The Journalo Thread

[Okeefenokee]

That's how its supposed to work, we're living in bubbles here that come from overvaluation and people treating real estate as a stock market

People need to realize that the artificial value of inflated property in places like Cali and NYC cuts both ways. You can take part in it, and if you're fortunate, make money, but you have to realize it's a gamble and a charade. Get out to someplace more reasonable if you want your investment to be in something real. That's what the real in real estate means.

I don't care about investments, I care about living in my own home.

Part of it is my own fault for choosing a career that has to be in a large media market, but that doesn't mean I have to like the speculation bubbles. Especially since we saw what they can do when they pop just ten years ago.

I would think that people in the media market would be coming around to the idea that their location isn't fundamentally restricted to any one area. If you job is computer based, we have the internet. You don't have to live in a city anymore.

[Ex-California]

I do. I work on the hardware that enables the studios to exist. If they automated and offsited everything and got rid of every single person except for the talking heads I'd still have to be there to keep the gear running.

And we all know how shitty stuff looks when its shot at home as opposed to a studio

But yeah, otherwise telecommuting is an option for most everyone else now

[SuburbanFarmer]

That's how its supposed to work, we're living in bubbles here that come from overvaluation and people treating real estate as a stock market

People need to realize that the artificial value of inflated property in places like Cali and NYC cuts both ways. You can take part in it, and if you're fortunate, make money, but you have to realize it's a gamble and a charade. Get out to someplace more reasonable if you want your investment to be in something real. That's what the real in real estate means.

I don't care about investments, I care about living in my own home.

Part of it is my own fault for choosing a career that has to be in a large media market, but that doesn't mean I have to like the speculation bubbles. Especially since we saw what they can do when they pop just ten years ago.

Unfortunately, the bubble was never allowed to pop. Our tax dollars were frantically blown into it, and a cheap piece of tape installed over the breach. This party is just getting started.

[Okeefenokee]

Mechanics still make a decent living. Not wealthy, but in demand. Computer hardware guys are going to be on par with car mechanics before long. Plug and play means the software guys are making hardware guys less hard to come by.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Mechanics still make a decent living. Not wealthy, but in demand. Computer hardware guys are going to be on par with car mechanics before long. Plug and play means the software guys are making hardware guys less hard to come by.

I don't imagine that anyone really makes a living on hardware anymore, except on maintaining the networks. Everything else is practically disposable.

[KerningChameleon]

I would think that people in the media market would be coming around to the idea that their location isn't fundamentally restricted to any one area. If you job is computer based, we have the internet. You don't have to live in a city anymore.

Yeah, lemme know when the telcoms start running out fiber to your farm and all your neighbors' farms smack dab in the middle of the great midwestern corn sea, or at the very least stop lobbing as hard as they can to kill muncipal fiber initiatives. Til that day comes, I'm staying right in my comfy little city outskirt suburb, thanks much.

[ssu]

I was thinking we needed a place to chronicle media hyperbole and hypocrisy. I'll start with Keith Olbermann, ranting about how the election of Trump is the end of the Republic.

Keith Olberman just copies the kind of rhetoric that some Alex Jones etc. have used very successfully. That of course isn't journalism.

[Okeefenokee]

I was thinking we needed a place to chronicle media hyperbole and hypocrisy. I'll start with Keith Olbermann, ranting about how the election of Trump is the end of the Republic.

Keith Olberman just copies the kind of rhetoric that some Alex Jones etc. have used very successfully. That of course isn't journalism.

I've always wondered why ssu puts the word some in front of names.

[Montegriffo]

I was thinking we needed a place to chronicle media hyperbole and hypocrisy. I'll start with Keith Olbermann, ranting about how the election of Trump is the end of the Republic.

Keith Olberman just copies the kind of rhetoric that some Alex Jones etc. have used very successfully. That of course isn't journalism.

I've always wondered why ssu puts the word some in front of names.

Because he doesn't feel it necessary to put the word "like" in between it and the name.

[TheReal_ND]

Always with the negative waves, Moriarty, always with the negative waves.

Dude fuck this guy. He's probably turned the entire thread into an argument because he wants attention and he's almost certainly probably not contributed to the thread. Hang on I'll brb from the Trump thread.

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