If you want to LARP as a pioneer maybe do some research about their mortality rates.

But cynicism aside, this is just the beginning. This will scale to a lot of the US. Even folks in the burbs.

Even though we know its coming, when it does come, the suddenness of it will still take many of us by surprise, despite all the warnings.

Ah yes, online petitions: doing absolutely nothing for 30 years.

These UK government petitions require a response after 10k signatures and are considered for a debate in parliament after 100k. While you are still right in the sense that the government often tries to slip out of that, it's worth noting for context for non-UK people.

https://petition.parliament.uk/

Online petitions give voice to people who can felt heard but ignored.

And do as much as a sternly worded letter to the editor.

Ok, but the online petitions will just be ignored anyway.

I suggest reading how this official government website works.

It is not socialism. Socialism is when the workers control the means of production. Not a fat windbag mobster president and his thugs.

Some people just like to complain? Or at least make it clear they are working out to everyone around them? Or they are working out too hard for their fitness level? Lots of reasons.

The stock market has been a bubble since the 90’s but the bursts have been minimal because the elite class uses the stock market to extract wealth from normal people. Once they find something new (enshittification) they will suck all the value out of the market and leave its husk to peasants and their meager 401ks (if they even have that). I say this because there are so many millionaires in the US, and we can’t have too many people with extra wealth or it ruins things for the elite. The 0.01% must extract every penny from the 10%, too. It used to be every millionaire felt entitled to be a billionaire, but now centibillionaires feel entitled to be trillionaires and who do you think that money is stolen from?

I had a line of freshman out my dorm room door in college because I was one of three kids with a PC in my dorm and the only one with a printer. My good ol epson mx80. I charged each procrastinator a beer for last minute print jobs because the computer center was a 20 minute walk from the dorms. I drank a lot that year. But the funny part is the vast majority of engineering and compsci students didn’t have a personal computer. Let that sink in.

Junior engineers see better results than senior engineers for obvious reasons.

Junior engineers think they see better results than senior engineers for obvious reasons

I live in the northwest US. My water bill is 110%-120% of my electric bill.

This article was a relief. I’m always a tiny bit worried Amazon will change some thing drastically and I’ll have to migrate. I’ve had an ec2 instance running since 2013. It requires effectively zero maintenance. So I am glad there were no surprises in this article. Thanks OP.

I think it is negative: it actually drains knowledge. It is an anti knowledge field because experts won’t be hired if they can be vibed. This sucks all the brains out of the room. Hence less than zero.