One of the near top signals of this AI bubble.
In this hype cycle, you are in late 1999, early 2000.
It depends on your oracle. According to the Shiller PE of the S&P 500 it's only November '98! [0]
Readit Newsmarcusverus commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
marcusverus commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas
Do you have any evidence that the change in enforcement was targeted at Tesla or that the change was in response to Musk’s criticism?
Also, comparing the actions of Trump to anything any previous President (including Trump 1!) almost feels like you’re being disingenuous.
It's funny, actually. When an anonymous source says there's a scary spreadsheet in the Trump White House, progs are happy to believe the unsourced and unprovable claim on faith, imagine the worst possible implications, and assert those entirely imaginary implications are evidence of fascism. But when considering the fact that the Biden admin actually, actively did financial harm to one of their most prominent critics, progs instantaneously drop the concerned citizen schtick and are happy to assume that any and all real harm done to critics is accidental until proven beyond a reasonable doubt!
marcusverus commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas
Looking at this in a vacuum, sure maybe it's time to touch grass.
Looking at this in the context of everything else going on in the country, maybe there are a lot of warning signs that are pretty hard to ignore?
Accepting an anonymous and unverifiable characterization of a spreadsheet as evidence of fascism is not justified by other equally specious claims you've accepted as evidence of fascism.
marcusverus commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas
Does this also apply to Tesla with the previous administration, or is this new dynamic?
Sure, the Biden admin actively targeted a publicly traded company[0] because their CEO was critical of the administration, but that's not fascism. Fascism is when the bad guys make spreadsheets.
[0] https://www.newsweek.com/ev-tax-credit-2024-tesla-model-3-ex...
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I thought by adding the bit about "navigating the complexities" it would prevent comment like yours. You're blaming the victim here.
"it is YOUR FAULT for not reading the fine print"... yeah I know. I am stupid regular guy who would rather NOT have to understand the fine print and have things just work better like the rest of the developed world.
You're an adult. You paid dearly for the convenience of an urgent care, and you clearly learned your lesson. You were not a victim, you were a sucker. In America, we do not reorganize entire industries to soothe the bruised egos of suckers. We just encourage them to do a quick Google search next time.
It takes about 6 months for me to get an appointment with my GP, and then it takes up to a month for their referral to a specialist to be approved, and only then can I make an appointment with my specialist, which is usually booking a few months out, making it about 9 months before I can see someone.
Or I can go into urgent care, and get a referral submited that day, and see someone in only 3 months.
My father in law has a tumor, and was able to start radiation therapy almost 18 months after he first went into a doctor for his symptoms. The specialist scolded him for how long it took saying "there's permanent damage if you don't start treatment within 6 months, you should have come in much sooner" He nearly punched the guy.
> It takes about 6 months for me to get an appointment with my GP, and then it takes up to a month for their referral to a specialist to be approved, and only then can I make an appointment with my specialist, which is usually booking a few months out, making it about 9 months before I can see someone.
That is radically below par. The nice thing about the American system is that if your GP sucks (as yours clearly does), you can go out and get yourself a new GP! I'm able to get an appointment within a month for a checkup, a couple of days for pressing issues, and have gotten an in-network (non-specialist) referral for a same-day appointment the one time I needed urgent attention. The one time I got a specific referral whose office had a months-long waitlist, I found an in-network alternative, got an updated referral from my GP, and saw someone the following day. My wife regularly gets appointments with her GP or an in-network alternative within a day when she's sick and needs attention. It's worth noting that altering our system wouldn't improve your access to match mine, but would rather would diminish mine to match yours! Surely it's better for both of us if you just find a new GP?
> My father in law has a tumor, and was able to start radiation therapy almost 18 months after he first went into a doctor for his symptoms. The specialist scolded him for how long it took saying "there's permanent damage if you don't start treatment within 6 months, you should have come in much sooner" He nearly punched the guy.
What took so long?
I did some math a while ago on this topic:
40 million Americans live below the poverty line of $15,000 per year. [1]
Total U.S. household net worth (excluding real estate) is around $54 trillion. [2]
If every household above the poverty line donated 2.5% of their net worth annually to people living below the poverty line, we could erase poverty instantly.
Here’s the math:
2.5% of $54 trillion = $1.35 trillion
$1.35 trillion ÷ 40 million Americans = $33,750 per person
That’s more than double the poverty threshold.
Sources: [1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-mo... [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL152090045Q
> 40 million Americans live below the poverty line of $15,000 per year.
Not even close. Census income data is not an accurate measure of poverty, as it excludes all in-kind redistributions (food stamps, HUD, medicaid, head start, etc) AND excludes cash programs like the "refundable tax credits". A more accurate line would be "40 million people would be living in poverty if we weren't already spending >1 Trillion dollars per year on food stamps, HUD, medicaid, and other programs."
Imagine a private rail car which could pick you up at your doorstep and drop you off in front of your hotel. Is your destination more than a few hours away? Book an evening pick up time and utilize the sleeper configuration. For a 16 hour round trip, such a service could reduce the perceived door-to-door travel time from a full day to near zero.