still did like 11% this year

[torn plinth]

Does anyone know what camera I should get for around 2-3k it has to be full frame and what are y’all’s thoughts on the Nikon ZR?

[graceful mortar]

The fact i could borrow another $59,000 before hitting the final limit is terrifying at 8% for 25 years ..... tho 50 yr mortgages are coming so maybe its okay?
8yr car loans are here and 10 are coming to "address the affordability crisis" ...

[graceful mortar]

they have chosen to focus on "on-chip" local AI. which will be very popular with businesses.

[winged spire]

Real tangible products

Unlike most of the AI bubble

[graceful mortar]

for those wondering
"On a standard 10-year repayment plan, your monthly payment for $95,500 in student loans at an 8% interest rate would be approximately $1,153.25.
This estimate is based on the default plan for most federal student loans, which uses a fixed payment for a term of up to 10 years. The total amount of interest paid over the life of the loan would be about $42,909.87. "

or $760 for 25 years

[tranquil matrix]

i dont know where those numbers come from here in Ontario our numbers are reasonable for a local

College was affordable

I went fast track start in winter and go through summer and do a 2 year program in 1

it was worth it

[vapid smelt]

50 year mortgages are a scam

[blazing beacon]

space x has a LOT of baggage other companies dont once they get competitors that weight is going to make them worse off

[blazing beacon]

yup and it will ONLY make the housing market worse however trump has a buddy who would stand to profit GREATLY if it happens

shit i was watching a video earlier and i clicked off it to watch later i forget what channel and what the video was so i went into my history and poof gone

[unreal geode]

Ok does anyone remember a game on Xbox 360 that was a FPS and multiplayer only. I believe it was a class based game with magic powers and was only multiplayer

It's driving me nuts thinking of the name

It's based on a board game series or pen and paper game

SHADOWRUN

Sorry lol

[vapid smelt]

@winged spire https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QhvFDf95SM4?feature=share we pay too much for cat carries the man with the bag has the ture solution

[ionic abyss]

so keychron is incompetant

they failed to put a shipping adress on my order

ironic its in my profile

Thanks for purchasing our products! We are just informed by the shipping company that your order is still on hold because your shipping address is not detailed enough.

WHO THE F IS Winit

even china post is capable of shipping to me

even if my packages go around hong kong 3 times before leaving the same airport/port they shipped from!

[marble dome]

I got my hands on a interesting device, it seems to be what redbox kiosks used. I can scan the hidden barcodes behind the black squares on the redbox dvd's

on the right is the hidden barcodes on the disc

[ionic abyss]

keychron is about to have a order canceled because some how they found the one shipper that cant ship crap!!!

[woeful topaz]

Anyone here use the delta hub carpio? Is it actually good? Especially for games

[winged stirrup]

hi

[uncut sky]

Hi

[ionic abyss]

keychron has me in a mood

im seeing people praise the litteral garbage teir ewaste microsoft calls a mouse now

i rember when microsoft made great mouse

[gilded quest]

The only worthwhile Microsoft peripheral is the sculpt

[ionic abyss]

the arc mouse is not worth it

when or if keychron ships my m6 8k ill use it and my mx master 3s

love the mx master 3s

[oak pier]

that would be an IR camera

[marble dome]

Actually a barcode scanner that works in IR range.

it is a CR1011_04 barcode scanner

these things are usually priced at 300 dollars on ebay which is a lot of money I am shocked people price it that high.

I got it from someone that owned a redbox kiosk, since the parent company has went bankrupt and shutdown

a lot of machines were abandoned and stores are trying to get rid of them.

a lot of these machines went to get scrapped and recycled.

I also rescued a hard drive from one of those machines too, and I was able to get the redbox software too.

[blissful anchor]

hey guys

i recently dualbooted then found out it wasnt for me

i deleted the partition but now im stuck with the dual boot bootloader

how do i get rid of it

[split swift]

Lmao, i bet ur stuck on Linux, most likely Ubuntu aint ya @blissful anchor

[blissful anchor]

no im on my windows

it just gives me the menu when i boot my pc

and i have to pick windows

[split swift]

Have you tried looking it up?

[echo ridge]

I just reformatted lol icl

[blissful anchor]

nope normally i come here when i have specific questions

[hybrid echo]

go to tc1 and see if that will help you

[blissful anchor]

whats tc1

[ancient inlet]

Would a BIOS updates or flashing the BIOS do anything

[hybrid echo]

tech chat 1

[blissful anchor]

ohhh i got it

[blissful anchor]

no

[hybrid echo]

are you sure that in the bios you have the first boot drive your os not your dual booter

[winged spire]

Cisco has finally recovered from the .com bubble lol

Little under for inflation adjusted obv

[civic fox]

whoops my finger slipped.

that is double the rated tdp btw.

[viral steppe]

just learned something new while watching LTT: silicon vs silicone

😂 two different thing

[graceful mortar]

no this is in state, out of state is double what slisted

[winged spire]

You obviously picked an extremely expensive school

[graceful mortar]

just tuition

[winged spire]

Koolcordell the king of strawmans 💔

[vapid smelt]

imagine going to college

[pliant karma]

damn mines went up a bit for next semester damn you CSU system.

[graceful mortar]

ASU then a masters at a top school for the final 4 semesters. starts at community college (largest system in country, and only one that offers truely FREE school to locals and partnered with ASU to carry the promise forward.

[vapid smelt]

you where in the military right so they pay for it or part of it?

[graceful mortar]

i think the Maricopa country property tax pays like 60% the school expenses.

[graceful mortar]

not really tbh

[winged spire]

Yes really

Why do you always say so so so many things that are just obviously and verifiably false

[graceful mortar]

this is "affordable" for us colleges is the wild part.

[winged spire]

Nope

Don’t listen to this guy lol

200k is not the standard “affordable” tuition idk why you say things like that

[graceful mortar]

50 year would have 25% rate cut vs standard 30 year, bank is cool with that because they will make it up in fees when you move.

[winged spire]

Are you paid to spread misinformation or do you just do it for free

😶

[pliant karma]

Considering instate that is wild AF unless private then that seems close enough.

[winged spire]

Kool loves saying stuff like that its baffling

[graceful mortar]

nah this is THE cheap school. you know tution at 4 year universitys has doubled in 5-8 years right?

[winged spire]

I’m literally actively enrolled in collage

[vapid smelt]

everyone but me is in college right now

[winged spire]

You are wrong

Why do you end up doing this with EVERYTHING

200k for tuition is not “the cheap school” lmfao give me a break

[alpine gale]

Not me... never me. Collage, maybe. College? Nope.

[graceful mortar]

where? show me a cheaper school that competitive with Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. MechE

[covert cradle]

I kinda wish I was, but also not me

[vapid smelt]

before you joined everyone in the convo was in college

[graceful mortar]

you do see its per semester right?

[winged spire]

Yes?

[graceful mortar]

its also 8 years of school .....

[winged spire]

Mayhapse

[pliant karma]

Flashbang but that's mines atm. The 150 was the admission fee and 38$ was the adjusted student union fee for whatever reason they tacked on later in the semester.

[winged spire]

I forget exactly how much I pay

It’s like 4k a quarter but I think that’s before financial aid so I get a refund check after paying the full sticker price

It’s a really dumb system

[pliant karma]

I also have to remember to opt out of a textbook program that'll charge me 245$ by a certain day next semester if I don't do it by then.

[winged spire]

We have similar

Mines only like 150 though

[pliant karma]

Was it a new thing introduced?

They just did it this semester.

[winged spire]

Not new

It’s run by Barnes and noble now

Before that it was just through the collage though

[pliant karma]

ah forgot what mines uses it's not organised by any means.

[winged spire]

Ours is basically fully automatic

Only had 1 class so far where the prof didn’t get the book in

[graceful mortar]

you have to add $1,183 per semester they got cut $24M.

[pliant karma]

Lol how bad do the students drive on campus

[winged spire]

Just show up to the bookstore and give em our phone number and we get the bag with all our books done up

[graceful mortar]

there are the receipts soooo .... 👋🏼

[winged spire]

Not that bad tbh

Parking is worse, these idiots don’t know how to park

[pliant karma]

I lost count of how many accidents happened but it's alot more then any other semester.

[winged spire]

Side street parking is always like only 50% of what could actually fit there because people leave massive gaps between cars and such

[pliant karma]

That was the most recent one

[winged spire]

How do you hit a parked car so hard it rips the bumper off

Like a little tap is 1 thing but bruh

[pliant karma]

People can't drive here

[graceful mortar]

privates are WAYY higher. here is Berkley out of state ... and that a PUBLIC school ... this is PER SEMESTER ....

[vapid smelt]

your sister would probably know

[winged spire]

even she’s not that bad

[pliant karma]

I had to park sideways because some idiot did it...then it was a chain reaction of others parking

Oh and almost hit by someone weaving through a crowd in an e-scooter.

[graceful mortar]

"not looking forward to next year....
current per credit hour $93 ➡️ $999-ish (sliding scale, " the more you buy the more you save") for 117 Credits ➡️ $2,500 per cr for 24 credits 😭."

