It’s a two way street even if it’s designed to not feel that way. They were right to reject you, because they already fucked up on your end… Maybe piles of money could’ve brought you back, but it clearly wouldn’t have been a healthy match

You buy a thing, you end up being able to get $30k back

If I wanted that stupid looking car, I’d be overjoyed too. Especially if I think I can return it again and get it even cheaper

I think this is especially great because it’s also great for some low-harm vandalism

This hasn’t aged well… Or maybe it has? Can’t wait till Monday

Monday.

Three days where the big stocks were closing at a daily low. Each time the market opened, they plummeted, then slowly meandered steady, but ending on a low. Just like today.

Weekends give analysts time to work through the implications, and they are not good. It gives people time to read the news, and it is not good.

Monday should be interesting… Although it might not be the end, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t double what we saw this week

Short answer: This is worst weekend in your life to decide

Long answer:

Literally no one knows what is about to happen.

We might have a recession, in which case this is probably the best time for it

We might go into a depression, in which case what degree you’re going for matters greatly. You need something that will get you a job in a different kind of world, one where many degrees will be useless, skills you can use to work remotely overseas might be good, but it really depends what you’re going to be doing

The global economy might just collapse, in which case everyone should probably be picking up practical skills rather than going for higher education

Just wait and see until things stabilize… If it happens quickly, it’ll probably just be a recession… If not, all bets are off

I mean… Because you just uprooted a sapling, and put the damaged baby tree in the ground, away from parents and with an unfamiliar mycelial network, and hoped it would survive with zero manual intervention

There’s a whole ecosystem underground with so much going on we’ve barely begun to understand

It’s cause you’re over at lemmy.world

It’s the largest, and therefore has the most mainstream people, who tend to be some flavor of liberal

In theory, joining any server gets you the whole federation experience… In practice, your home server will greatly affect discovery and shape what kind of people you encounter most

Yeah, read the new testament sometime without commentary. It’s short, Jesus is based as hell, and it gives useful tips like how to resist an occupying force that is looking for people to make examples of

Like if you actually followed Jesus’s teachings, in America today you might gather your community together, build a mutual aid network with the intention to become self sufficient, and when ICE comes around everyone swarms them offering to help guide them around and shoving their IDs in their faces without being asked (with suspicious knowledge of the law and careful documentation of them breaking it to report them later) (and obviously with the people at risk nowhere to be found)

Jesus was killed as a revolutionary for a reason, they later massacred the early church communities entirely because it actually became a threat to Rome

People aren’t monsters or lazy - people generally just chug along. Obviously, stress, living conditions, and morale affect performance, but that’s not the real problem

People do what they can when they’re given. And nearly across the board, what are they given? Fewer workers to produce ever more, faster, with cheaper tools and supplies. And they ramp up the pressure, encourage turnover, refuse to listen to the actual workers on the ground, and just generally don’t give workers what they need to properly and reliably do the job

Hence the feathering. Nothing like having everyone come together to publically and physically humiliate you to make you rexamine your ass backwards opinions… Or at least learn to keep them hidden deep down

My friend asked me today if global trade really benefits the US so heavily, why is it so hard to afford things?

Rent. Healthcare. That’s it - it’s so insanely expensive to survive in this country that it doesn’t matter that games are cheaper than ever - the switch 2 is cheaper than the Nintendo 64 adjusted for inflation, the games too.

Food is cheap, entertainment is cheap, tvs and computers are cheap… But that means nothing when you have no disposable income

Luxuries are cheap now, but it doesn’t seem that way because living is unaffordable

They can slap a Ford sticker on their cyber truck and people will probably leave them alone.

This is contributing to making a billionaire bringing on fascism go bankrupt… Yeah, I don’t love personal property damage, but they’re disappearing people.

If you’ve got a Tesla, spend 20 minutes and $20 bucks and buy a sticker to disavow the company… Otherwise I really can’t bring myself to care

My first thought was “where the fuck did those numbers on the left come from?”

Tarrifs these days are usually protective - they’re done on specific goods or industries.

Turns out, those numbers look like they came up with it from trade deficits. They even posted the formula they used

Like holy shit Batman, the onion could have written this last week and I’d think it was solid satire. No wonder they didn’t want to do this on April 1st

Well sure, but I think the point is $20 million, which is a crazy campaign fund for a state supreme court election, wasn’t enough to win. Some analysts are saying his involvement might’ve hurt more than helped

If musk can’t primary Republicans or effectively buy elections, what use is he? It’s not like anyone likes the guy…

I mean, yeah, it’s totally imaginary value. But then again, so is all money… The current financial system is a nonsensical house of cards propped up mostly by how bad most everyone wants it to stay standing

Know what divides a mid level engineer from a senior software engineer? The ability to reduce anything into a theoretically solvable problem and justified superstition

My exchanges often go “this should work, maybe rebuild?” And my response is always “let’s give it a try”… Because we’re two people who have seen a lot, have been burnt a lot… And 2/5 of the time, especially when we’re both scratching our heads and insisting this should work, it just does after our rituals

Junior software engineers understand the computer does exactly what you tell it. Software engineers understand computers do what you tell them… Except when they don’t for no comprehensible reason. Senior software engineers understand the computer requires the sacrifice of an unbloodied goat on Tuesdays with an odd date

I mean, that score supposedingly means you struggle to put together normal sentences… So I’d assume it’s satire

I mean… What’s the alternative? Cows are also somewhat effected, while being way way less efficient or healthy

Beans are great, I’m all for reducing meat consumption

People will become malnourished when they can’t get basic foods. They can’t just work it out… Nutrition is so much more than raw calories

I mean…gyro support is such a niche thing. The PS3 controller introduced gyro support - what used it? There’s examples, but not many, because most games are made to be multi platform, and programming in gyro controls is a lot harder than most other controls

Nintendo is an exception because they have a lot of exclusives - gyro support is a lot more appealing to implement if all of the devices have it, plus they probably encouraged it

I wouldn’t worry about it too much, the incentive for exclusives to have it remains, this is a tool for porting to the switch and exploring new control schemes more than anything else