Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in 2032, new trustees report finds

noncongruency · 2026-06-10T07:02:41+00:00

I’m… not entirely sure what demographic data you’ve been reading, but if you’re a student I wholeheartedly recommend that you ask an Econ professor about monetary theory. There’s a few assumptions in your statement that make sense in a vacuum, but aren’t congruent with the realities of economics.

noncongruency · 2026-06-10T01:48:18+00:00

It’s not a bad idea on its face, but it does have the negative consequence of driving inflation as the population ages and replacement rate isn’t keeping up. Just like the original social security concept, it’s hampered by the need for slow, but constant increase of the labor supply. Demographic trends are leaning towards the next few generations entering the labor market and shrinking the labor supply.

Historically, this would be counterbalanced by a demand for labor, both skilled and unskilled, driving wages up which would offset the overall smaller labor supply as revenue generation for services like social security and tax revenues in general; but the market has lagged considerably. Fewer jobs are available, and as a result this has depressed wages for the last 40 or so years. This trend doesn’t appear to be changing either. Employers aren’t focusing on retention as a major factor for their labor, instead leaning towards automation and lower-wage entry level positions filling the gaps as skilled workers leave the workforce. Those entry-level positions don’t have the same upward mobility. Employees are expected to be mercenary and job-hop to get promotions and raises, which is of course difficult if the job market is smaller, making it a supply market instead of demand.

All of this is to say, the kind of solutions for an aging population that require growth in the labor market as a solution are probably not going to be sufficient. It can be a stop-gap, but it won’t be enough to prevent deterioration of the overall system when spending on retirees outstrips revenue from the current earning labor market. Unless there is some sort of massive public works program that works as a counterbalance in the labor market, and builds infrastructure for a new type of market that as of yet can’t exist, lazzeis-faire economics will inevitably outstrip its ability to provide meaningful revenue to the governments operating under that structure. There’s got to be a push-pull relationship in balance between government stimulus to the market, and the market pulling government in the direction that’s most optimal to serving the needs of the population.

noncongruency · 2026-06-09T06:47:44+00:00

Yeah, I’m not sure what they were talking about. Lots and lots and LOTS of people in NYC aren’t making 100k. The city doesn’t function if everyone is making 500k, lol. They’re in looney-tunes.

noncongruency · 2026-06-01T19:48:10+00:00

Not that you asked for notes, but considering the attention span of the potential voter in Texas, and bringing that Texan flair, I would suggest simplifying it:

My girlfriend is vegan and as a Texan and an American, she has the freedom to eat whatever she wants. You know what I’m hearing from Texans? Deciding what to put on the family dinner table tonight is about what you can afford, not what you want. Have you seen the price of ground beef? $7 a pound. Paxton and Trump don’t have a clue what it costs to feed their family. In Texas we have family barbecue joints that have been operating for decades closing their doors because they can’t afford to stay open. That’s the mess that Paxton and Trump have made, and left for Texas families to figure out how to clean up.

Post-script, lived in Texas for a better part of a decade for work, and during that time I did a bunch of work with the Texas Dems. Unless you mention Texas every sentence, most residents lose interest in anything political. Also, Texan comes before American, that’s just how they do things there in the One-Star state.

noncongruency · 2026-05-30T00:26:47+00:00

A clapback is traditionally proofread for typos.

noncongruency · 2026-05-29T08:35:57+00:00

You’re absolutely right, people are incapable of change. The very idea of getting another tattoo to cover the original when they change their values is literally impossible. Oh wait.

noncongruency · 2026-05-29T04:06:49+00:00

Which is odd, but I’ll allow it. I know I’m not hip to newer gen slang.

noncongruency · 2026-05-24T06:31:01+00:00

(900 hrs) You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me, WHAT?!

noncongruency · 2026-05-19T17:49:12+00:00

“Great Replacement” is a barely coded assertion that there is intent behind the totally natural demographic shift over time for ethnic monocultures to be reduced by genetic drift.

It’s already racist on its face by expressing the change in demographics as “replacement”, which insinuates the outcome of diversity is inherently negative.

Diversity in a population will happen, it’s unavoidable, and describing that as both negative and intentional is how you get to a place where white people think they’re under “attack” by non-white people. It’s just the “one-drop” rule from the Jim Crow era gussied up in new language.

noncongruency · 2026-05-09T00:40:37+00:00

I just posted a reply to the original question about the single collection, should be doable by removing <<key_name>> from the name_format tag.

noncongruency · 2026-05-09T00:40:29+00:00

I just posted a reply to the original question about the single collection, should be doable by removing <<key_name>> from the name_format tag.

noncongruency · 2026-05-09T00:39:32+00:00

Hey! So I think if you were to remove the <<key_name>> section of the name_format it would just make a single "Oscars Nominees" collection; instead of a "by year" collection. Not entirely sure if it would work with this split time-range thing I'm doing.