[pliant karma]

In a zone you're supposed to disembark also

[winged spire]

Yeah bikes and e-scooters are all ridden by idiots here

Let me have both my AirPods in with noise canceling, while having my hoodie up so I have no peripheral vision and not look for cars on the road I’m illegally crossing

[graceful mortar]

yeah so 8 k a semester. just slightly below ASU tuition.

[winged spire]

Nope

That’s before any financial aid and it’s 3 quarters to 2 semesters

[vapid smelt]

debt is fun

[blazing beacon]

the SSD i wanted to buy went from 140 to 170

[winged spire]

I’ll sell you burglary tools for 160

[blazing beacon]

using camel camel camel to check the price on it

[winged spire]

Is that like honey lol

[graceful mortar]

yeah not looking forward to having to buy textbooks again. most are free OER at the CC 🫤. the ones i have had to buy are part of a digital learning package at $400 for 15 weeks of access.... on top of the class you already paid for so you cant make any money back on the resale... i only take OER classes now.
my last chemistry teacher said
" i don't list the book because you don't need it until week 3 and i heard a rumor you might be able to find it online instead of buying it. " W professor!

[blazing beacon]

nah its just a stand alone website that tracks amazon prices

Amazon $116.99 (Jul 12, 2025) $184.99 (Oct 07, 2024) $176.99 (Dec 02, 2025)

[winged spire]

James is sleeping on me

I can’t get up 😭

[blazing beacon]

its almost back up to release pricing

the price chart looks like stairs

[vapid smelt]

these can open the glass cases at bestbuy

takes under 3 seconds

[graceful mortar]

there isnt much driving TBH

[winged spire]

Nah they’re all electronic now

[vapid smelt]

oh they are 🙁

[winged spire]

They use a sequence of flashing IR light

[covert cradle]

A master's from umass is about $145k tuition only before any aid. Was your $200k after aid? If so that's nuts

[graceful mortar]

how TF ... why they not build teh costco wide spots at teh college?? they know young people cant drive these new cars you cant see out of!

[covert cradle]

though obviously tuition will increase in 4 years no doubt, but your prices are for today anyways. I'm sure umass would calculate lower if I checked historical tuition

[vapid smelt]

its cali that wont stop the bad drivers from hitting people

[winged spire]

https://support.invue.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048504193-InVue-OneKEY-LED-Guide

[blazing beacon]

scratch that its basically higher then release as less then a month after release the SSD was 150 now its 170

[winged spire]

@vapid smelt

[blazing beacon]

im going to be so happy when the ai bubble explodes

[vapid smelt]

rip my free bestbuy gear

[winged spire]

I’m being suffocated

[vapid smelt]

gooooood

[graceful mortar]

turn too tight around that u turn. proably an old parking garage before most cars and trucks got so big. its hard to squeeze a 21 foot truck around a u turn when there is an oncoming car. i have to do it with my 23 foot long truck and it sucks.

[graceful mortar]

push em off next time and say " ayyyyy im walkkkkinnn heeerrerreee" with jazz hands and stuff

[graceful mortar]

yeah ... dont do taht in AZ 💀 you will get ran over

[graceful mortar]

oh you do that weird 33% of the year schedule. i dont remember which of teh schools i was lookingh at did that maybe John Hobkins? or was it MIT?

[graceful mortar]

"the customer shopping data is worth more than teh profit made from selling products"

[blazing beacon]

what?

[winged spire]

Y’all seen avenue 5

It’s pretty good

[covert cradle]

yea, dr house makes a good captain

[graceful mortar]

yeah Walmart has them on all the AA batteries and light bulbs ... baby formula... car electric stuff... booze is easy access tho 😭

[blazing beacon]

i was going to buy the SSD for my birthday and the price hikes hit a few weeks before then

[graceful mortar]

this is community college to cheap instate to masters at top 20 school . left is earning from work.

[graceful mortar]

so cal? that isnt farm land cali.

[vapid smelt]

he lives by disney land

[graceful mortar]

the worse than 2008 implosion? 2008 was just normal homeowners ..... this is EVERYTHING ....

[graceful mortar]

that was from Amazon. not most retailers use predictive pricing models that increase price near holidays and lower it during slow time. i know you are talking about ssd and teh NAND mafia at work again, but yeah. \

[vapid smelt]

remember samsung refused samsung nand for smartphones https://www.pcworld.com/article/2998935/ram-is-so-expensive-samsung-wont-even-sell-it-to-samsung.html

[covert cradle]

rough, umass is already in top 20 for the program I'd like to go into

[graceful mortar]

i literally cant buy 4 AA batteries without spending 20 minutes tracking down an associate that looks like everyone else..... i miss the blue vests, the 85 year old walmart greeter that handed out stickers and said in a cheery voice
"welcome to Walmart would you like a sticker"
the lobster tank, the food court, the fish display, the demo game systems, the cd sampler where you could scan a cd bar code and vibe out.

now half the time in there is running around looking for someone to open a damn case...
oh and $60 baby formula..... i hear the trophies eat like a tub every 6 days ...

[blazing beacon]

homes are more important we need it to pop so yea ill be happy its gone on too long

[vapid smelt]

the $1.25 have no cases for batteries 😄

[blazing beacon]

the site shows a price graph for the whole history of the product as a graph thats not a factor

[graceful mortar]

Anaheim 🫤 RIP. actually wasnt that bad near medieval times... but it waa also NYE sooo ... the i-5 was a diffrent story... i have never gotten passenger rage before.... i got child locked over it 😅
i did meet Jay Leno on that trip tho. nice guy

[graceful mortar]

yes, but also. the phones have hard core peaked Intel 7890xe 9880xe 10980EX style.

[graceful mortar]

No like the economy for 'main street' was wrecked from the 2008 housing collapse until 2012-2013. In my state, it was more like 2014-15... that was from JUST housing collapse. This AI over valuation is intertwined into everything. This pop would be a modern great depression... and well... we don't have any government cheese in storage, and the government hires contractors now instead of direct employee ... who you know... need to be paid or they won't work.

[loud oasis]

people actually care about phone processors?

[covert cradle]

well you see bigger number better therefore better number bigger

[blazing beacon]

yup and it has to happen maybe we need to stop allowing these bubbles to form thats the real problem

[graceful mortar]

Hell, the Fed is screwed... they had to drop interest rates even though inflation has stabilized because the economy started to stutter and stall... low interest rates increase inflation due to price speculation and bets being 'cheap'. so people take much more investment risk

[blazing beacon]

yea i can think of 1 big reason for that

[loud oasis]

the only thing that i really care about is improved power efficiency because they could already run every app i use like 10 years ago

[graceful mortar]

no likke stagnation... and kinda ... got rid of my s22 ultra because 1 big, 2 medium, 4 small was starting to show it age with modern apps, teh phoen itself was fine. just aged out of modern app coding i guess.

[loud oasis]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[graceful mortar]

like, respectfully, you do understand what you are asking right? like purge style activites will take place, people will die from hunger even in teh USA. people will be taken advantage of.

[graceful mortar]

*inflation hasnt stabalized..

[loud oasis]

i want the ai bubble to pop

[vapid smelt]

we will feel the ai bubble pop

[north escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/celebrate-robo-bot-boogie-breakdance-gif-1775654416813269104

[loud oasis]

it still has to happen

[north escarp]

I just want my home botss, gotta start making a list. Many tasks to be achieved

[vapid smelt]

you doing better tonight wormm?

[north escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/figure-02-figure-2-figure-nvidia-nvidia-project-groot-gif-10925415353009485674

Its late but no longer dying, just trying to decompress from all the craziness

[vapid smelt]

you should decompress at a cat cafe tomorrow morning

[north escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-26735613

I approve xD

[graceful mortar]

THIS is what i am saying. we are alredy K shaped... now give rich true control because you WILL die unless you submit... sure sensationalist... but also kinda not.

[north escarp]

I missed context. backreads

Money always circulates may not be for the better but itll go somewhere

[vapid smelt]

wont got to me 🙁

[alpine gale]

That sounds lovely. Or a husky cafe.

[north escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/husky-pack-husky-pack-gif-8194536973709945534

10/10 would wrestle and pet them allll 😂 love huskyss

[vapid smelt]

i can hear that cafe already

[north escarp]

Once the zoomies take hold its over

[alpine gale]

That's quite the distance to hear them from. Then again, they're rather loud...
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1J1eY3Wrc53RxuGKA
(That I must visit Svalbard one day is all Cecilia's fault. They wrote a lovely book.)

[blazing beacon]

dude ai is already taking jobs 2/3rds of people are paycheck to paycheck houses are considered something most people think they wont own hope is already dead

[dim tartan]

hi

[alpine gale]

Same. I'm absolutely a cat person, but for huskies? (or husky-adjacent cross-breeds) ... count me in.

