Like billionaires/celebrities/elites having burner accounts on Reddit/Insta/Facebook etc to shitpost or argue on the internet
It seems like Japan has been 'the' place to go since 2024. Every social media influencer has been pushing it.
The Japanese subreddits are full of people with absolute hatred and disdain for tourists. Locals don't even go to the Shibuya anymore apparently and it's more foreigners than locals. Kyoto is apparently overrun to the brim. People say to go to the local small towns, but those have almost zero infrastructure to handle even slightest uptick of tourism.
What's it going to take? A full shutdown where Japan enters it's pre-1900s isolation mode? Or influencers picking another place to bombard with advertisements? What countries in the past have seen tremendous over-tourism then stabilize?
There’s no way people are employed full time and have an actual life are practicing this shit to prepare for interviews
And it’s even more infuriating when you won’t even use it on the job
I heard May 4th was the time to submit "does not meets" - if I survived until now, does that mean I'm probably good?
Hey guys, I have a plan. I would like to buy SFHs but instead of building house to live in, I want to convert them to data centers. I want to build little 1/8th acre data centers. Not for commercial use, but purely in order to inflate property values. Basically a data center that does data center things for no reason, other than being nuisance. This way I can get around zoning.
My idea is that when word gets out that I am building data centers, the locals will pitch in and buy the land from me at x2 the value before I even begin building the data center.
Love these paddle boards! Got two, one for me and one for the girlfriend. Immediately took them out on Lake Pend Oreille and they ride solid. Build quality definitely feels great.
As a novice rider, there is an overwhelming amount of options to choose from. Do I buy an Amazon $150 board, or a $500-700 board? This seemed like a healthy middle ground. For a dual layered board with heat welded seams, and only weighing 17.5lbs, this board is an incredible value at $400. $50 more and you get a carbon fiber/nylon paddle. Atoll doesn’t charge sales tax outside of California too, so that saves a bit compared to other sellers plus they offered me 10% military discount if you’re a veteran/active duty. I don’t think these can be beat for the price, especially from a business that stands behind their products.
Not gonna post the link, don't search it so you don't give them views. Basically some dumb fuck from this place who talked to a reporter saying he feels bad about $750k from OE while everyone is getting laid off. This isn't Doxing btw because that isn't his real name, just his pseudo name he gave the reporter.
But whoever you are (you 100% browse this place), I hope you get laid off (I actually hope worse but I'm not gonna go there) for talking to reporters. You gain nothing from talking to a reporter. Is your life so vapid that you feel the need to have an article written about you to make others money? Jesus.
IGNORE any reporter who wants to 'chat' with you. It's always Business Insider DMing people here for their stupid stories.
I started off in a 1 car garage last year, then moved houses and now my 4th bedroom is the gym. I don't want to add too much because I move locations every 24-36 months or so. This is just enough stuff that I alone could take it all apart, compact it, and have it in a U-Haul in less than 4 hours.
As a remote worker, the home gym has been a game changer. I can workout during my lunch break without being pressed for time or even at 6pm without dealing with typical afternoon gym crowds. The home gym essentially buys back time and convenience, which adds up. Plus lifting barefoot is awesome.
I've been lifting for a total of 13 years on/off and I can do 99% of my commercial gym split (or a substitute) with everything I have.
Room is 15' x 9.5'. Total cost: $6,250. I could've done it much cheaper if I bought cheaper equipment but I'm glad I went with stuff I like and that has a good eco system. Definitely glad I went with rubber grip plates, those are essential in small spaces.
I know for a guaranteed fact that Executive leadership browse this place. I hope they see this. They won't say anything, but I'm sure they will think of a response in their head.
My question is how are we suppose to own our jobs if we fear we are going to get laid off nonstop? Motivation on my team is at rock bottom, even my senior managers feel it. Almost everyone I knew who got laid off was an incredibly hard and motivated worker who gave everything for their job. Now they're gone.
I don't want to own anything if there is a reasonable chance that me (or my teammates who worked on the project with me) will get fired at random, for no reason. Don't even get me started on the forced attrition quotas..
I'm a tropical diver with about 400 dives all around South East Asia/Caribbean. I'm going to be in SoCal in July for a week and was wondering if it is worth bringing my dive gear. Are the kelp forests worth it? Is it usually a gamble for good viz?
Is catalina island the best choice for kelp forests in all of California?
For example, do fire calculations take for those wanting to retire overseas take into account significant housing inflation for when "undeveloped" countries become "developed"?
