You want to blame Singer Sewing Machine company for this. They're the ones in the 1850s that came up with the idea of pre-made non-negotiable contracts. Before this, every single contract had to have lawyers adding and removing terms until both sides agreed to it. I know today's version sucks, but the alternative could be worse.
Imagine having to bring (and pay!) your lawyer to a car dealership to buy a car or even sign up for Netflix. Imagine how much more expensive the goods and services would cost you because of the army of lawyers needed to negotiate contracts for every single consumer.
Dig deeper by race, and it’s clear that only one group ranks climate change highly as an issue — white liberal college grads (ranked sixth compared to twenty-seventh for the white working class). Even black and Latino college grads don’t rank it highly (twenty-second and twenty-third out of thirty respectively). Given the scale of what’s required to address climate change, surely requiring large supermajorities to accomplish the boldest action, these numbers should raise alarm bells.
I would imagine non-white groups rank wage inequality and the continued decline of civil rights in American as a much more important issues to them than climate change. I would agree with them. Climate change is very important, but our nation must serve each of our citizens equally.
I bet they do. Russia would love to have those back in Russia to defend against air attacks by Ukraine in response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I didn't get my first hamster until I was 8. Anon apparently has one at 9.
I also didn’t know shit, because I was 6 years old,
Sure, but we're talking about a kid 50% older than 6 years old. There's a lot of cognitive growth between those 3 years. I don't think you'd say you were as stupid at 9 as you were at 6 are you?
and I don’t know about the challenges of chasing a hamster (which has something to do with yeeting it out of the window, somehow?)
I don't know why I have to walk you through this, but okay: If anon at 9 assumed that the hamster would safely parachute down to the ground 4 stories down, then the moment that hamster was unguarded, it would bolt. A 9 year old that has ever taken their hamster outside knows this. A 9 year old typically doesn't want to lose their pet. So this was why I said that anon never had a hamster (as in this post is fake).
and even if I did I wouldn’t remember it well because I was 6 years old.
You don't remember anything from when you were 9 years old (as Anon was)? Are you saying if you had a pet at 9 you have no memory of it today? That...wouldn't be normal.
I have firsthand experience. I was a 9 year old (and younger) with hamsters. Yes I was stupid, but it only took one time of taking the hamster outside and setting him in the grass to see him bolt in 2 seconds. I was able to get him back, but that lesson was never lost on me.
You're skipping the first part of my statement. I can tell you didn't own an hamster either.
Lets say the hamster successfully parachuted down safely to the ground outside of a 4 story building. Hamsters can run quickly and squeeze into impossibly small places. There is a good chance the hamster, now unattended, would run away and escape. Hamster owners know this.
Here's a perfect example from a random youtube search. Hamster running away outside. 7 second. Thats how long it took for the unattended hamster to disappear into the underbrush. In this clip the owner was right there and able to recapture the hamster. A 9 year old would not be able to traverse 4 flights of stairs in under 10 seconds.
At its peak, Musk's fortune was estimated at roughly $1.45 trillion (2). By July 27, Forbes estimated that his net worth had dropped below $700 billion — wiping more than $750 billion from his fortune on paper.
He did not panic, dump his holdings or retreat into cash.
Not quite true. He didn't dump his holding in SpaceX because he's on a lockup schedule that doesn't let him sell any shares until Jun 2027. He can't sell his SpaceX stock and retreat into cash.
“Looking back, I probably wouldn't do it again because I don't want to bring that kind of scrutiny on my friends or anything else like that,” Slusser said.
Let me translate from GOP-speak: "I still truly believe he should be hanged, but I don't like the personal consequences and public outrage at me for saying something so obviously obscene."
“Anyone with common sense knows the remark wasn't a literal call for public execution,”
Nobody believed the Olympian damaged the pool. Headlines about the pool falling apart after trumps botched work were circulating for weeks before the Olympian came on the scene. The trump administration is trying to instill a chilling effect that trump cannot be questioned or you will be prosecuted, even if its on false charges. The trump administration knows the charges won't still. They just want to cost regular Americans money and time they don't have as punishment for making trump look bad.
I’ve actually heard of others doing the same thing, and it’s also easy to forget the disadvantages that come with it too.
I wasn't suggesting it has no downsides, but rather, in her case, the downsides are outweighed by the advantanges.
You don’t get very much space to yourself and no real permanent changes allowed.
These are identical conditions to many retirement communities which is another frequent choice of those in their 70s like she is.
