gedca
9mo ago
That said even the cashier is making $17/hr which is incredible to me, I made $6/hr as a cashier in 2005.
I saw something on Twitter recently showing that the highest wage growth in recent years has been to people making under twenty dollars an hour. That matches my anecdotal evidence well enough. I saw a McDonalds offering $17.50 an hour a few days ago. Ten years ago that would have been a literal minimum wage job.
gedca
11mo ago
Disney seems to have this odd idea they can make people are about the new movies as much as the original trilogy through sheer force of will.
gedca
1yr ago
The UK’s RUSI (something like the British version of the Rand Corporation, ie. the main state funded military think tank) published a recent report on the first six months of the Ukraine war. One of the things they argue is that the Russians actually came much closer to pulling off their plan than jubilant or gloating Western commentators expected, and that failure ultimately came down to a handful of strategic blunders made by Russian high command in the weeks leading up to the invasion coupled with some intelligence failures.
Can you point in the direction of reading more about this?
I know a lot of amateur urban planners will never acknowledge this, but a car is the most pleasant, efficient way to get anywhere more than a few blocks away. You're not going to get 99% of people out their cars unless you actively make driving unfeasible.
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