kvonhorn

Unanticipated "roll for initiative."

I'm old enough to remember how companies all tripped over themselves trying to help the government spy on their customers after 9/11. I assume that every company that I do business with has an open pipeline to the government feeding in all the data it has about me.

I used to work for a startup called TripIt 15 years ago. Took a double take when I saw your name.

The last manager I quit had this problem. I kept telling him I didn't like it when he interrupted me while I was speaking, and he continued to do it.

Is that why I'm paying $15/day for them?

I remember when I first voted at 18, thinking that I'd be pissed if I were old enough to die fighting a war, but not old enough to elect the people that drafted me in the first place.

We could demand amendments or a new Constitutional Convention. In practice, though, the US Constitution is pretty sclerotic in comparison to other nations'.

> fast food

> everyday needs

The cost of a lot of things, dining out in particular, were kept in check for decades because wages for labor were suppressed. The true costs of "everyday needs" were borne by labor to the benefit of the consumer (and arguably, the business owner).

Now that we can't cheaply exploit labor post pandemic, costs for the consumer are going up. The rising incomes at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder, alongside rapidly (and long-running) spiking costs of real estate, are squeezing consumers as they buy groceries, gas, and yes, fast food.

Putting the brakes on the costs of those is probably going to look like squeezing wages on low income workers once more.

> Every one of these deaths is on the head of the government of California

I can't tell if this is sincere or PhD-level trolling. Bravo.

> low-income people with gambling addictions

Not to mention the fact that they're now outright _creating_ gambling addicts that wouldn't have been addicts before the legalization of online betting.

Supply and demand. If you artificially cap the supply of doctors, then the doctors can ramp up their prices.

We see that mass marketing and availability of opioids had a touch of harm that continues to be mitigated, but surely making cocaine widely available won't have any of the messy problems of opioids.

Seriously, though, let's stop trying to legalize and market any more addictive products in order to make a few a-holes rich while the risks are externalized onto society.

> I mostly run in circles that are of not-tech-people, and while the jobs may suck, I get the feeling that finding them is not the hard part right now.

I moved out of tech a few years back. I'm responding to ads that claim to be desperate to hire people, yet I'm not getting replies.

It feels like everything is noticeably more expensive now than in 2019 and I'm seeing far more homeless people and their tents. Finding a job seems way tougher now, too, even though they're claiming a 3.7% unemployment rate.