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@sorrytoseeitend @MmisterNobody No longer a reliable metric since the benefits are so low many people don't bother and just go do gig work rather than filing

@MmisterNobody Is that why unemployment claims are lowest since 1969? Stop fear mongering

This whole "nobody can find a job" situation feels a little too familiar. Reddit is flooded with posts about it. LinkedIn is a graveyard. Resumes sent into the void, never to return. But here is the thing. This is not an accident. This is not a rough patch in the economy. This is the beginning of something that was planned a long time ago. In the not so distant future, having a job will be a privilege reserved for a carefully selected semi-elite class of people. The rest will be left dependent, desperate, and compliant. Right where they want you. And the AI robots? They are not coming for your job. They already have it. You just have not been officially notified yet. We are not watching a crisis unfold. We are watching a controlled demolition. And right now we are only seeing the crumbs.

My current method is to have my AI agent search local FB groups and summarize which businesses get the most organic recommendations under "who do you recommend for septic work" or whatever. Found some really solid local options that way who don't advertise or have much online presence because they get enough word of mouth referrals.

@kylecordes Fair point! How do you think as a consumer you can select for someone who really cares about providing quality (in terms of work product and experience)?

@CohibasN_Cognac @shagbark_hick Your other points remain, but IL has had Republican governors for about 30 of the last 40 years, including 2015-2020

@shagbark_hick IL is a trap, government is on par with NY for corruption and taxes, not to mention terrible 2A restrictions and host of other issues. Haven't had anything but Democrat govenors for 40 years and it shows. I'd advise picking any of the other states.

By my eye, I'd estimate that one can find a habitable, move-in-ready home for under $50,000 in about 10% of the land are of the United States. Certainly, there are parts of MI, MS, LA, OK, AR, MO, IL, IA, ND, NY, PA, WV, and a handful of others where it is possible. You'll just have to deal with certain drawbacks, such as isolation, low wages, crime, harsh winters, hot summers, etc. But it can still be done. The question is not whether it could be done, it's whether YOU want to do it. And the odds are very good that you do not. That's how the market works. But -- if on the off chance you think you might be the 'type' who'd thrive in one of these dirt-cheap houses, and are resourceful enough to make ends meet in such places, you can live the most "low-cortisol," high-time-preference lifestyle imaginable in human history. For a certain type of fellow -- you might say 'an elite few' -- it's the best way of life that exists in America, if not the world, because you won't be stressing about the bills, answering to a boss, or living paycheck to paycheck if you're smart about it. You'll be mortgage free and living life as a jack-of-all-trades, freewheeling in the countryside with your wife at home, going fishing with the kids. Though it can be hard at times, I do recommend it.

@reaptilian @APompliano ??

@APompliano You are wrong. Jobs are just shifting to centralized mega companies and everything else gets destroyed. This is a temporary effect in statistics, but long term most people will lose their job.

I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America. Previously, I believed AI would replace many entry level roles typically filled by young employees. The technology would then work its way up the organization and eventually reduce the total number of jobs in a company. The data is saying something different, so when I get new information I am willing to change my mind. The number of software engineers being hired has been increasing. The number of open software engineer roles is growing. The number of new college grads who get hired has increased 5.6% over the last 12 months. The unemployment level for people aged 20-24 years old who have a college degree has fallen from nearly 9% to almost 5% as well. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote “AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such as Head of AI and AI engineer.” And I am starting to see companies throughout our portfolio aggressively hiring to keep up with the demand for their products and services. If AI can make employees more productive, which is widely accepted as fact, then companies are going to want as many productive units of labor as possible. This is a key reason why I am changing my mind. AI appears to be a magical technology that will make companies more productive and more profitable. The net result will be more corporations, more startups, and more jobs. All three are big, positive wins for the American economy.

It's not hard to do. Find a cheap house, buy it for cash, be frugal, find a way to earn money via the internet, and enjoy life. And while doing this won't liberate you from all earthly suffering -- it WILL free you from the "4HL" lifestyle. But few really want this. They seem to want to live the 4HL life and complain about it. Perhaps they want to live that life *so* they can complain about it.

I did just that; my wife and I bought a well maintained double wide on 2 acres with a pond in rural southern IL. Home was purchased $100k cash, expenses are minimal, and I wore remotely. Life is good, meanwhile many of our friends moved to metro areas and are drowning under $300k-$500k mortgages.

