If you ever come into some money, whether it be a raise, bonus, or gift, don’t let it sit in your checking account. Move it to somewhere that is able to earn money.

You don’t have to invest in the stock market to invest in a 401k. There are funds dedicated to bonds and you can pick the funds with low overhead ratios. You can even pick treasuries if you really want to.

It is better than shoving it under the mattress.

He’s even been back after he got the job to write something mean on a fish.

You can also get adjustable dumbbells today, so you can add modify your dumbbells rather than needing to buy new ones.

Media has changed.

Sketch shows during prime time were incredibly common when you only had three channels. The reason why SNL had the “not ready for prime time players” was because it was where comedians could go who weren’t able to be on a better sketch comedy show.

As time went on, it became less and less worth it to have a sketch comedy show on your network. You could target a smaller audience as FOX and cable channels became serious competition. There was also a collapse in the television studio system, so it didn’t make much economic sense for a studio to put out a sketch comedy show as a way to develop internal talent.

SNL is only really still around because it is a cultural icon that still gets in the news and acts as a decent promotional stop for Universal projects. Its development pipeline for talent isn’t worth it, in part as the success rate for SNL alum has gone down significantly.

Others mention Dropout as the best Internet brand who could put out a sketch comedy show, but they’ve said that scripted comedy is still too expensive for them and they seem happy to be everyone’s favorite second gig instead of their first.

That requires enough people I follow to where I need an outside entity to do the filter.

I think a big problem is the use case. Most social media sites are account led, not community led. This naturally makes it harder for users to find accounts outside their social circle.

The algorithm got added to fill the void.

The Gen Z stare is a rational response to the risk that anyone can pull out their phone and start recording.

I’m describing a step, you’re describing a walk.

Yeah, there have been attempts. There has also been a lot of hot garbage written about this as a lot of racist literature has been written about it.

The inside is usually wet.

Eh. There were entire sets of jobs dedicated to the manual calculation of numbers. Those jobs don’t exist any more.

I’ve heard the comparison as a Southern racist will tolerate a black servant living on the same street as them while a Northern racist will tolerate a black doctor living in a different town.

It’s hilarious how much hate the one person gets from doing something so trivial.

There seems to be this weird Schrodinger’s Cat situation where is both the “this isn’t Communism yet” combined with “no, we are creating this on Communist principles”.

And the talking point for the discussion is about China’s form of “Communism” should be replicated across different countries. My statement that China’s economy currently fits a state capitalist model is still valid because China hasn’t full communist like how the Soviet Union never hit full communist. It is a step on the path.

I feel like the argument right now is that I’m using the word capitalism to describe the current step on the path.

The issue with common law tends to be more involving the endless appeals to slow down a project. There are other issues as well.

That’s a lot of words to reiterate what I said. If China is in a transition state, then it isn’t full communism. Also, China has decentralized some decision making from its planned economy, the “third way” which I reference.

I feel like the market could have waited because it was standard government procedure to use reserves until the crisis is over. The problem now is that the crisis will likely last longer than the reserves.

I won’t be surprised if governments fall due to the economic impacts this will cause.

It feels like a duality where they want the USA to be weak enough to not be able to control them while at the same time still maintaining their power internationally, which they would likely lose if the USA isn’t there to prop up certain parts of American tech leadership.

I don’t think the plan was to see a catastrophic loss of the American position in the world.

China’s recent development doesn’t really hinge on Marxist-Leninist models. It went heavy into state capitalism to produce a massive improvement in the economy. I feel like China’s main innovation was to create an investment model that was company agnostic; private companies competed to operate state owned factories rather than the state owning the companies. Corporate governance is more “third way” with loose control over semi-private entities.