[vapid smelt]

are your running? fridge

[north escarp]

Lol

Been here on and off for years and just remembered I muted the pet channel and that it exsist xD

[civic fox]

my cpu can now do avx512

[graceful mortar]

here was the whole spread sheet, i posted it in my financial discords.... they said go con people into buying shit they dont actually need and match the pay with ZERO education....
lifetime earning estimates: $1.7M (high school diploma) vs $3.9M+ (bachelor's and beyond), associates is $2.2 for context.

thats starting at a CC for 2 years, going to a an affordable in-state public school, then onto a reasonably priced masters program at a public school. most "top 10" are $35k-$50K a SEMESTER. this is "affordable" by contrast lol

crazy that lifetime will be $1.7M ... but a normal small 3/2 home will cost you $0.7 M of that before you pay the bank anything 😿 \

[north escarp]

Oh I looked at houses and decided I cant afford them or id get to old and some company or the hoa would drive me out when im 90 so accepted the renters fate

Myte buy some land or something for a work garage though or some other miscellaneous purpose

(Land with no utilities is still fairly affordable here well access to the grid and plumbing or adding a 20k plus septic etc)

[vapid smelt]

i get my folks house when the pass away

well i need to take care of my younger brother too with it

[north escarp]

Im supposed to get my folks farm butttt I suspect my sister's will get it if im being honest (step pops always secretly favored them alittle). Im just the one who takes care of it

[prime oar]

Yeah any dice

[pliant karma]

inheritance. House paid off already or soon?

[vapid smelt]

soon

[shut lichen]

A husky cafe sounds like it'd be loud

[alpine gale]

I thought so too, but they're more well behaved than expected. (Husky Cafe is in the first 3 minutes.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiuwpReEPOg

[astral sphinx]

Ugh I’m trying to post a problem I have on tech support and it doesn’t post

[dawn reef]

hiii

Does anyone know of a good AI for coding?
I need to create a simple HTML website about my school

[alpine gale]

I don't recommend letting Machine Learning do all the work until you learn the basics of code. This site is a great place to get started with the fundamentals of HTML and CSS. https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/language/html-css

[dawn reef]

tysm bro

[cloud imp]

hello\

[grand ravine]

Hi

[hot pier]

why didnt i build a standing desk myself sooner?

[echo nymph]

Has anybody here used an attack shark mouse?

[rare otter]

Well the ram issue is fixed but I got another issue

I plug in my gtx 960 2 gig into the pcie then plug it in

And I hear 6 beeps

[hot pier]

LET ME INN!!

[tranquil yacht]

So in what situation does a computer need to take 15 minutes to memory train? 🤨

Asking this because that what happened to my friend's new computer.

[gilded quest]

Is it AM5 on first time set up

[tranquil yacht]

I think so.

[gilded quest]

If it doesn't take as long on successive boots, nothing to worry about

If it takes 15 minutes every time, maybe bios is out of date or the XMP profile sucks

[tranquil yacht]

Okay, just thought it was strange compare to my HP Compaq 8000 Elite, Lenovo ThinkPad P50, and AM4 desktop.

[plush grotto]

HEEEEYYY Svalbard!

I'm planning a trip up there In February.

Fun fact, our chips factory here in the south actually produce a special edition specifically made to be sold up there.

[keen mural]

i just got banned from reddit

reason was "breaking the rules"

what did i even do

thats a shit reason

[gilded quest]

Did you report stuff

They can ban you for "abusing" the report system

[desert dagger]

you broke the rules

[keen mural]

no

[keen mural]

i made one post in the last like week

[desert dagger]

ah, thats not allowed.

be a lurker like the rest of us

[keen mural]

i appealed saying i didnt even know what i did

[desert dagger]

well maybe should read the rules or be aware of them

easier to know what not to do in that case.

[elfin jetty]

Probably the quietest printer to exist

[proud gazelle]

anyone know how to search for a story that someoen posted just a tiny part of on youtube but that sounds really good to read? (they dident include the name really anoying)

[tiny apex]

ive entered a giveaway for a 3d printer i hope i win it

always wanted a 3d printer tbh

[elfin jetty]

Ive got an ender 3 that just keeps chugging along

I love that printer

[tiny apex]

i especially want to 3d print something to help with my gpu sag

[graceful mortar]

so to be clear, you want an implosion, 30% unemployment, etc? you do understand that available aid orgs (st marys, etc.) is already over capacity from the poor working class.
are you ready to live in tents? have a firetruck come around every month to spray yall for "showers".

i dont think you understand what happens when banks loose loaned money. 2008 there was losses, but it was more of a confidence crash. this would have real losses.

inflation cant just "reset". you HAVE to out earn teh inflation with skillset and certifications. $72K /yr is what you need to survive, plan around that.

[graceful mortar]

nice its about $40k per acre with no power near by, or water.

[proud nymph]

recived the order of the ltt store deskpad northern lights. yall are amazing

[tardy terrace]

you're welcome

[winged spire]

https://x.com/niccruzpatane/status/1999170594076606948?s=46

Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane)

Rivian has announced its Autonomy Sensor Suite for the upcoming R2 platform:

• 11 cameras (65 MP total)
• 5 radar sensors
• 1 LiDAR sensor
• No ultrasonic sensors

“Cameras are the main workhorse of our sensor suite, generating the bulk of the data fed to the models—but

X · Dec 11, 2025, 5:33 PM

Are they finally getting into autonomy

11 cameras is a lot

My car needs 1 more

I need a front bumper camera like the new ones

[sage quiver]

Or just, y'know, ultrasonics like they used to have

[winged spire]

too short range

that'd just be for parking

my car still has the ultrasonics for parking

[uneven stirrup]

Looks yummy

[stable breach]

Oh boy I sure do love paying more to be spied on

[stable breach]

It's a bubble so it will pop, likely when they realize they actually couldn't automate most of those jobs

[stable breach]

Have you ever called someone or something 'tаrdеd?
Reddit is that soft

[graceful mortar]

I know 😭 it's gonna suck everyone will lose so much of their money and retirement. Not able to afford anything. 2008 was a relatively small actual bubble. This is a massive bubble that will have the add-on effect of loss of confidence... And interest will have to PLUMMET (1/3 of current rate) which will supercharge inflation, meanwhile unemployment will exceed 25% . Truly cataclysmic event hopefully this bubble is a soft landing.
But when stocks lose 70% in a single day, companies valuations go to 10% of what they're currently at and everybody just loses all that money... money stops flowing and that's what causes the nuclear bomb to go off in the economy.

[stable breach]

Pull it out before the crash, preferably in gold

[graceful mortar]

The modern economy requires credit to function when everybody stops lending money to everyone it just immediately siezes up.

[graceful mortar]

Sure. But that requires you to be CERTAIN that the United States government won't just buy out half of the economy to prevent it from falling. If they do then you are the one stuck holding the bag with all the losses.

[stable breach]

The economy also needs a good crash, too many "too big to fail" companies just limping along on government money and absurdly corrupt banks are draining it, not to mention home prices exploding recently

[stable breach]

Gold won't really go down regardless

[graceful mortar]

Home prices are exploding because the US dollar is losing its buying power from excessive money supply. (M2) And lack of building ... Because for the vast majority of Americans over 70% of their net wealth is in the equity of their home so they don't want to authorize the city to build anything that could possibly decrease the value by increasing the supply available.

And too big to fail means that it won't just affect one part of the economy, like a bank that has no ties anything else can fail and the economy won't feel it at all ... but when you have spider webs into the whole entire economy ... now there's a confidence loss because everybody gets scared of whether or not people are going to be able to pay their debts. companies won't lend money to each other and then nobody can pay payroll (commerical paper) and everybody gets laid off... that's literally what happened in 2008 and the economy only stalled for about 48 hours and it took multiple years to recover from that.

[graceful mortar]

Yes, but gold is speculative the price is currently based on it's inherently increased value IF there's a crash... If the economy gets propped up .. all of the sudden it "loses value" as investors pull out for more lucrative investment options. meanwhile the price of all goods have skyrocketed because inflation is up due to low interest rates to make it all happen.

The only way you can win is if you're literally in Congress and have insider information 24hrs in advance.

[stable breach]

Every time you delay it with free government cash the spiderweb just grows and it gets worse next time, they should have let the banks fail and bailout specifically the people and companies who had their money in them instead

[stable breach]

At worst it will keep going up but slower than regular investments

[winged spire]

its funny people think this wont end in record breaking government bailouts

it will, like always

[graceful mortar]

But what about all the deaths that would occur? All the property damage from riots. The GDP loss that would take 20+ years to recover from..

And the big one ... The world war that would pop off over the USA ruinning the world economies by doing nothing. (Economic warfare). The credit rating down grade, (so now no money at all in the government... And no taxes coming in because no jobs)

and finally... The unrepairable damage when the USA defaults on its debt (because on one will buy its bonds) and now the USD is no longer the reserve capitol of the world.
And in its new weakend vulnerable state with no military. Someone will come over and take over the worlds most resource diverse country and imprison it's people. Either buy it out with money by buying all its debts (hostile takeover bid), or with actual force.

[graceful mortar]

Because it basically has to with the entire economy having global exposure.

[winged spire]

no, its because rich people control the world

and the government

[graceful mortar]

Same same 😜

No one wants to be in office during an economic implosion. Especially with the precedent that was set in 2008 which is ... you will be protected from any losses that occur as long as you insure that through mergers and acquisitions your company becomes too big to fail... Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.