I genuinely would like to know just how many young Americans WOULD want to move to a "ghost town with no infrastructure, opportunity, jobs, culture, or society." I suspect the number is exceedingly low, and that even among those who "would" do it, they'd have many stipulations that would conflict with those of the others, more or less ensuring that no collective project of any kind could happen. Truly, the great prizewinners of rural America in 2100 A.D. will be those who can somehow manage to assemble or join an assembly of a dozen or more families who all move to one of the cheapest, most bombed-out rural towns imaginable -- and really do STAY there and have lots of kids. Thus far, few American whites appear to be capable of doing this. Only Amish, Mennonites, and third-world immigrants presently seem to be able to "take over" decaying rural towns in the USA. And I don't understand why this is. I mean I am sitting in a town where there are a half-dozen homes on the market at any given time for under $100k. Often, they sell for less than $40k -- move-in ready, as was the case with my own house. We have land for under $2k/ac, sometimes even less. Hardwood timber, soil, infinite water, a downtown with storefronts, a Church, a bar, a gas station. You can live here with a family for far less than $1k/mo, and anyone can make $1k/mo doing practically anything. It's all here if you want it. If I could convince even as few as a half-dozen Catholic families to relocate here (right here, in this particular village), we'd establish an enclave that would last for generations, we'd save the Parish Church here, we'd start businesses, attract visitors, and generally transform this town from a dying husk into a node of vibrance in the deep north. But nobody's lining up for this. Yes it's hard. Yes I have wanted to give up at times. But were a critical mass to show up, momentum could begin, the thing could lift off the ground, something could really happen here. It just takes one or two other families to get it moving. And in spite of my own misgivings and difficulties here, I don't really want to throw in the towel. The opportunities are just too good to give up on. DM's are always open. Come and visit if you want.

@NDGM__ @buccocapital Nah, we're united with the zoomers in our hatred towards the boomer plague.

@buccocapital Im 26 and all millennial and boomers hate us so much on levels that are hard to explain with words. In my work everything seems to go fine until they get to know my age, after they know im under 30 they become a completely different people.

“Sir, another 22 year old has found a job”

@princeofpoints @xwanyex Me too, I just bought a very modest house with cash and shortly afterwards I got a diagnosis for a pretty serious health issue that has the potential to put me out of work for some time. I'd be so much more stressed if I'd gotten a mortgage.

I’m low 40s, just now buying my first house. Of course it’s not the best use of my available cash, but will make my life around the home 100% better. The permanence and satisfaction in time spent improving where I live is worth the loss of extra investment dollars. Not everything has to maximized.

This is underrated in the Dave Ramsey pay-off-your-mortgage discourse. It's great that you come out slightly ahead if you invest the money, instead, but if you buy a house with a 30-year mortgage at 35 or 40, you're going to be pretty old when that pays off. I think I'd rather enjoy the improved cash flow now!

@BigDickBarclay @SpicyNoodles2 would a DIY mini split make sense in an add-on 600sf room like this which isn't connected to central HVAC? the other option is window ac+propane heater

@SpicyNoodles2 Working good so far.

Easy money

@Adilko91152 @elduuuui >Al : -|

@elduuuui La relation Al et dewey était incroyable…

Bryan Cranston se refirió a la ausencia del actor que interpretaba a Dewey: 🎬❤️ “Amo a ese chico. Bueno, de chico ya no tiene nada, porque es un hombre adulto, pero para mí siempre lo será. De hecho, tuve una gran conversación con él. Me dijeron que no quería participar, así que decidí llamarlo. Le dije: ‘Eric, esto va a ser divertido’. Y él me respondió: ‘Lo sé, y estoy feliz por todos ustedes’. Entonces le pregunté: ‘¿De verdad no vas a venir?’. Y me dijo que no. No me dio una excusa ni nada por el estilo, fue directo: ‘No’. Está en otra etapa. Me dijo: ‘Ya no soy el actor infantil que era. Soy adulto, me interesa la academia, estoy estudiando y me encanta ese mundo’. Y le respondí: ‘Está bien’.”

@ccfxstudios Just not even gonna consider the possibility that you picked the right shit coin to buy during the biggest macro liquidity bonanza in history and that it's going to continue trending to zero?

If it runs I am good. If it dumps my nets are set. But out of position is gonna suck In ways people are yet to fathom.

If I had less than 10 million Hex, I would be freaking out that I didn't buy enough yet. I would be hoping for more time to build up to there. Not being upset because it's cheep. But Hey... that's just me. I showed you what happens when just 10 people try to buy 10 million can get it for the price they think they can. Why am I telling you this. Because you don't deserve to get lapped by the new guys with no fear and no bias.

@execglenn @DGvv7x @UnderhillVicky Yep. Before they built one in my remote small town it was a 45 minute drive to Walmart for any basic goods.

@DGvv7x @UnderhillVicky I’m not saying they run their stores well, but they do build where no one else will build. They supply some basic needs where nothing else exists. I don’t see them as parasites.

Dollar Generals are a parasite on small town America

I did it several times with a big group of friends. The responses were all over the place. One girl had MDMA like euphoria. Several guys just got horribly sick, and some felt nothing at all. I always had very nice mild euphoria with mild visual enhancements like colors getting more intense.

@syskusa @FatherMcKennaa I never had any bad symptoms and have very good memories taking it.

Albert Hofmann spent 70 years searching for a hidden fungus inside morning glory plants. He believed it was producing LSD-like compounds. He never found it. Last year, a 21-year-old undergrad at West Virginia University noticed some fuzz on a seed coat and accidentally solved the mystery. She named it Periglandula clandestina. Latin for "the hidden one." The man who gave the world LSD died in 2008 without knowing his hunch was right.