No choice in much of anything available to you. No realistic option to own a car, so anything inland is much less accessible.
I'm not see this one as applicable here. I don't know how long they stay in port, but if you're only spending $2500 per person per month for housing and food you likely have a good chunk of money left over. Their house moves with them to other countries. I'm not sure why they'd what the expense or headache of car ownership. Also nothing would prevent them from renting a car or taking public transportation to get deeper into country they're in.
Not a bad life by a long shot, but a lot less autonomy and personal choice in return.
Certainly not for everyone. I don't think I'd want to do this for the long term, but the tradeoff of very cheap travel and living expenses at a time when otherwise advanced age would prevent travel can certainly be appealing.
Meanwhile the rich take advantage of the rising water levels, MOVING onto superyachts & forever cruiseships (for one last journey).
Did we read the same article? At least this cruise ship is certainly not for only the rich.
From the article: "For former school teacher Lane, the Odyssey is a retirement plan."
Are we calling former school teachers "the rich" now?
She did the math and figured living on the ship was more affordable
I did some quick math too and she's probably right. Lets say she's married (double occupancy room on the ship). She and her husband are paying $2500/month per person for five years of fully paid housing, utilities, food and alcohol. That's less than just rent in a regular one bedroom apartment LA or NYC.
Absolutely! People are always wondering "how do you get experience in X?". The answer is "be the person that volunteers to research and implement it". Multiple times in my career I've done this and I took that knowledge and experience and got a better higher paying job from it. Rinse repeat.
If your employer is going to pay you to learn a skill or product that will make you more valuable, if you turn that down you're passing up an opportunity to advance. That advancement just may not be at that employer.
Or a more cynical version of this is "make your mistakes in learning at your current employer and if your efforts are not rewarded, take that knowledge and experience elsewhere for higher pay".
I’m all for giving Ukraine this type of capability, but tying the capability with a civilian product name has massive risks that used to mostly just be theory until wildberries warehouses started exploding. I just checked Amazon, there’s a LOT of starlink for sale on there.
Not quite the same thing.
The fact that Wildberries sells drones isn't the reason that Ukraine is targeting them. Its the fact that formal Russian military units and Russian soldiers are ordering drones, body armor, grenade release parts, etc from Wildberries that get delivered by Wildberries to the Russian military. As in, there is no distinction from Wildberries and the Russian military logistics channels, ItsTheSamePicture.jpg.
Now, if the Ukrainian military is ordering Starlink terminals from Amazon, then Amazon could be targeted by Russia for the same reason. Instead, Ukraine is getting Starlink terminals en masse from foriegn governments and directly from SpaceX.
Even more specifically, Ukraine has designed and built their own antennas that are compatible with many different satellite constellations with Starlink being just one of them. As I understand it, these Ukrainian build antennas are the ones we see on drone guided weapons.
Knowing that one if us will be without the other when one of us eventually dies first at some unknown point in the future hopefully from old age. It certainly beats the alternative though of not having met and fallen in love.
You want to blame Singer Sewing Machine company for this. They're the ones in the 1850s that came up with the idea of pre-made non-negotiable contracts. Before this, every single contract had to have lawyers adding and removing terms until both sides agreed to it. I know today's version sucks, but the alternative could be worse.
Imagine having to bring (and pay!) your lawyer to a car dealership to buy a car or even sign up for Netflix. Imagine how much more expensive the goods and services would cost you because of the army of lawyers needed to negotiate contracts for every single consumer.
I would imagine non-white groups rank wage inequality and the continued decline of civil rights in American as a much more important issues to them than climate change. I would agree with them. Climate change is very important, but our nation must serve each of our citizens equally.
I bet they do. Russia would love to have those back in Russia to defend against air attacks by Ukraine in response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I didn't get my first hamster until I was 8. Anon apparently has one at 9.
Sure, but we're talking about a kid 50% older than 6 years old. There's a lot of cognitive growth between those 3 years. I don't think you'd say you were as stupid at 9 as you were at 6 are you?
I don't know why I have to walk you through this, but okay: If anon at 9 assumed that the hamster would safely parachute down to the ground 4 stories down, then the moment that hamster was unguarded, it would bolt. A 9 year old that has ever taken their hamster outside knows this. A 9 year old typically doesn't want to lose their pet. So this was why I said that anon never had a hamster (as in this post is fake).
You don't remember anything from when you were 9 years old (as Anon was)? Are you saying if you had a pet at 9 you have no memory of it today? That...wouldn't be normal.