If you make a really bad bet the government will come and shore you up. If you make a risky bet that pays off you get to keep the winnings.

[rough kite]

i really need help with upload speed latency and no ones replied to my message asking for help what should i do

[languid lichen]

anyone know where i can get a good prebuilt im looking to upgrade from my current

[languid lichen]

pc

[winged spire]

Finally this might be a real competitor to FSD

FSD is 8,000$ or 99$ a month… we should be getting another big price cut soon

It use to be like 12000$ lol

[quaint skiff]

Hello all

[quartz loom]

hi

[white nebula]

Just spent hours learning how to mod cyberpunk just so I could remove that god awful PONPON Shit song from the game. Holy hell it makes my ears bleeds and just kills the vibe. They should give you an option to just turn off specific songs in the game smh

[stable breach]

I doubt it would get anywhere close to that, and every time you delay it will only get worse when you can't keep delaying it

[graceful mortar]

That is exactly how that would go down. 2008 only housing prices were the bubble. Now its housing, stocks, and bonds. ... Crypto... Trifecta.

Nvidia dropping from 5T to 1T in a single day from this pop would bankrupt most banks and hedge funds (so bye bye teacher retirements) . Then lending would freeze. Everyone is scared who is gonna go bankrupt next, no one wants to lend because they may never get paid back.
Walmart can't issue payroll, closes all stores in 24hrs.
Now what? People won't go to work unless they are gonna get paid. And companies can't issue payroll with a frozen commercial paper market.

The whole economy REQUIRES debt lending to function.

This should have been restricted from being able to occur 30+ years ago. But it wasn't. Hence "too big to fail". They tried letting one fail with Lehman Brothers. They were exposed mainly to real estate. Yet THEY broke the WHOLE world economy.

• Hell, Lehman Brothers CDO's were issued by AIG the largest insurance company in the world. They were 36hrs from implosion. If they would have popped. A MAJOR % of retirement accounts would have disappeared with them. And life insurance policies, etc.

An insurance company (one of the most regulated industries) didn't recognize their real CDO exposure. They didn't understand you could have multiple CDO on the SAME asset (infinite money glitch IRL) and All of them would be required to be paid if a default occurred. (I.e. Cindy didn't pay her mortgage)

[rough socket]

Yeah don't worry you'll still go to the toilet when the bubble pops

[stable breach]

It's still better to let it crash now than have an even bigger one later.
Housing and crypto won't be devastating, only stocks/bonds

[silver sun]

690

[grizzled portal]

Hello i need some help i am building my first pc i got the Liam li edge gold psu i have connected all my fans into the psu hub but when i try to connect the psu hub to the mb via usb cable i get the bios error over current on from usb if i disconnect the cable my pc starts but i am stuck with them going 100

[fossil frost]

Especially when the companies involved are in the pockets of the current government...

[surreal onyx]

Hi guys first time here

[graceful mortar]

Housing will be absolutely devastating. $700k homes will fall to $175k. All those mortgages being underwater people will default. And boom. Crypto will destroy banks. There will be ZERO money movement.

Like I said everyone would be begging for food.

Meanwhile to TRY and force lending. Reserve lowers interest rate to 0.01% inflation skyrockets at 30% a year. Like yeah. A single bubble popping an economy can absorb.

All 3 popping is the end of a country forever.

[halcyon spade]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-BDeU3R5ic

[celest tangle]

anyone else remember that one wanshow where they replaced luke with a random anime girl body pillow

youtube decided I needed to be reminded of it

[restive lion]

I fuckin love the Reddit mod team vs linus

someone posts about linus posting on kiwifarms
mods delete the post
linus in the comments egging them on

[violet willow]

My gaming performance on windows 11 has been getting worse even playing the same games on the same system. I was at 70-90fps on RDR2 and now it's down to 40-60fps

Ryzen 5 5600x, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4 3200, 1440p 144hz.

[lethal halo]

have you checked your drivers?

[violet willow]

Yep. First thing I checked. All latest drivers.

[lethal halo]

what does task manager say

[violet willow]

Everything is below 100%. GPU vram is at 7.4/8gb

CPU 60-70%, RAM 75%, GPU 50-75%

[flat fjord]

Hi everyone

[oak pier]

check per core usage

on the cpu

[violet willow]

Fairly even usage between cores. Gonna try uninstalling and reinstalling and see if that fixes it.

[graceful mortar]

Thank God the LTT backpack doesn't rip with this all in the front packet. It's Soo heavy

[stable breach]

Kiwifarms is pretty based

[nimble junco]

Ended up getting this how’d I do? https://www.microcenter.com/product/704075/powerspec-g529-gaming-pc

[stable breach]

If a majority of people keep their jobs and the government guarantees their money in banks it should be fine

[nimble junco]

When your government is actively lying to you, it makes that thought really scary

[graceful mortar]

thats a bail out

[graceful mortar]

and there will be NO jobs because companys operate on revolving debt and dont have enough free cash to cover debts, much less payroll.
majority of companies pay payroll via commerical paper lending.

[stable breach]

Basically don't bail out the companies/banks at fault, only guarantee the actual deposits people made

[graceful mortar]

and money guaranteed means nothing... when countries retaliate by not buying bonds there is NO reserve for the notes to be associated with (hence "Federal reserve note" and teh USA is officially bankrupt.
so your money is only worth teh paper its printed on to burn for warmth.

[graceful mortar]

you CANT thats the whole point of too big to fail.

CDO being a private unregulated market made sure of that! no one has a way to see who owes who what.

[stable breach]

Finance is much more globalized now, many foreign banks would be interested in providing the credit, especially Chinese ones

[stable breach]

Unlikely to happen, they have never done this despite all previous actual bailouts

[stable breach]

That's the failing bank's problem

[graceful mortar]

hence US govt let Lehman blow up and AIG, and the world ,was 48hrs away from total bankruptcy. why? CDO's connected the insurance company to lehman. they were on teh hook for payouts if lehman went bankrupt. because how could Lehman ever go bankrupt??
CDO are completely unregulated insurance policies. sooo i can open 7 policies on teh same asset to get paid 7 times if the mortage defults (ol technically its not PER mortage its per portfolio) and no one would know i was doing that. hence tranches, and protfolios of loans.
synthetic CDO you can bet on something you don't even own on weather it will default or not.

[graceful mortar]

NO you dont understand. teh US failing to take action would ruin THE WORLD, as teh USD is teh reserve currency of the world. china cant lend money. becuse they woudl be affected too by teh USA not taking action. hence Economic Warfare statement i made.

[stable breach]

Let them fail
If the deposits are guaranteed, then new banks will take their place

[graceful mortar]

because we HAD teh bailouts... and we have NEVER had a triple bubble. we had regulations that wouldn't allow taht to happen.

[graceful mortar]

no it EVERYONE that they owe money to's problem. even normal people wont get paid by the bank.

[graceful mortar]

no they arent

you arent listening. if a bank goes belly up FDIC takes over right??? guess what FDIC is funded by?? THE BANKS. if there is Zero money moving between banks there are no funds to pay FDIC.

[stable breach]

The USD is unlikely to tank if people largely keep their jobs, they are likely to keep their jobs if foreign banks give credit to those leaving failed banks with their guaranteed deposits, foreign banks are likely to agree to not blow up the world's economy and to make extra profit

[stable breach]

Government can always make the money printer go brrrr

[graceful mortar]

Normal (non investment) banks CANT use their customers deposits to pay debts (hence SVB thing that wasnt really a meltdown) so if they are BROKE becuse they have lost a shit ton of money in the implosion. no money to pay FDIC.

[graceful mortar]

sooo you wont get paid at your company. so you have no money to buy things. hence mass layoffs. Companies hire when tehy are ready to take on more risk (low intrest rates) and minimize liabilities when they need to constrict (mass layoffs) typically caused by high intrest rates. However a company can only stay alive if people keep buying.
when there is no money to pay payroll, the circle ends.

[graceful mortar]

ONLY if countries are willing to buy the bonds to activate that printer

you wreck a country becuse you were reckless on $$ policy and chose to not bail out? we arent buying shit, infact we are gonna fire sale your bonds until you are paying 350% intrest on them vs the 1-5% you are used to... taht rewquires even more bonds to pay teh intrest.

welcome to global economy and global risk. see Greece.

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x6x_lcQBylo?feature=share

[blazing beacon]

bro AI is already taking countless jobs so at this point yes it still needs to crumble the system is broke and will only continue to break worse MAYBE the government should have done its job and prevented this from happening imagine that

[winged spire]

you seem to think that you can put the cat back in the bag

(you cannot)

the ai bubble popping does not mean AI stops being used lmfao

[vapid smelt]

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3003806/microsoft-teams-can-soon-snitch-on-your-location-using-wi-fi-connections.html LETS GO

[winged spire]

car

[alpine gale]

Good thing I don't install work apps on my personal devices, and my work devices are turned off when I leave work.

