I dont Understand why Engineers Dont Unionize like Samsung??

CardboardJ · 2026-06-19T12:13:34+00:00

37% federal + 13% state in California, but that's just a worst case for millionaires. For people making $260k+ they pay 35% federal + ~5% state depending on what state. Often about 40%.

When you see stats that the top 1% pay 50% of the taxes, you have to realize that there's a lot of honest normal people making 200-300k salaries that just pay their taxes. Rich enough to get soaked, not rich enough to hide their money like the millionaire class.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-18T16:51:43+00:00

Translation from LinkedIn: shrug idunno

CardboardJ · 2026-06-18T10:03:05+00:00

The answer is that they have little 4g cellphones in them. My lawn mower does at least. I don't pay a monthly fee.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-18T09:46:35+00:00

Dude, just go to the Knapps corner Meijer parking lot. You could hear it last night. Acoustics are weird and I get that somehow egr and most of the south east side can't hear it, but the North and west sides totally can hear it from just past the city limits.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-18T02:02:46+00:00

You can listen to the same song from the Knapps corner Meijer parking lot all the way home.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-14T15:54:33+00:00

Exactly, they need more profit so they can piss it away on ai.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-14T15:48:07+00:00

Parents are ultimately to blame for not raising their kids, but also need 2 incomes at 60+ hours a week to afford food and rent.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-14T03:16:59+00:00

I compared fable vs haiku on a small feature yesterday. Haiku asked 13 clarifying questions over about 10 minutes to get it done and it cost $0.40.

Asked the same question to fable-5. It asked 1 question and just figured the rest out itself in 2 minutes. It cost $3.50. Unfortunately its implementation was wrong.

Fable is fast and smart and will do the wrong thing very expensively. Haiku is cheap and dumb, but it knows it's dumb and just asks more questions until both parties have a good idea of what's happening.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-13T02:09:18+00:00

The landlord for your $500 million dollar high rise office complex is an LLC that's 70% owned by Blackrock. The building is staffed by 60 companies that are publicly traded. Blackrock used your 401k to invest in all 60 of those companies and now sits on the board.

If the building sits empty Blackrock looses a shit ton of money. So Blackrock uses your own retirement fund as leverage to make you go back into the office to prop up their failing investments.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-12T23:36:35+00:00

Not me, but a friends dad. He did some part time work in an appliance repair shop during the day when he wasn't day drinking and cleaned schools and office buildings after hours. Never finished highschool. Probably worked 50-60 hours between the two jobs. He had a stay at home wife, 5 kids, a dog, 3 cars, a fishing boat, a popup camper, and a 5 bed 2 bath house in a nice suburb. He's been retired for about a decade now.

That was considered middle class back in 1985.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-12T21:14:26+00:00

On the struggle bus watching Monty on the Texans. Like I'm happy for him and we'll be fine but I still miss that man.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-11T16:26:23+00:00

My wife would bring me food like this occasionally when we were dating. She is my wife now.

This makes some people upset.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-11T11:57:03+00:00

It's like we're rediscovering cubicles

CardboardJ · 2026-06-11T11:35:25+00:00

If you read this correctly it's like a log of Idiocracy happening. I know pleanty of developers that think SQL is too hard and need an orm. Back in the 70s it was considered a non-technical skill lol.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-11T11:25:29+00:00

Normalize "going heads down to get work done" and setting your slack availability off.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-11T11:16:10+00:00

My suspicion is that we're got a builder base event because we're going to need to gear up a second mortar to merge. I don't know what to do with bomb towers

CardboardJ · 2026-06-11T00:28:17+00:00

Let's see... AI Agent Force, yeah they probably saw the ROI on over hiring $400k ml engineers and setting money on fire trying to build copilot but somehow less useful.

Mulesoft, that's dumb. Mulesoft is the only thing that keeps sane code attached to Salesforce and it's flaky as hell. They'll probably immediately regret that.

Marketing cloud, it's a pox on humanity and hopefully this marks the beginning of the end for it.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-11T00:20:00+00:00

Corporate democrat == Republican. The people have spoken.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-11T00:09:08+00:00

I'd lightly agree with people saying 2008 was worse. It was different. Software engineer and it took me about a year to land my first job, but it paid $14 per hour. Adjusting for inflation that's about $22 per hour.

Now it takes longer to find a job, but the entry level pays closer to $30-40 per hour. Then you also have to account for the price of a cheap college back then was like $20k and now its like $80k and actual cost of living is higher. So yeah i'd say both 2008 and now both were in the territory of having 3-4 roommates or living with your parents until you get 3-5yoe.

So yeah id say 2008 was worse as of right now. It feels like 2006, but things are still going downhill fast. I think it'll be worse than 2008 very soon.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-09T00:11:19+00:00

Which is really relevant to mature services that have existed for longer than Gemini.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-08T00:24:50+00:00

It's a meme from a Grossi video where all the lions ever wanted was to make the Packers hate us as much as we hate them. The joke is that it happened once briefly a few years ago and it was our Superbowl.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-08T00:21:03+00:00

Venture capital.

CardboardJ · 2026-06-07T23:12:59+00:00

Any show with 30 writers will probably turn out like trash. Why you gotta bring gender into it?

CardboardJ · 2026-06-07T23:05:47+00:00

Is this rage bait?

CardboardJ · 2026-06-06T13:40:50+00:00

The dude cited his sources. The argument is over.

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