The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
43m ago
Nothing, if you're the leader. Otherwise, you're just a tool.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
It's damnation both ways. Hold to individualism and forfeit the field to nothing. Discard it and forfeit it to whoever the leaders are. Only actual winning move is to become the leader, and there's precious few slots available.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
There's no methodology on that map, and it comes from a completely different part of the Department of Labor (the Women's Bureau) than the official LFPR.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
But without proper planning or strategy. Trump apparently didn't consider that Iran might close the straits of Hormuz
Iran didn't. Lloyds did. Dynacom (Greek shipping company) has been sending tankers through... not sure if self-insured or what.
now is there bleating about insuring vessels
Which, given that the problem is insurance, makes perfect sense.
THAAD getting wrecked by Iran's missile and drone arsenal is also pretty alarming. THAAD is what's supposed to defend Guam and other US bases necessary for this war.
One AN/TPY-2 radar was hit. I don't know about Trump, but I'm sure everyone below him in the DoD and military knows the enemy does sometimes take out your stuff. This does not take out all of THAAD. As for Guam, Iran has nothing that can reach it anyway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There's a lot of shipping that isn't oil shipping, and a lot of oil shipping that doesn't go through Hormuz; the biggest impact on shipping as a whole is probably fuel costs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Before we can go any further, there are two things we need to get out of the way. The first is that approximately 900,000 prime-age men are currently incarcerated, accounting for about 1/8 of the total.
The denominator of the labor force participation rate is "Civilian noninstitutional population", which excludes the incarcerated. So these have no effect.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
You can live in the NYC metro area, just not Short Hills or Essex Fells or Alpine or whatever other hyper-expensive example you can find.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There is an excess of single men under 40 essentially everywhere in the US, including New York.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There are only two kinds of objects in a relationship, a sex object or a resource object, and I can't stand being the latter one.
You shouldn't have been born male, then.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
My first role out of undergrad, the TC was about twice the US median household income at the time. It was on the high-paying side but unremarkably so.
Making twice the US median HHI straight out of undergrad 30 years ago would in fact have been quite remarkable. It's pretty remarkable now, in fact. Sure, there's a few roles where you can do it; big tech (at least if they start hiring again), some of finance, biglaw. But very few.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
In many places, starter single family homes run about $2M. You're not going to be able to afford that with a single half decent job.
Many? I live in an expensive area of the country, northern New Jersey. It looks like that's true for Millburn, NJ -- one of the most expensive places in the area. It's not true for a lot of adjacent similar places. You don't have to go to to rural Iowa to get cheaper housing than that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Historically there were multiple types of colleges -- the rounding-out kind were only one. Polytechnics, engineering schools, normal schools (teacher's colleges), mining colleges, and agricultural/A&M colleges were all about improving the students. The distinctions are vestigal nowadays, though.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Trumps previous military interventions have all been short and sweet, and mostly successful. The evidence that this one will not be is ???
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Iran is clearly a much bigger nut to crack
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The administration has already said it won't be that short -- September is what I heard yesterday
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Any requirement for action now due to nuclear progress (which the administration has claimed) demonstrates the previous intervention was not very successful. I don't really believe this intervention was necessary to keep Iran from getting the bomb in the immediate future, but obviously I have no access to the data on that; I just assume if a government official's lips are moving he's probably lying.
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There doesn't seem to be a useful exit. Unlike Venezuela, there's no lower-down officials more willing to play ball. Nor any rebels -- the protestors turned out to be the equivalent of right-wing militias and the Minneapolis people, all noise and no ability for real action when push comes to shove. Reza Palahvi, unsuprisingly, has nothing. Everyone who can fight is aligned with the Islamic regime. The normal way to handle such a situation (which is a typical one in war) is a land invasion, but the US claims it won't do that. And certainly it would be quite messy if it happened.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The other thing you need is an environment where it's acceptable to keep only one eye on the kids rather than both, and if the kids do escape supervision and get into trouble, it's considered normal and not neglect.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I bet many women would accept a poorer and more boring lifestyle if it meant a handsome, kind-natured and faithful husband who was good around the house and yard, knew how to repair everything (and did it without being asked) and who devoted themselves fully to providing for and looking after their family (and not drinking or being abusive or cheating).
I'd bet against. They'd find the guy boring and want more. You've basically described the stereotypical 1950s situation, which is usually considered to be "stultifying" by women.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
My point is that your numbers are unrealistic for the past 30 years. Making enough to save $10,000/year 30 years ago (when median household income before taxes was $35,492, top quintile was $78,324) would have been quite difficult, especially when you consider the person would be no later than early-mid career. Making enough to save $200,000 takes a phenomenal salary -- top 20% in 2024 was $219,281.
Realistically, if you want to get to $10M you need to do better with investments, or have an extremely high salary early on.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
He can still be Caesar Julius.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
If you start with year 1 putting $50K into basic bitch equity funds
My salary year 1 was rather less than that; I think it was Year 4 or 5 before I made that much. And it was a good salary for the time. Having an extra $50K to put away in year 1 would be very unusual even today. If you get a job at a FAANG out of college you can (maybe year 2 if you've got student debt), but in recent years your best bet there would have been to hold on to your RSUs -- but people who are old today didn't have that possibility.
A $10M net worth is a little bit more than the top 1% in the US.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Fuentes, like Hanania, was always going to do this, though. It's not about Iran, it's about being controlled opposition from Day 1.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Yeeting a $400 flying lawnmower into a tanker isn’t that hard.
And won't do much to the tanker. Iran has drones which can do that, but they're a lot bigger and more expensive.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
You can't tax them, even if you could figure out a way to enforce labyrinthian tax laws and close loopholes you'd better keep an army of lawyers on retainer and a heavily armed IRS, and doing so has its own perverse incentives on those who dodge them by technicalities.
Elon Musk paid $11 billion in one year in Federal taxes. Have you even paid so much as $11 million in total?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The UK and USA are both explicitly not nation-states from their foundings - that is why they have "United" in their names.
In the sense used here, the US was, from founding, intended to be such -- but without the ethnic purity, since it was mongrel at the foundation.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
So, "one people".
The "United" was about states with different interests, not about different peoples.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I think he meant it more in the way that you can't swing for the fences on day one. You have to aim for millions before you get to billions.
Looks like that's not true, at least if you're doing it by founding a company -- Ellison, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Page all did it in one shot.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Now I am wondering what size of explosion one would need at the sea floor (perhaps 80m deep) to simply capsize an overhead tanker through the resulting bubble or shock wave. If it could be done with a ton of TNT, that would be an obvious winning move, if it takes a kiloton, that is probably out of reach for Iran.
Supertankers are just too big for that to work. You need to get your mine closer.
What's wrong with living, working, and existing for the benefit of someone else's vision? If you don't see it, I'll never be able to show it to you.
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