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FlashMobOfOne

@ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the philanthropost, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru who cosplays as middle class.) With each passing day I get a little closer to hating everyone.

Also, I refuse to use Donald's last name out of hatred for the man and his brand, FYI.

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  • They are just "vibe coding" updates now.

    And of course, it's crap.

  • Gay Republican Sues Members of His Own Party Over Homophobic Slurs

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  • It makes no sense to me to be gay and Republican.

    That's like being gay and Christian. Like... you know these people hate you.

  • What was life during the previous financial bubbles?

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  • Yup.

    My parents have been 'borrowing' my car for two years. I get around on a Segway e-scooter, which given the explosion in gas prices, has turned out to be a very lucky purchase.

    Plan for the worst. Hope for the best. It's really the best way to navigate America these days.

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  • No.

    We're not giving Obama credit for token gestures here. He had a supermajority and could have enacted meaningful reforms, but he didn't.

    Everyone involved in the subprime mortgage crisis walked and under Obama were still paying bonuses to themselves with taxpayer's money, all while the foreclosure crisis ravaged the American people.

    I do not care that the crisis originated under Bush. I care that Obama knew how bad it was and allowed people to become impoverished further while Wall Street partied with our money.

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  • Precisely.

    The problem is the emerging inability to think.

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  • That's probably a fair point. We'll see how it all plays out. I'm assuming the worst for due to the lack of any concern on the part if the tech community and the lack of any meaningful guardrails or regulation.

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  • I hope I'm wrong and the worry turns out to be unfounded, but absent any meaningful regulation for the evident effects of LLMs on people's cognitive abilities and mental health, I don't have much of a reason to assume there won't be disastrous effects in the future.

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  • Nope.

    I'm not in any position to create change on energy policy, and therefore, it's kind of dumb to project any sort of guilt for it onto myself.

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  • Thanks!

    At the time it was a huge risk. I had a small bonus from my job I sat on from January to March 2020, but also took a loan from my Roth 401k, but I was fairly certain about my research. The bet I made was that I wouldn't have a catastrophe in my life in the 2-3 years I knew I'd have to wait for the market to recover in order to make the investment worth it.

    If I'd known Donald would declare war on Iran I'd have held it even longer. Oh well.

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  • I should add to this a little.

    The 2008 crisis and how the government reacted is partly why I live frugally. Watching millions lose their homes and no one go to prison changed my whole outlook on life. I was a massive Obama supporter, and there was no meaningful support for Occupy Wall Street, and in fact, Obama's admin stood aside while NYPD ganged up and brutalized the protesters. I still hate Obama for bailing out Wall Street while so many lost their homes and livelihoods. All the big bankers who stole our money walked.

    Essentially, I no longer have any hope for meaningful change as long as the Democrats and Republicans are in charge. My focus on saving and investing partly comes from a place where I fully expect Social Security to be gone when I hit retirement age, so I'm doing what I can to ensure I'm able to sustain myself.

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  • The 2008 housing bubble and crash altered the trajectory of my dad's life completely. He went from having a thriving roofing business that had lasted since the 60's to having to make sure he eeked every single possible job out of the summer that he could until ten years later when his dementia set in and he couldn't work anymore (except for DoorDash, with my mom), because many people's spending power was permanently lowered and still hasn't recovered. This meant having to take less pay for jobs in some cases.

    Other than its effects on my family, all I remember is doubling my retirement contributions, because stock prices were so low I was getting shares for a bargain. I've always lived frugally, so crashes don't hit me as hard as they hit a lot of people.

    When things crashed in 2020, I invested heavily in oil stock, having learned that the airline industry suffers tremendously in an economic crash, and with the airline industry being the biggest consumer of fuel, oil stocks can be bought dirt cheap. (I got most of my shares at 90% down from their all time highs in March and April 2020)I sat on those shares for two years and they made me enough money I was able to pay off my student loans and put a sizable down payment on a condo. It wasn't fuck you money, but it was life changing.

    I'm glad dad lived long enough to see what I was able to make of myself. He was proud and happy he was able to contribute to the life I've built.

  • This little noodle crawled out from under my house and into my heart

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  • I get it. What a dazzling little baby.

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  • I understand that this is anecdotal, but the schoolteachers I know all tell similar stories.

    Most kids can't read up to their grade level and can't focus for more than 60 seconds. They're unable to tell you the answer to a question when it's literally written on the board in front of them, and a common question they ask is: "If AI can do this for me, why do I have to learn it at all?"

    Which tells me that the AI age will produce lazy people who are unable to think for themselves or solve simple problems. Then again, maybe BCI's will become common and they literally won't have to actually think for themselves.

    It's gonna be so great getting old with them running the world.

  • Big Bailey

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  • I would gladly bury my face in that floof. <3

  • Someone left kittens at my wife's store.

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  • They are so precious.

  • What's something that gives you hope about the future?

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  • Happy Cake Day!

  • What's something that gives you hope about the future?

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  • That eventually I'm going to die.

  • Trump Secretary Says Bike Lanes Are DEI

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  • Its a fun thought, but I genuinely pity people sleeping on the street.