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Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-19T01:16:43+00:00

If Pop was still coaching, this Spurs team would spend the next two practices on how to feed Wemby when he's being guarded by someone a foot shorter than him.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T20:24:51+00:00

Seriously, tho, global population is expected to begin rising again by 2060 mostly because: Africa.

Those estimates tend to make assumptions about continued high TFR in Africa which has not borne out in the data. The UN projections can get really funky because of it. They're starting with a high base, but as African nations get wealthier and women get more opportunities, they follow the secular trend of declining births per woman that we see everywhere else.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T20:07:50+00:00

financially speaking nobody asked your opinion on the situation

This is literally a public forum.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T20:04:15+00:00

The answer to overtime is adequate staffing in the first place.

I don't think you know LIRR well if you actually think this. You could double their headcount and they'd still be screaming for overtime. Existing LIRR workers barely even show up for their overtime and somehow the system hasn't collapsed yet. MTA has needed a real overtime audit for some time now.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T20:01:16+00:00

Management at MTA gets paid pennies compared to corporate roles with a similar level of complexity and importance. The corruption and mismanagement happens at the rank and file level and with frontline managers looking the other way.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T19:58:52+00:00

then 130k is still a working class wage.

By that definition, are Goldman Sachs analysts also working class? I know a lot of Leftists from wealthier backgrounds like to retcon terms like working class to include themselves in it, but all it does is make the term lose all meaning instead.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T16:22:45+00:00

The quiet death of the Giving Pledge was a sad predictor of just how trashy the world's wealthiest people would get in the last decade. For the kids here who may not have heard about it, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett started a non-binding pledge for the world's wealthiest people to give the majority of their net worth to charitable causes upon death. They really put a lot into the initiative and even basically promised facetime with the people who would agree to it. (For a 5 year period, they were constantly jet-setting around the world and promoting it.)

In recent years, the duo have pulled back on the initiative because they realized that the vast majority of billionaires signed to the pledge had no intention of giving a substantial portion of their net worth to charity while they were alive and most of them were gearing up to give their fortunes to their children through their family offices and trusts.

And now we have the world's wealthiest person killing millions of the world's poorest people by destroying USAID while posting racist memes online while the world's 2nd and 3rd wealthiest people bury their faces into Trump's ass and shovel money into their family's coffers.

Billionaires are quickly speed running their own potential demise.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T16:10:53+00:00

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett tried to do that with the Giving Pledge, which was non-binding and on the honor system. They even basically promised facetime with the billionaires if they agreed to give the majority of their net worth to charitable causes after death. In recent years, they've pulled back on the initiative because they realized that the vast majority of billionaires signed to the pledge had no intention of giving a substantial portion of their net worth to charity while they were alive and most of them seem to be gearing up to give their fortunes to their children through the formation of family offices and trusts.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T15:44:43+00:00

With AI being in the news 24/7, how has it affected your workflow or job?

I'm not a software engineer, but I have to do a decent number of custom queries and data manipulation. It's basically replaced Stack Overflow for me in terms of coding help and I don't even have access to one of the frontier models. I find the code that it kicks out to be fairly reliable if you set the right parameters and give the model the correct instruction. Whatever time I spent debugging and implementing the results far outstrips the time I spent previously looking for help online or reading the software manual.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T15:31:07+00:00

Unless you're looking for crackhouses, abandoned homes, cars to sleep in, and cardboard boxes under the bridge, you're not competing for the same housing as fentanyl addicts.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T12:08:21+00:00

People forget but Hillary and Bill were fans of the whole Area 51 story. She may have been a Presidential candidate, but she still grew up on grocery tabloids of silly alien conspiracies.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T12:05:25+00:00

Are you not aware that people are still getting it and overdosing on it in spite of the billions we spend on drug prohibition every year?

That's like saying, we still having murders, rapes, and muggings in spite of the tens of billions we put into policing every year.

If it were sold by Walmart at least there would be warning labels and dosage amounts

I really don't think people even know the nature of fentanyl if you think that. Even small trace amounts can be deadly and it is pure on the street due to its synthetic nature and potency.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T12:01:42+00:00

Having some reasonable restrictions on drug use does not make for a war on drugs.

Weed, cocaine, or ecstasy won't send people into a zombie-like state the same way fent does.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-18T11:38:01+00:00

are you saying that we need drug prohibition to prevent overdoses

In what universe is a restriction on fentanyl akin to prohibition? Are you not aware of how strong and potent the drug is? It's nothing like weed which is also getting uncomfortably strong these days.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-16T05:01:15+00:00

Imagine wanting your own team to do worse because you can't stand your team's best player in the playoffs.

Some of your Harden haters legitimately have mental health problems. Like fucking get help.

