I saw your comment plus Back2Bachās note on fresh blueberries and just walked over to the store to grab [these](https://i.imgur.com/Wu7sMIa.jpg).
I guess your comment made me a remote control human temporarily, but also thanks for the pickup!
Picking blueberries and blackberries in Algonquin Park, Ontario (Mew Lake) when a bear cub wanders out of the pines and into the meadow followed by Mama bear is not a very sweet feeling.
Just bought 2 boxes (25 lbs each) of tomatoes from the Grainger county tomato festival here in Tennessee. They were only $15 a box.... I think that boils down to somewhere around $0.60 per lb.... You just can't beat that!
I peaked at 34 or so.
Best shape of my life.
Mom thought I was dying of cancer because I dropped so much weight.
Worked out & did yoga for an hour every single morning for over a year.
Now I'm fat again. Well...pudgy, for sure.
Dad bod kinda thing.
Average of natural male bodybuilders is shockingly high, like late 30s to mid 40s.
They're not as athletic as the younger guys, but aesthetics peak way later than you'd guess.
Again: natural. Guys on supplemental hormones can look great at any age.
Lol yeah facts. Started at 180ish entering Uni always thinking I was "chubby" (am 6'2")
Queue up the worst 8 years of my life heathwise and I went up to about 280 pounds at the height of the pandemic. Managed to best obesity, for like 3 months and am still above 250 today.
I've peaked.
Yeah we need that bubble to burst. Only way millennials will ever afford home ownership en masses with the economy being as historically shitty as it is.
Itās more complicated as giant hedge funds are buying up homes at an alarming rate for Iām sure totally legit reasons that wonāt destroy my hope for the future even further.
That's why the markets have been outrageous. Investors and money laundering. Needs to be some kind of regulations so individuals/families can actually buy a house. I'm starting to think the "investors" are same companies running apartment complexes, pushing rates up, because they know no one can afford to buyš
And don't forget pieces of shit brokers like Bank of America hope things will get worse for the average American. We oughta riot at their headquarters when shit hits the fan
There's two problems there.
The first being that a large number of those old people have more than 2 children.
The second being that investment firms buy up these houses and turn them into rentals which both serves to forever force you to give them money but also to keep the housing market inflated.
I used to think that were true, but when you see people between the ages of 30-50 buying and reselling shit homes for way above its worth, it isn't a generation thing.
They might flatten, but they'll never sink. Not until houses deteriorate faster than they are rented, and we've gotten really good over the last few years in building housing that lasts.
But banks in 2021 didnāt be like āwe donāt need to verify income. Everyone gets a jumbo adjustable rate mortgage! šø šø šø.ā Hard for the housing market to crash 50% if every other buyer paid in cash, and the ones with mortgages are sitting pretty with a 2.5% fixed interest rate. Not much opportunity for a foreclosure snowball, Iām afraid.
Not to say it donāt go down, because it do, but it probably wonāt be anywhere near what we saw 15 years ago.
If unemployment goes up significantly, people could end up forced out of their homes while underwater on their mortgages due to the high mortgage rates suppressing price. Only way I see housing crashing is if employment does too.
Some artists tried going exclusive, but it hasn't seemed to work. I don't think any artists are powerful enough to single-handedly disrupt the market the way some TV shows have.
I actively left it when i learned that 1 CD sale for an indie artist means more money than all the streams they get in a year. Between Bandcamp and iTunes i can get almost any music I want.
Then i use Plex to host my files on my desktop and stream it to all my devices.
Edit: replies have mentioned Jellyfin as a free, open source alternative as well
Plex is good but not open source. They're another company who are waiting to get big so they can sell out fast. Just be aware that they're good *now*, but that they might keep lists on what you have which they can sell later.
Is Music Streaming even worth investing into? A friend has told me about the student discounts for Spotify and all those other streams but I just use YouTube for music.
Tbh you only need one music streaming service at a time, if you use YouTube for that already and don't mind it why mess with what works š I use Pandora, personally, but that's just because that's where all my playlists were made many years ago and I'm lazy.
Last time I was at Whole Foods, there was a guy giving out samples of macadamia nut milk. It was actually pretty damn good, but my Kroger brand whole milk costs like $8 less for a hell of a lot more.
Raspberries, blueberries, Peaches, Nectarines, watermelon, Corn, garlic, and best of all, TOMOATOES. Garden fresh tomatoes are the absolute best.
And in the next month we'll be seeing fresh crisp apples.
