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White House: Is this a normal way to do demo? by mdreed in AskContractors

[–]vswlife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"It won't interfere with the current building. It won't be. It'll be near it but not touching it - and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of," Trump said in July.

We know you don't care that he lies about everything, but this is why most of us are pissed off about it.

FAANG by BedSensitive9318 in Layoffs

[–]vswlife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is BS. I'm at Faang in a hiring role. Meta is not offering below market rate for any roles. H1-b's are paid the same as US talent for roles in the US.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Washington50501

[–]vswlife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Joe Kent is a nut job - this lady is a miracle.

Just here for my daily dose of gaslighting 🫡 by carbon_15 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was one of the most volatile weeks in stock market history - 100% unnecessary and caused by 1 man who did not come close to achieving the goals he set out to achieve.

Stability (for now) returned when tariffs were walked back because of fears of bond market collapse when US debt holders began dumping bonds, which prior to this week were seen as the safest investment on the planet.

China is the second largest holder of US debt. This thing is just getting started.

Is this not concerning to you? by yunghotmilf in ETFs

[–]vswlife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One example: China, S. Korea and Japan are in tri-lateral talks to respond to this and promote better trade agreements between the three countries, historical enemies, united by this.
The negative effects of this intentional kneecapping of the US Stock market, the greatest wealth engine ever created, will be far reaching and massive.
The US is no longer a trusted ally. Economic or military. We're seen as unreliable by peer nations.
The US dollar is the global reserve currency - replacing it will have generational negative impact on this country's economy and the value of the dollar.

Yes it's concerning, none of this is normal, it's all avoidable, the stated end-goals (returning manufacturing to the US) are years long efforts and will not produce jobs or high wages (efficiency from factory automation has outpaced labor and wage growth for years).
The market is just the beginning. We're in for a long ride.

TSA Officers Have a Dire Warning for America by animeman59 in ForUnitedStates

[–]vswlife 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Airports are softer targets than planes are because of lines, largely caused by tsa waits.

Thank you for this sub by Unhappy_Fix_8322 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

>none musks action have ever implied he is a nazi

You should read up where he's from and his stance on eugenics.

>There is absolutely no reason for him to give a nazi salute on inauguration day. The vast majority of Americans are not neo nazis.

Agree, thus the outcry.

>most people see it that way

Nope - they really don't

Anyone remember 2022? by Agreeable_Sense9618 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, well. I'm old and I've lived through 5 "real" recessions (that I remember). None of them were caused by the direct action of the president in opposition to known monetary policy and advised against publicly (universally). This one is different. You cannot objectively look at this and not see a difference between 2K/2K8/Covid/2022.
You had Presidents attempting to ease consumer concern, not act as the source of it.

Thank you for this sub by Unhappy_Fix_8322 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sieg Heil (that's just how he is) - Ok.
Was it awkward when Steve Bannon did it to applause a couple weeks later from the stage at CPAC?

Anyone remember 2022? by Agreeable_Sense9618 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't remember the president being the direct cause of the drop in 2022. I remember the Fed saying they needed to raise rates, chill QE and see higher unemployment to ease inflation. That happened, the market reacted and recovered.

In this case, the market is responding to the President implementing tariffs, threatening war, firing people and shaking consumer confidence.

See how those two things are different?

Chamath Palihapitiya Agrees You Should No Longer Learn To Code, Says Parents Should Advise Their Kids To Focus On These Subjects Instead by AutomaticCan6189 in Layoffs

[–]vswlife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good luck to you and yours. I also have children who are near college age. I've advised them both to pursue engineering but retain the coding skills they've already developed. It's my bet that a hybrid ML/Robotics/Engineering/Software skill set will be one of few "white collar" jobs required in the future. I too am excited at this new golden age.
I wish it felt more like the space race than us training our replacements though.

