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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoNews@lemmy.world•US economy shrank 0.5% between January and March, worse than 2 earlier estimates had revealed
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    14 days ago

    I mean, I don’t have any money saved up so like jokes on them…

    …but also yeah it is clear to me that the world is going to de-dollarize in terms of the US dollar being a financial reserve currency, but nobody not even people who hate the US (what could you ever be upset with us about???) wanted the de-dollarization to happen this fast and violently but I think a lot of powers that be in the global economic system are realizing they can’t wait.

    It is going to cause a lot of hurt, and it is wise of you to get your money as far from the US as you can because the signs are pointing in my opinion to a great depression right now in the US. It still can be avoided or mitigated, but those things are not happening, the opposite is happening at an accelerating rate shrugs.

    What worries me most isn’t actually the conservatives making this great depression 2 happen, the most worrying thing to me is that the rest of this country is in denial about how bad it is about to get. We have decided a great depression can’t and won’t actually happen in 2025, we have moved past that stuff, same thing with covid. It is a very scary and sickening society to reside in ughh.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoNews@lemmy.world•US economy shrank 0.5% between January and March, worse than 2 earlier estimates had revealed
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    14 days ago

    News about the US economy is similar to news about the Climate in general, things just keep getting worse… and fast… but the articles and coverage always have to start from the perspective that “darn, well good thing we pulled out of that nosedive!”. Same thing with US stocks, they are full of cope right now and cope unlike love doesn’t last forever.

    At this point I feel like I am in a stukka dive bomber while an economist in the front seat tells me that the ground is an irrational actor and we shouldn’t be worried because the economist didn’t need to learn how to fly the plane since flying planes is much more simple than fiscal economic policy, and they are the experts here.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First DayEnglish
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    16 days ago

    A good example is ADHD. I have severe ADHD so I take meds to manage it. If I am driving an automatic car on cruise control I find it very difficult to maintain long term high intensity concentration. The solution for me is to drive a manual. The constant involvement of maintaining speed, revs, gear ratio, and so on mean I can pay attention much easier. Add to that thinking about hypermiling and defensive driving and I have become a very safe driver, putting about 25-30 thousand kms on my car each year for over a decade without so much as a fender bender. In an automatic I was always tense, forcing focus on the road, and honestly it hurt my neck and shoulders because of the tension. In my zippy little manual I have no trouble driving at all.

    Are you me? I love weaving through traffic as fast as I can… in a video game (like Motor Town behind the wheel). In real life I drive very safe and it is boring af for my ADHD so I do things like try to hit the apex of turns just perfect as if I was driving at the limit but I am in reality driving at a normal speed.

    Part of living with severe ADHD is you don’t get breaks from having to play these games to survive everyday life, as you say it is a stressful reality in part because of this. You brought up a great point too that both of us know, when our focus is on something and activated we can perform at a high level, but accidents don’t wait for our focus, they just happen, and this is why we are always beating ourselves up.

    We can look at self driving car tech and intuit a lot about the current follies of it because we know what focus is better than anyone else, especially successful tech company execs.