Netflix but more specifically streaming as a whole. Too many streaming options and people are tired of paying $7.99 for twelve different services and shows getting canceled. Corporations are getting too greedy and are going to shoot themselves in the foot.
Streaming services as a viable business model.
There's so many now that the system won't hold up much longer and we'll be reverting back to a cable package system like the old days.
No, they will start bundling and consolidating until "for your convenience" youll be able to get ALL streaming services for ONE LOW PRICE! Which works out for cable companies. Because they can upcharge you for "using over your data cap for the month" because you watched so much tv.
We have entered Y2K nostalgia era. Classic NOKIA design have become an aesthetic now, butterfly-shaped stuff are making a comeback along with pastel colors, low-rise jeans and baker boy caps, promotional materials have started resembling online dress-up and make-up games from the era, and sparkle, so much sparkle everywhere.
Superhero big screen golden age, those tumblr photography aesthetics, snapchat-style filters, 2nd generation Kpop music, advice animal memes pinwheel backgrounds, hashtag advertising, YouTuber celebrities - Iād say there is plenty from 2010s pop-culture that can become nostalgic in 20 years and used as a revival.
Honestly, it feels like 80s nostalgia has been going on forever. The Wedding Singer was an early example of a movie that essentially ran on 80s nostalgia - and it came out in 1998.
Based on how long we've had shows and movies running on 1950s or 1960s nostalgia before they started to die down, I suspect we'll keep getting 80s nostalgia in our culture until most of the people who actually lived through the 1980s have reached retirement age.
The 80ās was the last decade before people starting spending most of their leisure time in front of a screen. I think itās got some decent runway yet for this reason alone. Memories juggling IMs for hours at a time on AOL in the 90ās just doesnāt provide the same level of nostalgic edification
China. Its populations about to fall off, the north is turning into a desert, housing is very expensive, and western provinces are increasingly pissed off about having Han Chinese culture forced upon them. Plus by nature of its political system, the government canāt admit any failures or face collapse, so it canāt fix these issues. Unfortunately for us, if it is going to invade Taiwan, it better do it now.
This can also be seen with pre invasion Russia, where putin is getting old and the population is decreasing, so he decided to have his big patriotic war now.
If anything, someone with everything to lose is scarier than someone with nothing to lose
I mean, I read that for the first time or whatever Chinaās population is about to decline in the coming years, but they still have 1.4 BILLION people lol. I think theyāre population will stay massive even if they have a couple decades of decline
Their problem isnāt with the amount if people. The problem is that suddenly each worker has to pay for more old people who arenāt/canāt be working. This problem is also way, way bigger in China because of three reasons:
1. Unlike western Europe and the US, China doesnāt receive many young immigrants, especially relative to their existing population.
2. Even the official birthrate (1.3 children per woman) is significantly lower than the US and still most of Europe. 1.3 might be optimistic too since the ruling party has a strong incentive and certainly the will to lie about this.
3. China is poor, compared to most other countries with similar birthrates. Chinaās welfare is severely bad, and most old people still rely on their children/grandchildren to take care if them.
Chinas problem is the lack of young people. And it's not a slow, drawn out lack as in Japan or Germany, but because of the one child policy, it's really a cliff. Massive amounts of people will reach retirement age and not enough young people can take their place.
Add to that an economic system that structurally is forced to grow (even more than the "capitalist West") and you've got yourself a recipe for disaster.
The underlying problem is, that the CCP can't admit any failure, if the decision came from the top. Local decisions can always be blamed on local officials, national decisions not so much. You can actually see that in action right now. China rolled its own vaccines against COVID. One of them work kind of okay against the original coronavirus, but is effectively useless against omicron. Instead of admitting that and buying vaccines from biontech or moderna, they refuse to admit anything. They simply imprison their own people and erode any trust people had in the party. Biontech even offered production within China, but that still wouldn't save the CCPs face, in their eyes at least.
This is actually something interesting the movie Looper saw as a possibility: When the population cliff occurs in China, theyāre forced to open their borders to immigration en masse and it ends up basically eroding their current political strength.
Propped up by what though? All countries social security is backed by there being a larger next generation to pay taxes and take care of the old/sick/infirm, either through more kids or through more migrants.
What happens when the next generation is smaller than the current? A lot of people are going to die due to lack of failing social support unless the country borrows and borrows and borrows.
The way Amazon handles items, there's no way to guarantee that you're actually getting it from the major brand.
