z3rOR0ne

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll let you know when AI art can evoke an emotion I haven’t experienced before, because that’s what quality art is defined by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if as I get older, like a Mandela effect, everyone's understanding of what the average life span is increases?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. If you’re gonna put this in any community, this is the one…though I’ll admit the question could use some clarification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a much smaller business model. My guess is that there have already been multiple market analyses of what you’re talking about and the determination is most likely that the majority of hotel arrivals occur later on in the day.

  This isn’t to say a good amount of arrivals dont occur much earlier in the day, just not enough to justify the cost.

  Additionally, to flip that would have hotel staff be cleaning rooms at a much earlier time (midnight to 4am), meaning they would have to arrive at midnight to start their shift. At 4am, the cleaning staff management would then need to spend a minimum of 1 hour to inspect each room to ensure it met company and legal standards. This is all ignoring the various tasks this can incur on the other staff like concierges.

  I used to work as a Night Auditor in a small, but upscale, hotel. The housekeeping staff were some of the hardest working people I’ve ever met, and yet they were the least appreciated. Those hours in between check-out and check-in was always a hussle. I was always thankful I worked front desk whenever I saw them and would do them small favors if they ever asked (though honestly more often than not it was the other way around and I was asking them for some small request on behalf of the guest).

  If we had the rooms available for an early check in, then we did it, but if not the best we could do was offer them to check their luggage in at the front desk and they were on their own until check in. The occurrence of this wasn’t negligible, but given everything I witnessed, I determined, at least for our hotel, it wouldn’t have been monetarily feasible to adjust that check-out check-in window to accommodate them. It simply didn’t happen often enough to justify it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Trump came along and basically said “Hey, you know how we’ve been openly and loudly racist? Let’s do that…but MORE open and LOUDER.”

  That’s what “make America great again” means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I’m not saying its not without it’s risks, Options on individual stocks are pretty risky, but a call Option that follows the S&P500 over the course of 3 years? That’s a pretty safe bet. It takes a multi year US recession to lose that bet, and while certainly not impossible (we’ve obviously had a few of them over the past couple decades), but it’s the safest bet I’ve seen on Options.

  I’m not advising people to do this, I’m using this scenario as an illustration to point out how making money on the US stock market is usually based off of mass speculation rather than any actual value made by people actually producing goods and services on the ground floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be put off by my jargon and in depth explanation. It is actually STUPID simple to do this. Do a SMALL bit of research and then use a Stock Market simulator to simulate a small purchase Call Option on the S&P 500 for 2 or 3 years. Then leave it. Don’t look at it don’t think about it forget about it.

  Come back in 2 to 3 years and look at your simulated account. If the US did not go into a recession in the last 2 to 3 years you will have at least doubled your simulated money. After that do it for real.

  Or you could be like me and walk away in disgust. It just made me very jaded about US economics and modern capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The rich capitalists haven’t made money the traditional way for about a generation now. The majority of wealth is made on the real estate and stock market which is based off of speculation and expectations of perceived value that have little to do with actual value.

  So they’ll just keep making money off their own money.

  A little secret, if you want to see how this works, look into how to make LEAP Options calls on the SPY ETF. Basically you can leverage some money by buying an Options Call on a safe bet like betting on the top 500 US companies via an Exchange Traded Fund. A LEAP just means that bet is LONG term,over the course of years. Unlike Stocks, Options require you to either cash out (exercise) your Options after a certain amount of time (weeks to years) “roll over” your option call by putting down money for more time, essentially doubling down on your bet.

  If you place your bet on say , the S&P 500, you bet on the top 500 companies doing well over a certain time period (say the next 3 years). The Options call allows you to acquire say 60% more stock than you could technically afford, but you can only hold it for 3 years. If those 500 companies do well over the next 3 years, you get the returns of those stocks, and you got to leverage 60% more stocks than you could technically afford all because you were willing to make that bet within a certain time limit. Worse case scenario is the US goes into a recession that lasts those 3 years and you either lose your entire investment or you invest some more money (but not as much as the initial bet usually) to extend your Option call out for another period of time.

  It’s one of the many ways even the moderately wealthy can earn a hefty profit over legalized gambling. The strategy I’ve just described to you is considered one of the safer bets amongst stock bros I’ve talked with, and it’s a real life Free Money Glitch that works as long as US economy line goes up.

  Now imagine the insanity that goes on in actual Wall Street with actual dynamically changing algorithms and people who have devoted their lives to making more money out of existing money, and you start to realize that these rich fucks at the top can basically say fuck all to investing in companies that create actual value, they just need lower level investors to believe that paradigm still exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNN blocks Firefox with uBo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not experiencing any of this, but my setup is insane at this point. Ublock origin with a custom bypass paywalls filter list and noscript enabled… no ads… no blocks… Just content. Using mull on android with mullvad DNS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My apologies, I misread your previous comment. Please disregard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider using yt-dlp. You can download any video from youtube in any quality available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Roflmao, yeah, it should be more along the lines of the “Yet Another Fantasy” series. False advertising is what that is /s.

  Like The Never Ending Story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch "isn't profitable" admits CEO, in wake of recent layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, so Google foots the hosting bill either on YT or GDrive? That is hilarious.