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I see your survivor bias and raise you my value engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_engineering

I was in whatsinthis when it started. I still have a shitpost up there that I’ve got an update for but never posted.

Number 9 looked remarkably like my day job.

I think you may have misread the Wikipedia page. There were 300-400,000 in NYC alone.

I was in Boston and there were 10s of thousands, even though it was February and sleeting, SF had another 150-200k.

I think there was a sizable group in DC too.

I’ve interacted with less than 100 but the highly trained pit mix rescue across the street still broke her leash, ran down my corgi and picked her up and shook her. The owner tackled her and our corgi was mostly ok (needed stitches on her neck, but no life threatening injury) and the owner readily payed the bill directly, but t by that dog had had months of interventional training by no-expense-spared training and still went nuts on a dog on the street across from its house.

Setting B-net on ski race courses is like this. 10 minutes in and you’re sweating bullets, strip down to undershirt layer.

We’ve also had to fully shovel 1.5km of course when 8-10 inches of snow fell the night before. On top of the exertion, you’re literally wasting a powder day. The snow cats can’t groom it because the course will be too soft, and when it’s that cold we can’t salt the course either, so it’s shoveling and slipping (using your skis like snow plows) the course.

I have to bring a second or third dry layer because after the setup we have to stand around in the subzero temp for the next 5-7 hours no matter the weather (winds can be insane as long as it’s not enough to shut down the lifts, but it’s better than rain or sleet).

Then we gotta take it all down.

And I do this for $80 a day and free passes for my kids and I. Still better than roofing by immeasurable amounts.

There was a MacBook 12 inch like this that my business partner loved. It would last all day on a charge and he was building our app with it (Xcode and I think clang builds).

This was 10 years ago though.

The UP would defect first I think, but after that it’d be Vermont then maybe Maine, and the rest of Michigan if the auto industry collapses.

Probably more like ground beef.

Manna got rampant capitalism + AI pretty close, and has predicted McDonalds payment kiosks, Amazon worker abuse, and probably some of the tech layoffs too.