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See also: GraphQL and OData
Companies are already (questionably) using AI as an excuse for layoffs, and it'll certainly lead to less new hires.
Hope for Yale, prepare for Stanford
Hmm, the witch does have a six fingered hand...
The organizer donated $255 to Trumps campaign... It's not good, and there's certainly a line to be drawn in doing business with non-politically aligned folk, especially when it comes to the punk ethos. However, remember the enemey isn't your neighbor who voted for Trump. And it's not even the $400k/yr income business owner or tech bro in the fancy neighborhood across the street. It's the leisure class billionaires and oligarch fascists that have more money than God and don't lift a finger to whipe their own asses.
Sometimes your neighbors are stupid and sometimes they work against their own self interest. It's frustrating, but remember who the real enemy is. I don't expect bands to be doing background checks on all of the people they do business with. $255 would easily go unnoticed unless this dude is a raging asshole/MAGA/political activist but I highly doubt that.
Well, 25 years is a long time. Using actual numbers sourced below, we're looking at 88% inflation since then. It sounds high, but that's only 2.5% per year, which is widely accepted as the ideal inflation rate, so it's actually a pretty good number.
Keep in mind this article was written by a crypto company with every incentive to shake your trust in the dollar so that you buy their totally cool and amazing investment nftcoin.
According to this calculator, a 2025 dollar is worth $1.88 in 2000, and they quote the Bureau of Labor Statistics as the dollar having 53% purchasing power as compared to 2000.
Oh, oh, I know! Caravans eating pets and taking our jobs! No, no, wait, the Gulf of Mexico! Err, foreign goods being too cheap! Oh, um, the poors ruining everything for everyone! People getting vaccines or seeing a doctor without going bankrupt! Women in sports! Yes, that must be it!
Me: I should meet people, make friends, and join a community!
Also me, when given the chance to attend an event or talk to a stranger:

They sell unsafe piercings by untrained staff with piercing guns and jewelry nobody should ever wear.
Everyone used to tie their money to gold. Not anymore.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/04/27/135604828/why-we-left-the-gold-standard
https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2017/november/why-us-no-longer-follows-gold-standard
My man, it's near the start of the article: