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  1. I'm now hearing it could be up to 15% of the workforce. A day of reckoning my AWS friends are calling it.
  2. I put it in google and this what Gemini AI spits out. Sounds kinda like it, I suppose! Milei's economic achievements Fiscal surplus: For the first time since 2009, Argentina achieved a budget surplus for the full year 2024, a major political achievement given the country's long history of deficits. Crushed inflation: The government's drastic spending cuts helped bring staggering monthly inflation down from a peak of around 25% in December 2023 to between 2% and 3% in early 2025. This has been a key factor in slowing the annual inflation rate, which had neared 300%. Shrunk the public sector: Milei's government followed through on its promises to slash public spending by firing tens of thousands of government workers and reducing the number of ministries from 19 to 9. The policy has also significantly reduced transfers to provinces. The painful consequences of "shock therapy" Deep recession: The austerity measures have caused a sharp economic contraction. Consumer spending fell by 20% in the past year, and the International Monetary Fund projected a 3.5% contraction for 2024. Soaring poverty: Poverty rates surged to a two-decade high of 52.9% in early 2024 following the shock measures. Though official statistics show it falling to 31.6% by mid-2025, independent researchers warn the methodology may not fully capture the pain from subsidy cuts. Hardship for the working class and seniors: The elimination of energy and transportation subsidies has caused bills to balloon for ordinary Argentines. The government's fiscal savings came in large part from freezing the real value of pensions, leaving many retirees struggling. Defunded public services: Milei's cuts have severely impacted public infrastructure projects, education, and scientific research. Universities have struggled to pay bills, and construction workers have been laid off in large numbers.
  3. I absolutely would not be surprised if journalists are using AI now and passing it as their own.
  4. Amazon laying off 30,000 people? That seems like a lot
  5. Man, for my money there isn’t a better sausage than Lockhart Smokehouse. Get it by the ring, both the OG and Jap and Cheese; Perfect. Perfect snap, perfect blend, greasy but also a nice dryness to it that lets your enjoy the taste and the linger. Just a personal favorite.
  6. Yes! It was like in a median it felt like. Across or by Ken’s donuts? The rare times I was up before 10am I stumbled there still hurting.
  7. TIL: Katie Ledecky (GOAT olympic swimmer) is related to the owner of the NHL's New York Islanders (uncle).
  8. To be fair the surplus was 9 months before the currency swap (and to be the most fair, without the currency swap and $20/$40bn bailout, maybe he loses in a landslide), but as it stands today he almost tripled his seats which is like if Texas were to beat Vandy by 20-- hard to imagine before it happens, but it could happen!
  9. Exactly this. His 'phase 1' already delivered Argentina's first full-year surplus in 123 years and crushed monthly inflation from ~25% to ~2%, all by slashing things Argentina can't really afford (subsidies, costly public works, and a big public sector). And while poverty is still high, the latest stats show it’s falling (though critics argue the numbers cloud a complex picture). His planned 'phase 2' reforms will be just as big and polarising, whether deregulating the labour market, simplifying the tax code, or privatising another ~20 state-owned firms. https://www.thetimes.com/world/latin-america/article/javier-milei-argentina-elections-2025-f3k6jbbf9
  10. My company tracks as a KPI our use of various (there are actually quite a few) AI applications we use. Engaging with them is compliance. It's definitely becoming a "measure what matters" metric for executives and the end result is allegedly to help employees be more productive and save time and energy on low skill, high manual tasks, but let's see.
  11. right the suicide had nothing to do with this/football/pedo. the boy came home sullen, went upstairs, and the parent found him hanging in what appears to be a super tragic and sad case of teenage depression, hurt and sorrow and overwhelming emotions etc. so while unrelated, still a double whammy of back to back painful episodes for the community and Celina seems to be going through it right now. have a lot of friends who sold in frisco @ 3-4x what they bought in for and bought in cash mansions with olympic sized pools out there with a lot of acreage but that town in general has seen exponential growth.
  12. The analysis I was reading was that a referendum on Millei's policies woudl be to endure all the pain of the austerity and not have the stomach/patience to see it out for the "potential" gain. The worst of both worlds, in other words, and with the $20bn lifeline, it bought time to prove out the thesis I guess.
  13. So do we drop out of the top 25 with that win?
  14. I bought 106 shares on prediction marker for like .06 because why not we could come back (I think it was 38-28). The win isn’t amazing but it’s a nice $100 bonus too
  15. I guess so. The way I am left feeling after the other night is that with the bare minimum table stakes management you would expect from everyone except the handful of poverty mismanaged franchies (and Nico), Wemby is completely a variable that cannot be accounted for in a way I think we have rarely, if ever, seen. I could be taken in by the moment and being a recency bias victim here, but it feels like Wemby and a nice player and 3 JAGs should be favorites every year for the next 10 if a) he stays healthy and b) no other genetic freak mutant all-stars come into the league that can meet or beat what wet bananas brings to the game. edit to add, I have heard pundits describe it as like when Wilt was playing and there was nobody in his stratosphere comparisons type projections.
  16. Was talking about this today. He's a cheat code. If the Spurs can't win a bucket full of championships in his run then it's because Wemby was injured.
  17. I didn't give much credence to the NBA rigging the Draft for us to get Flagg after trading Doncic away for AD and a bucket of balls, but with all this gambling stuff and the fact that the executives all knew, I'm starting to think it's not really a conspiracy theory anymore and more of an open secret.
  18. Gotcha, not the baliwick I was thinking/had some inroads to, but will keep an ear out for ya!
  19. lol ok. cool, hook em, my friend!
  20. haha, it's just one thing after another with this guy. "flood the zone" has a new meaning with trump and maga, it's a constant barrage meant to wear us down to an exhuasted nub. It's actually hard to keep up and if it wasnt't for your website I'm not sure how I would. It's almost a part time job to keep up with this idiot.
  21. Dear God. I get the outrage. This has all been insane but this is a fever pitch. This buffoon..... Yep. He's a fascist ego maniac. I know, water is wet.
  22. Reasonable minds can disagree because the story is being written as we speak. The absolute and assuredness some people (AI doomers is the term I've used because that is the actual term being used out in society where people touch grass between meetings, not just a word I'm making up to disparage you fine folks here like Brisket), is what I'm pushing back on. I'm not trying to "both sides" this as if it's some moral political argument. And I do think that despite what you think you know and what your lived experience is, which I'm sure is considerable and meaningful, you are still in the shallow ends of all this stuff just like the rest of us who have our own professional and personal experiences. Nobody knows with any certainity how this is going to play out but my personal opinion is that a good guess is to draw on history which suggests that this at a minimum a) there is no stopping the AI revolution at this point no matter how much handwringing and magna cartas are written by influential people b) there will be technological progress c) wealth creation for the some d) interesting fundamental changes in everyone's personal and professional lives and e) we will adapt and move on without unaliving ourselves as a people group. There are real challenges and concerns as you mentioned with power generation, natural resources, costs, and yes bubbles, but the tracks are being laid for the next 100 years IMO. And I've said it before but I think there are literal trillion dollar companies of the next 10 years who are not even incorporated yet today who will take advantage of the opportunities.
  23. I've seen a lot of AI slop around what the East Wing "project" is going to look like or what is affected, but saw this and it seems to be the most neutral, factual view (from atop) so thought I'd share as it was helpful to me:
  24. That is CRAZY not just for all the reasons already stated, but also because of the popularity and trending 996 work schedule lately which seems to suggest the exact opposite? I wonder what his angle is....
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