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US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

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Post by johnnyanmac »

scarab92 wrote: post #266
dralley wrote: post #257

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They are objectively in a worse financial position. I wasn't getting advertisements for female sex toys (I'm male) on Twitter before Musk took over. That's a long way to fall.

Neither of us really know Twitter's financial position, given it's now private. The rumours I'm hearing are that EBITDA is now above pre-acquistion. The fact that debt is trading hands without a haircut suggests that's probably accurate. There was a lot of waste at Twitter. Given that headcount was cut by 80%, and advertisers are returning, I'd suggest it's doing fine.

It's odd you admit you do not know and then make your own opinion anyway.

This is one of the few times to listen to Wall Street, since it's not public. https://www.ft.com/content/4f44c0c1-0113-4054-be0b-adc119557...

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Post by ericfr11 »

amluto wrote: post #598
bbor wrote: post #272

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…youre saying that life was good from 1870-1910? Reconstruction and the gilded age?? I mean, there was technological and medical improvements, sure, and continued urbanization. But that’s… those are some of our nations most shameful, inequal, racist years in its entire history. The federal government as it exists now was just getting started after we realized we needed it thanks to the civil war, and many local democ…

> Finally, a HUGE majority of the costs of the federal government are social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and defense spending. I doubt even the biggest libertarian on here could advocate cutting any those with a straight face I think plenty of people would like to cut Medicare and Medicaid spending, not by reducing service, but by cleaning up the unbelievably broken medical system in the US.

The issue is not with Medicaid: it's with the Big Pharma, their lobbies, and the corruption they generate. For-profit companies can't be in control as something as critical and universal like human health.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

scarab92 wrote: post #347
hobs wrote: post #284

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Literally every valuation shows its worth After reading through your posts its like you live in an alternate reality where Musk's integrity is bulletproof, his decisions are awesome, and he's basically doing it for the rest of us. I don't know how you can sustain this with everyone throwing reality in your face that he's a short sighted rich kid who lies through his teeth and throws money around until he gets what he…

It was, but advertisers are now returning which has driven it's earnings back up while it's operational costs remain significantly below pre-acquisition. According to https://www.wsj.com/finance/banks-sell-5-5-billion-of-x-loan... earnings are now nearly twice pre-acquisition. I'm not going to respond to the ad hominem.

paywalled article so this link isn't really worth much. And given your credibility I don't trust your analysis. Especially when you also seem to be ignoring any reasonable responses and focusing on arguing instead.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

chinathrow wrote: post #299
ZeroGravitas wrote: post #99

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Very similar to the story about the Supercharger network. Apparently the boss of the team was told to make layoffs, she did some but not enough to please Musk, so Musk in a face to face meeting demanded she make more. She said they couldn't without affecting delivery. Musk fired her. Then fired the team. Then hired the team back because she was correct. But not before lots of ongoing projects got stalled because cont…

Everyone seems to think they know Musk, it sure does look like Musk himself is included in this list. What is he thinking how this will turn out?

I don't know him, but as a programmer I hope I'm at least half decent at identifying a pattern. Musk's business acument is horrfying consistent, if nothing else.

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Post by cutemonster »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #565
ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #241

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Whether or not it's a good idea depends on what outcome you desire. If the aim is to weaken the U.S. then putting a foolish unelected billionaire in charge of things that he has no idea about is a great idea.

I don't think Trump's aim is to weaken the US. I don't think here's some big secret Russia conspiracy. I think the situation is much simpler. Trump wants to be king. What happens to America in the future is immaterial. And a king needs a kingmaker, who in this case also wants to be MOTU.

Putin and Xi know this too, and help out making it happen - good for them with a clown begin the king of the US.

(Not sure if any help was needed this time though.)

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

DangitBobby wrote: post #535
bobsmooth wrote: post #471

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How will they know if they fired the guy who's responsible for knowing?

It is unbelievable that they would be unable to figure out where these people live. I literally do not believe it.

Can we all agree it’s absolutely absurd that it’s a chore at all to find out, let alone to have this need in the first place? This is insane.

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Post by immibis »

shkkmo wrote: post #584
XorNot wrote: post #428

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I'm saying when you see a lot of smoke coming from a house, the neighbours probably didn't just buy an industrial sized BBQ and suddenly decide to have a huge cook off after some kids threw a bottle through the window.

So you think a debt purchase is blindongly obvious example of bribery? Then it should be easy to explain how it is bribery.

You comply, we buy your asset for 5x its value. You don't comply, we don't. Simple.

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Post by Spooky23 »

Hasu wrote: post #459
ty6853 wrote: post #452

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The mythos often presented is mass wealth inequality is incompatible with raising of living standards of the poor. The poor can gain something at least temporarily by taking it from the rich. Another less violent option is mutually beneficial voluntary interactions.

I'm talking about Emancipation. So no, this isn't temporarily taking something from the rich, or something that could have been solved through "mutually beneficial voluntary action". The government told a bunch of rich people that the incredibly valuable people they owned were no longer their property, and gave money and land to the people who previously had nothing because they hadn't been considered people. That's…

You’re out of your mind and blathering out of ignorance.

Nothing about that era resembles Marxism, and I’d guess you’d struggle to tell the difference between Karl Marx and the Marx Brothers.

Reconstruction was shut down. Slaves went from assets to contract services. Jim Crow ensured that there was no movement upward. For the aristocracy, they were hurt by the depredation of war but recovered stronger than before under the new system.

The gilded age was about railroads. The south with their feudalist system was a backwater producing mostly raw material. They moved out of irrelevance because social control allowed them to control the Senate for decades.

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Post by bloomingkales »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #650
Aloisius wrote: post #620

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The MA in MDMA is methamphetamine. That said, it's also an empathogen that promotes prosocial behavior, which isn't the word I'd use to describe the behavior happening.

I don’t think it has empathy-promoting properties when abused heavily and chronically. As I recall, the empathy-promotion is highly dose-dependent to begin with, and can even reverse due to extended misuse.

I think the more important point is that most people were not born yesterday. Some very rich people are either mentally ill, or on drugs, or both. Or enough drug abuse (off camera) caused long term ego/brain changes.

You can barely tell a poor person to change their life, imagine the discussion with a multi billionaire. There's no discussion.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

atq2119 wrote: post #424
kelnos wrote: post #149

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Half the people in the country either a) want to watch everything burn, because the system has served them poorly for too long, or b) are stupid enough to believe that Trump actually wants to help them. Or both. Many (most?) Americans don't seem to have ever learned how to think critically or question what authority figures tell them to believe. On top of that, COVID was rough for lots and lots of people. Even though…

> Half the people in the country either a) want to watch everything burn, because the system has served them poorly for too long I believe this as well, but it still baffles me. Don't people have a sense that things can always get worse?

Canada has this problem too. We’ve been coddled for a long time and many Canadians think they’ve got the government’s boot on their neck. The reality is the inverse. The worst things our leadership has done in the last ten years are, all things considered, very bearable.

I’ve been thinking for some time that both our countries need some kind of wake up call. I’m very sad that we seem to be getting one simultaneously, yet it might not be a reversible event. At least not on any short order.

But yeah, the lack of truly bad experiences seems to have made us all very soft. I know some of us experience poverty or immigrated from horrible governments so we know firsthand how much worse things can be, but on average I get the sense that people typically have no idea.

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