oldmanjade.bsky.social
An okay boomer. Shklim/Shkler.
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I asked the unsettling angel picture that I bought from the same place and its eyes glowed red, which through painful trial and error I have found mean "no".
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Apple is selling around 50 million iPads a year with an installed base approaching half a billion. It’s experimenting with edge cases, which is fine, but the vast majority of iPad owners are satisfied already.
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The Switch OLED Adjusted for inflation plus 24 percent tariff would be almost exactly $499. The question becomes whether Nintendo would cut the price if the tariffs are cancelled, maybe $399/$449?
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3M Mastodon
30M Bluesky
300M Threads
I like the Linux of socials best, but I have no allusions regarding Mastodon gaining traction or breaking out or being anything other than a niche social, same for Bluesky.
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Looking like the antithesis of the Apple Watch is not the same as being the antithesis of the Apple Watch.
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mastodon.social/@asymco/1141...
Europe is similarly down YOY. The question now becomes when a shareholder revolt takes place.
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If you could show me the numbers that indicate I'm mistaken, I would be grateful and relieved. I doubt you can, so I will comply with your request. However, for those who are interested this link is as good any to understand the depth of the problem.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Again, that breaks the social compact that the more you pay, the more is paid out to you. It will be a tough sell. If you are going to do that—and I am all for it—you might as well do means testing too. That will buy you a few more years, but it won’t solve the problem.
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With an unemployment rate of 4 percent, labor participation is 62 percent. Idiot nativist cruelty is not the root cause of the problem. It’s too many older people rightfully wanting benefits the system is unprepared to pay out.
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Immigration as a mitigating strategy for increasing payroll taxes is out for at least the next four years. That will put us five years from Zero Day, though I think it will be closer to three. The “solution” will likely be tax increases and benefit cuts at the last possible moment.
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They don’t exist, not compared with the number of people leaving the workforce. Baby boom versus baby bust was decades in the making, so you will have to wait for death to restore equilibrium, maybe thirty years. Except the national debt will $60 trillion or so by then.
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If we are going to break the compact between taxation and benefits, that is the more you put in, the more you get out, might as well do means testing too. That would buy a few more years, but the demographic problem of fewer payers supporting more payees seems intractable.
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Lawsuits are meaningless when the money runs out. Insolvency was optimistically predicted for 2034 last year. What Trump does or does not do won't change that much.
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It’s already happening. Tesla sales in North American are flat, Europe is in freefall, and BYD is crushing them in China and worldwide.
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You wrote two of the three best episodes in season seven. Please be there until the "Mulan" McNugget sauce completes the series arc, which I believe should be in season eleven or twelve or 97 years.