Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
1hr ago
Used cars really are irritatingly expensive at any price level right now relative to the late 2010s
I remember even the late 2010s (so around 2016-2018) that the "gently used" car market was... worthless. If I wanted any kind of substantial discount over just buying new, I was looking at close to 100k miles or more.
Mantergeistmann
1hr ago
That's because Zoomers could afford it if they just cancel their pensions. They want zoomers to be poor while they live the lifestyle they deny to young people.
Tremendously few people at 25 have the lifestyle they grew up with. Which makes sense! Their parents have had 25-35 more years of work, saving, and building up a home than they have.
Mantergeistmann
2hr ago
The first claim is unsourced, and the second is from Oeno One, "a peer-reviewed Open Access journal in the field of vine, grape and wine sciences", which may be slightly less than unbiased about positive effects of drinking wine.
The source for the second claim also doesn't say what the Wikipedia entry says: it certainly does not attribute "any difference to the town's diet." I think there's some of the usual Wikipedia shenanigans going on, but damfino why this page of all of them
Mantergeistmann
7hr ago
I'm personally a privileged millennial, who was lucky enough not to suffer the pains of the 2008 crash that happened around the time I started working.
Yeah, that crash basically set my career back... oh, 3 or 4 years. Even with a very good trajectory since (by any reasonable metric, that is, not by the start-up/FAANG/finance metrics), I'm still a little bitter over it, and look at where my career/life might have been (aka three more years of potential seniority/raises/promotions, and a few life opportunities). I can only imagine how I'd feel if I wasn't doing comfortably well right now.
And, of course, it could have been worse! Better to be jobless early in one's career, when parents and grandparents have a spare room, than mid career when you're the one paying for a mortgage and food.
Mantergeistmann
8hr ago
I was actually told once by a TA that I was "hurting myself" by taking challenging classes and trying to do my classwork honestly instead of taking advantage of the "opportunities" presented to me.
My biggest regret in college isn't my GPA or degree, it's that I gave up on the Sailing Club because I thought they were a bit too stuck up at the first event. I feel like I missed out on a lot of networking, and a lot of fun.
Mantergeistmann
8hr ago
Huh. So the inverse of the Roseto Effect?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
They've been running a variant of that as their "donate to Wikipedia us here at The Guardian" appeal for years now. I don't recall for sure, but I think it's been getting more and more fearmongering over the years.
Still, it at least means they're honest about where their bias is, unlike some (read: most) news organizations.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Playground arguments about some obscure (false) cheat code that requires some elaborate set of steps or one's "uncle at Nintendo" leaking them some upcoming release
Ah, the truck and how to get Mew in the original Pokemon...
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I don't think most HR and managers (the ones doing hiring, not the CEO) are old. But I do suspect their jobs are mostly useless, many aren't good at them (but stay because their boss/CEO doesn't know better), and companies could get by with much less of them and possibly AI.
HR, yes. But I've had several excellent managers, and they are absolutely worth their salaries.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Ultimately the experience narrative is the narrative which justifies the redistribution, but when it gets audited it fails just like the education system. All of it's looking like village elder UBI more and more.
Could they earn an extra 10% per year? Maybe. An extra 100% is an outrageous effect size.
I too would be incredibly depressed and cynical were I to think that I've basically peaked and that in a decade+, I'll only be at most 10% more competent than I am today.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
What about USS OKLAHOMA, which is sadly not an OHIO-class SSBN?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Whoops, quite right!
However I don't think this is an argument that most of his political allies would normally be sympathetic to.
See also: the stars and bars Confederate battle flag being considered anything other than ultra-racism these days, as opposed to when I was younger and I knew plenty of people (including progressives) who didn’t mind it being on the General Lee.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Everything I know about watches (aka practically nothing) I learned from Paul Graham's recent post on the subject.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Ah yes, New York City, famous for its nigh-nonexistent immigrant population.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
My initial reaction is surprise that NonCredibleDefense is not included. My follow-on reaction is "yeah, no, okay, that makes sense he wouldn't hang around there".
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
he's just also gone full Hamas.
For whatever reason I thought it was the other way - that he'd been basically run out of his own publication, The Intercept, for being too sympathetic to Israel.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Could a judge require the government to try to develop a time machine to bring him back to the missed events? What about investment in longevity tech to give him the lifespan back?
Sounds like a job for a sci-fi short story.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Out of curiosity I tried digging up some stats on the prevalence of the phenomenon
Didn't someone post/link to something related here a little while ago? I remember it specifically talking about the OJ Simpson trial, but that really doesn't help with a google search.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
So many of your problems, including healthcare costs and inability to build infrastructure, ultimately can be traced back to the possibility of being dragged to court and having to spend the GDP of a minor country on lawyers
"We have lawyers like other countries have rats."
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Oh, that's almost certainly worse, but as far as bleak images go, an unexploded rocket just doesn't compare.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
The most "bleak sci-fi" thing I've seen in a while was images of the absolute spiderwebs of spent drone fiberoptic cables covering forests and fields and towns.
I feel like there's a Russell Conjugation to be had here: "I stand by my convictions in the name of justice, you are irritatingly stubborn, he is a bullying Karen subverting the justice process."
Although I will add that 12 Angry Men did indeed involve logic and reason as well as stubbornness and emotion, but I'd imagine very few people think of their own behavior or a verdict they agree with as ever not being logical.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
It's not an overpopulation problem if enough people get killed in the wars. I mean, you've got other demographic problems them, but no longer overpopulation.
What social contract did boomers break? Being too healthy and not dying young enough?
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