35 here: my cooking before I could afford to eat out every meal was boiled chicken and rice. The prep time for meals that I enjoy are multi hour affairs, and I’d rather work an extra hour for a meal prepared by a professional whose food I enjoy.
Either, but slathered in NC mustard-vinegar sauce.
Only for obsolete fab technologies for underpowered IOT chips. The fabs that make 2nm current generation chips are all in Taiwan.
Piker is very much “new media”. He’s been caught saying things that can be taken out of context and was burned by right wingers for it. I might not agree with everything he says, but he’s definitely not a terrible person either.
Florida will always be a microcosm of the elderly vote in the US since it’s basically purgatory on Earth - it’s where everyone I grew up with said they would retire.
Yes, sadly. My husband won’t move.
Researcher here who taught graduate level research skills: I’m walking dogs.
Because of the belief that the economy is bad, employers are taking advantage of working class people by removing their niceties like remote work and easy work days. We’re being told to work harder and produce +50% to make up for a 10% shortfall which feels like a fucking scam.
I worked at a health company as a manager and was told not to electronize records keeping because they couldn’t afford to hire computer literate people for the grunt work. I was told to use whiteboards and laminated printouts.
Get me out of this fucking shithole USA…
Any time you see a headlines about population collapse, remember that the hidden complaint is that wages will rise when there are less people in the job market.
So many business models are predicated on hiring low skilled, failed individuals to do menial labor for close to nothing in a job they can’t afford to quit.
When there are less people who are highly educated, slop jobs disappear which is a good thing.