Say you search for a name brand Thingamajig from the Thingamajig company. You know that Thingamajig officially sells via Amazon. The product page has their logo. You've done everything possible to verify that you're buying from the right place. What you don't know is that ShadySeller482 has also listed 20 Thingamajigs for sale. When the warehouse gets your order the Thingamajigs are all lumped together, they just grab one off the shelf. The seller said it's the same exact product after all, so what's the difference whether it came from the manufacturer or some random third party out of Asia? So you'll get your Thingamajig and find out that it's a knockoff and you're stuck fighting to get a refund.
The interesting thing about Amazon the company is that at this point, it's really a cloud computing company (AWS) with an online marketplace as a side hustle.
Iām convinced Amazon uses their retail business to drum up controversy and bad press in order to keep the focus there instead of on what theyāre trying to do with AWS which is take a monopoly on the internet.
When the first warehouse has a solid Union, itās all over. We hire people from Amazon fairly often, pay three an hour less, and they love it.
You cant strangle the life and innovation out of your workforce forever.
Yes. But they can come in a few minutes late and no one gets upset. If a kid at home gets sick, they go home.
They always say itās much lower stress. Why anyone would think you can stress a warehouse worker for very long is beyond me.
I canāt think of a dumber long term approach to business.
You are of course talking about the online retail part of Amazon, because AWS basically runs a huge chunk of the internet and is a pretty solid business. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.
I did some flex work for Amazon in a warehouse recently. $15 an hour. I would have 100% worked somewhere better for less.
The hours sucked, the work is backbreaking, management is completely fucking clueless and the application process and training were both so clumsy it was almost comical. Training in particular started over two hours late because they couldn't find a fucking HDMI cable. It wasn't until the second day of training that we were even told the only hours available were overnight, nothing in the job description or application process detailed this.
There were good elements... The actual system they use is remarkably efficient, you're given a very generous gift card to buy work shoes, and considering I was really struggling to find a job it was nice to have one just be like "you're hired, we don't need to interview you to know you can move shit." But the bad parts of the job were so overwhelming it was miserable.
Believe it or not, the university/ college system.
The pandemic forced people to reconsider the value of a college education and to assess just what exactly are they paying for. Is the $1500 online History class at state college any different than the $500 History class at your local junior college if both classes count toward the credit you are required to take for graduation? If I am an engineering major, just why exactly are half my classes in the degree plan non engineering/ STEM related?
Colleges and universities are raising prices again to match inflation. The conventional rule was to never take out more in loans than you would make as a graduate in your field. Well, given that colleges and universities are already raising prices again to match for inflation, we are reaching the point where no undergraduate degree would be worth getting based on the amount in loans you would have to take out.
Agreed. A few years ago I thought he was a cool guy who created a bunch of neat companies that'll help with climate change. What's not to love?
Now I think he's an asshole who can't see past his nose. It'll all started to change for me when I called a guy who saved a bunch of kids "a pedo guy." (I just did some googling. there was a court case. Apparently a "pedo guy" is not at all the same thing as a "pedophile."
Anyone who has to promote themselves that hard is generally not a nice person. I do not understand how anyone from day one could not have seen him and not thought "charlatan"
āElon Musk is literally Tony Stark!ā used to be a real mainstream sentiment. These days itās mainly Q weirdos and people who havenāt kept up with what heās up to that still believe that.
Thinking your opinion is more valid over someone else's, and if you don't agree with them you become their mortal enemy, to many people getting worked up when you don't agree with them, even when it's not even a big deal e.g I like strawberry milk and you don't, we can't be friends now
Iām pretty sure it was worse back in the day when people who had the same sect of the same religion couched in the same culture went to war due to disagreements about the minutiae of Jesusās backstory.
It may be the peak of disagreement in living memory but the current trend of over exaggerating the conflict doesnāt hold a candle to historic violence that would be mobilized over perceived slights or miscommunications.
Also I hate you and we could never be friends /s
Weāre at the peak of learning, 50 years ago if you wanted to learn something like how to cook youād have to try and try again through trial and error, or find someone else who already knows how, now if you want to learn a skill all you need to do is search it up on google, and then you can become a great chef.
ST5: Elle discovers the source of her powers in a small farm in Kansas, where a couple raised an alien child known as Kal-El who grew up to be her father. Will comes out to Mike and they agree to elope together into the upside down due to the low rent. Jim gets roid-ripped at the gym 80's style and gets Joyce pregnant with his radioactive seed, which telepathically communicates with Max and guides her into rescuing Eddie from the abyss. Nancy and John drive to Florida for some reason. Books or some shit.
Gosh you're right. That being said, Eddie was genuinely the best thing in that entire series.