Right now, a lot of South East Asia is being eyed for early retirement. Is it reasonable to expect this area will become more "developed" and unaffordable as globalism takes over?
Hey guys, I have some time off I can burn during Fourth of July weekend. July 1st-5th.
I’ve been to all the islands already, but never on a holiday weekend. How busy are the islands in general? I figure they will all be busy, more so which one is the least busy.
I’m debating between hiking in Koke in Kauai, or shore diving in Kona. Is Kauai gridlock busy during that weekend? What about Kona?
I just log in, check my e-mails and move my mouse every hour or so. I work in ML Ops for a tech company. The max workload is maybe 2-3 hours a week if there an outage or some kind of support for gpu nodes.
No one checks in with me. The rare meetings I go to all have like 15-20 people in them and I'm just there, without ever having to give input. I meet all my performance reviews. It's been almost 3 years. I work from my bed, goon 2-3 times a day, go to the gym at 10am, play PS5 all day, take 3 hour naps at noon etc. I've survived several rounds of layoffs somehow but I guess my org is deemed mission critical since we are apart of the AI initiative.
J1 has me working 10~ hours a week as an SWE for a bank.
I'm doing this until I literally can't anymore. Net worth went from $110k to $670k via aggressive investing and a booming stock market. I genuinely don't know if I can re-enter the workforce into a real job anymore because I've developed such lazy habits.
This sounds like a larp post that is too stupid to be believable but I just felt like sharing. I'm curious if anyone else is doing nothing at work. I'm very well aware that I'm in an extreme unicorn position.
Tired of this fucking bullshit of not knowing if one day I’ll wake up and be out of a job to pay my bills and provide for my family because some fuck ass executive leader that makes 7 figures a year sees us a liability on a spreadsheet instead of a person
I don’t even care if we’ll make less or whatever. I just want job stability and peace of mind knowing I won’t be sent out on the streets in this awful job market on a whim.
Anyone else hear the same thing?
I feel for all of you impacted today.. I'm not sure how many were let go today. Apparently this might not be the end of it.
It seems like every single resort in Hawaii is very dated. There are almost zero boutique resorts, everything 'luxury' seems like a giant mega resort monolith with hundreds and hundreds of room. I feel like this is what was desired from tourism 15-20 years ago but high end travelers now want more privacy, something boutique and exclusive etc.
The Rosewood in Kona seems perfect for this, why is there no other similar resort on any of the islands? I guess there is the FS Lanai but that seems like it hasn't been renovated in a long time.
All land in this is world is "stolen" at some point, very few people went into virgin lands and didn't kill anyone for it. The only places I can think of, are maybe Polynesia Islanders.
I'm sure the Natives Americans killed someone else for X land, and that tribe killed someone else before them and so fourth. They weren't exactly a peaceful people to each other, with thousands of wars throughout history between them. The difference is the Europeans documented everything well, vs others that had no reliable concept of historical documentation.
So my question is, why is it a big deal about European colonization, but not how many people the Natives killed throughout the 10,000+ years of being in the Americas isn't a big deal? They stole from each other, as all current land in the world has been through numerous hands.
Thoughts on this?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/airbnb-says-ai-now-writes-60-of-its-new-code/
Airbnb is one of the powerhouses to work for. So what they have say has to have some weight.
Something I've noticed is s basically every tech company is saying the same thing. AI is taking over half or more of the pipeline. However, Redditors say that the CEOs are lying or that it's just a phase. Are these Redditors just being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian, in a typical Reddit fashion? Or do they work for antiquated companies?
In my company, our AI usage is tracked and we are expected to use an enormous amounts of tokens. We have an internal AI that is integrated with all our code, distributed systems, ticketing, pipelines, even our SN and Slack instance. We don't just copy/paste into public GPT instances.
It really does save a ton of time and I can see why headcounts have gone down. Anyone else use AI in half, or more of their pipeline/workflows ? I genuinely can't imagine rawdogging code for an entire day with zero AI in 2026.
I don't understand, even with your own office, it sucks. Why would they themselves want to sit in traffic and have to deal communal shitting? Most C suites don't have their own private bathrooms in their office. Execs usually have massive, beautiful homes with a pool and even a private chef. Why would you not want to be home instead of breathing in nasty office air?
Is the return to office above their call, and more so due to shareholders/board wanting it? Or political pressure in order to get people to spend money?