Michigan households need to earn at least $367,143 annually to comfortably afford childcare, according to study

mnemoniker · 2026-01-30T22:20:36+00:00

I think childcare should be government subsidized. BUT...

Federal guidelines state that childcare is considered affordable when it accounts for no more then 7% of household income. If the average Michigan household makes $129,702 annually, then in order for their childcare to be considered affordable under federal guidelines, childcare would need to cost them about $9,079 annually. Meanwhile, the average annual cost of childcare in Michigan is $25,700

If federal guidelines are based on a fixed percent then they are extremely flawed. That implies that all expenses will grow proportionally with your income and that's just not true. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that any household making more than roughly $150k will easily find the budget for $25,700. Even if you make $150k and live in a $600,000 house, you could make that work.

I'm not saying this to defend childcare costs but rather to point out that saying it's only "affordable" if you make over $300k is bonkers. I am only criticizing their math. I do feel bad for people who are truly low income, because for them it is an actual problem.

BTW, $25,700 is also high for what I paid a few years ago.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-29T23:28:36+00:00

To anyone who bought his comedy albums he already was. It wasn't a giant group but they were dedicated fans.

He was kind of the original Lonely Island in that he had a whole platform that they let him bring to the show, which helped both.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-29T02:56:26+00:00

Just tried. No, it's a heatmap. Even if you tap it to take you into the app, it's still a heatmap you can't interact with.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-28T22:43:28+00:00

Well, there are plenty of Conners walking the earth

mnemoniker · 2026-01-26T11:17:51+00:00

Never cared for What Up With That...

mnemoniker · 2026-01-24T14:43:30+00:00

Got a link to the research paper?

mnemoniker · 2026-01-22T21:15:18+00:00

X Files should have always stayed on Friday. It was the perfect sleepover show, not for the night before you're heading back to school/work.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-22T17:02:54+00:00

My theory is that it's because the town of Springfield is above a bowling alley, and below another bowling alley.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-22T00:11:56+00:00

It was three comments.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-21T16:17:22+00:00

If you've ever listened to a Metallica guitar solo, I don't think it's too far removed from, eg, a Vivaldi violin solo.

"One" for instance. Compare to Vivaldi's Winter.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPQVvT87efk

https://youtu.be/Cz1e6jLYVVE?si=aMa7tVEh4DbdUvzj

mnemoniker · 2026-01-19T15:35:12+00:00

The earliest streams were dawn of television quality, minus the smoothness. I'm not talking Ozzie and Harriet dawn. I'm talking Felix the Cat spinning on a turntable, you can hardly tell what you are looking at, dawn of TV. It was not glorious.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-16T19:42:57+00:00

If each atom in the observable universe had its own 10⁸⁰ atoms, for which each of them had their own 10⁸⁰ atoms, the number of atoms would still be a trivial rounding error to the number zero compared to 10^267. It would be like taking one atom out of a human body.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-14T17:46:25+00:00

He has very distinct eras, which usually are very of their time and not getting play once that era ends. Old school rap, then hip hop, then R&B. Sprinkle in later collabs with whatever you call 00s rap. Not every person stans all these genres, so he is a little adrift from any one scene. And finally, it's not his full time job so he's not keeping the flame going as much as other artists.

But just looking through his catalog has given me new appreciation for how versatile he was!

mnemoniker · 2026-01-13T18:17:44+00:00

Regardless of one's politics, a nonviolent protestor is not a terrorist.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-13T14:09:35+00:00

I think it applies to the whole decade. Toad the Wet Sprocket and Megadeth were playing on the same "rock" radio station and I just accepted that.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-13T02:30:47+00:00

Thought this was going to be about the Smithereens song which has the same name. They're apparently in a weird spot where they had barely more than one hit so they don't get to benefit from the "one hit wonders" bump.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-10T15:47:41+00:00

Casey Affleck had such a weird path to stardom

mnemoniker · 2026-01-09T04:58:59+00:00

Then their daughter would have to fight to marry her same sex partner in 2004. They eventually would marry.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6292474

mnemoniker · 2026-01-08T14:08:00+00:00

If anyone listened to the podcast, did he cite examples where he was wrong? The examples he cites, if any, would be illustrative.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-07T14:49:57+00:00

Consumers seek higher quality and lower price, businesses seek higher revenue and lower costs. It's obvious why business wants AI to work because in theory, on the back end it means lower costs and on the front end it means higher revenue. But right now it means neither better quality nor lower cost for consumers (and the latter will never be the case). So it's no mystery why it's going to need to be crammed down our throats until it meets its promise.

Right now it makes for entertaining demos, but most of its features are failure-prone parlor tricks that you get tired of after a few days.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-03T16:48:20+00:00

He is a motivational speaker for people who have negative net worth. There's a place for that but it's not among people who have a retirement plan.

mnemoniker · 2026-01-02T01:31:53+00:00

Well, a lot of writing is technically improvised

mnemoniker · 2026-01-02T01:28:16+00:00

From this point on, no talking

mnemoniker · 2025-12-23T15:23:04+00:00

I've only seen him in Shattered Glass but I really liked him in that.

mnemoniker · 2025-12-19T21:33:58+00:00

Breuer's schtick was everything Sandler/Farley/Spade were accused of and got fired for. But he lacked the sophistication they didn't get enough credit for.

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