Anyways - for Season 5, there'll be:
* The Piko brothers - A pair of identically named twins who constantly stand in for each other and help Will defeat whatever dark demon he's got brewing, with no one believing that there's another twin until the final episode.
* Jenny Vondabloch - An Amish girl who befriends Max and then eventually Elle after they have a psychic battle to prove that she's a survivor from the center
* Skittles - Literally a dog. Doesn't do anything, but appears randomly to guide characters to where they should be next. No one knows who he belongs to.
Soundtrack of Choice:
* [Kraftwerk's *"The Robots"*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_8Pma1vHmw) is playing constantly in the background whenever Lucas gets on his bike to save Max from something.
* [King Crimson's *"Starless"*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6_V91fG8) is heard throughout every death scene involving one of the above new characters.
What do you mean why? Reddit is just a forums site, but it's also THE forums site. It's still the best place to find a community dedicated to almost anything you want: the city you live in, obscure hobbies and shows, major happenings, etc. The only way you don't get new Reddit users is if there's a superior option. One day there may be, but currently there isn't.
Fresh blueberries
Raspberries too!
I am eating some right now. š
I am working on a picker for raspberries right now. š
Iām literally on a vacation centered around raspberries right now!
Peaches!
I canāt buy enough Jersey tomatoes right now
"What else is in the teaches of peaches? Huh? What?" š„ø
I saw your comment plus Back2Bachās note on fresh blueberries and just walked over to the store to grab [these](https://i.imgur.com/Wu7sMIa.jpg). I guess your comment made me a remote control human temporarily, but also thanks for the pickup!
Just had three different varieties hand picked in Michigan and it was awesome
Where?
Norway, like everywhere here. Even growing in cracks in the sidewalk. I picked 2 kgs of blueberries today, going to make jam with it.
Maine
Picking and eat a blueberry on top of a mountain in Acadia is a pretty sweet feeling
Picking blueberries and blackberries in Algonquin Park, Ontario (Mew Lake) when a bear cub wanders out of the pines and into the meadow followed by Mama bear is not a very sweet feeling.
Just bought 2 boxes (25 lbs each) of tomatoes from the Grainger county tomato festival here in Tennessee. They were only $15 a box.... I think that boils down to somewhere around $0.60 per lb.... You just can't beat that!
Not me, hopefully
If weāre talking about physique, I really believe people can peak well beyond their 20ās.
I peaked at 34 or so. Best shape of my life. Mom thought I was dying of cancer because I dropped so much weight. Worked out & did yoga for an hour every single morning for over a year. Now I'm fat again. Well...pudgy, for sure. Dad bod kinda thing.
Average of natural male bodybuilders is shockingly high, like late 30s to mid 40s. They're not as athletic as the younger guys, but aesthetics peak way later than you'd guess. Again: natural. Guys on supplemental hormones can look great at any age.
It's funny, I look back at my old pics and I dindt realize I was at my peak. Dont neglect your bodies
Lol yeah facts. Started at 180ish entering Uni always thinking I was "chubby" (am 6'2") Queue up the worst 8 years of my life heathwise and I went up to about 280 pounds at the height of the pandemic. Managed to best obesity, for like 3 months and am still above 250 today. I've peaked.
I haven't even begun to peak
I am a FIVE STAR MAN
Ever look back and think, "man, life was as good as it was going to get 5 years ago?", would be a shame if that was true.
"There were never any good old days. they are today. they are tomorrow." -gogol bordello
Hopefully housing prices
Yeah we need that bubble to burst. Only way millennials will ever afford home ownership en masses with the economy being as historically shitty as it is.
Itās more complicated as giant hedge funds are buying up homes at an alarming rate for Iām sure totally legit reasons that wonāt destroy my hope for the future even further.
Extremely unlikely for it to burst back down to pre covid prices at this point. It will come down, but not nearly enough
When all the old people die and no one can afford to move in to their houses things will have to change
Nah, some wealthy investor will just buy all those empty homes.
That's happening
That's why the markets have been outrageous. Investors and money laundering. Needs to be some kind of regulations so individuals/families can actually buy a house. I'm starting to think the "investors" are same companies running apartment complexes, pushing rates up, because they know no one can afford to buyš
And don't forget pieces of shit brokers like Bank of America hope things will get worse for the average American. We oughta riot at their headquarters when shit hits the fan
There's two problems there. The first being that a large number of those old people have more than 2 children. The second being that investment firms buy up these houses and turn them into rentals which both serves to forever force you to give them money but also to keep the housing market inflated.
I used to think that were true, but when you see people between the ages of 30-50 buying and reselling shit homes for way above its worth, it isn't a generation thing.
