Yep, we're cooked. Time to sell yourself as a professional vibe coder on Linkedin. I'm not being sarcastic.

A job taming AI might be a future thing. AI horsemanship.

“What da fu*k you sayin? Jordan, are you f*ckin’ high?!”

RIP

Something is wrong with your keyboard.

I don't think the source was the concern .

"American government defence contracting welfare queen" FTFY

absurd

We need an Executive Order banning all ads on appliances and car infotainment systems.

In this administration?

Probably more likely to see a EO on requiring those things

You could use a firefox extension called BlockTube. You can still access Youtube but it’ll hide certain videos based on channel name, keywords in videos, etc.

For example, I have “Trump” or “Musk” to block any video with these keywords in the video title.

If you click on a share link video and those keywords appear, it’ll just show a black screen.

I feel attacked

The classic “You will own nothing and be happy”

Actual ownership is what contributes to happiness. It is the most crucial part that does.

This theory predicts a massive happiness gap between renters and homeowners, but I'm unaware of any studies showing this.

As someone who has both owned multiple residences and rented multiple residences, I can confirm that ownership brings substantial happiness and renting brings substantial stress. The primary exception is when renting is cheap, but that is no longer the case since raises do not keep up with rents. With ownership, particularly in the absence of a mortgage, one can just choose to not have a job for long stretches, and this is basically impossible when renting unless one is exceedingly wealthy. As such, the clause that a mortgage adds unhappiness is an important one.

Sure, but that's demonstrably more to do with the actual financial position than the ownership status. If you own the house and no longer pay a mortgage then you're ipso facto wealthier — although you presumably do still pay property tax.

During the period of the mortgage, while rent wouldn't necessarily be cheap, it would be cheaper than the TCO of the house. The overall financial consideration is complex and pro-ownership dogma is just dogma: see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4H9LL7A-nQ. More importantly in my opinion, though (and especially for single childless people), rental housing is available in smaller and finer-grained quantities.

Ownership is one part of happiness, in that it increases physical security.

Haha “Going”. I get it

I think so, I’d say by 2030. By that time, I plan on visiting my local Boot Barn to buy some work boots and then apply for an apprenticeship as a land surveyor.

Good choice! Land surveying is a pretty interesting and underserved/in demand field, although the earning potential doesn't seem ton fully reflect that for whatever reason.

“Tax on. Tax off. Tax on. Tax off”