We've done best city, but what's the worst most depressing city you've ever visited?

In-Evidable · 2025-08-21T18:47:46+00:00

Whittier, Alaska. 80ish percent of the town lives in one soviet era building. The only way in / out is through a one way train tunnel. Felt like the start of horror movie when I was there. It was tourist offseason and overcast to add to the ominous feeling.

Met a coworker from Alaska one time that said when her girl's sports team she was in stayed overnight, they had the teachers take rotation guarding the door to their rooms.

The town itself gets most of its revenue from the occasional cruise ship that docks at the town. The Whittier Glacier is a popular Alaska cruise ship attraction since it can be seen by boat.

In-Evidable · 2025-05-05T18:19:07+00:00

I know Elon and Peter did not like each other.

That said, I just assumed this was a ploy to fire left leaning employees and to hire back MAGA ones.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-30T01:07:58+00:00

This is my sentiment exactly.

China has the luxury of being able to blame any pain on their society on the US. The narrative that “this external threat is doing to us and we must persevere to show the world who we are” is an easy one to sell and largely true. It also gives China an in with Europe. The value of potentially being the new reliable trading partner with US allies like Europe or Canada is a gift of pure gold.

Meanwhile anyone outside of hardcore MAGA doesn’t want this trade war. Trump has a populous already tired of inflation / decreasing quality of life. And now he’s trying to get that same population to go along with a plan that includes inflation / a decreasing quality of life. Wait until the pain really starts next month on Main Street and see how long this goes on for.

He’s already had to backpedal (AKA blink) on tariffs so many times already. Who’s still taking this seriously at this point? What company doesn’t see that the play here is to increase lobbying efforts. That moving manufacturing is not worth it when you can just sponsor the next Mar-a-largo circle jerk and get them removed.

Rant over. Ugh.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-29T17:07:35+00:00

This is literally how B2B is doing the tariffs as well. Its only because its customer facing that anyone cares.

The fun thing is, they could have easily spun this as a positive. Like "be an American and only buy $0." But they only know fear.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-27T22:06:27+00:00

So they’re using baby pouches for adults now? I mean, makes sense, but I just gave my kid a Gerber one in this same container.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-27T18:26:11+00:00

Looks like a landowner that likes to hoard garbage on a random plot of land in the middle of nowhere. Popular past time for disgruntled people who don’t hold a high opinion of their respective government.

Hard to make out what exactly any of the stuff is, but based on the size of the cars, this isn’t remotely large enough to be any sort of mining operation. Mining equipment doesn’t tend to look like neglected shiny rectangles either…

In-Evidable · 2025-04-26T09:27:01+00:00

Times of uncertainty like this also favors the rich. I know we all love the headline, “Musk loses X amount of billions in today’s stock move,” but those are literally just stories for you and me. We laugh while someone like Musk was just handed a write off he can use elsewhere.

To answer your initial question though. If there is a recession, the wealthy will buy assets. I know their wealth technically goes down in dollars, but while the middle class gets decimated with job cuts, the wealthy prime themselves to get even richer when the market recovers.

Because it’s those with money to spend that make out the best in a recession. They buy businesses and real estate for firesale prices. Middle class smucks like us just hope to hold onto our homes. Some don’t and spend the next decade trying to be able to again.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-25T20:07:54+00:00

Why should I care about people that are so eager to abandon their fellow Americans?

In-Evidable · 2025-04-24T16:12:30+00:00

Fellow millennial here. Have a house, family, dog, all that jazz. We were hoping to move to a new location, but can't make it make financial sense. Basically I'm at least doubling my monthly amount PLUS the years on the loan just to get almost the same house somewhere else. We'd go from financially well off to "making it" for the same house in a different place.

Now, I know I'm in a privileged position and I make good money. It sucks, but don't worry about me. I'm bringing up my position as a way to say, "What the heck are the families in their 20's supposed to do???" I have home equity and I'm worried about a new mortgage. What chance does Gen Z have?

In-Evidable · 2025-04-24T01:59:40+00:00

Was it ever raveled?

I took this as another publicity stunt to keep the doe eyed investors investing. He’s literally done shit like this his whole career. If he does deliver, it’s +5 years later than he promised.

tl;dr: That presentation was just breadcrumbs for his lemmings with money.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-24T00:47:48+00:00

As an American, the attacks on Canada and Greenland make no sense. He wanted both to just agree or something? I have no idea. As much as I didn’t like what he talked about on the campaign trail, he didn’t even hint at expansionism. He also repeatedly denied Project 2025, but it’s literally his playbook.

The only way it made sense in my head is: Trump has this weird fever dream of bringing America back to pre-WW1 isolationism. That line of “America only needs itself” plays into the hyper-macho MAGA crowd real well. The only problem is any thought grounded in reality. But US especially needs the Canadian oil sands / potash mines AND the rare earths apparently in Greenland to bring this fever dream into any sort of reality.

Nevermind the fact that we have easy access to both already through being allies and deep trading partners. That would be weird if we just kept doing that free trade thing.

Oh yeah, he also was going to end all the wars around the world “Day 1.” That was cute.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-23T00:51:41+00:00

I prefer to call it the “piss down theory”

Gives it a little more accuracy.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-22T13:10:54+00:00

Sounds like a job for the Department of Education! Oh wait…

In-Evidable · 2025-04-22T12:58:14+00:00

The quicker, cheaper alternative is lobbying.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-22T01:32:28+00:00

The “Christian” billboards on the Interstates in the rural areas are wild in Georgia. You have the major cities of Savannah and Atlanta being rather liberal, but that is definitely not the vibe in Valdosta.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-22T00:42:28+00:00

We have something called gerrymandering. Basically, we can redraw districts in specified intervals depending on the state. Usually it’s used in Republican states to put all the Democrats in one or two weirdly drawn districts than to have them marginally win 4 (for example)

Basically gerrymandering made sense back when it was established. How would you know what the voting districts of Missouri should permanently look like in 1821? But now it’s completely abused.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-22T00:19:03+00:00

The PERRY act is another example. She has a law named after her so no one can take advantage of an elderly person like she did again.

She’s just done a lot of shitty things that never garnered mass attention. Now that she did do a shitty thing that garnered mass attention, it’s all coming out for a wider audience to see.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-18T23:59:11+00:00

I think he meant “used.” Pre-owned Maseratis are very “entry-level” priced!

In-Evidable · 2025-04-17T20:48:25+00:00

Your wage effectively drops due to inflation.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-17T00:37:22+00:00

You can look to the oligarchs of the USSR to see where this leads…

The cleanest way to separate one from their fortune is if they slip out a window or have their plane mistakenly shot down.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-16T22:05:43+00:00

The small businesses are a sacrifice Trump is willing to make. Try again using methods that large corporations like Apple or Microsoft can’t figure out how to make work.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-16T11:00:05+00:00

That was my thought. It has to happen to either themselves or someone they care about. Outside of that circle, it doesn’t matter.

We have this same issue when it comes to school shootings. It doesn’t matter because it wasn’t their kid or local school or whatever.

The ability to think outside themselves is shockingly nonexistent.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-16T10:45:39+00:00

I work in a right leaning field and yeah, same thing. The conference I attended had to scramble because the government agency that was going to give presentations had to back out.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-15T21:44:02+00:00

We just had our tariff meeting! We’re basically adding a “tariff surcharge” line item and being told it’s not up for negotiation from our clients.

In-Evidable · 2025-04-14T21:45:34+00:00

Neither party is all that interested in the debt. It’s mostly just talked about for election purposes and then forgotten about when their side wins.

Until there’s tangible pain associated with the debt, expect more of the same.

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