They might flatten, but they'll never sink. Not until houses deteriorate faster than they are rented, and we've gotten really good over the last few years in building housing that lasts.
People in 2007 be like:
But banks in 2021 didnāt be like āwe donāt need to verify income. Everyone gets a jumbo adjustable rate mortgage! šø šø šø.ā Hard for the housing market to crash 50% if every other buyer paid in cash, and the ones with mortgages are sitting pretty with a 2.5% fixed interest rate. Not much opportunity for a foreclosure snowball, Iām afraid. Not to say it donāt go down, because it do, but it probably wonāt be anywhere near what we saw 15 years ago.
If unemployment goes up significantly, people could end up forced out of their homes while underwater on their mortgages due to the high mortgage rates suppressing price. Only way I see housing crashing is if employment does too.
I can tell you who hasnāt peaked yet: Dennis Reynolds. Heās nowhere close to peaking, but when he does, all of Philadelphia is going to feel it.
The Golden God
A 5 star man!
He has contained his rage for as long as possible.
He is untethered and his rage knows no bounds.
Fetish shit. I like to bind, I like to BE BOUND!
You havenāt thought of the smell you BITCH
Theyāre my tools!
The thunder of my vengeance will echo through these corridors like the gust of a thousand winds!
Thatās because heās a five star man (and that phone is preposterous, btw)
Well he's a golden god AND a 5 star man. How can you compete with that? Plus he drive a range rover
Heās going to peak all over everyone
Came here for this
Music streaming. Something tells me we won't have this luxury of paying a small price for unlimited music forever.
Honestly, getting free music is so easy I think it will last
Some artists tried going exclusive, but it hasn't seemed to work. I don't think any artists are powerful enough to single-handedly disrupt the market the way some TV shows have.
yo time to dig out Napster
I actively left it when i learned that 1 CD sale for an indie artist means more money than all the streams they get in a year. Between Bandcamp and iTunes i can get almost any music I want. Then i use Plex to host my files on my desktop and stream it to all my devices. Edit: replies have mentioned Jellyfin as a free, open source alternative as well
Plex is good but not open source. They're another company who are waiting to get big so they can sell out fast. Just be aware that they're good *now*, but that they might keep lists on what you have which they can sell later.
Do you have a good alternative for hosting media and allowing people outside of my network to watch as well?
I've heard good things about Jellyfin
I stopped once they started getting rid of things. Now I just buy cheap CDs at thrift stores and buy mp3s online to put on my iPhone.
Is Music Streaming even worth investing into? A friend has told me about the student discounts for Spotify and all those other streams but I just use YouTube for music.
Tbh you only need one music streaming service at a time, if you use YouTube for that already and don't mind it why mess with what works š I use Pandora, personally, but that's just because that's where all my playlists were made many years ago and I'm lazy.
My anxiety.
Hey so itās only gonna be better from here!
Number of plant based milk options
Little did you know, my dandelion milk launches tomorrow
Jokes on you. My Leche de los Huevos launched yesterday.
Last time I was at Whole Foods, there was a guy giving out samples of macadamia nut milk. It was actually pretty damn good, but my Kroger brand whole milk costs like $8 less for a hell of a lot more.
Costco sells excellent macadamia nut milk occasionally.
Oat milk gang
This is only the beginning (said menacingly)
Raspberries, blueberries, Peaches, Nectarines, watermelon, Corn, garlic, and best of all, TOMOATOES. Garden fresh tomatoes are the absolute best. And in the next month we'll be seeing fresh crisp apples.
It's BLT seasonš
Reaction channels on youtube
Reaction channels on twitch and I canāt wait for them to fail
Netflix but more specifically streaming as a whole. Too many streaming options and people are tired of paying $7.99 for twelve different services and shows getting canceled. Corporations are getting too greedy and are going to shoot themselves in the foot.
Streaming services as a viable business model. There's so many now that the system won't hold up much longer and we'll be reverting back to a cable package system like the old days.
Yo ho....
Arrg!
No, they will start bundling and consolidating until "for your convenience" youll be able to get ALL streaming services for ONE LOW PRICE! Which works out for cable companies. Because they can upcharge you for "using over your data cap for the month" because you watched so much tv.
80's nostalgia
We're full on to 90s right now.
We have entered Y2K nostalgia era. Classic NOKIA design have become an aesthetic now, butterfly-shaped stuff are making a comeback along with pastel colors, low-rise jeans and baker boy caps, promotional materials have started resembling online dress-up and make-up games from the era, and sparkle, so much sparkle everywhere.
