I don’t think world capitalism has seen a crisis like this one yet to be honest. Local ones, sure, the owner class is class conscious in the global sense so they pull each other up and push us down if they can. The US itself however has not seen a crisis at this level ever, and I’m not even talking about Trump, but the Reagan-Thatcher world order collapsing and the current batch of shitheads not being able to set the new one up.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Don’t give up your dreams, it’s shit everywhere, you might as well do something that interests you while getting fucked by the system like the rest of us.
Option two is to do tech pretend-work for some big corpo for six figures, and check out of the workforce and find fulfillment somewhere else.
I get your point, but I guess since the pedo rape orgies are most likely still ongoing, your daughter could be kidnapped and end up in a room with Trump, so to a degree, we are in it.
Shareholders are interested in share prices and dividends, not volume or even revenue or profits,
They should be correlated, but look at Tesla.
That includes you if you don’t live on the Sentinel Island or something.
Don’t act like “it can’t happen here”.
The US is one of the strongest economies in the world, in spite of what orange man is doing.
And mostly a service economy, which is of limited use at war. You can repurpose a data center for spreading propaganda - who is winning that war again today? - you can’t retool it to make drones or shells.
By the way, the biggest, 70% market share drone manufacturer is Chinese. One million drones per year manufactured, 400000 large agricultural drones in use worldwide. Russia, which let’s say isn’t the GDP powerhouse of the world, launches 5k drones per month in Ukraine now.
US manufacturers deal in thousands of units per year manufactured.
We have ten times the weapons that the next 10 military powers have combined.
Russia had a truly bonkers amount of tanks, and they got blown apart by modern weapons. They lost more tanks than the entire US tank stockpile, twice over if you believe the Ukrainians, but even the low estimates are higher than the US stockpile number.
We are separated from our biggest adversaries by oceans, which we own by virtue of having 10 times the naval vessels.
Ukraine, a nation with no navy, rules the Black Sea with drones. You could say that the Russian navy was incompetent in leadership and/or manpower, but which peer enemy has the US Navy fought since 1945, and did it not lose two fighter jets in a single month by them just tipping overboard in maneuvers against a bunch of rebels with no navy or significant weaponry?
Also, the US has 8900 km of land borders, to nations it has just threatened with invasions. What if the US really invades Canada? Do you think a battered Canadian government would think twice about accepting Chinese aid for example? What if such aid comes in the form of an army outnumbering the US army multiple times?
I’m not trying to repeat “the US is doomed” tankie agitprop, but shit is changing fast, and a really terribly shit leadership is absolutely capable of sinking it. Even without a war by the way. You guys look like the Balkans looking from the outside in.
Just to be clear, we’re all already poor and dependent on other people
I decided to finally do my masters in biotech after a decade in data engineering got me to have some savings, mostly because I did want to do one eventually.
Man, these kids don’t know what’s waiting for them. None of the companies in biotech are hiring, as in their career pages are empty. LinkedIn, Indeed and the usual suspects only throw up listings which are obviously just staffing orgs fishing for data to sell. I feel there is a similar break in the industry with the pandemic, nobody is hiring people just graduating, the barest minimum is 5-6 years of experience.
I’m seeing some of the best minds in Europe here, doing something that is both hard and useful science, I mean we just had a worldwide pandemic and this masters should be extremely relevant for that, and apparently the system will not let them work in their field.
Only way out is academics, on barely-decent, you-will-never-have-a-house-much-less-a-family wages. If they can get in to the limited number of exceptionally “well” paying PhD slots, for 40-45k gross. They may earn as much as me doing random bullshit internal tooling two years ago for a bank that went bankrupt since if they can get tenure as a full prof at a good uni in like 30 years of hard work.
This is bullshit.
“suka” is “bitch”, “blyat” is “fuck”
I couldn’t be assed to write cyrillic, but Russian is an interesting language, and so is the culture. Too bad the country is led by a bunch of psychopathic monkeys.
I guess the truth got filtered out with the “pro-empire” propaganda
Judging by videos of Russian officers online, your translation is missing like ten instances of “suka” and “blyat”
Some random CEO got caught in an affair at a Coldplay concert on a kiss cam.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/astronomer-ceo-andy-byrons-affair-at-coldplay-concert
Software engineers, at least in my experience, tend to do things right as much as they can, and then quit when their work gets sabotaged, but they get rehired elsewhere because there are still jobs available, and that’s how they become “job hoppers”.
I worked in IT for a hospital subcontractor, and I got my team of engineers to cut down time for the main thing we did from a 4 day turnover to one where it could be done in 20 minutes, with much fewer problems and errors as well.
My team got laid off immediately after this, and our new systems canned, as the new CTO would rather outsource the existing error-prone 4 day process to India as he could take credit for that.
What I’m saying is that most of my peers feel our responsibility and try to act on it, but those of my peers that don’t tend to have longer tenures and less stressful lives.
it’s how we end up here and now where no one can ever be held accountable for anything.
That’s not true. If you want to know what’s wrong with most of the products you buy, most of the services you use, most of the economy in general, it’s Wall Street and the stock market. That is all there is to it.
I installed e/OS when Google made the button to turn my phone off give me an AI prompt.
As a Western engineer, it’s not engineering, it’s management culture you have a problem with. Most engineers I meet want to make their product the best they can, but management actively cracks down on and sabotages these efforts for various reasons, none of them having to do with engineers.
They think that making something worse always takes less time and effort, so if you made something that is more than the bare minimum, they think you’ve wasted their budget.
Also, they don’t care about making a good product, they care about their careers, so if someone else had a good idea, they are incentivised to sabotage it because it either draws time and attention away from the things that would get them promoted. If you think that your new thing could make their work easier as well, and your interests are aligned, see my previous point.
Finally, with customer-facing products, there is also the fact that your better solution might make some bullshit monetisation strategy obsolete.
We’re alienated as fuck from our work, don’t point at us mate.
Did they ask Putin and Kim Jong Un as well?
Oh, I need to turn on sound then
No, it’s not.
This us moving to the left.
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If Republican right wing voters and Democratic left wing voters both want to tax millionaires, unionise, public funding for healthcare and education, then that is the policial centre by definition.
And anyone not for these things is a far right radical, including the neolib wing of the DNC.
My point is that despite how it is portrayed everywhere, the US is not in general a right wing conservative country, and neither are the rural areas.
Large majorities favor raising the minimum wage, import limits to protect jobs, increasing spending on social security and Medicare, using federal power to bring down the cost of prescription drugs, expanding federal funding for public schools, making it easier to join a union, increasing infrastructure spending, implementing a millionaires’ tax, and even the notion of a job guarantee.
This is how “opening up to the Republican centrist voters” looks like BTW, not parading Cheney around on a stage.
Well your house is not in a mall though