If you're working in the tech industry and still struggling that's a you problem.

What is with you loser boomers and the 60s. The rest of the world only bought from the US because they had no industry at all. No one wants our shitty cars. You are the one that ruined all our free trade agreements meaning the world is pivoting away from our products. Your daddy Trump literally ripped up a big chunk of the defense contracts that Biden managed to get NATO to sign onto.

I'm not busting my ass doing menial blue collar work just so you can feel good about "pulling the country up by the bootstraps" (impossible). You are a fucking fossil at this point and don't know shit about the economy.

Seriously I'm over here working with frontier AI models knowing the rest of the world is paying us good money to use them to the order of hundreds of billions but here this guy is droning on and on about factory jobs. You literally can't be more out of touch if you tried.

The fact that we're even compiling the stats on that is why the life expectancy is going up.

You have the world view of a child.

Your interpretation is very boomer / 20th century. Of course someone who isn't "participating in the work force" is just unemployed and down on their luck. No it couldn't be that they saved their money and retired early or simply coasting. Nope that's totally not a thing.

I mean maybe it's just a millennial thing but a bunch of us had the 150-250k per year jobs in our 20s and now we can just coast. The only friends I have that are struggling are the ones that are straight up lazy or party too much and they admit it to me in private.

I like UBI but only if literally everyone gets it no matter their income level as soon as they hit 18. Maybe a slow ramp from 18 to 23. The smart ones will use it to invest, start a business, go to school, etc.

As far as "saving" people from themselves. That's a fantasy. You can't help someone who is mentally ill. Doesn't even necessarily need to be about drugs. I know plenty who are incapable of being "normal". I see this everyday on tech discussion boards like this. Pedantic nerds that will argue about how they are always right about everything but then fall for some dumb scam or end up working a dead end job for 20 years. These are the types that will blame everyone but themselves.

I've seen this mental illness in my family. One brother turns into a hoarder that is constantly going on and on about how to save $7 on sales tax by driving to a different state. Thinks he's saving money. Meanwhile the sister becomes a doctor. One is dead now. The other is watching her grand kids grow up.

I am quite happy with the tech industry in general and have found it has paid for my very comfortable lifestyle that is quite a bit better than what my parents and grandparents had back in Europe.

> Now, bringing back the era of blades hissing through aristocrats' necks might become possible

Honestly when I see stuff like on on /. I'd rather the authorities find you and put you in a concrete box with 3 hots and a cot.

My interpretation of the data is that more people can retire early and that's what's actually happening. It's abundance economics and will continue to grow as people with means opt to retire in their 40s and 50s.

Further compounding this is an aging population with fewer young people entering the workforce which skews the statistics.

I was posting on Reddit for years under my real name on various technical subreddits only to get banned because I quoted something very racist arguing against that quite. The ban was a simple string search that happened to read the quote as if I was saying it. Know multiple people in the same boat.

Anyway I no longer post on reddit at all. It's on a slow decline.

I installed Gentoo on a new machine this morning in the fastest possible time because of nomodeset. Pretty much copied a working system with an AMD kernel to an Intel box with an arc GPU. Ended up just booting in with nomodeset. Recompiling, and done.

This is how models were trained back in 2008 on object recognition. A big database was created of a ton of images and over time computers got better than humans and object recognition. It was used as a benchmark to test against. By saying they created a benchmark. That means you have a deterministic test. Perhaps something already known by humans but a difficult problem. Say identification of something. If over time you train against that data set you'll eventually hit near 100%. By saying they made a benchmark it's basically them saying it's a prime array for rapid improvement and historically all benchmarks like this see rapid improvement once tested is widespread.

The United States and Israel do $55 billion in trade yearly.

An aircraft carrier currently costs 3 billion annually to operate.

The money you are citing is part of the 1.3 billion we send them annually along with Egypt due to the 1979 Peace Treaty brokered by Jimmy Carter. Thought ya'll trusted his judgment?

In any case the tax revenue generated from bilateral trade pencils out quite nicely and the medical research coming out of Israel is regularly contributing to improving American healthcare to the tune of much more than single digit billions.

You mean the schools that were built by these randoms that settled near the homestead? That the homestead wasn't using and didn't want anything to do with? You mean those schools?

I don't even really consider property taxes to be constitutional in general. Frankly. When people settled the west they were homesteading. There were very few if any taxes what so ever. Then eventually municipalities tried to create townships with ever growing boundaries suddenly making people's completely free and clear owned property under the bureaucracy off some randoms that just happened to settle near you. Suddenly they want control over the wealth you have built independently of them. It's literal theft. That's why so many random small towns in California. They basically created their own municipalities in order to not get swallowed up and forced to pay higher taxes. There are very exclusive municipals near my house that are quite exclusive and are basically just 100 homes and a couple ranches. One of them is technically older than the United States and was founded when California was still Spanish. In any case I see this nonsense all the time. "We're from the government. We're here to help. -> Proceeds to tax you out of your own homestead 50 years later ->

Actually we're gonna make it so that you can't afford it first. I'd rather turn this place into Monaco. Not Russia. Buh bye.