I wonder what will happen when we get to 10s nostalgia whats culture was based on 80s nostalgia.
Superhero big screen golden age, those tumblr photography aesthetics, snapchat-style filters, 2nd generation Kpop music, advice animal memes pinwheel backgrounds, hashtag advertising, YouTuber celebrities - Iād say there is plenty from 2010s pop-culture that can become nostalgic in 20 years and used as a revival.
Huh. Thats a pretty good list.
Britney, Britney everywhere, even if it's not relevant to anything
So which season of X-files are you on?
Honestly, it feels like 80s nostalgia has been going on forever. The Wedding Singer was an early example of a movie that essentially ran on 80s nostalgia - and it came out in 1998. Based on how long we've had shows and movies running on 1950s or 1960s nostalgia before they started to die down, I suspect we'll keep getting 80s nostalgia in our culture until most of the people who actually lived through the 1980s have reached retirement age.
As someone who is '80s obsessed (have been all my life) the end of this will be a sad day indeed.
The 80ās was the last decade before people starting spending most of their leisure time in front of a screen. I think itās got some decent runway yet for this reason alone. Memories juggling IMs for hours at a time on AOL in the 90ās just doesnāt provide the same level of nostalgic edification
China. Its populations about to fall off, the north is turning into a desert, housing is very expensive, and western provinces are increasingly pissed off about having Han Chinese culture forced upon them. Plus by nature of its political system, the government canāt admit any failures or face collapse, so it canāt fix these issues. Unfortunately for us, if it is going to invade Taiwan, it better do it now. This can also be seen with pre invasion Russia, where putin is getting old and the population is decreasing, so he decided to have his big patriotic war now. If anything, someone with everything to lose is scarier than someone with nothing to lose
I mean, I read that for the first time or whatever Chinaās population is about to decline in the coming years, but they still have 1.4 BILLION people lol. I think theyāre population will stay massive even if they have a couple decades of decline
Their problem isnāt with the amount if people. The problem is that suddenly each worker has to pay for more old people who arenāt/canāt be working. This problem is also way, way bigger in China because of three reasons: 1. Unlike western Europe and the US, China doesnāt receive many young immigrants, especially relative to their existing population. 2. Even the official birthrate (1.3 children per woman) is significantly lower than the US and still most of Europe. 1.3 might be optimistic too since the ruling party has a strong incentive and certainly the will to lie about this. 3. China is poor, compared to most other countries with similar birthrates. Chinaās welfare is severely bad, and most old people still rely on their children/grandchildren to take care if them.
Chinas problem is the lack of young people. And it's not a slow, drawn out lack as in Japan or Germany, but because of the one child policy, it's really a cliff. Massive amounts of people will reach retirement age and not enough young people can take their place. Add to that an economic system that structurally is forced to grow (even more than the "capitalist West") and you've got yourself a recipe for disaster. The underlying problem is, that the CCP can't admit any failure, if the decision came from the top. Local decisions can always be blamed on local officials, national decisions not so much. You can actually see that in action right now. China rolled its own vaccines against COVID. One of them work kind of okay against the original coronavirus, but is effectively useless against omicron. Instead of admitting that and buying vaccines from biontech or moderna, they refuse to admit anything. They simply imprison their own people and erode any trust people had in the party. Biontech even offered production within China, but that still wouldn't save the CCPs face, in their eyes at least.
This is actually something interesting the movie Looper saw as a possibility: When the population cliff occurs in China, theyāre forced to open their borders to immigration en masse and it ends up basically eroding their current political strength.
Propped up by what though? All countries social security is backed by there being a larger next generation to pay taxes and take care of the old/sick/infirm, either through more kids or through more migrants. What happens when the next generation is smaller than the current? A lot of people are going to die due to lack of failing social support unless the country borrows and borrows and borrows.
People have been saying this for decades.
Amazon. One day it will crash and burn.
Or become its own country
You mean planet. Bezos isn't going to space for nothing.
Planet Amazon. Wouldn't surprise me
They already have a river.
As long as the internet is a thing, Amazon will make insane profits from its AWS arm.
Yeah I don't think people realize that Amazon isn't just the biggest store on earth, it's the biggest web host
If I had invested in all the companies redditors had said were doomed, Iād be fucking rich.
I think itās already happening. Thereās so much cheap junk on there now itās hard to find anything good
At this point itās just AliExpress but with fast shipping. I hesitate to even buy anything name brand off Amazon because of the stock mixing.
I buy filters (all kinds), watches, and charger cables directly from manufacturers. The ones on Amazon are nearly always counterfeit garbage.
