US median income is quite a lot of money, a lot of those people will have stocks or a 401k they can cash out in a hurry. All depends on your situation, a 3-month emergency fund may or may not be right for you, depends on job security, medical insurance, lots of factors
3 months of median income is like $11K+ (or $20K+ if household), and that's a cash "emergency fund" in addition to other assets that you could potentially sell. I know some advisors recommend it but I'm not even clear it's a *good idea* to have that much cash, pay off some debt or earn some yield...
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cal.com is going to go to shit, if you're using it stop.
(I already closed my cal.com account in annoyance when they emailed me wrongly claiming I owed them money, and when I replied to that the reply I got back was chatbot garbage, but they're still sending me emails)
To be clear 3 isn't *me* asking people about their lived experience, it's surveying them systematically. eg see
bsky.app/profile/best...
This gives us the same kind of data people here think they're supplying by saying "but *I* am struggling financially" but representatively for the entire country
foundation of a very teensy little datacenter
behind my house the enemy, trees
So I'm building my own teensy datacenter in my literal backyard for my own servers and shit but also if the neighbour wants to cut down the cedar trees behind it that dump hayfever pollen on me every March and replace them with a datacenter with a nice relaxing hum I would be totally up for that
No.
1. The paycheck-to-paycheck thing is based on a sketchy definition made up by a payday loans company
2. Economists look at lower income groups, they're relatively ok
3. When you ask people about their personal situation, they say they're doing pretty well, it's "the economy" they say is bad
down with this sort of thing
frog got stuck in concrete I'm sorry
concrete base that will be a tower
oh no
looking good though right
typical Japanese bsky user
typical japanese bsky user with logo on back of head
#BlueskyMeetup in Tokyo. If you have a friend on bsky and you wonder what they look like irl they typically look like this
Went to the Hakone Outdoor Art museum and realized my tower is going to need some stained glass, now urgently working the wife's stained glass contacts
He's both an economist and a pundit, I unfollowed long ago because his bsky posting is very audience-captured
TVs are an exceedingly teensy part of the CPI. Over half of it is food, shelter and gas
www.bls.gov/news.release...
I remember after the Fukushima accident when mums in Tokyo started counting the geigers on their kids' school routes and turned up massive tin of luminous paint that had been sitting under someone's floor for 60 years
I think his contention is that Wolfers is posting misleadingly doomerish spin on what in this case is the correct data because that's the incentive social media dynamics create
Wild thing about this huge CCG plant was that there was a grand total of 5 people operating it.
Being Japan this will be the actual worker, his supervisor, his supervisor's supervisor, a trainee and the trainee's supervisor, so at a push you could keep the lights on in Nagoya with literally one guy
wife sent me this footage of some electricity crossing a road
BYD Seal getting charged under a pylon
Place where they make electricity
huge tanks full of gas
Today I am mainly thinking about electricity
turbine hall full or turbines
Did a full tour including the turbine hall, guy says that collectively these CCG units supply a voltage equivalent to 3 pikachus
map of how the LNG comes through the strait of hormuz
ruh roh
huge spherical museum
LNG plant in Nagoya has a huge spherical museum
For all the fretting about post-truth society etc etc, social media does seem to select for some element of reality in its bullshit
Likewise a lot of the most successful misinformation on here is a real picture or video with a made-up comment that confirms bias, eg people shared
- real parking garage fire pic, claimed it was caused by a Tesla
- video of the Biden administration's food airdrop in Gaza, claimed China did it
You don't need to model it, it's the *4th power* of the axle weight!!!
Apparently they couldn't find a single expert prepared to say that heavier cars were making a *significant* difference to road wear, but people want to click a thing saying SUVs are bad so they assemble quotes saying that all things being equal heavier cars do more damage than lighter ones doh
You're linking to something that implies that the average weight is almost entirely irrelevant, it's prevalence at the top end that matters not the average
This is (apparently largely) true, but I think it means that cars of any kind including 2 tonne EVs are doing basically no damage to the road, and all the damage is being done by lorries
Posters in my For You and Discover feeds seem to he plagued by audience capture, I think I need a For Your And Nobody Else feed for the kind of thing I might click like on, but if I don't click like on it then nobody will
Being a total and utter maniac Claude suggested that each charging station gets its own DID
In atproto apps is there an accepted pattern for anchoring around some immutable data, eg if I make an app to track charging stations I want users to control what they post about them, but nobody should be able to delete a charging station record that everyone else commented on
