People at or near retirement age should have a 401k invested in more safe funds with a higher mix of bonds. Why would they have such a high proportion of stocks that a drop in the stock market would impact their spending habits?

Yeah, like a few days ago when sales numbers came out and the stock price jumped up because “we were expecting even worse numbers” ignoring that the stock is priced as if tesla is set for insane growth. Musk will just announce some more stupid vaporware to pump the stock back up if it gets too low for his liking, as he always does.

Oof, right in the soybeans! I could’ve sworn China already switched away from American soybeans during the trade war of trump’s first term.

We’ve hit 2024 levels so far. Let’s see if we can go even lower.

I was surprised to see that both left and right joycons have the mouse functionality. Was cool to see it in action with the wheelchair basketball game.

israel targets journalists because israel considers the truth an enemy.

Noooooo!!! You can’t just force us to use a Microsoft account!!! You have to allow us to use the bypasserino!!! Noooooooo!!!

Wake me up when it’s worse than 2022.

It may not “understand” like a human, but it can synthesize in a way that mimics — and sometimes even surpasses — human creativity.

Calling it a “stochastic parrot” is like calling a jazz musician an “audio repeater” because they’re using notes they’ve heard before. It misses the creativity in the combination — the generative power that lies within the latent space.

It reads like the brainless drivel that corporate drones are forced to churn out, complete with meaningless fluff words. This is why the executives love AI, they read and expect that trash all the time and think it’s suitable for everything.

Executives are perfectly content with what looks good at a cursory glance and don’t care about what’s actually good in practice because their job is to make themselves seem more important than they actually are.

This is yet another one of many examples that affirms the correct answer to “does israel have a right to exist?” is no. No nation has an inherent right to exist, but certainly a nation as horrible as israel should not exist for many reasons, including morally, just like how nazi germany has no right to exist.

What a coincidence, the US remains the top military and cyber threat to China.

china is its politics.

Funny reading this on lemmy where almost every single discussion is dominated by US politics, even on posts that have nothing to do with politics.

We should do an uno reverse and nationalize wells fargo.

It’s certainly a cause for concern, I’m just labeling it as a conspiracy theory because how the system would work in practice is still in the air and there’s been theorizing on what they could do, but what they could do is not necessarily what they will do. You’re right though, the potential amount of control they could exercise over the monetary system with this setup is terrifying. For example, I’ve heard of the idea floating around of having money that sits in an account for a certain amount of time expiring to force increased spending. Inflation is supposed to encourage the same behavior, but this is much more blatant and leaves no room for speculation.

There are conspiracy theories about the federal reserve issuing their own digital currency, but having a neutral payment system would be extremely useful. Also, payment processors should pass these credit card fees onto the customer and show it on the receipt to drive up demand for lower fee cards, otherwise we’re all just subsidizing high fee cards.

Isn’t this the second time they’ve had to recall nearly every single cybertruck (which couldn’t be fixed with an over-the-air update)? The first was for an issue with the accelerator pedal getting stuck, from what I remember. Is it just tesla/musk fanatics buying these up? I can’t imagine anyone else finding this vehicle appealing, from the terrible aesthetics to the severe design issues and all for a high price. I assume tesla fanatics are the only reason the stock price hasn’t cratered either, but maybe reality will catch up someday.

We all know about biden and his worthless “red lines” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rafah-icj-israel-biden-gaza-b2551179.html

They correctly called out VOA for what it is. You pointing out that they made an account on the lemmy.ml instance adds nothing.

COMPLETE. GLOBAL. SATURATION.

I remember reading about this years ago. It’s so cool seeing it being used successfully in a patient! Technology like this makes me feel better about the future.