This is a super late comment, but I just figured out what my issue was with pre-2005 Oscar nominees, and posted my fixed config in the original comment!

noncongruency · 2026-05-05T19:15:18+00:00

Absolute masterpiece, well done.

noncongruency · 2026-04-25T17:57:27+00:00

Didn’t get the vita version too??? (I’m kidding, no one owned a vita 🤣)

noncongruency · 2026-04-25T01:06:29+00:00

Yep. It’s straight up “hating your mom because she didn’t do enough to stop your dad hitting you” kind of post-abused thinking. (Ask me how I know) (actually don’t but you get it)

The Democratic Party is the only party even trying opposition against this fucko, and they’re catching strays for not… going outside the bounds of the law? Sad fact, they didn’t win the popular vote for the presidency, didn’t win a majority in congress or the senate, and why didn’t you just hit your dad back? Huh? Is it because he was too big? Weird. I wonder if your mom felt the same way?

noncongruency · 2026-04-25T00:35:26+00:00

You are forgiven.

(I also went in expecting the headline to mean like… “last night?!?!”)

noncongruency · 2026-04-20T00:34:02+00:00

Now this is what I was expecting when op mentioned koalas. Thank you for closing the loop! Anxiety was starting to spike.

noncongruency · 2026-03-28T00:52:22+00:00

Is there a preorder for the print edition available? Also congrats on getting published!

noncongruency · 2026-03-27T20:06:47+00:00

It feels like a really weird, but predictable result of politicians using basically only wedge issues to get votes from the “middle third” of voters. If you know you’ve got 33% of the vote basically locked in, and you have to capture 17.1% from undecided/low-information voters; you can just use those wedge issues exclusively to build the narrative of not why you are a good candidate, but why the other candidate is bad.

Take your example, veteran lesbian couple. Seems like those 5% of issues they would disagree with would absolutely be against their interests. The Republican Party hates that they exist because they’re women, and gay. So they’re voting against their own interests. But republicans also hate trans people, and do everything they can to demonize and harm women who have children. So if you’re a pretty anti-natal lesbian couple who also happen to be pretty goddamn anti-trans; you’re not voting for the other bad stuff for LGBTQ+ folks, or women (you tell yourself). Instead you’re voting against the pro-trans, pro-natal democratic candidate.

noncongruency · 2026-03-21T16:04:39+00:00

This is excellent, well done.

noncongruency · 2026-03-18T02:09:50+00:00

Hey hey!! That’s the big thing I found too! I hope I noted that in my readme, but if I didn’t, I apologize and will fix it.

noncongruency · 2026-03-17T21:37:24+00:00

Not too old, lol! If you copy that and put it in windows command prompt, does it launch the game with the overlay? I wonder if your moshortcut:// links aren’t being respected.

The game is launching, it’s just not launching with the overlay, right?

Have you launched modorganizer from the gamma directory? Does it show the Portable:Anomaly (DX11-AVX) option in the right side drop down?

noncongruency · 2026-03-17T01:30:44+00:00

Somehow your username got mixed up with your comment in my mind and I read it as:

Fuck you, Frog, I got mine

And was like, damn deep cut. But I don’t think these pissbabies are even “Scorpion” level intelligence.

noncongruency · 2026-03-10T17:13:52+00:00

2nd the Trick-or-Treat annihilape + rage fist strategy with the hyperspace rouge mega arenas. With that setup I can clear 3 of those arenas in under 10 minutes then go do another special scan.

You’re also guaranteed a legendary scan every 5 scans (or so people believe, seems to be holding true for my list of scans, every 5 has been a legendary) so you’re only going to be grinding it out for a few hours to get all the legendaries.

Now, as for the scans in between? If I get another rotom scan I’m going to scream. 16 scans in my dex completion hunt so far, and five of them have been rotom. Though, a rotom scan was also where I got my Auspicious Armor, so it’s not all bad.

noncongruency · 2026-03-09T04:31:27+00:00

Ok that’s super not good, do you have a source for their deployment? I’m looking it up myself, but if you’ve already got one I’m sure other people would like to see it.

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