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Perhaps it's finally time to put to bed the notion that the health of the economy is dependent on the health of the stock market and vice versa. Wall Street often likes layoffs: https://cnbc.com/2022/11/09/meta-to-lay-off-more-than-11000-thousand-employees.htmlShares of Meta were up about 7.7% Wednesday morning.
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We use the Alexa that was given to us as a kitchen timer.
Package clutter is a common problem these days for multi-unit buildings. It can even become a safety issue and a fire hazard. Solving the problem isn't easy and may not be cheap to do.
In my building it's a year round problem, only worse around holidays. Our condo board has been "investigating" solutions for nearly three years and AFAIK has stopped trying for now. (I finally quit the board out of frustration.)
Kudos to OJ for planning well. Often people seem to go out of town and let their packages pile up for days or even longer.
I don't get Amazon doing deep cuts - they seem to be quite diversified
Notable in the Amazon announcement is that while Amazon is cutting development ("technology"), it isn't (yet) cutting warehouse or delivery staff. At least so far Amazon doesn't appear to expect its sales or our package clutter to diminish. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs.html
One writer's perspective: https://www.yahoo.com/now/weekly-comic-big-techs-day-022222952.html
That's left me with lots of extra time to spend at MFO, where folks are friendly, the info is pretty damned reliable, and (so far, at least) no hacks or disinformation from China, Russia, Iran, or Trump.
Now, I am at several platforms. Each has its unique flavor and circle of people. Some stuff is duplicated but not much.
Covid downtime in 2020 also gave me time to reconstruct lot of my lost content at M* that I put on the YBB Site (a refence site, NOT a discussion site) and now just refer to it rather than posting same/similar stuff repeatedly in response to Qs.
BTW, some at Twitter are pointing out that Twitter may have saved us from WWIII, an overstatement that has some validity. Early mainstream media reports on the Russian missile strike in Poland and possible use of NATO Article 5 (when many world leaders were at G20 in Bali, Indonesia) were not based on facts. I saw at Twitter that several posters from Ukraine, Poland and elsewhere (including the US) posted conflicting info. My earliest posting on a related MFO thread was based on those reports (but there was no single link for them). Musk has tweeted (with obvious self interest) that the coverage of the recent missile event and FTX-Alameda collapse in the crypto universe have been more timely and better than in the mainstream media.
As long as there are reliable sources reporting on the social media I see no need to personally waste my time there.
By the way, these discussion boards were the earliest social-media (version 0.0?). Kids are now growing up with smartphone and social-media. BTW, my granddaughter says that Facebook and Twitter are so yesterday.
We didn't even keep our 1st cell phone - that went first to our daughter decades ago when she had just learned driving; it had only local coverage. WE borrowed her phone when we went for long or late drives. Things are different now with kids 3-5 watching YouTube and swiping screens - even before they can talk much.
I have absolutely no interest in letting Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk "help" me to decide what my news sources might be. Talk about a "slippery slope"...