To be there, at that time, the communists were all calling him a fascist. If you were in the USSR, and even entertained the idea of simply traveling outside of the USSR without some kind of special circumstances (i.e. an athlete or upper ranking party official) you were branded a fascist for the rest of your life, and that's assuming you didn't just disappear one day.

Oh derp, missed that you weren't responding to rsilvergun.

He doesn't even know what you're talking about. He doesn't even have any retirement savings, a fact he inadvertently revealed a few months back, rather he just likes to make noise.

Usually it's better to just put it into broad index funds -- unless your financial advisor is expensive and/or won't even talk to you unless you're investing at least 500k, they aren't even going to do as well as the S&P. Why do I say that? Because by and large, that's exactly what finance professionals do with their own money.

For the time being, I moved all of my retirement portfolio into 50% FEQIX, 25% FSMDX, 25% FSPSX. Usually I keep half of it in an 0.01 expense ratio SPY fund, but I think it (along with most index funds) are way too AI heavy at the moment. This mix has been roughly even with the S&P since I switched from my last mix, but overall I've slightly (but not meaningfully) outperformed the S&P in the last two years. I think AI is going to implode right around the time when Anthropic and OpenAI show their audited financials and the circular financing with woefully inadequate revenue (which they only disclose to the public as ARR right now, which is basically meaningless) is laid bare, but I also don't believe there's any avoiding taking a hit either.

My prediction: Either you lose to inflation, you lose to investment-grade-turned-junk bonds (think Oracle), or you lose to equities. No matter what you do, you're going to take a hit in some form. The only exception is if you're in some kind of position to do something like what Michael Burry did, which most people aren't. I'd be surprised if he even is this time around.

Nope. Warner Bros. was losing money before the merger and had accumulated $40B in net debt.

The headcount reduction was sorely needed, and the merger makes it even more necessary.

I'm not sure why so many here, especially e.g. rsilvergun, revere Patrick Boyle. He's a former hedge fund manager, and the fund he managed almost certainly took at least 80% of the earnings over the life of the fund, while badly underperforming the S&P500. In his defense, his fund wasn't designed to beat the S&P, but there's a huge butt: Anybody who put money into it lost their ass to inflation, but the fund (including him) got paid very, very well. It's hard for me to watch him because I've literally watched him plainly state things as fact that I personally know to not be true.

However, the second link makes a pretty good point about investor limits, and unlike Patrick Boyle, doesn't try to paint speculation as fact. On the other hand, under the old rules, employees rarely got paid in stock. They had to be some kind of an upper-tier employee to get that, like either a top 10 programmer or VP, exec, etc. Where I work, literally every last FTE gets stock, including baristas, security, or any other job role you can name. Doesn't matter their pay grade, they get all of the same perks as everybody else. With all of the noise the rsilvergun-alikes make about companies being employee owned, especially the ones who espouse co-ops even though they typically have no idea what that word even means, you'd figure they'd be in favor of this. This year alone, I'm likely within a hair's distance of a 7-digit income on my w-2, and if not, then that means I've exceeded it. I know one guy who started early at the company and left a bit ago, and he's already sitting on $80 million worth. He retired in his 40s.

I didn't even vote in the last election. I had still been registered in Arizona while living in California. Even if I had been registered to vote legally, I would have left the presidential box empty.

No. I don't have time to simplify this for you, so you'll have to ask your guardian or your babysitter to interpret what I'm saying but, in fact, you got both words very, very wrong. What credentials do depends on the context. For example, being credentialed with an accredited law degree and passing a state bar exam gives a person authorization to practice law. With nuance of course, but that's the gist of it. In computing terms, credentials often contain two parts: Your identity, and your authentication factor. You make a claim to your identity, and you authenticate to prove that identity. Usually in that order, but sometimes it's both at the same time. It depends. Authorization is tied to your identity, and (remember, computing terms here) an authorization mechanism, such as an access control list, determines what you, operating as that identity, may or may not do.

That's not what projection means. But as a special kind of person, you'd fit right in with them. Just remember to ask your legal guardian first.

Over the last 7 years I've been working in cybersecurity. I understand that, and a lot more, a lot better than you do.

