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  • Young people are struggling to find work. Older people saying ‘try harder’ isn’t helping

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  • Have they even considered printing out 5 resumes with their limited work history, putting on formal clothes and making eye contact? They'd have to pick between family-supporting wage offers there would be such demand.

  • Whats the deal with tesla theorizing we can transmit electricity through the air? Are we too dumb to figure it out or is it an exaggeration?

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  • I think he was making great progress but the capitalists wanted to know where to put the meter and he was a genius among bean counters.

  • What battle influenced the course of history the most?

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  • Waterloo.

    Napoleon's tactical errors leading to a ton of his skilled and valuable horse soldiers self inflicting and defeating themselves basically made it easy for wellington to triumph though he did enough to earn the w. That is just from memory 20 years ago when I read from Les Miserables, there is like a 100 page section--maybe 150 just on the battle of Waterloo which isn't that critically tied for the plot. Victor fucking Hugo, ladies and gentlemen.

    Napoleon's defeat led to alliances across Europe for protection, which led to WW1, which guaranteed WW2 due to unsustainable concessions for Germans leading to Hitler's rise, which led to USA being gifted a churning economy almost undamaged and populace relatively unscarred by war compared to devastated Europe. Baby boom, relatively equal wealth distribution and a GI bill built the US might that is now imploding under it's own fetid weight of corruption and ignorance, as many empires fall to, but it's all pretty linear imo from Napoleon.

  • US Pedestrian Deaths Per Capita

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  • It's actually kind of what is reflected in this map: so many fewer deaths in the north because they have much less time per year when anyone, even reasonably motivated or inclined people are able to walk or bike due to harsh winter weather and poor public transit and urban planning.

    Look at Oregon, it's got tons of bikers compared to a Wyoming, but greater density so many more deaths. Pedestrian deaths are combo of transport options, culture, inclination, and environmental variables. Cleveland Ohio probably has much worse active/bike culture than Portland but the weather is so much harsher than Portland there are less pedestrians to hit as people are inside or in cars.

  • Does almost anyone actually feel like being a normal person?

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  • I remember learning a statistic in the early aughts that only 17% of US households were married man/woman married with child(ren), when so much of media and societal representation and expectations was based around norms from the 1950s or earlier. Society changed for real in the US mid century, and continued to evolve; single parents, adults with no children, skipping marriage, same sex and/or other sex/gender/orientation households, but the christian-facist propaganda kept up.

    Just remember, something as basic as "what is a home or family group", the "standard" or "normal" is less than 1 out of 5. It's actually the exception! This applies elsewhere.

    Don't discount imposter syndrome, it's powerful. We're all, mostly, normal.

  • Gen Z's can't afford to move out

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  • Seriously, this article is 20 years old.

    It was incredible some boomers couldn't see that between college debt, and a radically different world of cost in housing to say nothing of food, transportation and energy costs, that their generation's corporate permissiveness and privatization had collectively taken away what was so generously given to them by society. The effects this had on relationships, marriage and even children is crystal clear--and that's maybe one of the most truly awful parts of it...the generation had a future life and maybe children they would have wanted taken from the by course of corporate economics.

    Corporate PR pushed the narratives to be fair, it was an early attempt to confuse or distract the clear end of the American dream for young Americans. Your college degree is worthless and your enormous loans are non-discharageable even in bankruptcy, and you need 10 years at median gross salary to buy a home. Meanwhile, salaries are now aggressively managed down or to a "market average" under the guide of equity but more to control paying for the value of work. The trap was laid and 30 years or so of Americans were slaughtered in it's teeth.

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    US Farmers Are Facing The Worst Economic Downturn In At Least 50 Years – The Washington Standard

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    Farmers or images?

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    US Farmers Are Facing The Worst Economic Downturn In At Least 50 Years – The Washington Standard

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  • The perfect metaphor for the group

  • TIL the first bullet train line, the Tokaido Shinkansen, was opened in 1964

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  • This is one of my favorite facts to share with my fellow Americans as a way to show how far behind our infrastructure is to the rest of the world.

  • Could US government ban apps which track ICE agents?

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  • No need to, the two companies that control your phone will just remove them. Apple removed the IceBlock app today.

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    America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system

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  • Or an equitable economic system. Poverty and inequality breed desperation and support for extremism, partnered with no functional education system it's the base for every authoritarian regime, ever.

  • White House freezes funds for Democratic states in shutdown slap

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  • These people are thieves, liars, support racism, bigotry and many slavery, protect child molesters, defend rapists, and smile at state-level violence at international and now inevitably, local policy.

    Fucked up has been hosting the chat for decades in the US and much longer on other of these practices.

  • How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

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  • I've never been in a single accident and drive a basic compact sedan I bought new off the lot 10 years ago. I could buy it used today, with current mileage for about the same price I paid new. I've paid about half the initial purchase price in insurance premiums.

    Being a good driver sucks, but it's kind of like healthcare where...wait a minute I'm healthy and getting fucked there too. As I age I'm going to street race and try to gain as much weight as I can.

  • BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos.

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  • It's too short! More!

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  • Who manages to say something about character being important...

  • Resort in Singapore

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  • Doctorow chimes in on the impending shit show

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  • While your broker will likely buy a call (a contract opposite a put that is the right to buy a security/stock at a certain price, it's more insurance for them should the play not work out as you hope.Calls are just the flip side to puts; calls are a bet the price of a stock(or anything) will go up to $x and puts are a bet the price will go down to $x by date.

    The "sap away" mechanic of an option (whether you buy call or put, butting a stock goes up or down) is due to "theta decay". An option contract, by nature, is time bound. X stock(price goes up, down and by how much) by y date at end of trading. That deadline is what drives the value of the option contract, and also what drives the exponential swings in prices for some options. You can buy contracts for the end of any week for most stocks in the US. You can buy it for two weeks out, or up to a few years depending on the contract. Let's pretend I say Disney is going to $150 a share by 1/1/2027. The "sap away" is that every week Disney doesn't get to $150 the value of my contract goes down a little bit as there is less time for the stock to make enough of a move to get to $150. Longer contracts have more time to move and are therefore "less volatile" but every options contract has theta decay. This oversimplifies the complex world of options but the point is that "calls" don't have anything to do with theta decay.

  • Police drone tracks Walmart theft suspect in real time

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  • It would be a shame if policing focused on billions and trillions being stolen by corrupt corps, crypto scammers and flagrant law violaters of the upper class. But no, policing only for poor

  • Disney shareholders demand reasons for Kimmel suspension

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  • Disney✝️