I have firsthand experience. I was a 9 year old (and younger) with hamsters. Yes I was stupid, but it only took one time of taking the hamster outside and setting him in the grass to see him bolt in 2 seconds. I was able to get him back, but that lesson was never lost on me.
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.
You're skipping the first part of my statement. I can tell you didn't own an hamster either.
Lets say the hamster successfully parachuted down safely to the ground outside of a 4 story building. Hamsters can run quickly and squeeze into impossibly small places. There is a good chance the hamster, now unattended, would run away and escape. Hamster owners know this.
Here's a perfect example from a random youtube search. Hamster running away outside. 7 second. Thats how long it took for the unattended hamster to disappear into the underbrush. In this clip the owner was right there and able to recapture the hamster. A 9 year old would not be able to traverse 4 flights of stairs in under 10 seconds.
A 9 year hamster owner knows this too.
Anon has either never owned a hamster or did own a hamster and is a psychopath that had no issues with animal abuse.
Not quite true. He didn't dump his holding in SpaceX because he's on a lockup schedule that doesn't let him sell any shares until Jun 2027. He can't sell his SpaceX stock and retreat into cash.
I can smell this picture just by looking at it, and now you are too.
Let me translate from GOP-speak: "I still truly believe he should be hanged, but I don't like the personal consequences and public outrage at me for saying something so obviously obscene."
"It was just a prank, bro" - Slusser probably
Nobody believed the Olympian damaged the pool. Headlines about the pool falling apart after trumps botched work were circulating for weeks before the Olympian came on the scene. The trump administration is trying to instill a chilling effect that trump cannot be questioned or you will be prosecuted, even if its on false charges. The trump administration knows the charges won't still. They just want to cost regular Americans money and time they don't have as punishment for making trump look bad.
Looks like Google Play Music was the product name until it was discontinued in 2020. This is a clue that this chart may be way out-of-date.
I wasn't suggesting it has no downsides, but rather, in her case, the downsides are outweighed by the advantanges.
These are identical conditions to many retirement communities which is another frequent choice of those in their 70s like she is.
I'm not see this one as applicable here. I don't know how long they stay in port, but if you're only spending $2500 per person per month for housing and food you likely have a good chunk of money left over. Their house moves with them to other countries. I'm not sure why they'd what the expense or headache of car ownership. Also nothing would prevent them from renting a car or taking public transportation to get deeper into country they're in.
Certainly not for everyone. I don't think I'd want to do this for the long term, but the tradeoff of very cheap travel and living expenses at a time when otherwise advanced age would prevent travel can certainly be appealing.
Did we read the same article? At least this cruise ship is certainly not for only the rich.
From the article: "For former school teacher Lane, the Odyssey is a retirement plan."
Are we calling former school teachers "the rich" now?
She did the math and figured living on the ship was more affordable
I did some quick math too and she's probably right. Lets say she's married (double occupancy room on the ship). She and her husband are paying $2500/month per person for five years of fully paid housing, utilities, food and alcohol. That's less than just rent in a regular one bedroom apartment LA or NYC.
Absolutely! People are always wondering "how do you get experience in X?". The answer is "be the person that volunteers to research and implement it". Multiple times in my career I've done this and I took that knowledge and experience and got a better higher paying job from it. Rinse repeat.
If your employer is going to pay you to learn a skill or product that will make you more valuable, if you turn that down you're passing up an opportunity to advance. That advancement just may not be at that employer.
Or a more cynical version of this is "make your mistakes in learning at your current employer and if your efforts are not rewarded, take that knowledge and experience elsewhere for higher pay".
Not quite the same thing.
The fact that Wildberries sells drones isn't the reason that Ukraine is targeting them. Its the fact that formal Russian military units and Russian soldiers are ordering drones, body armor, grenade release parts, etc from Wildberries that get delivered by Wildberries to the Russian military. As in, there is no distinction from Wildberries and the Russian military logistics channels, ItsTheSamePicture.jpg.
Now, if the Ukrainian military is ordering Starlink terminals from Amazon, then Amazon could be targeted by Russia for the same reason. Instead, Ukraine is getting Starlink terminals en masse from foriegn governments and directly from SpaceX.
Even more specifically, Ukraine has designed and built their own antennas that are compatible with many different satellite constellations with Starlink being just one of them. As I understand it, these Ukrainian build antennas are the ones we see on drone guided weapons.
Knowing that one if us will be without the other when one of us eventually dies first at some unknown point in the future hopefully from old age. It certainly beats the alternative though of not having met and fallen in love.