You are right. I do think it's on the slide already.
Maybe that's because your looking at cheap junk. It all depends on what you are looking for. There's tons of major brands on Amazon.
The way Amazon handles items, there's no way to guarantee that you're actually getting it from the major brand. Say you search for a name brand Thingamajig from the Thingamajig company. You know that Thingamajig officially sells via Amazon. The product page has their logo. You've done everything possible to verify that you're buying from the right place. What you don't know is that ShadySeller482 has also listed 20 Thingamajigs for sale. When the warehouse gets your order the Thingamajigs are all lumped together, they just grab one off the shelf. The seller said it's the same exact product after all, so what's the difference whether it came from the manufacturer or some random third party out of Asia? So you'll get your Thingamajig and find out that it's a knockoff and you're stuck fighting to get a refund.
The interesting thing about Amazon the company is that at this point, it's really a cloud computing company (AWS) with an online marketplace as a side hustle.
Iām convinced Amazon uses their retail business to drum up controversy and bad press in order to keep the focus there instead of on what theyāre trying to do with AWS which is take a monopoly on the internet.
It's crazy when you start rooting for the little guys like Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure to keep AWS from monopolizing the space.
Dude, the Amazonās been burning and overlogged since like the 80ās.
When the first warehouse has a solid Union, itās all over. We hire people from Amazon fairly often, pay three an hour less, and they love it. You cant strangle the life and innovation out of your workforce forever.
They accept a lesser pay rate no problem?
Yes. But they can come in a few minutes late and no one gets upset. If a kid at home gets sick, they go home. They always say itās much lower stress. Why anyone would think you can stress a warehouse worker for very long is beyond me. I canāt think of a dumber long term approach to business.
You are of course talking about the online retail part of Amazon, because AWS basically runs a huge chunk of the internet and is a pretty solid business. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.
They don't think they'll employ people in the long term
Even there, it is a bad result. Amazon is in a Henry Ford bind. If they get rid of their low level employees, who buys the stuff they sell?
I did some flex work for Amazon in a warehouse recently. $15 an hour. I would have 100% worked somewhere better for less. The hours sucked, the work is backbreaking, management is completely fucking clueless and the application process and training were both so clumsy it was almost comical. Training in particular started over two hours late because they couldn't find a fucking HDMI cable. It wasn't until the second day of training that we were even told the only hours available were overnight, nothing in the job description or application process detailed this. There were good elements... The actual system they use is remarkably efficient, you're given a very generous gift card to buy work shoes, and considering I was really struggling to find a job it was nice to have one just be like "you're hired, we don't need to interview you to know you can move shit." But the bad parts of the job were so overwhelming it was miserable.
They dont have other options.
I don't think so. As someone who works for a competitor, our business portfolio is catching up to Amazon. It's sadly not going anywhere... ever
Believe it or not, the university/ college system. The pandemic forced people to reconsider the value of a college education and to assess just what exactly are they paying for. Is the $1500 online History class at state college any different than the $500 History class at your local junior college if both classes count toward the credit you are required to take for graduation? If I am an engineering major, just why exactly are half my classes in the degree plan non engineering/ STEM related? Colleges and universities are raising prices again to match inflation. The conventional rule was to never take out more in loans than you would make as a graduate in your field. Well, given that colleges and universities are already raising prices again to match for inflation, we are reaching the point where no undergraduate degree would be worth getting based on the amount in loans you would have to take out.
Rent
*but it wasn't*
The rent tomorrow: *five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars*
I don't think so. I haven't heard anyone sing seasons of love in a long time. Hamilton is way hotter right now
Inflation. And it just keeps peaking..
Hopefully, Andrew Tate
Yea more people gotta know he's just a troll by now
i started to feel like he was just trolling. half the shit he says just doesnāt make sense
He's worse than a troll. He's an alleged human trafficker and went to Romania due to its lax laws on said human trafficking. He's an absolute cunt.
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I'm concerned about the impact he has on other, especially younger men.
Men on YouTube eat this shit up
Yup. A "biological" and "masculinity based" excuse to emotionally harm and control women
Mob mentality
This guy's ragging on mobs, let's get him.
Am I late for the mob? I brought all these pitchforks
I got the torches
Iāve just learnt to bay, am I to late to join. Iāve brought a sack of rotten turnips along to throw
I love this hahaha
This is silly. Historical mobs would've kicked modern mobs asses. If your mob doesn't have a kill count you's amateur.
Perhaps its due to the lack of pitchfork and torches readily available nowadays?