@DaVinciSkeleton @katexbt In my case, surgery to decompress the nerves that pass under the clavicle. It's a very tricky thing to diagnose and treat.

@LINKPrepper @katexbt What was the treatment?

have you read stories about ppl feeding AI their health records and it helps them fix long standing issues in like 2 days tops? a lot of people underestimate how important tracking and chronicling your body's data today is, no matter how raw the data is or how few data points you have in 10-20 years time when something breaks and you have no data points to feed an AI that can help you cure it, you'll regret not having the full picture to help it synthesize a cure that could be within arm's reach keep all your PDFs of blood panels, charts, dashboards, sleep apnea stuff, apple health, whatever it will be worth its weight in gold soon

dont think ive ever been gifted a spot like this. substack doomer vs hippo costume guy. flip a coin

Flip a coin for the aura gamble

@HackForumsNet @jonbrooks But the demographics & other tailwinds from 2009 onward have changed to headwinds.

Bought $450k home in 2005, went to $190k by 2009. I just kept paying the mortgage because a rent was just as comparable. When you buy a car, the moment you drive it off the lot it's worth less than the payment you're making. Homes are no longer investments, it's just where you live.

Imagine being that sucker who bought a crap stick build house for $491k in 2022 and that house is now worth $375k. What do you do?

@adolphdors @utsajennifer @Ac7ionMann ya. worst part for me was i couldn't sleep properly for weeks. tossing and turning RLS type shit but definitely no heroin level withdrawal

@utsajennifer @Ac7ionMann No. The withdrawals are intense but very short and more so mentally taxing. I took it for like a month and a half straight up to 4-5 tabs a day. Never done heroine but you just pulled that out of your ass or heavily over exaggerating.

This is getting out of hand almost 20 million plays on all accounts? 😂 GUYS IT WAS A FUCKING OVER THE COUNTER SYNTHETIC HYRBID SHIT. THEY NEED TO BAN THIS SHIT I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK I WAS TAKING.

@newlinedotco @hardeep_gambhir "the real margin is in selling the hole." same as it ever was.

the sequoia piece by julien bek is the quietest signal with the loudest implications right now. the $1 for software vs $6 for services ratio is exactly why the saas era is hitting a ceiling and the agentic agency era is just starting. most founders are still obsessed with building the shovel , but the real margin is in selling the hole. if you sell a tool for $50 a month, you are at the mercy of churn and feature parity. if you sell the completed accounting cycle or the finished film edit for $5k, you are captured in the services budget which is 6x larger and much stickier. the ben affleck acquisition of interpositive by netflix is a perfect case study. they didnt just buy a general generative model. they bought a 16-person team that built a post-production engine specialized in dailies and cinematic logic. it is a software company that looks like a high-end vfx house. this is why ycombinator is pivoting so hard toward these ai-native agencies. in the w26 and p26 batches, we are seeing companies like noetic and korso that dont just give you a dashboard they take over the entire compliance or rfq-to-order workflow. they are hiring a remote workforce on the back end that happens to be 90% autonomous agents. the winners in this shift wont be the ones with the best raw inference. they will be the ones who can architect the most reliable internal agentic loops and wrap them in a brand that high-tier talent actually wants to work for. when

It’s happening. The bubble is popping. Went to a cafe in the absolute middle of nowhere today in Kyoto and a guy had Claude Code docs open there. Asked him what’s he using it for, he didn’t speak much English but said “Agents to automate university assignments” The world is going to go through an insane period of change and it is very close. YC is actively investing in agency model companies now. Sequoia recently published a blog with the title “the next $1 Trillion company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm” I am starting to become convinced, just through first principles that for the first time, the people who are going to win big in this market won’t be the tool makers But the people who leverage the tools, make the best tools internally and produce output that consumers and businesses will be pay $$ for While some tool companies certainly will win, it’s seeming it will unlock yet a whole another world of creator economy With everyone running their businesses using AI and selling their services to the world The people who will win in this new market would be who attract and retain the best talent in small teams Same as traditional startups. But this time A players would be actively working on figuring out how to automate themselves using agents. The way to win imo is to build exceptional communities and produce stories about your startup to attract the best talent. Being public about your values, your progress, your ambitions, your taste. And then work very very hard to make sure the talent you attract feels they are doing the work of a lifetime. A couple of these agencies would then truly dominate most contracts in the world in their own domains. Some of them may be acquired by traditional legacy businesses. Like Ben Affleck’s AI startup that got acquired for a supposedly $600 Million after Netflix backed out of the Warner Bros Acquisition What a time to be alive. What a time to be alive.

@jonasfroeller @cursor_ai Codex is having an outage today

I LOVE YOU, @cursor_ai!!! (again 😆) I spent the last 2 days trying to fix a bug I couldn't manage to fix myself manually. Today I let Opus try in OpenCode, I let Codex try in the Codex desktop app, and none of them managed to fix it. Cursor's debug mode fixed it in about an hour. Not one shot, but pretty straightforward. Genuinely the best AI product on the market right now. I was pretty disappointed a few months ago, but it's miles ahead of any competitor now.