YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Honestly the donors probably love this. Anything to paint the other side as anti gay bigots likely plays well.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Of course, some people prefer pornhub and PlayStation, but if your willing to work there are tons of higher paying jobs that don’t take a ton of effort to get. Travel nursing & big 4 accounting come to mind as attainable 4 year degrees for most of the population.
Some people don’t want to chase the $$$’s but that doesn’t mean it’s not an attainable option.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Absolutely, and there are a staggering number of high paying jobs in this country. Travel nurses can pull in $150-200k here and that’s a very attainable job.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
While I love a good bashing of smug Europeans I do think comparing the two land masses as a whole doesn’t make a ton of sense. IMO you need to get to the level of comparing finance employees in NYC vs London or a tech employee in Berlin vs SF.
The variety of people/lifestyles in both places is so vast that comparing averages doesn’t do it justice.
For example most of the European complaints about the US (healthcare, crime, weight generally speaking, food quality, no PTO) simply don’t apply if you are a high earner/have wealth. I’d imagine there are similar blind spots about Europe that Americans miss when comparing averages.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Begs the question about astroturfing/bots. In this case Disney would have a very strong incentive to have positive “conversation” happening about the movie and has the means available. I have no evidence this is happening but to me it would make total sense as apart of the massive marketing spend.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
There is very much a way because thats currently what it is.
Are you saying Elon is a bad CEO because the market places such a high valuation on Tesla?
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Tesla is worth over 800 billion so he has certainly done something right there. To your point it is pretty crazy that the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world is a full blown/terminally online twitter addict.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
From my understanding these schools get massive amounts of federal funding from research grants. Did some quick googling and looks like Harvard gets over $500mm a year. Certainly not chump change.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
My question now is will this extend to DEI hiring/promoting practices in corporate America. I’m at a mega corp and we practice what certainly looks like racial/gender discrimination (for example leadership teams and # of managers have to comply with HR DEI %’s). I’m honestly not sure how we get away with it when racial/gender discrimination in the workforce is already illegal in the US, but either way would love for this ruling to push companies to reevaluate these policies or even better for another case to make it to SCOTUS around corp DEI policies.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Bud light was trying to expand their market away from just “fratty white guys” to include progressive younger drinkers who might be drinking white claws (or god forbid not drinking at all) instead of mass market beer.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I actually think the gender split is how the ideologues convinced the capitalists to buy into the change in direction. If you already dominate 50% of the market with the boys then the best path for growth could be to go after the girls. Obviously the risk with this is you don’t get the girls and alienate the boys. Bud light is the best recent example of this strategy backfiring spectacularly.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Sports teams host all kinds of “nights” from gay pride to the military to first responders /teachers to Star Wars. The point is to sell tickets and increase the value of the brand.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Agree it was low effort. I do think however think invoking the Irish is the best response to doomerism about immigration. Today 1/6th of Americans identify as Irish! The great replacement theory already happened by a group of starving refugees with different religions beliefs who answered to a foreign high priest and it worked out pretty well.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Agree, we need to get rid of the Irish and Italians. The papists are ruining this once great nation.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
The post references religion as an answer. The US is substantively more religious than Canada. I mostly just used liberal as a stand in for “less religious”, bit sloppy but I don’t know many who would argue Canada is more conservative than the US.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I mean your argument really breaks down when comparing the gun deaths in the US vs countries that are even more liberal like Canada. More guns and easier access to them certainly lead to more gun violence.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I get the opposite impression on quality. We have been in a true golden age of high quality shows for the last decade. HBO alone has put out hit after hit.
I also take issue with the framing of the workers wages as “overpaid”. In union negotiations it’s an argument about how to split the pie and while 200k might sound like a lot to some the fact is Hollywood is extremely profitable. Plus if we want to talk “overpaid” Iger alone is making $27 million a year and seems like a juicer target.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I think at least in the short/medium term this technology could lead to large productivity gains without corresponding cuts in total headcount.
When I started my career finance teams used to forecast in excel using relatively simple formulas. Now they use coding languages and forecast more frequently, with greater detail, and greater accuracy while working with massive data sets. This hasn’t lead to a huge cut in overall headcount, but it has changed the skill set mix on the teams.
Personally am very excited for AI improvements. I’m hoping something like ChatGPT will be able to act as a super personal assistant and analyst.
For example in personal life, would love to be able to type into a box that I’m looking to plan a trip with just a few parameters (date, general budget, etc) and have it send me options. I can then have the AI send even more options for what do on the trip and finally book reservations that only require my approval.
That’s just one example but there are plenty of admin type activities that I’d like to offload to an AI. The opportunities in professional life are even greater but I think that may take longer as the aversion to giving the AI access to confidential data may be high (it’s currently banned at my mega corp).
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
The housing market is artificially constrained on the supply side. Reduce the power of local governments to block development and you’ll get more housing supply.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Maybe we should start with building more housing.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
I actually think Trump has rightly called out DeSantis’s bigger weakness which is his previous positions on cuts to Medicare and social security. I haven’t looked deeply into how RDS is navigating this topic but if he cannot effectively get around it trump will pound him mercilessly on it and no amount of tough talk about Micky Mouse will help RDS.
I may be confused but it certainly doesn’t seem like many are defending the shooter. Feels like another awful school shooting situation and the sides have fallen in line with their gun talking points.
YouEssAyyy
1yr ago
Agree completely. The original LoTR movie trilogy alone trumps anything Dune has done.
The best thing that could happen to that song is it gets “canceled” and gets publicity that way because even by pop country standards it is awful. Whole thing feels like a fake controversy.
Interesting side note Alden was the artist on stage when the Vegas shooting happened.
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