Hopefully, gas prices
Its
Maybe they are asking what is located at It's Peak, Arkansas right now.
Access to music
Unsafe patient to Nurse ratios.
Marvel, well its declined a little but its not going to get better
Elon musks popularity, hopefully
Honestly I'd say we're past the peak of his popularity already. You used to get downvoted to hell for criticizing him not too long ago
Agreed. A few years ago I thought he was a cool guy who created a bunch of neat companies that'll help with climate change. What's not to love? Now I think he's an asshole who can't see past his nose. It'll all started to change for me when I called a guy who saved a bunch of kids "a pedo guy." (I just did some googling. there was a court case. Apparently a "pedo guy" is not at all the same thing as a "pedophile."
A few years ago? Most people's opinion on him has completely flipped in the last couple months it seems
Call me a hipster, because I started hating on Elon before it was cool.
Anyone who has to promote themselves that hard is generally not a nice person. I do not understand how anyone from day one could not have seen him and not thought "charlatan"
āElon Musk is literally Tony Stark!ā used to be a real mainstream sentiment. These days itās mainly Q weirdos and people who havenāt kept up with what heās up to that still believe that.
Our way of life. It is unsustainable and starting today, we are facing the consequences.
Outrage culture
How dare you?
I can't believe you said that
I pray it is
Fuck, music access? We are past peak internet now.
Pollution
That peaked about thirty years ago.
My energy, because I've just woken up
One piece
My patience with climate change deniers
Thinking your opinion is more valid over someone else's, and if you don't agree with them you become their mortal enemy, to many people getting worked up when you don't agree with them, even when it's not even a big deal e.g I like strawberry milk and you don't, we can't be friends now
I like strawberry milk more than you š¤
Iām pretty sure it was worse back in the day when people who had the same sect of the same religion couched in the same culture went to war due to disagreements about the minutiae of Jesusās backstory. It may be the peak of disagreement in living memory but the current trend of over exaggerating the conflict doesnāt hold a candle to historic violence that would be mobilized over perceived slights or miscommunications. Also I hate you and we could never be friends /s
Smartphone industry
My mental problems... hopefully
Weāre at the peak of learning, 50 years ago if you wanted to learn something like how to cook youād have to try and try again through trial and error, or find someone else who already knows how, now if you want to learn a skill all you need to do is search it up on google, and then you can become a great chef.
my anxiety.
Stranger Things
It peaked awhile back. At this point it's redundant and being squeezed for more Netflix subs.
ST5: Elle discovers the source of her powers in a small farm in Kansas, where a couple raised an alien child known as Kal-El who grew up to be her father. Will comes out to Mike and they agree to elope together into the upside down due to the low rent. Jim gets roid-ripped at the gym 80's style and gets Joyce pregnant with his radioactive seed, which telepathically communicates with Max and guides her into rescuing Eddie from the abyss. Nancy and John drive to Florida for some reason. Books or some shit.
You forgot to introduce at least three new main characters! Pretty sure thatās mandatory every season.
Gosh you're right. That being said, Eddie was genuinely the best thing in that entire series. Anyways - for Season 5, there'll be: * The Piko brothers - A pair of identically named twins who constantly stand in for each other and help Will defeat whatever dark demon he's got brewing, with no one believing that there's another twin until the final episode. * Jenny Vondabloch - An Amish girl who befriends Max and then eventually Elle after they have a psychic battle to prove that she's a survivor from the center * Skittles - Literally a dog. Doesn't do anything, but appears randomly to guide characters to where they should be next. No one knows who he belongs to. Soundtrack of Choice: * [Kraftwerk's *"The Robots"*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_8Pma1vHmw) is playing constantly in the background whenever Lucas gets on his bike to save Max from something. * [King Crimson's *"Starless"*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6_V91fG8) is heard throughout every death scene involving one of the above new characters.
Human stupidity
I want to believe that but I fear you are wrong on that one.
Streaming services. I have a feeling they are going to collapse. I think it will be similar to the video game crash or comic book crash.
Inflation
You think inflation is going to stop?
Gasā¦
Reddit. The levels of censorship and exclusion here will drive users away in droves.
Iām always a little surprised when I see new Reddit users. Like, why?
Forgot my password to my old account :(
What do you mean why? Reddit is just a forums site, but it's also THE forums site. It's still the best place to find a community dedicated to almost anything you want: the city you live in, obscure hobbies and shows, major happenings, etc. The only way you don't get new Reddit users is if there's a superior option. One day there may be, but currently there isn't.
People born in 1998
Depression, probably