[echo path]

U can js easily block it via several ways

Prob

[graceful mortar]

Soo you want 500,000 + deaths, no hospital, kids starving like those Africa commercials, no clean water. Like you don't understand what you are asking for....

Or you are literally pure unrestrained evil.

"Could never happen in this country" same shit was said about Katrina, Texas freeze, Sandy, Harvey.

For the first time ever all three asset classes are in bubble what that means is popping any one of them brings down everything literally everything.... You need a scalpel not an RPG.

[severe flume]

Any of yall remember the game Luke talked about on WAN show that like pod racing? You have gravity engines and can control them independently?

[blazing beacon]

and how is that not already going down that road with how pricing and greed are happening why is the GOVENRMENT allowing this to happen

[blazing beacon]

its going to pop regardless of what i think

[pliant karma]

Hehe work phone turned off out of the office to add a cherry on top.

[vapid smelt]

ai is already fucking up my local hospital the u of u hospital got the full fledge software with the ai and my local one got the budget version with no ai and the interface is completely different so when u of u doctors/nurses etc come over to help they have problems and dont know how to access shit

[blazing beacon]

also millions have already been laid off due to AI

[restive lion]

As someone who understands the consequences, burn that shit

Return to monke

If we're lucky we'll also get cortycepts too and then maybe everything else can survive with humanity gone!

[alpine gale]

100% if it's not my time to do whatever I want I best be getting paid for it. 😉

[graceful mortar]

Because anytime the government tries to take control of the market they throw a tantrum and retaliate by driving asset prices to the ground

which terrifies all Americans because that's where their retirement is, AND it determines how many people their company is going to lay off and whether or not they're going to lay off 30 to 40% of their workforce in the next 60 days. See "temper tantrum" circa 2013.

[graceful mortar]

Yeah, so give them a chance to soft land it. Not nuke it like u wanted to.

[winged spire]

(This is literally a made up number)

Why even bother sending the message if you’re going to literally manufacture a number with no basis in reality

[blazing beacon]

GOOD i dont care let assets fall

[blazing beacon]

no

[blazing beacon]

over a million jobs have been lost to ai

[winged spire]

Source?

[graceful mortar]

It's all good I waited on hold from four different calls for HP for a total of nine and a half hours ... It cut me off, I called back and got the AI agent since they had closed 2 hours before, and then AI generated me a ticket... I don't know why they use it it never asked me to clarify anything so I simply answered it questions as directly as possible...

"No the power button doesn't work" it never asked me to take it out of tent mode 🤷🤷 I just did exactly and EXCLUSIVELY what I was told.

[blazing beacon]

i cant post links or pics anyhow

[winged spire]

You don’t have a source

Because you made it up

It’s not “millions” or even nearly close a single million

[blazing beacon]

damn job losses overall are pretty bad

[graceful mortar]

Again you don't understand if a company stock falls their interest rate on debt goes up and they have to immediately minimize debt and they do that by cutting the most expensive thing of their company which is their employees they will lay off 60% of their employees within 60 days in order to stay solvent ...

And in case you didn't know ... A large number of unemployment has a direct negative effect on GDP AND a direct upwards effect on inflation because the government has to print more money to cover the social services programs to keep people alive. All while having a substantially decreased income from tax revenue.

So the market implodes there's tons of unemployment the only way to counter the mass layoffs is to drop the interest rate to 1% (aka the government is PAYING you 3% to take the money because average inflation is approximately 4% in a healthy market)
Which has the unfortunate effect of driving asset prices to the Moon because now it's cheap to gamble why would I not speculate that the price is going to go up... Which leads to inflation because unlimited borrowing.

The Federal Reserve was not able to slow inflation down, they tried and let the economy stall or begin to sputter at least and had to dump interest rates now twice ... even though inflation is nowhere near under control (and that's using their very modified inflation number because it sort of converts like 4% is actually 10.5% of the old way it was calculated... which was the more accurate way for the vast majorities of Americans exposure. )

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OHBSfwEYdYQ?feature=share signal rgb has a only fans pc

[blazing beacon]

account for jobs lost because companies choose to dump money into AI by cutting jobs as well thats often not accounted for its not alwways replaced by ai but thats also only 1 year we have had ai for a few years now

[blazing beacon]

they need to stop building their foundations on sand hills they need to be allowed to fail no more bailouts for poor choices

th economy is stalled because most people dont have money to spend on consumption

[graceful mortar]

So nuke it and see how much worse a modern Great depression is people forget in the 1920s we still had a very large directly employed by the government system so when you went to soup kitchens to get your one meal a day and your three crackers that was a government employee who knew they would make it up on the back end.

That sort of catastrophic support system no longer exists we don't have a bunch of government cheese in Reserve, we don't have constant cycling large food reserves ... we have none of that.

[winged spire]

You need to stop manufacturing things to support your claims it’s not a good look lol

Literal propaganda machine

[tidal field]

I got 900$ for a pc what’s the best one I can get rn brand new help !!!

[blazing beacon]

microsoft has laid off over 20k jobs itself

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JLA3TFZGMZg

[winged spire]

Do you understand how 20k is not the same as 1 million or “millions” even

And 20k layoffs total does not mean 20k layoffs because of AI

[blazing beacon]

thats a single company now scale that to tens of thousands of companies

[vapid smelt]

you can get 128gb of ddr5 ramhttps://pcpartpicker.com/product/Z3wD4D/crucial-cp2k64g56c46u5-128-gb-2-x-64-gb-ddr5-5600-cl46-memory-cp2k64g56c46u5 wait nvm thats $65 out of budget

[winged spire]

I literally posted the numbers

[graceful mortar]

... Uhh yeah thats not new news ... Is that shocking to you you've been living under a rock.

And it's completely expected because the feds kept the interest rates High to try to control inflation.
it's either you control the inflation and you slow hiring massively "pumping the brakes on the economy" or you allow the economy to go berserk "over heating" and have low unemployment but no affordability and a different worse crisis.

[blazing beacon]

they laid them off to increase margins and to have more money to pump into ai its still greed regardly and short term outlook

[tidal field]

.

Ty to toasty bros I go

[winged spire]

You’re too far gone bro 💀

[blazing beacon]

omg no its common sense that when 2/3rds of people are paycheck to paycheck they wont consume and if they cant consume more people loose jobs and its a effect

[vapid smelt]

its a horrible time to buy a pc ram is 3-5x the normal price and ssds are doubled

[winged spire]

This person gotta be like 13 years old

[graceful mortar]

Yes we are aware.. as soon as one company did it, the money was going to flow out of other companies into that company so everybody had to do it that's how an open market works..

Let's say you're running a normal company and approximately 50% of your cost is your employees.. if you can eliminate that and increase productivity by 4X you HAVE to try. Oh and an AI can't sue you because they got hurt on the job but your employee can.

[winged spire]

Kanon still thinks the ai bubble crashing means ai stops existing

[blazing beacon]

yea im not a fan of the current system overall

[blazing beacon]

when did i say that

[graceful mortar]

Okay let's just be clear right the time for the argument that you are currently giving was 2007.. at this point all we can do is deal with the issue at hand there is no magic reset button

the United States government has too much debt, if the United States government had maybe a trillion dollars in total debt ... you could actually genuinely talk about a reset button but they don't ... So they can't.

[winged spire]

You imply it the dozen times you’ve mentioned job loss to ai as a reason for supporting the bubble popping

[blazing beacon]

im not anti ai im anti ai bubble and ai craze and replacing people with it constatly and shoving it in everything

[winged spire]

(The job loss numbers you’ve inflated 40x)

[vapid smelt]

im ok with AI taking over some jobs like call centers

[blazing beacon]

all i can say is hopefully the ones at fault get nationalized to pay it off

[blazing beacon]

both ai and outsourcing sucks for that

[winged spire]

Do I make a printed version of this case

[blazing beacon]

i have never been helped by an automated ai or an outsourced person

[winged spire]

Do they sell those fans

Wonder where they got them

They look like Corsair or smth

https://www.quietpcusa.com/Noctua-NF-A20-FLX-Quiet-Computer-Cooling-Fan

@vapid smelt noctua 200mm fans

[blazing beacon]

i spent well over 10 hours and days trying to get help from the comcast support line run by outsourced people no help the second i went on reddit and complained and got to talk to actual employees it was resolved in 5 messages

[graceful mortar]

Yes and that was the whole point of the Federal Reserve raising the interest rates to slow inflation and stop speculation and drive asset prices down. They didn't act quickly enough and they didn't put them anywhere near high enough (they should have been double) and unlike other countries who said hey you really capitalized on covid because you were in a unique advantage position you always 40% of your earnings. (Windfall tax) ... But unfortunately the feds had to take the brakes off the economy again, so it's going to continue to get worse.

This is the new baseline, until or if the United States can ever be truly a physical goods producer again (...which unfortunately means it has to get the inflation under control because US Labor is 4X everywhere else... So why manufacture here? ) nothing can change.

The world thought the United States government had a plan because historically they actually handled this normally really well ... (Hike interest rates to 16-18%) now the entire world is wondering why the hell their deficit is 2X what it was a couple years ago....

