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So now we’re calling creating competition “picking winners”?

Yeah, gotta watch out for that but there are underlying thought patterns that aren’t rooted in a political party. A great example is Harris’s “weird” campaign. All she did was call out Republican behavior as “weird” and it really got under their skin. Conservatives have a deathly fear of being excluded from the in-group. Calling them weird clawed at that fear and got them to react. It’s low-brow, but it worked.

What if the left starts a propaganda campaign flooding twitter and truth social with low effort blog spam that looks like sensational low-credibility garbage but is actually factual and correct?

IMO AI is a bubble and it will burst in the next year or two. We use AI at work and there are benefits, but I do not believe AI will be replacing anyone other than the absolute bottom of the talent pool. It’s mostly going to accelerate the productivity of developers (creating more value for the company with no increase in wages for you, of course).

Mass layoffs happen every couple years in the software world. One of Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Oracle, etc. will do layoffs and the rest will do it too “because market conditions”. They’ll then rehire that many people 6 months later. It’s a tool they use to clean out lower performers and replace them without having to go through the arduous process of firing someone for performance reasons. The US economy is going to shit right now, so that’s giving them an excuse to do it; it’s not a sign that the software industry is in trouble.

A degree in management is useless. “Management” isn’t a job, it’s a title. You still need to be skilled at something useful to manage other people. These kinds of degrees are for football players that have to have a degree and the party crowd that needs training on how to be a functioning human. This is a perfect degree if you want a soul-sucking job in megacorp HR or banal white collar office management leading a team of minimum wage temps. IMO, learn a productive skill instead.

The CS market is very saturated (at least in the US). I’m a lead software dev responsible for hiring and probably 90% of the resumes I get are from people needing H1B sponsorship; this is where the saturation is coming from. Most of the candidates are pretty weak with an increasing over reliance on AI assistance, so if you have a knack for programming using your own brain, you should go for it. Just be prepared for a long and draining job hunt.

*fracking drill

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What’s the article have to say about why the selloff is strange?

• it reflects something more ominous as President Donald Trump tries to reshape global trade: a loss of confidence in the U.S.
• Global trust and reliance on the dollar was built up over a half century or more … But it can be lost in the blink of an eye
• the dollar has fallen 9% against a basket of currencies, a rare and steep decline
• It is no longer hyperbole to say that the dollar’s reserve status and broader dominant role is at least somewhat in question
• the ballooning U.S. federal debt, which is already at a risky 120% of U.S. annual economic output … Most countries with that debt to GDP would cause a major crisis
• he will force interest rates lower to boost the economy even if doing so risks stoking runaway inflation. That is a sure fire way to get people to flee the dollar.
• This is the first step down a slippery slope where international confidence in the U.S. dollar is lost

Hm, strange indeed. It’s just happening on its own and nobody can put their finger on why. Better say it’s “strange” and not “POTUS is intentionally destroying the US’s global standing via disastrous and illegal policy”

A two week inquiry? What in the actual fuck? If I disregarded any judge’s order my ass would be in prison for contempt. But Trump gets to disregard every court up to and including SCOTUS and he’s met with a two week inquiry where nobody is going to recall a single fucking thing? The US has fallen to a dictatorship. Our little democratic experiment has concluded.

The next EO will be declaring access to a digital bank account and the internet a basic right. Right?

Having male friends in Georgia is too homoerotic for their sensibilities.

Saw it this weekend with my kids. It was fun! It’s not winning any awards, but it’s fairly well done and certainly worth a watch for kids. I’ve been playing since the initial beta and it was fun to see the world brought to life.

I love their slippers! Been wearing them around the house for years

I’m not sure sarcasm is the right word. I’d say it’s more “self awareness”. Cake is a good example. They’re not serious and their music is almost a parody of pop-alt-rock at the time. Radiohead is borderline self-aware; they’re sad and they know it, but not so sad as to be “serious” about it like Dashboard Confessional.

They should stop taking weapons from the US to teach them a lesson.

Lesbian Vampire Killers is a terribly great campy vampire flick

We don’t want “robust settings and tools”. All we want is a simple off button.

If you can use an Xbox controller, you can work for the military flying drones to murder people from the comfort of your desk chair.

I don’t think so. The bill was written by a chemist. I don’t know what fentanyl or narcan are from a chemical perspective to be able to evaluate if the law would apply to narcan. It says this:

‘‘(e)(1) Unless specifically exempted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of a fentanyl-re- lated substance, or which contains the salts, isomers, and salts of isomers of a fentanyl-related substance whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation.