I’m assuming all of it works, even posts made while we were gone. You should be able to navigate to any of our comms and see everything now.

Its definitely this one. Robin hood is still used for its simplicity (the other more ‘serious’ trading apps are pretty garbage) but because they also approve hella margin for everyone.

We fumbled our domain for a bit and got it back, but had federation turned off for a little while to make sure the situation was over. If we didn’t get it back, we were gonna swap to a different domain, but thats no longer needed.

Yeah, he’s not obnoxious like being a shitty tourist or anything. He just constantly yells when he’s in public and always has an entourage that is like clearing streets for him even when there’s just random Chinese people walking around.

I’ve watched some of his videos and he’s still super obnoxious but I’m glad he’s having such a positive experience and showing it to his massive zoomer audience. If you’re reading this right after posting, he’s live right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNS8PHxWdp8

It’s great for credentials and you do learn a lot, but it’s not great feeling like you don’t know how to do your job correctly even a year later. Real trial by fire stuff that leads straight to burnout.

I have some experience with the NRCS (not as an engineer, but a natural resources person doing maps etc) and while the frontline workers may believe in the mission, a lot of the farmers and ranchers who are clients just see it as a piggybank and couldn’t give less of a shit. They will jump to the highest bidder like Fish & Wildlife if it produces a few thousand more dollars over a 30 year period. Leadership is extremely fickle and incompetent (look how quickly they folded to DOGE), training is non-existent and you can be hired straight out of school and expected to take over programs for an entire county on your own while the rest of the office also has less than 6 months of experience. People in the state office will not help you, but will for sure call you the second you do anything wrong. It’s basically the stereotype of government inefficiency DOGE claims it is, not because workers are lazy, but the terrible structure of the organization and lack of incentives for people to stay in a role they are not respected in.

It sounds like the engineering side may be better, but for some other roles, it’s not great and I wouldn’t feel an ounce of remorse for getting free money out of them.

All that’s been alleged, her lawyer told reporters Wednesday outside court, is “absolutely not true.” “Ms. Sullivan is presumed innocent,” Kaloidis, her attorney, told CNN in a statement. “The warrant details allegations that must be proven at trial.”

Police executing search warrants found plywood and a lock on the door to the man’s room, the affidavit says.

Looks like he was just after whoever in the Trump admin.

"initially planning to kill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and/or House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., a police affidavit said.

But English shifted his target to Bessent after stopping at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and reading that the Senate was voting Monday on Bessent’s nomination as President Donald Trump’s Treasury chief, the document said."

I didn’t realize this until after I posted, but those sure are small. People suspect he planned to self-immolate since he was covered in hand sanitizer and mentioned suiciding by cop. But who knows.

A friend of mine who just moved for a federal role fresh out of college and hates their job and their work site. Their email was different from the article and said they don’t have to work at all while still getting paid. So they can get paid for 7 months of searching for a job somewhere else. I guess to prevent them from spreading DEI propaganda in the meantime?

The FAQ on the OPM actually says that people are not expected to work during the resignation period. But they can also just fire you at any time before September.

This is the way to go to realistically not just lose all your money, but doing otherwise is tempting when you can see people on Wallstreetbets who made hundreds of thousands of dollars off this specific event with a relatively low buy-in (which could be someone else’s entire life savings).

It’s a difference of wanting/needing money now vs. 40 years from now. Like yeah, my retirement account will be nice to have later, but if I could have 200k (or whatever amount) right now, I’d be way happier and in a better living situation for the next 40 years instead of miserable until then.

And if you’re the lucky one, that 200k can come from a single 2k bet.

I was half memeing. I just have my account overweighted (compared to common advice) in international/“foreign” equities versus domestic because I expect countries like China to be dominant by the time I actually retire.

Sorry old friends, but my retirement account is going to love the rebound, however long it takes. The portion invested in Chinese yuan will make up for it otherwise.

Me taking the day off every time someone makes a post like this and writing “general strike” for the reason.

Just about every game I’ve ever played has regional servers meaning that US players never get to interact with people from other countries, often not even English speaking Europe. There’s only a few exceptions to that like EVE Online and their large Russian communities, but even then the groups tend to self-segregate.

Things might be different if everyone was just always forced to play together.

Type “Uyghur” into the search, I dare you. The results are truly horrifying. People sharing fashion, food, and music from their culture. Don’t they know they’re being enslaved? That they’re living in The Truman Show?

Me still saying I can type 90+ WPM like I’m special

My boss typing at 150 WPM and consistently beating me at typeracer

I think some are worried about some silly zoomer later becoming a senator and now the government has all this dirt on them from harvesting their private messages and other info to be able to blackmail them into doing what China wants.

Which is also very far fetched and ridiculous.

We’re just starting unionization efforts at our workplace and some people have similar concerns because we’re not actually in a bad position, relatively.

Primarily people who have ongoing medical issues that can’t afford to jeopardize their income stream in any way at the moment. They’re supportive, but cautious.