[winged spire]

Maybe not printed

I could just do sheet metal

[vapid smelt]

to fix our taxes we had a guy with a THICK accent my dad and i had real problems with understanding him

[graceful mortar]

Yes that's THE POINT of raising the interest rates. You're trying to rebalance where money is invested in the economy as a whole.

One of the big things you're trying to do is remove the incentive to gamble on stocks, and instead focus on long-term investments like building companies, houses, etc.

[blazing beacon]

agreed they also messed up but its a systemic problem if they barely have money they are not going to go to the movies they are not going to go out to eat or buy that new thing and even rich people cant pick up the slack how many rich people go to the movies 1000 times to make up for it this is what happens when 90% of people have 50% of the spending power

compared to 10%

[graceful mortar]

Well I'm sorry but that is literally how a free market works. As soon as somebody has an edge all the money flows out of all of its competition and goes into it.

Remember when you buy a stock you're buying a gamble that it will go up and print you money.. you're not buying the stock because you like the company....

[blazing beacon]

most outsourced people dont even understand what they are doing to though thats the problem they will tell u whatever

[graceful mortar]

No for real and it's not even because call centers are rude it's literally because the vast majority of call centers are third party contracts and how that works is they give it to the cheapest bidder ...which then means they pay their employees absolutely nothing for what they go through.

[blazing beacon]

not a fan of how free the free market is i think its a big problem it should always have a safe net

[graceful mortar]

What are you talking about... I'm sorry it's cuz now I'm just confused.. so you want the United States government to what .... hostile takeover a $5 trillion dollar global company like Nvidia?? First off where the hell are they going to get the money for that second off how do you think that's going to go down globally...

The reason why AI spending is being encouraged is because it has massive amounts of force multiplication and military.

Hell they already have Hunter drones that can identify "threats" on their own. They've been testing them at the southern border. Currently the AI is not used to execute an elimination... But it's capable of it .. with zero human interaction.

[blazing beacon]

instead of a bailout yea take them over and nationlize them in return for the money to save them once this pops

i also already hate the military budget so thats not a selling point

[winged spire]

My drones can do facial recognition lol

And do 150mph 👀

[blazing beacon]

yea its concerning privacy is being eroded so fast

and its even more concerning when u know who now has that tech in their hands

[graceful mortar]

Okay I need you to think carefully about what I said.

The whole point is to stop frivolous spending in the entire economy and force money into reliable roi investments such as new companies new buildings new housing something that produces something tangible.

That means consumer spending will decrease as well.... Because again High interest rate environment means limited hiring and more extraction of work per person in a company. (For the same pay)

Now the overall benefit would be that inflation would get back under control... You can never bring prices down because that's deflation and that's a whole nightmare problem... Because it's almost impossible to control once it starts.

[winged spire]

Any burglars in my house are getting blended up into a fine paste

[blazing beacon]

consumer spending is already dead 2/3rds of people are paycheck to paycheck with very VERY little disposable income a ton live on debt when 10% of people have as much if not more spending power as 90% they are not consuming as much investments doesnt grow the economy the same way as buying a loaf of bread does

[graceful mortar]

Okay so now I'm just really unsure of what you're asking for. Yes you know we remove some regulations that were put in place after the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.. yes that was dumb but like now they're integral to the worldwide market... so putting regulations in place the companies will just go do business elsewhere and we won't have any like money cycling in the United States.

Are you saying that you think our stock market should be completely puppet showed by the United States government?

It's one thing to put your finger on the scale .. it's a whole another thing to throw the scale out and just tell people what it weighs.. which has no correlation whatsoever to the weight.

[vapid smelt]

damn flying clanker can reconize me?!

[graceful mortar]

Yes because they want consistency agent to agent so they run off of literal flow charts and scripts.
For instance if you have a really good technical support representative people are going to continue to want that level and you have to pay substantially more for that leve ( if you want somebody with that kind of skill set) so you do not want a rockstar on the phones.
To train people? sure, because you're going to tell them what the limit of the training scope is.. but you don't want them on the phones..

[blazing beacon]

i think the US should look at european countries and nationlize healthcare and the oil fields and such and utlities and then at least require companies to pay a living wage and have paid time off and then prevent unjustified price hikes they can still make a TON of money just not ALL the money no more at will laying people off too they need a real reason and stuff actual worker rights

[blazing beacon]

does it even save money though 1 good agent can be done with me in 5 minutes or i can spend 10 hours with ones who dont know

and the 10 hour one will kill any trust i have in the company

[graceful mortar]

You do know that like the United States is the world's number one Target because of the natural resources available and the fact that it has a massive tactical advantage physically right... And one of the things was because we had for a long time the strongest economy is we would offer our services to allies militarily if they needed support... (Hence everyone begrudgingly joining us in Afghanistan in 2002).

Remember the cat's out of the bag so like even if the US said no more AI I'm completely banned it... now China and Russia have a massive advantages and the US has no counter. That's the biggest issue. That's why export controls were originally placed on the AI chips.

[blazing beacon]

we shouldnt have a 1 trillion military budget in peace time when we dont even free or affordable heathcare we wont ever be invaded its too hard too expensive and no one is asking for no military just like half the budget

russia cant afford ai and china is going to join us in the crash at this rate

if i had the money id have already left the US by now

[graceful mortar]

Good... like I understand what your point is but I think you're not understanding that that was the point of raising the interest rates was to cool the economy. What you are describing is what happens when you try to cool an economy. Short-term loss long-term gain is the idea.

Now because of the temper tantrum of 2013 the Federal Reserve was kind of hand tied in what it could and couldn't do .. additionally if you bother to watch The summit meetings where all of the central banks get together ... you'll quickly understand that this is not like a US only problem and NOBODY wants to be in the position of the United States Federal Reserve being the world Reserve currency. Because everybody on that panel knows the best way to solve that inflation was to crank that interest rate well into the 20% range to immediately stall it.

The problem is you cannot do that in the modern economy because companies require debt lending even short-term to function so if you crank it up to 20%, none of these companies have enough cash Reserve to do anything.
Additionally remember we were coming out of covid so yes the economy was resurging but is also repairing ... So that would have been VERY bad.

Nobody, not even the Federal Reserve expected speculation to continue as aggressively as it has and triple bubble. At least they finally stopped buying risky assets from the banks... That went on far too long in the United States government took way too many losses on that..

[graceful mortar]

Yeah, the 400 lb Amazon drone is going to "malfunction" and fall from the sky directly on you sitting in your house.

[blazing beacon]

dude its beyond that if wages kept up with inflation they would be 27 or 28 dollars

we have the buying power of like half if not a 3rd of what people had in like the 60s

people use to be able to have a house and a whole family on 1 income now people are barely even making rent and ends meet with 2

its because pay is shit

like half the population makes under 50 or 60k

i dont make that nor does anyone i know

[winged spire]

Yes

Take a look outside your window

[graceful mortar]

Soo you're saying like communism? ...

And by the way the US does control the oil fields via the leases that it sells cuz they're not actually sold they still belong to the United States government... Now are they pricing them too low? maybe but you know oil exploration is really costly even in modern times.. in my state utilities are controlled by public companies and all right hikes have to be approved by a board of members... No it's definitely come to a light that these board members have never rejected a rate hike... being somewhere where it gets 120°, you would be shocked to hear or maybe not, but you know a normal electric bill is like 250-270 it's not uncommon to have $600 electric bills nowadays.

Now I am with you that if a company is paying an amount so low to a full-time worker that they qualify for government benefits ... that company should have to pay a percentage of its profits based on the amount of assistance percentage wise the employees are receiving because typically it's like a 60% boost to their pay in QOL.

But again why would I invest here when I could just take my US Dollars and go invest in China who is not going to regulate like that?

[graceful mortar]

Yes ... That good agent worth is probably double per hour what they're actually being paid. Oh and like 12 to 15% pay raises annually all of things that just don't happen they start you at $11 an hour and they keep you there for six or seven years they don't care..

Additionally if you recruited experienced agents that also means you have to compete with other companies for that talent..

[blazing beacon]

socalism i didnt say nationlize everything even though i think worker co ops would be wonderful but at least KEY stuff should have a PUBLIC option like how europe does it as for oil its from the country so it should benefit the people not the few

most of europe has free and paid healthcare both are STILL cheaper then the US

[blazing beacon]

dude i know that my electric bill is often like 250 or 300 and thats with a SINGLE window AC

[graceful mortar]

Okay so the reason for that is because there was a long period where there was no real military investment it was all like RFI stuff so not long-term investment just immediate response investment. Then everything kind of slowed down ...the problem was is like everything was becoming extremely outdated. Yes when interest rates were insanely low was the time for the entire government to start spending money like crazy.. invest in roads investing infrastructure all this military spending... But they didn't and now at this point they're forced to handle it and everything is 3 to 4X what it would have cost.

[blazing beacon]

and they have never rejected them i HATE utlities being for profit

[graceful mortar]

And go where exactly? Where is the economy better?

