This photo was generated by AI after 2020, not “taken” at all.

I really appreciate how many different reasons this picture is crap.

I wouldn’t be surprised if AI-Arnold’s watch looks like something that was designed later or something.

My lemmy client lets me filter out posts based on words or phrases.

I found my mood improving when I started filtering out the clickbait and doom.

It’s both! Though Lay’s came first. I looked it up because I couldn’t remember.

Pringles is “once you pop, you can’t stop,” in the mid 1990s.

Lay’s is “betcha can’t eat just one,” starting in the early 1960s!

Now I want chips.

If it’s not the DEA it’s the CIA. If it’s not the CIA it’s the FBI.

I think they thought it meant “veiled compliments” and not “veiled insults.”

Which isn’t hard to confuse really.

I believe Tech hiring is more about ego of the hiring managers and team more than it is about hiring qualified people.

I’ve never been on a team or seen a team where this was the case. We just wanted people who could do the job well, and they were hard to find.

I actually don’t understand where manager/team ego ever fits in, as someone who hired a lot of bootcamp grads.

I like that the dog has horns too

Not in the same way… which is the issue.

It’s a skilled profession, so ideally you want someone who is more skilled, and the person who has interest is more skilled.

It works similarly with other skilled professions like carpenters.

This has been my experience as well, since I started in community college in the early 2000s.

There is an unfortunately large difference in tech between a person who has an innate interest and someone who is checking the boxes to get and keep a job.

The first sentence of the article shows the problem.

For years, we heard about the tech talent shortage — that there were a glut of jobs and not enough bodies to fill them.

The problem wasn’t ever “bodies,” which people have always misunderstood. It’s qualified workers.

I worked in tech for a long time, at a bunch of different companies, and I never once worked anywhere that there was a glut of jobs and “not enough bodies” to fill them.

The people going into these careers includes a large number of people who want the money but aren’t qualified do what we’re looking for.

Oh absolutely! I was just extrapolating on your comment.

It’s fascinating, honestly.

Because a non-negligible number of your neighbors are voting for populist and far-right candidates. These people have support.

100,000 people showed up for a far-right rally in London last week. Bolsonaro is just now seeing some kind of punishment for his actions in Brazil.

It’s never really been a U.S.-only thing, sadly, the U.S. has just captured the zeitgeist for the past several years.

These remembrance days are largely meaningless. This is essentially political clickbait to get everyone riled up on both sides.

Each Congress, Representatives and Senators typically introduce hundreds of measures to recognize, support, honor, or acknowledge individuals, groups, and events with a national day, week, or month.
… By recognizing and memorializing important historical figures, groups, and events, date-specific commemorative measures can be used to help establish collective memory and for Members to connect with constituents and fulfill representational responsibilities.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48065

I added italics, because this does seem like a good way to connect with constituents one way or another.

Didn’t Canada’s parliament just give Charlie Kirk a standing ovation? Wasn’t Alberta just talking about seceding? So is it only “elbows up” for some people?

No country is immune.

I too thought it was bread. I was like “marbled!! Oh.”

Kimmel and Colbert the hosts were. The shows were barely breaking even. Do you know a lot of people who watch late night shows? I don’t.

The old TV networks (ABC, CBS) aren’t being bought by vultures because they’re super successful…

Here’s a Paramount exec complaining how little YouTube pays, because that’s where a lot of views come from.

This is one of the many reasons I didn’t buy a fridge with a screen on it.

It seemed pretty obvious they were going to try and advertise something on it.

Which actually started this whole thing!

The 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine led to far more divisive radio hosts. So many political things started on talk radio, like the idea that the Clinton’s have a “body count.”

Rush Limbaugh was hired by ABC Radio in 1988, for example.

Prior to 1987 people using much less controversial verbiage had been taken off the air as obvious violations of the fairness doctrine. Wikipedia article

ABC also settled with Trump for “defamation” for $15 million.

If the networks were in a better place financially, they would have been able to fight the defamation case. See Fox vs. Dominion Voting Systems, which Fox ultimately settled in 2023 for $787.5 million right after a jury was seated.

Notice the difference. The former is a failing company’s (ABC) capitulation to a failing businessman because they couldn’t possibly go to court with someone like him. The latter (Dominion) is a successful business who didn’t back away because they weren’t desperate in the first place.