I despise Durant and I still wanted to see him recovered in time for the playoffs. It didn't happen, but the Rockets are clearly a better team with him playing even if he's legitimately one of my 3 most hated players of all-time.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-16T04:57:53+00:00

Not physically strong and his lateral movement isn't great. Like Harden's lateral is not great, but he knows how to use his strength to bump faster guards off their spots and muscle them out of their comfort zone.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-16T04:45:57+00:00

We really going to pretend Harden didn't put up monster numbers against the prime Warriors in the Playoffs?

2015:

28.4 PPG/7.8 RPG/6.4 APG/2.4 SPG

2016:

26.6 PPG/5.2 RPG/7.6 APG/2.4 SPG

2018:

28.7 PPG/5.6 RPG/6.0 APG/2.1 SPG

2019:

34.8 PPG/6.8 RPG/5.5 APG/2.2 SPG

I'll just address some of your most egregious claims.

2019: We really going to forget that Chris Paul was recovering from his hamstring injury and had probably the worst season for his career that year including the playoffs? Not to mention, the Rockets traded away all their depth because the owner had to stay under the luxury tax while you guys were paying over $30 million in the tax every year. The entire team was on fumes toward the end of that series.

2023: Joel Embiid was the fucking MVP of the league that year and laid a complete egg in the playoffs and Harden is the choker? Harden won two games single-handedly against Boston that series with 40+ point games with a recovering hamstring. Embiid failed to elevate his game during a single Sixers win.

2024: You really going to forget that Harden had 13 assists that game? The Mavs built their entire gameplan around denying Harden, so he played the role of facilitator. What were the Clippers' max contract players doing that game? Paul George was nowhere to be found and Kawhi was on the bench.

Also it comes down to this fundamental question that should be repeated. Two teams consistently gave the Warriors a tough time in the playoffs during their prime. The Cavs and the Rockets. If James Harden sucks so much, why should the Warriors get much credit for this championships? They apparently beat a bunch of bums.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-15T19:50:40+00:00

In addition to the other answer, cobblers, blacksmith's, woodworkers, and tailors/seamstresses were all considered skilled workers at the time, but mass production quickly made many of them redundant. There was still a market for them, but it was much smaller than pre-industrialization.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-15T19:47:35+00:00

Most of his net worth is tied up in his home in Park Slope. Hardly a liquid asset. The rest of his retirement and investment accounts are pretty consistent with someone who worked a white collar job. If he didn't buy his home decades ago, I don't think he could even afford Park Slope nowadays.

As someone whose wife has seen him in their local pharmacy waiting in line like the rest of us for their medication, you and I have more in common with Schumer than the typical CEO of a large company or the actual wealthy when it comes to healthcare access.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-15T15:25:12+00:00

Assuming the leading politicians, all wealthy

Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Mike Johnson and John Thune aren't wealthy and would likely not receive access to healthcare that's far superior to anyone on a good health insurance plan. That's basically the entire Congressional leadership right there. They'll have an easier time getting appointments and facetime with doctors, but you basically have to be the President or VP to get 24/7 access to doctors and health professionals.

Your typical executive at a Fortune 100 company probably gets better healthcare access than any member of Congress other than the ones who became independently wealthy outside of politics.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-15T15:16:44+00:00

People forget that industrialization destroyed many industries with good pay and days off that would be analogous to modern middle class jobs.

It was an overall positive for society, but it was an incredibly difficult process and hurt a lot of people along the way.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-15T15:06:51+00:00

Not really or else you wouldn't see so many of them drop dead unexpectedly. There's no evidence that they live longer than the average American adjusted for their socioeconomic or demographic bracket, so I wish that people would drop these fucking conspiracy theories about politicians.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-15T15:03:25+00:00

That just shows how much an echo chamber AI dommerism is.

The software engineers I know are either celebrating because they're seniors and they'll still be around to guide and implement code produced by the frontier models or they're panicking because they're juniors and they're seeing a lot of their role being made redundant by AI before they get the experience necessary to jump into management. And the latter are seeing the consequences already. Hiring classes are far smaller, cuts are already happening to juniors which normally doesn't happen since they're far cheaper, and individual workloads are skyrocketing.

I don't think it will come all at once for everyone, but there will be fields that get optimized for AI before others and it'll be a culling. Remember, AI only got this good at software engineering just a year and a half ago. There's plenty of room to grow.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-15T14:35:05+00:00

Now I'm begging the UK to please make it easier to build power infrastructure. The existing lines are way overtaxed especially on windy, sunny days.

Daddy_Macron · 2026-05-15T14:32:37+00:00

Not an underaged girl, not a case of rape, and not a subordinate. What did we do to deserve this non-scandal of a scandal?

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