You know what I find so odd? Her dad is one of Jamaica’s most renowned economists. He’s a highly respected long-time presence in Jamaican economic policy. His academic and policy work is far to her left, and they’re apparently estranged.

I wonder if she’s familiar with her dad’s work. I wonder if she’d been able to sit down and have dinner with him at any point over the last year and ask his thoughts what he would’ve said.

I think his intense commitment to getting Trump elected makes more sense when you consider this article.

His enormous wealth is largely stored in the form of Tesla stock, and that stock has been valued based on the belief that it isn’t a car company, it’s a robotaxi service currently selling the hardware to finance the software development. The value – and his wealth – can persist indefinitely as long as investors continue to accept that premise, no matter how long delayed. But if something tangibly undermines that premise, Musk could conceivably lose the majority of his wealth overnight.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Agency is probably the greatest threat to his wealth. He doesn’t worry about competitors or protestors or Twitter users or advertisers. They’re all just petty nuisances. But the federal regulator over roads… that is his proverbial killer snail. And I think fully capturing the entire federal regulatory state is his strategy to permanently confine that snail.

More than anything else, I think that’s what is motivating his radical embrace of fascism.

I feel like if you think about this for even a minute this seems like the worst possible idea ever.

I mean, sure it’s an achievement. But so is smashing the moon into the Earth.

At least 13, likely less than 19. Where you land is contextual to neighborhood and costume. And any age if you’re with someone under 10.

Respectfully, as a resident of Oakland CA, I kinda hate this, even as a joke.

Nationally, we’re the stand in for conservative fearmongering. But Oakland has big dreams. We’re a town with incredible culture and community trying to do the best we can with limited resources in the face of so many oligarchs who just see endless opportunities to kick us while we’re down.

Oakland wants to be Wakanda. But most residents feel like we’re getting mugged by landlords, then having our shoes swiped while we’re bleeding on the concrete by thieves.

Honestly, that’s the main thing I was thinking.

Okay. I don’t really have anything to add to that. Good luck though.

These are good questions. I don’t know. First, what state are you in? Second, does she have any coworkers? Also, does she know anyone in a similar field? If she went to school, does she know any classmates or teachers who might have advice?

Also: can this be automated? Nowadays, you can have a large language model code a lot of things. Could she instruct one to write a python or bash script to reduce since of the work?

Ultimately, I think she should keep looking for better work. But I know that can be challenging.

Can I offer some constructive critique?

This meme is getting downvoted because it is both a fairly dumb concept but also a very unsatisfying execution.

You need to take your idea and communicate it in a meme response. It could be a meme representing confusion or sarcasm, but adding “Breaking New…” as bottom text is really not going to go well even if everyone thought your opinion was good.

Whenever people say this, my first response is: you should support building mixed use/mixed density.

You would have an easier time affording a single family home if there were a couple of duplexes, quad plexes, and low rise apartments around, with some small shops in the ground level.

Fewer people competing for the same single family homes and close access to bodegas and bistros. Easier time finding babysitters and dog walkers too.

We don’t all have to love like Manhattan. Most of the nicest neighborhood in America are mixed density.

I see Teslas in the bay area with bumper stickers that say things like “I didn’t know he was nuts when I bought this”

Oh! Apologies, I just saw that someone else said something relevant and decided to post my comment as a reply to them instead of a top level comment. Sorry for the confusion!

I’m from Pittsburgh. I think we ran a cross country meet in Hershey once.

The amusement park and factory tour are all quite charming. It’s hard to recommend one make a dedicated trip, but if anyone is ever on a road trip nearby, it’s worth the detour to stop by for a day.

Then again, my recommendation is 20 years old. It could be either better or worse now.

They were starting by putting a finger in zero and then dragging to the number. And for zero they were dragging all the way to the stop.

You’re supposed to dial by putting a finger in each number hole and then dragging to the stop. So they dialed zero correctly, but only zero.

I had one in my room! Such a good feel to it. Same with picking up and hanging up!

This was in the early 2000s, btw. They were already relics, but landlines were still commonly used when I was in high school, and it had such a handsome look to it and felt great to use. I have long thought that a product that would do incredibly well would be a cell phone charging dock where you put your phone in and while it’s charging it just acts like a landline rotary phone. The user experience is very, very gratifying, and if you’ve ever tried to hold a call while your phone is plugged into the wall you know how much better a solid headset with a coil wire would feel than that.

I’m 38. I remember a few times when I was a kid needed to call a classmate urgently. Like, maybe i needed to know what math problems we were assigned as homework. For folks I knew well, I might have their number written down in a book in a desk drawer, but for anyone else I would have to look up their last name in the white pages and read down a list trying to find the right number.

Was their dad’s name Prescott? No, that’s not an ethnic match. Here’s a David. That sounds right. Oh! And it’s on Beacon! That’s the right neighborhood! That’s got to be it!

I think about it all the time. You could find your teacher’s house and just go drop off a fruit basket or something if you wanted. It was crazy! It was just assumed that if someone wanted to find your house it was probably for a sensible reason. Why otherwise? If you’re paranoid or a public figure then maybe you’d choose to be unlisted, but for anyone else there’s no point in it.

Simpler times, for sure. I’d still like to go back. I think it was worth it. The alternative doesn’t seem to work. We’re all getting constantly harassed with robo calls and stalked on line. At this point, the only people who don’t know where we live are the ones who might drop off a casserole. We’ve gained nothing.

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This is so exciting. I worked in a lab where we were trying to do this, and so I was very aware what a gold rush we were in. I’m so glad to see that it’s actually happening.

This is truly a watershed moment in science. This is going to mark a major turning point in cellular medicine from theory to commonplace care. Eventually, this will end the pharma industry’s insulin cash cow.

But it’s even bigger than that. Because once we can engineer cells that produce a natural product, the next step is to engineer cells that produce synthetic medicines. Antidepressants, birth control, hormones, weight loss drugs, boner pills… The frontier is huge, lucrative, financially disruptive for pharma companies and life changing for patients. This is a big moment in history, and we all need to be fighting harder than ever to end for-profit healthcare. Otherwise we’re going to end up with subscription licenses to our own bodies.

That meme is… chef’s kiss

You messed up the format.

The caption should be “Why would Socialism do this?”