Well this is a concept that most people learn by high school. Most people. Let's see if I can put this into terms you'd understand. Soo...you might recall how, upon your 18th birthday, you were adjudicated incompetent. That's pronounced "AD-JOO-DICK-ATED", and, contrary to how it sounds, it has nothing to do with eating dicks. As such you were assigned what's called a legal guardian. This legal guardian has the legal right, and thus as a matter of law is authorized, to make important decisions on your behalf, where you are not. As a matter of law, a judge can't even speak to you directly after this, only your legal guardian, basically as if you aren't even in the room even if you're standing right next to your guardian.

You may recall at some point how your legal guardian was suddenly replaced one day. That's because your first legal guardian spent all of your money on crack. Although he has the right, and therefore authorization, as a matter of law, to spend your money basically however he wants, including paying himself for his services, he still has what's called a duty of care. That's pronounced "DOO-TEE", and it has nothing to do with poop. Think of it like he's your permanent babysitter, even when he's not around. But one day, somebody found you sitting in an empty room by yourself smearing feces all over yourself and a wall while he was in the other room passed out, and...well...one thing sort of lead to another.

A similar concept applies to something the abled people around you call power of attorney, that your legal guardian can also sign on your behalf. Here's one example of what power of attorney grants in at least one jurisdiction ("JUR-ISS-DICK-SHONE", again, no relation to dicks):

https://www.occourts.org/self-...

Notice for example, how power of attorney can grant another person authorization to make financial decisions on your behalf.

MAGA people aren't able to think for themselves, and there are a lot of them out there. So yes it's true, there are other people out there just like you! You're not alone in this world. Just like them, you're special! Ask your legal guardian if he can take you to a Trump rally, and you'll meet more of your own kind!

Hmm...no. You can authorize other people to act on your behalf, though in your case it's not your decision, it's your legal guardian's decision. As an example, you might notice that abled people around you have something called a credit card. People who have credit cards can authorize other people to use them. They do it all the time, usually without realizing it.

"they have been more then forward with their intent to replace us all with AI and robots"

Citations needed. Focus on the word 'all'.

I get the anger towards technology displacing human workers with no apparent plan to re-employ them elsewhere. But this is just the latest in a series of such revolutions. AI isn't replacing plumbers any time soon. Unless the AI can direct robots to manufacture housing with preassembling utilities, but that's a fantasy away from happening.

I was repairing desktop calculators for a while until they became too cheap to bother. I repaired typewriters and older, more proprietary word processing systems, until PCs took over. Then I went into the PC service and support business. And the PC networking business, because networking was a thing. Then an ISP, because the Internet was seriously sucking the air out of the world. Then I migrated into support and customer service, which after 17 years became much less demanding of head count, and now I've retired, 50 years after those nixie tube calculators sat before me and my soldering iron. There is more after this particular bubble. Watch. The real threats are philosophical, disguising as politics and religion, of which they are neither. Ideas spur more killing, because it is in the end all ideas.

Nothing screams democracy like four terms in office.

Watching chip fabs, housing, and so.much.retail being built around here, I think you got to get out more. Data centers are experiencing another in a line of booms, as new tech spawns new needs. Most of the complaining about data centers seems to be more hate the rich, with AI the current boogeyman for that. And many construction trades are shorthanded.

Besides, Microsoft is probably admitting they are going to do fine with 3/4 of the head count they had yesterday, and that's rarely a bad business decision, unless you subscribe to the theory that they never really knew what they were doing, which explains the billions. Not.

SO narrowminded I'm genuinely surprised you can use words with more than 2 syllables.

Not that anyone in the TOS cast really deserves much criticism as far as how they manage(d) their celebrity, but Koenig always came off as a class act. In every interview he always seems grateful to just have had the privilege of being part of something big. Really seem to care about the fans and wanted to be entertaining for them at conventions and the like, was willing to participate in some of the fandom projects. Just a good guy.

One of the things people keep overlooking with skilled trades is the physical labor required. I know quite a few people with an I.T. career they're in largely because they have physical issues or limitations (bad back, for example) and it's not realistic for them to just hop over to a skilled trade like a plumber, where they're going to have to crawl under cabinets or into crawlspaces under porches all day long.

If you're still young, absolutely. It's not a bad time to consider a skilled trade to make a good living and escape the AI threat. But for the middle aged and older folks? Not always realistic.

Indeed they are. It seems that, for the purposes of social justice, regular drivers licenses and CDLs, complete with "Real ID" markers, are now mere formalities that can be had in several of our most just states, without even providing a name. I suppose that to the degree this facilitates hijacking freight, this is only yet more social justice. Win-win for everyone.