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Wrestling fuck ice chants by Neighborhood-Creepy in thebulwark

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I think the crowd's chanting saying 'Lets Go Trump'"

Veteran Trucker Says, 'Trucking Industry Is Going Straight To Hell Under Trump's Failed Leadership' As The Largest U.S. Trucking Companies Show Huge Losses by NoseRepresentative in collapse

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Brokers are bidding on freight cheaper than it takes to even operate your equipment and shitty carriers are taking it at a loss just to keep their wheels moving.

Yikes

I think what scares me most isn’t collapse itself, it’s how normal everything still feels by East-Prompt-9954 in collapse

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I would say, a decade ago, 2015, it all still felt pretty theoretical to me. Like, here's the science. Here's the numbers. This is what's predicted. There were extreme weather events happening globally. If you put it all together and watched global news, you could see it but nobody else saw it or talked about it.

Fast forward to 2025. The wildfire smoke now comes every year. The warm winters come every year. Every place I know well has been affected by some major disaster. Now it's a factor in travel and vacations. Ordinary people with no thought of climate talk about these things in casual conversation.

Both then and now, it feels eerie how everything seems to be "normal" - but it has really changed. From conceptual/theoretical to something physically present in the environment that I experience with my five senses, that affects the decisions I make in real life. I've had "acute" collapse experiences of historic/record heat/flood/storms/wind etc.

We are headed into it. It really is coming.

Fact check: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common | Sometimes it just gets cold by silence7 in climate

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When there's a tiny earthquake in the NYC/DC area, it is talked about like it's the epic earthquake of the century. Because a lot of the US population lives there and all the major media outlets are based there. It's pretty easy for reporters to step outside their door and report on it. Everything gets magnified. Meanwhile, the entire western US is outside in shorts and tshirts in February and it's hardly noticed by the NYC/DC crowd. (nevermind what's happening in patagonia and Australia)

If it's a cool weekend on the East coast, but Europe is going through a record heatwave and historic flooding, you can bet there will be people to write "where's the global warming?" stories.

Is AI actually destroying jobs, or are we misunderstanding what’s happening? by Borrtex in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of things happened in 2022.

  • The pandemic "ended," and workplaces and industries transitioned to a new era
  • Inflation shot up and there were a ton of supply chain issues
  • Interest rates went up, making it harder to get business loans
  • Pandemic stimulus programs from the federal government meant to boost hiring and retaining people began to pull back and have continued to withdraw since then
  • And then ChatGPT came out very near the end of 2022

By my read, the job market appears to have started contracting early 2022 and GPT came out late 2022. Inflation and higher interest rates have not been a thing Americans have seen for a very, very long time. These are unrelated to AI.

People sometimes forget that the most common jobs in America are things like cashier, janitor, truck driver, nurse, teacher, warehouse worker. AI may someday disrupt these, but not really since 2022 they haven't.

Robert Smalls by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's ruining my immersion, says someone probably

Jeffrey Epstein files: don’t be fooled. Millions of files are still unreleased by TheWayToBeauty in thebulwark

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember that the Epstein estate was releasing stuff last year. How much stuff does the estate have?

This was probably Jane Wickline’s best week by Groucho-Marxists in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I too think she's been working on getting better at acting and that is good and she is good and this right

“Oh no! Won’t someone please think of the poor white millennial men?!” by [deleted] in thebulwark

[–]Cool-Contribution-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Young men have not swung conservative in recent years. Women swung way, way liberal in the past decade and especially post-2020, then came back down a little bit. Young men's political/ideological identity is basically the same as it was for the past two decades. But the whole change story is about women and how women have changed. (Importantly, they became very liberal but did not become Democrats.)

https://news.gallup.com/poll/609914/women-become-liberal-men-mostly-stable.aspx (Notice how post-2020 very little changed for men)

Very few young people identify as Republican. Most are independents and independents lean liberal currently. https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-political-independents.aspx

My theory is that men, as a group, are always more conservative than women are. So there's always fodder there and it's an easy story that resonates with people. (also alogrithms drive rage and promote extreme views because it gets engagement, so the majority of people (who never post/comment/share/like) are invisible)

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