The lapse in the $600 weekly jobless payments could have a huge impact on the broader economy.
How big? Researchers estimate a one-month expiration could cause consumer spending to fall 4.3% — more than the entire decline during the Great Recession. https://t.co/DmO1JnLVmn
— Kate Davidson (@KateDavidson) August 5, 2020
That’s going to do great things for the economy. We are a deeply stupid people.
I just saw a job require 15+ years in social media experience?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!!!! So like they want to hire Tom from Myspace!??!
— lydia juliet (@CashLydia) August 4, 2020
BBSes are very much social media, and have been around in general use since the early 1980s. UseNet has been around since 1980. Millions of us used these social media technologies during the 1980s and 1990s.
Six Degrees came out in 1997, 23 years ago. LiveJournal started in 1999, 21 years ago.
Social media did not start with MySpace, Facebook or Twitter.
It’d be terrible for color blind people of course, but I would like to create a language that uses color to convey semantic aspects in some way. Now that’d be fun.
This raises some fascinating questions and challenges our notions of intelligence. For years AI experts have assumed that hacker news readers are sentient and intelligent https://t.co/6Ef8KOzkYC
— strategy consultant (@neoliberal_dad) August 5, 2020
I saw that on Hacker News and thought, Hmm, looks like bullshit, and didn’t click on it.
I win?
+ a shocking increase in suicides, and families fell apart all over the country (including my grandfather's.) people are emphatically not ready for what long-term double digit unemployment means https://t.co/7wQ50Ev8jF pic.twitter.com/SKbmlf74aW
— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) August 5, 2020
No one is ready for what’s coming because it hasn’t happened in more than 80 years — and most people don’t read history. My only wish is that we’d emigrated a long time ago to somewhere more sane.
Something that I’ve come to realize is that understanding the sheer ungodly physicality of a blast wave, just made of the air you breathe, is hard to extrapolate from terms like “momentary overpressure.” https://t.co/rMSMhnjFzr
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) August 4, 2020
Yeah. When I was in the army, I got to help part of a Special Forces team set off C4 charges on the range. Even just a few pounds of C4 rocked my entire body and shook the ground like an earthquake. And I was behind an earthen berm about seven feet thick!
Movie explosions are completely unrepresentative. A real explosion is shockingly violent. Just a whole different thing altogether.
Slack might be the shittiest, most productivity-destroying “enterprise” product I’ve ever used.
SHOUT OUT to Barack Obama for no particular reason other than his leadership, intelligence, dignity & humor. I also miss having a President who looks comfortable wielding a lightsaber. 🎂 pic.twitter.com/4kfkBQH312
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) August 4, 2020
People care far more about image than substance. Obama presided over the largest decrease in African-American wealth in modern history. He also vastly increased the scope and scale of the surveillance state and drone warfare. He also gave banskters, crooks, and criminals permission to loot the economy and did nothing to check this at all — in fact, he encouraged it.
Obama was a failure of a president, who, though not wholly terrible, made America worse and allowed others free rein to do the same.
and the thing is, if they aren't needed, the research is still very useful. The fact that we can't set up a simple self sustaining ecosystem that doesn't devolve to slime indicates our real level of knowledge of ecology.
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) August 4, 2020
Yes. Give me a trillion dollars and a great staff, I could organize to build a starship that’d make it to the nearest star in a few hundreds years — a generation ship, of course.
But everyone would be dead, because I don’t think even a trillion dollars would be enough to figure out how to create a self-sustaining ecology resilient enough to maintain the hundreds of people on that ship.