[vapid smelt]

ours is sub 120 with a 4 person household and electric outdoor hottub

[blazing beacon]

or just the government could put its foot down and tell these military contractors to allow right to repair and stuff but guess what congress owns shares of them so

[graceful mortar]

Yes... That's what happens when you're country loses the competitive production advantage that it once had... Again your ideas are not necessarily invalid ( ehh) ... they are invalid for modern times right ... that's something that should have been handled in the 1980s not 2025.

[blazing beacon]

most of europe based on enjoyment of life and health standards both WAY more important then raw money

[winged spire]

Have you ever been to Europe

[graceful mortar]

Yes ... The United States was number one in education and production and the highest quality manufacturing back then ... They let it slip away this is the realities of modern times.

[blazing beacon]

even in non production jobs should still pay a livable wage it WORKS in europe bro

[winged spire]

Minimum wage in Germany is like 12$

[graceful mortar]

Yes again, worldwide education competitiveness comes into this. The new us is no longer number one in research and development. .... Because everyone wants low taxes 🙄

[blazing beacon]

no but ive spoken to people from it and looked into it im not exepcting perfection but it will be better then the US

[blazing beacon]

min wage in the US is 8

[winged spire]

Expected

[graceful mortar]

Yes .. Soo what's the solution?

[winged spire]

In about half of the US

You think 4$ an hour is the difference maker?

[graceful mortar]

I don't believe that's an accurate stat.. I can go look since the data was just refreshed...

[blazing beacon]

paid time off and free healthcare and such make a diffrence

[blazing beacon]

go look because it is

[graceful mortar]

Sigh .. I'll do it again .. what state do you live in .. and what age group are you apart of. You probably aren't as bad off as you think you are...

[blazing beacon]

florida and in my 20s

[winged spire]

🥀

[blazing beacon]

whats that mean

it is on my high priority list to leave this state i hate this state

[graceful mortar]

The US used to own its own oil company... You do know that right

[graceful mortar]

Yes that's what happens in a free market economy... Also understand healthcare is expensive when you have the spread that you do here ... Europe has a substantially higher population density making it substantially cheaper.

[blazing beacon]

nope and why doesnt it? Norway and Alaska nationalized their natural resources ALASKA

[blazing beacon]

every first world nation has free healthcare

[graceful mortar]

Yeah the state tells the private companies what they're allowed to charge for operating the state's electrical system. 💀

[blazing beacon]

also im all for higher population density. Suburbs are a curse screw parking lots and make stuff walkable

[winged spire]

I wish

I pay 160 for 1000sqft

[blazing beacon]

damn

[winged spire]

1 person

[graceful mortar]

No.... Like I understand where you think you're coming from but like that's like a security problem so absolutely no.

[vapid smelt]

HEY JAMES COUNTS

[winged spire]

Keeping my AC cranked

[blazing beacon]

and then the companies tell the government to let them have every increase

dude i run my ac on 80

and its still over 200 i had to give up on the whole house AC as it made my electric bill 800 bucks

[blazing beacon]

uh no

[winged spire]

I really don’t believe any numbers you say tbh

[graceful mortar]

Okay so you want a drastically reduced quality of life in order to have free healthcare is that accurate? Because like you're going to struggle to find a job all kinds of things because even though the US economy is kind of messed up... It doing better than most.
You should go to the UK. I hear the letting people in

[blazing beacon]

also i fear the US gov more then china atm

[blazing beacon]

europe has a HIGHER QOL bro

the UK is not what i was talking about the UK is kinda OOF

[graceful mortar]

Because it's Europe. Like for instance just look at the cell carriers right yeah we know they're kind of greedy in the United States but consumers have actually through aggressive switching actually like kept the price is relatively low and steady.. other places you can have the same phone plan you're going to get here in the United States for that cost you $120 you can have it elsewhere for $35 a month.. why? Density and the economics of scale.

[blazing beacon]

even my water bill went from like 25 bucks to 40

state sucks ass

[graceful mortar]

In what way. Because you are GDP is definitely being influenced but like this other countries with actual problems..

[graceful mortar]

$7.25 ... But as you know I was confronted last week I think... If you live somewhere where they're actually paying that the cost of living is low enough to reflect that

[blazing beacon]

US ones low?

[blazing beacon]

i dont count GDP as important to a normal persons QOL europe is happier AND healthier in general even if the GDP is lower

if a rich person spent 1 trillion on digging pointless holes in the desert that would be 1 trillion added to the GDP even if it added no value

[blazing beacon]

oh yea....,. man

[winged spire]

Literally not how GDP works

🥀

[graceful mortar]

$61,984 as of a year ago ... $1,192 per week. We are only considering full-time workers because part-time workers can have such a big spread and reasons why they're part-time some voluntary some necessary etc.

[blazing beacon]

the average is affected by high wage earners when i said like 40 or 50% of the population is under like 50k thats what i mean

think about how many people are making 30k

[winged spire]

You’re doing the thing where you make stuff ip

The median is over 50k

The average is SIGNIFICANTLY over 50k

[vapid smelt]

our mimum wage should be more then a big mac meal

[blazing beacon]

yup

[vapid smelt]

if a full hour of work cant get me a full big mac meal its too low

[winged spire]

Thankfully 1% of Americans make federal minimum wage

[blazing beacon]

Nearly two out of every three adults in the U.S. are just scraping by, due to inflationary pressures, according to a new study.

Research from LendingClub finds that 61% of adults were living paycheck to paycheck as of July 2023, a two-point increase from the previous year. That comes even as inflation rates have dropped from 9.1% last July to 3.2% this year.

[vapid smelt]

my first job was minimum wage in 2018 😛

[blazing beacon]

and 2025 is worse

[winged spire]

Source?

[winged spire]

Even McDonald’s pays 15 now bruh 😭

[blazing beacon]

when i go to the store and see how much stuff costs and how much tariffs cost

[winged spire]

Made up again alright

[graceful mortar]

#1 MOVE .... you are in a expensive ass state ... yes i know miami has a direct impact on thsi stat...
#2
"Median income for ages 25 to 44: $77,487" now you should be in that $60k range being at teh bottom of that curve. are you?

[vapid smelt]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L7XEADrB5wk?feature=share but we have an A++++++ economy

[blazing beacon]

the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears

[winged spire]

What party lmao

[blazing beacon]

yea i know i was born here and have always hated it

[graceful mortar]

uhh NO Alaska is NOT the example you want... like in any way. when oil is cheap the state literally has to beg the US government for cash.

[blazing beacon]

its from the book 1984

[winged spire]

“I go to the grocery store and things are expensive” is not a source lmao

[blazing beacon]

nope

[vapid smelt]

when i got ot the ram store its super duper expensive

[blazing beacon]

ok so i see that everything costs 2x as much and the government goes "prices are down by 50%" well i guess prices are down by 50% i should obey

[winged spire]

Nearly everything you’ve said here has been explicitly false or misleading

[graceful mortar]

im aware... so you would be okay with goverment giving free healthcare to everyone.
who decides someone is too expensive to treat?
are you okay with another 15% tax on your income?
who funds R&D?

[blazing beacon]

no one anyone should be treated people with money will often choose private because of status or quicker times or just because it has stuff they deem worth it just like how it works in europe

[winged spire]

[graceful mortar]

ok, so how do you plan on making that happen? intrest rates are kinda high for that kind of investment. how are you going to make it affordable?

[oak pier]

You recognize that universal healthcare would be cheaper for the average american than paying for health insurance right?

The reason healthcare is so costly in america is the insurance system

[graceful mortar]

umm they are YOUR elected officals... go protest, and start a campaign for change... dont be passive they work FOR YOU.

[blazing beacon]

yes its WAY better then ICE or the military or the healthcare CEOS also think about this a hostpial run at cost could have like 600 staff where as a for profit might need insurance people now and all the middle men that drive up costs and well gotta have 20% profits this year tack that on

[blazing beacon]

dude with cracking and packing they choose their voters in my state it doesnt work

[graceful mortar]

uhh yes... right to repair means manuals open to the public... hence security risk.

[blazing beacon]

so your anti right to repair? i bet luis rossman would love you

[graceful mortar]

with less upward opportunity

[oak pier]

who in their right mind is anti right to repair?

[blazing beacon]

yea free healthcare would help destroy that

[oak pier]

HAH! america has some of the worst upward mobility

[vapid smelt]

our old appliances used to come with those

[blazing beacon]

i dont CARE i would rather people live comfrtable then some people get uber rich i dont get why it has to be loosers and winners i would rather just live comfortable and see others be comfortable then be uber rich

[graceful mortar]

umm VERY few. and if they are its because the area they live in is CHEAP. or they are choosing to.

[blazing beacon]

if i was asked would i rather have 1 billion dollars or 10 million and people are taken care of id take the 10 million

[graceful mortar]

okay but fast food is hella expensive per calore

[blazing beacon]

Suburbs have also ruined a lot .

[blazing beacon]

store food isnt even cheap anymore

[graceful mortar]

okay i want you to explain to ME why paycheck to paycheck is a flawed stat

[graceful mortar]

only 40% of tariff cost is being passed on to consumers.