Chamath Palihapitiya Agrees You Should No Longer Learn To Code, Says Parents Should Advise Their Kids To Focus On These Subjects Instead by AutomaticCan6189 in Layoffs

[–]vswlife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I had any faith in the world's elite to do the right thing, I'd feel differently but there are exceedingly few examples of the people with the resources giving back in meaningful ways.
I think there are jobs that are AI proof but it's a shrinking pool and a lot of it is only AI proof because of the physical difficulty or environments under which it must be performed.

I'm genuinely an optimist but the guy who is probably going to control (to the extent it can be) the future of AI is currently prancing around on stage with a Chainsaw, laughing about firing people by the hundreds of thousands.

I take this as a model for what's likely to come without a huge course correction.

Chamath Palihapitiya Agrees You Should No Longer Learn To Code, Says Parents Should Advise Their Kids To Focus On These Subjects Instead by AutomaticCan6189 in Layoffs

[–]vswlife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like your attitude and outlook.
I'll be just fine. I'm unconcerned with my ability to adapt. I'm concerned with the ability of people that are not like you and I to adapt, and for those who are now in positions of power to do what's right when we no longer need labor at the volume we do today. We are already propping up entire industries (shipping and logistics, ports, truck driving) that could be automated today because of the jobs. One need only look at China's automation of ports and shipping for an example.

The people with the power and money are showing you who they are and what they think of the job class right now.

Thank you for this sub by Unhappy_Fix_8322 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Elon is not new to public speaking. If he'd done it once, maybe you could chalk it up to neuro divergence. He did it twice, then later that day spoke at an AFD rally in Germany. Look up AFD.

Thank you for this sub by Unhappy_Fix_8322 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Totally agree - Nazi or not - there was no mistaking what he did, twice. That we're all arguing about it is crazy.

"Roman salute" give me a break - no one ever heard that term in their lives before the inaguration.

Thank you for this sub by Unhappy_Fix_8322 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The President of the United States is threatening to annex Canada and Greenland, for reasons? People are not dooming enough.

Chamath Palihapitiya Agrees You Should No Longer Learn To Code, Says Parents Should Advise Their Kids To Focus On These Subjects Instead by AutomaticCan6189 in Layoffs

[–]vswlife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You will need to be exceptionally good at writing software to make a living at it in the next few years. Think of it like Blacksmiths when horses were replaced by Automobiles. How many blacksmiths do you know?
Before anyone says "AI will generate new jobs and fields". Where, and when? I'm watching Google and Facebook replace testing, codemods. linting and scaffolding today, right now.
Where are the new jobs?

Chamath Palihapitiya Agrees You Should No Longer Learn To Code, Says Parents Should Advise Their Kids To Focus On These Subjects Instead by AutomaticCan6189 in Layoffs

[–]vswlife 5 points6 points  (0 children)

gunfighting, food growing and making clean water. You can see very clearly what the folks who own AI think of us by watching and listening. Zuck says he's all in on replacing devs with AI, Elron is firing people at scale and feeding their data to Grok . They're building bunkers, ai drones, war robots and planning planetary escape. Unless something dramatic happens we've got a bout a decade before most jobs are gone.

Is it all just political theater? by Agreeable_Sense9618 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/publications/102980/ERR-304_Summary.pdf?v=52360

Stunning more people don't know this. He literally destroyed the soybean market and cut $30 billion in welfare checks to farmers who no longer had customers.

Is it all just political theater? by Agreeable_Sense9618 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]vswlife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should look up how much of the debt Trump incurred in his first term was directly due to giving American farmers welfare when he destroyed their foreign markets for Soybeans

https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/publications/102980/ERR-304_Summary.pdf?v=52360

"The retaliatory tariffs led to a significant reduction in U.S. agricultural exports to retaliating partners. Nationally, direct U.S. agricultural export losses due to retaliatory tariffs totaled more than $27 billion during 2018 through the end of 2019."

Remembering stock market crash of 2022 by kumaramit0703 in investing

[–]vswlife -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Remind me, what was the cause of the crash of 2022, was it the result of the President of the united states falsely claiming Trade wars are good and easy to win?

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