Consultancy firms have been cut out of government. The parasites have targeted the next two most naive and inexperienced industries; academia and NFP.

Blocked Shorts in first weeks because it quickly was full of this.

And if anyone wants to discover music, get a scrobbler for a good music network. By design, algorithms pigeonhole. That’s just how math works. You need the tried and true method of community sharing and (most) scrobblers are, essentially, a modern take on “word of mouth”. Music has only ever been best discovered and broadened to listeners when recommended from other explorers.

Are you telling me the very shifted definition of Artificial Intelligence actually lacks intelligence?!

Next you’ll be trying to tell me it’s just old mathematical algorithms running incredibly fast on modern technology so as to give the illusion of machine intelligence.

Edit: God, imagine this comment gets trained off…

It’s America. Everyone’s an immigrant unless they’re from Europe. Even the indigenous are from India.

As for what would be at the top of the arch, Trump said it would be a gilded “Lady Liberty.”

“That’s Lady Liberty. Did you ever hear of Lady Liberty?” Trump said.

🤦

I like my PC being my PC. The more it does things I don’t ask of it or tell it to do, the more I will seek alternatives.

One of the most frustrating parts of MS products these days is that you’re just along for the ride. And unlike Apple which is just the same, MS has far less intuitive behaviour or method. I would say their products are for beginners or those not tech literate, but the failure rate and amount of complex troubleshooting required for MS products and environments are easily the most challenging and frequent. It does not help that Windows Update constantly introduces new issues to the OS and other software while undoing any previous workarounds.

That company doesn’t get to touch my stuff anymore. It’s like trusting your car to a four year old.

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Okay, this isn’t nottheonion

The UN has said that at least 22 people were killed in the first days of the protests that started on 25 September at the call of a youth-led movement called “Gen Z”.

Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.

Uuuuh… This place is a breeding ground of heavily biased propaganda. Just look at your feed, it’s all news articles reinforcing a side of things. It’s got its fair share of users that don’t look at things from a broad perspective and most get mad when they perceive their opinion is being challenged, even when it’s not. That’s why it’s riddled with posts that aren’t for interest; they’re rooted in agenda that is to either push narrative or reinforce ego.

And if your filter lists aren’t full of users, communities, and instances, it’s very plausible your mind my be one that’s easily duped, because the shits got to be one of the most obvious places on the internet to spot it. Part of the Lemmy experience is maintaining and customising the feed.

Omg. CHINA DOESNT CARE lol

It’s like he wants the US dead and them on top.

That’s any smart device. Unless you’re the one.doimg the updates.yoirself, they will all become obsolete as technology evolves. This is the case here too; sounds they just don’t have enough people using them to justify figuring out how to keep them working as new devices and platforms roll on. 9.5 years is an alright run, comparatively.

Weaker minds are easily influenced by charisma and content.

At a certain age your ears have heard enough bullshit and it’s time to start enjoying life.

In context of the times, Jesus was very left. Surprised they didn’t kill the guy.

Don’t even need a college degree.

Australia, Spain, UK, Portugal (they may even still be doing that super cheap buying a property thing for foreign workers they’re trying to attract in smaller towns), Finland… I assume the other countries around Finland…

Many of these places they are more concerned about filling industries regardless of your qualifications. Education and hospitality are lways in demand. I have four American friends that went to Australia and NZ for short-term visas and just decided to never leave and are PR now. No degrees, though two were former US servicemen which may have boosted their credits.

The only catch for pursuing PR is you either have to have an employer happy to sponsor you, or you are told which cities and industries need you the most. After some time for the government to know you’re not fucking them around, welcome to your new home.

Teaching English is a classic too. Especially in SK and Japan. You don’t need to know the language well as English is expected to be the natively spoken language in classrooms. Have a friend that never left China doing that and two that never left Japan. No degrees; only basics of the national languages. They obviously have become fluently bilingual over time.

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I don’t think it was designed as that at all. But like anything long-term with no protection or regulation, it will be exploited. This is as guaranteed as sunrise.

Only gets worse the longer you leave it. Myself and many friends I have met along the way one day just did it, with nothing. Within two years, things are so much better than if they were spent in the same situation. The worse that can happen is you just go back to what you have now. So what you have now is the worse-case scenario.

Edit: Oh, I mean there’s cavets to that, obviously. Like you could get ruined. But that’s why less likely than getting ruined by a drunk driver or something. Point is, what you have control of will always end up how you imagined.

I can understand immigration restrictions because they’ve always been in the interest of maintaining a healthy economy that can contribute plenty toward future infrastructure. This is just the play for as long as history is recorded. As long as we’ve had borders, and walls, fences, guards… It’s common for countries to go through periods of restriction to only skilled workers, specific industries, etc. otherwise it’s working internally on itself for a period.

But when you’ve got a booming GDP, restricting visas makes as much sense as having substantial poverty among citizens. Like sovereignty and protection of those within was never on the cards, it’s just straight up fascism, as you said. You get the same idiots saying they’re the most powerful military in the world capable of destroying anything—which isn’t far from true—also saying a brown family is going to destroy the nation… Uh-huh. Sure… One of these things has to be a lie for both cannot be true.

I know in my country, such a thing is illegal af and there’d be very damaging outcry from the public if a gov tried it. But this country and the ones I’ve lived in, the governments seem to understand they’re in service of the public. This is one of the reasons why governments came to exist and why they are still relevent, after all.