[blazing beacon]

its not because it accounts for any area if your making 80k in NYC or 30k in the middle of no where and your paycheck to paycheck cost of living is already factored in

[blazing beacon]

thats still 40% too much they are a bad idea how they were done and are backing up stuff at ports

[polar oracle]

any kindle users here ? looking to get one for my mom for christmas, which one would you recommend ?

[graceful mortar]

why not. what have you done to solve you being behind on earnings?

[oak pier]

it’s at a point where the vast majority of the population has almost zero ability to move up in income to any significant degree

[blazing beacon]

being born into a poor area with little opportunity didn't help and its not only about me i also want others to live comfortably

[oak pier]

redlining and its consequences

[graceful mortar]

OHHHH so you want a 2 tier system. one with shitty care (becuse teh doctors are paid HALF of private pay (see VA pay)) and one for teh rich who have the current level of care offered in the healthcare system or better?

[blazing beacon]

i hate this state, I don't even like the heat

[blazing beacon]

myth free healthcare isnt even shit

dr pay doesnt mean quality at least in those countries people become drs because they want to save lives not for money EVERY person i know here in the US who entered the medical field had 1 reason $$$

[graceful mortar]

YES because of economies of scale. there is a reaosn there was a mandate... the next phase was const control. but some one gutted a bill, and they went back to their normal buisness of exploitiation. non insured fee shoudl have been $30,000 a year ... when it was cheaper than getting it.... well we saw the results

[blazing beacon]

thank u finally

[vapid smelt]

shouldve put your starting points into better skills/stats

[graceful mortar]

10000% correct. but they own teh hospitals, including the "public" ones... soo what now lol

[blazing beacon]

nationalize them

[graceful mortar]

uhh huh. okay Part 2... how are you going to eductae teh doctors? their pay will fall to 30% of current but their education costs will still be near or over $500,000... so why would they chose to be a doctor?

[vapid smelt]

one of the equipment at the hospital my parents works at needs a per person (worker) paid subscription

[blazing beacon]

nationlize colleges because the costs are out of hand anyhow like wtf

education is already KEY

at least the STATE ones

im open to the idea of both private and public stuff

[graceful mortar]

BTW at cost is STUPID. no money to fix the building, buy new equipment, offer hiring bonuses. like if you are gonna try and make an argument make it make sense.

[blazing beacon]

at costs factors that stuff in

[graceful mortar]

okay so start a movement. dont complain with no actions.

[blazing beacon]

say rent costs the gov landlord 800 per person for that stuff make rent like 810 or 820 and then use that extra money as the slush fund for fixing and expanding

[blazing beacon]

doesnt work the government doesnt care they have shown that

[graceful mortar]

for weapons and military assets 100% yes... all of a sudden Montana launches 8 nukes at DC because china got mad and figured out teh vulnerabilities...

[graceful mortar]

not a true statement. see whistling diesil. Caleb hammer, etc.

[blazing beacon]

omg same logic car companies used with the "oh no if you let your car be repaired your gonna get graped" ads they ran

real ads btw

also they LOVE to pull out the "if repair people can repair your car china and iran can spy on your"

[graceful mortar]

$250-300 a month for a single person. really isnt that bad

[vapid smelt]

https://www.autoblog.com/news/hyundai-is-now-locking-diy-owners-out-of-their-own-brake-repairs hehehehehe

[blazing beacon]

damn parody is dead this world is the parody

[graceful mortar]

no its MUCH more basic than that. paycheck to paycheck doenst account or report for those that CHOSE to buy thing they couldn't afford and caused the paycheck to paycheck situation.

[graceful mortar]

okay... whats teh point here. you could just say you dont like tarrifs. Costco agrees with you.

[blazing beacon]

"sorry mc donalds worker should ahve went to collage no fun for you just be wage slave and funnel your money to your land lord" right shame on them for going to the movie once every 6 months they should have saved that 30 bucks

[graceful mortar]

no absoulty not. that is not an answer. what have YOU done to increase your wage to that of your peers?

[blazing beacon]

i dont like tariffs i dont like the 🟠 and i dont like the US system of prioritizing profits over lives

[vapid smelt]

hey mc Donald's helps pay for college

[blazing beacon]

nothing ever heard of poverty entrapment

[graceful mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/horrified-funny-face-dang-ice-cube-gif-12839544880309883282

[blazing beacon]

didnt u hear about how walmart and mc donalds relies on medicare to take care of its workers because they pay them so little

[graceful mortar]

how? you have to buy them for the price they TELL you.

[blazing beacon]

or u can just tell them to kick rocks and nationlize them its almost like the government is the government and should prioritize the people not the 1%

[graceful mortar]

you know Community colleges exist and states that care about their citizens it basically free....

[blazing beacon]

they already did enough damage with lobbying so its time to pay up

[graceful mortar]

no it doesnt.

[blazing beacon]

yea not mine

[blazing beacon]

its not hard to charge a tiny amount on top to pay for those things as a rainy day fund

i saw this report about how swedent gave a bunch of houses out for free and it worked VERY well

[winged spire]

Found the hiding spot for the industrial roomba

Thst just chopped the door in half lol

I thought they’d have made him a doggy door but I guess not

[graceful mortar]

ahem ... we are talking about nukes... not a car .....

[vapid smelt]

peaking on sleeping clankers you dirty dog

[graceful mortar]

ahhh. there it is you LIKE being a victim and having people coddle you. you dont want change you just want to complain with no solutions or actions.

[winged spire]

The clanker is not safe even while sleeping

[blazing beacon]

or maybe companies get to charge the military like 5000 bucks an hour for a repair man to fix a stove on a ship and that helps the bottom line and since congress invests into them that benefits them too

[winged spire]

My Walmart has an autonomous floor buffer thing it’s pretty cool

fast too

[blazing beacon]

have u seen whos in power

[calm swan]

sounds like a skill issue honestly

[winged spire]

Probably the fastest robot I’ve seen in a public setting like that

[graceful mortar]

no you arent entitled to ANYTHING you havent earned. so no they cant go if they havent earned it. 🤦‍♂️

[blazing beacon]

maybe as a society we should actually want people to be entitled to living

[winged spire]

https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/105609537-1544038192286walmartbraincorprobot.jpg?v=1684512026&w=717&h=403&ffmt=webp&vtcrop=y

[blazing beacon]

mc donalds workers and janitors have value just as much as guy who lost 10 billion on we work

[graceful mortar]

k go to mexico or somthing. like the grass inst greener. and certinally not as green as you thing. youve been an adult for a while... what have you done so far to depart the US? where do you plan on going?

[blazing beacon]

yet 1 walks away with pennies the other with 500 million

[graceful mortar]

LITERALLY FREE SCHOOLING via McDonalds...

[blazing beacon]

omg i love this excuse "see the US is great" compares it to a 3rd world country

[graceful mortar]

that not how that works.. the goverment HAS to buy them out. and THEY set teh price... again you are like on some USSR stuff right now.

[north escarp]

Harvard has some free online courses. And old books are fairly easy to find ❤️

[calm swan]

mit also has opencourseware. good stuff

[blazing beacon]

the US can makes its own companies but honestly with how much damage companies like united healthcare have done they deserve the USSR treatment of nationalization

[winged spire]

You can also like

[graceful mortar]

again FALSE
"Florida community college costs for residents are very affordable, typically ranging from around $100 to $120 per credit hour, translating to roughly $1,200 to $3,000 annually" pell pays nearly $4k a SEMESTER... its free.

[winged spire]

Just show up to classes lmao

[vapid smelt]

as old as you?

[north escarp]

Lol I know i was around for Pythagoras and all but yiss 🦖

[blazing beacon]

meh anyhow im not sticking in flordia i hate this state id rather do college in another state

[graceful mortar]

and who chooses what stock that money gets invested in so it doenst lose value in a savings account?

[winged spire]

I’ve just decided to attend a few classes at my uni

[graceful mortar]

QuikTrip!!!

[winged spire]

Lecture hall with 150 people ain’t no one notice

[winged spire]

Yep

[blazing beacon]

uh u dont its called u get paid 10 extra dollars by 100 people every month u store that in a bank account or something and use that

[calm swan]

so you wanna pay more?

[graceful mortar]

AHH so you want more citizens involved in goverment so the contracts are neogated with fair terms.

[blazing beacon]

no id be moving to that state i hate flordia

[vapid smelt]

the government are the best people at not wasting money

[blazing beacon]

or they can just repair it like they use to do

[winged spire]

Governments SHOULD be run inefficiently

[turbid falcon]

you forgot the /s part

[winged spire]

Obviously there’s a line but

[blazing beacon]

companies will waste money then bill you for it and then take another 15% on top

[graceful mortar]

in what way does that have a DIRECT tangible impact on why you are behind you r peers who are ..... fun fact... also dealing with the same things...

[winged spire]

It’s 10000% benefcial to run a government inefficiently

[blazing beacon]

im trans so it has in fact had a massive impact

[north escarp]

Oofs,

[graceful mortar]

uhh okay... like what is your point here? what are you entitled to?

[blazing beacon]

being happy and not being blamed by the government for everything they dont like

[graceful mortar]

yes they are SOOO FAST

[winged spire]

What

Oh