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job destroyers
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# ? Jul 12, 2023 22:45 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 12:17 |
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Frog Act posted:I keep hearing that about the labor market and it’s probably on me for foolishly earning a master’s degree in history but it sure as gently caress does not feel particularly hot right now. everything is as bad or worse as it was in 2018 when I was first job searching only on top of everything else a new round of austerity has gutted all the local universities. it’s really hard to reconcile all this stuff about low unemployment with the depressing reality that myself and people like me are more likely to die in the gutter than revive the mythologized middle class Under no circumstances should you ever go into academia. Like, I'm pretty sure game development offers a better quality of life at this point.
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# ? Jul 12, 2023 22:53 |
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Huh I wonder if anything happened over the last three or so years that might have taken millions of people out of the labor pool? Looking to the past is communism. Mods???
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# ? Jul 12, 2023 22:56 |
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yeah I was laid off from a decent university job in may and have been pursuing private sector work, I never want to go back to academia. the institutional collapse has so much inertia basic systems no longer function at all, I had six supervisors in four years because all dean level positions have become revolving doors for mendacious, acquisitive liberal scum with no actual scholarly interests and all the actual scholars are terminally precarious adjuncts. it’s a trend that probably will not change until the system more or less completely collapses
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# ? Jul 12, 2023 22:57 |
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Frog Act posted:yeah I was laid off from a decent university job in may and have been pursuing private sector work, I never want to go back to academia. the institutional collapse has so much inertia basic systems no longer function at all, I had six supervisors in four years because all dean level positions have become revolving doors for mendacious, acquisitive liberal scum with no actual scholarly interests and all the actual scholars are terminally precarious adjuncts. it’s a trend that probably will not change until the system more or less completely collapses lol
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# ? Jul 12, 2023 23:47 |
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# ? Jul 12, 2023 23:49 |
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Ham Equity posted:Like, I'm pretty sure game development offers a better quality of life at this point. https://twitter.com/takesAEGIS/status/1678481056520101889
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 00:01 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:If I had to tell a teenager in the 2040's what America thought of itself in the early 2000's I'd have them watch Traffic, Crash, and Babel. And to let them know what it was actually like living through those times I'd have them watch Starship Troopers Add Southland tales after starship troopers too
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 00:24 |
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Frosted Flake posted:The Catholic Church rose to prominence by taking the place of the shrinking Roman state in aid to orphans, widows, poverty and disaster relief. It was the largest driver of Christianization, creating a Maoist dual power within Roman society. can you recc a book or books on this...
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 00:43 |
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Frog Act posted:yeah I was laid off from a decent university job in may and have been pursuing private sector work, I never want to go back to academia. the institutional collapse has so much inertia basic systems no longer function at all, I had six supervisors in four years because all dean level positions have become revolving doors for mendacious, acquisitive liberal scum with no actual scholarly interests and all the actual scholars are terminally precarious adjuncts. it’s a trend that probably will not change until the system more or less completely collapses if you spent less time learning six dollar words like mendacious and more time violently beating the poo poo out of administrators this never would've happened
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 00:44 |
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Six dollar word? Goddamn nothing's safe from inflation
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 00:48 |
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:if you spent less time learning six dollar words like mendacious and more time violently beating the poo poo out of administrators this never would've happened it's true, he'd have been fired with cause immediately
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 00:53 |
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Biplane posted:Libraries round these parts have heavily restricted access to ebooks, if at all, to protect small businesses like major international publishing houses. I was able to search my local library online to see if they had a physical copy at least (they did not) try searching worldcat.org and entering your zip code afterwards. itll show you public libraries near you that possess that book. you can request it from your local via interlibrary loan. go to your library, find someone, and ask for an ILL form. you might want to write down the oclc number of the title you want, so the ILL person can find it easily (worldcat will tell you what this number is). they will literally ship the book to your local branch and notify you, all you have to do is go pick it up when its ready. some libraries (lovely ONES!!!) charge a small fee for ILL fulfillments, but a dollar or two beats paying $20+. literally everybody should know about worldcat, it should be part of library 101 in high schools and colleges, and yet nobody does
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:00 |
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Halisnacks posted:If librairies hadn’t already been invented, there is no way they could have been created for the first time now. 100%
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:02 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yeah according to the church, attendance minus Yule and poo poo like that is less than 1%. Lmao just convert them into Hesburgers already. are you trying to get finland invaded by the united states of america? because this would absolutely do it, and ted cruz would be the architect
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:05 |
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Shame Boy posted:It's the Pinellas Plant in St. Petersburg, Florida. Wikipedia doesn't even give it the dignity of its own article, it's just mentioned in the notes on an article about the current thing on the property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young-Rainey_Star_Center so i'm gonna need the title of uli's self-published "history of american nukes" (please)
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:08 |
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Consolidated Ed posted:so i'm gonna need the title of uli's self-published "history of american nukes" (please) Shame Boy posted:Volume 1: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HTD9YKX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:17 |
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Frosted Flake posted:It was mostly this. There are some books on the "politics" of sacrifice. In Greece, for example, sacrificing livestock was essentially throwing a BBQ for the working class and could build support for members of the ruling class in return. The coalition that opposed Pericles were popular because of their observance of sacrifice. Yes, piety, sure, but also they were the ones working class shlubs associated with pit beef, and got their votes in return. this makes so much loving sense solidarity thru bbq, thru the ages sign me the gently caress up
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:33 |
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Shame Boy posted:Eh plenty of stuff sure but like, the Saturn V really didn't have much military potential or even transferrable technologies. I know we like being cynical as all hell (and for good reason) but c'mon we walked on the loving moon and even in the deepest of cold war rah rah bullshit tensions the plaque we left still says "from the planet earth" and not "from America" and idk, that's something at least confederate monument, or something with a billionaire's name on it
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:36 |
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aegis is a great name
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:37 |
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ty
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 01:43 |
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Consolidated Ed posted:are you trying to get finland invaded by the united states of america? because this would absolutely do it, and ted cruz would be the architect They did.
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 10:15 |
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Milosh posted:Danny McBride is the only person in entertainment that genuinely understands the South. there was squidbillies until unknown hinson decided to voice his opinion about dolly parton
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 11:07 |
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Frog Act posted:I keep hearing that about the labor market and it’s probably on me for foolishly earning a master’s degree in history but it sure as gently caress does not feel particularly hot right now. everything is as bad or worse as it was in 2018 when I was first job searching only on top of everything else a new round of austerity has gutted all the local universities. it’s really hard to reconcile all this stuff about low unemployment with the depressing reality that myself and people like me are more likely to die in the gutter than revive the mythologized middle class Have you tried lower paying service industry jobs?
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# ? Jul 13, 2023 11:43 |
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https://twitter.com/suumitshah/status/1678460567000850450
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:22 |
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drat musk was right about ai, pretty hosed up it forced this man at gunpoint to fire all of his staff, pocket the profits and make his customers less satisfied
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:25 |
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Sega does what Nintendont
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:26 |
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Too late i believe in dead internet theory so talking with AI chatbots is just the normal world
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:28 |
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gonna lol when this company has to rehire everyone because their chatbot devolves into an incomprehensible string of racial slurs
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:28 |
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Coolness Averted posted:drat musk was right about ai, pretty hosed up it forced this man at gunpoint to fire all of his staff, pocket the profits and make his customers less satisfied You see, because to save money they already only hired barely competent people and rotated them out the moment they asked for a raise, customer satisfaction was low anyway. The secret sauce with using AI is to get your product/service to be so low quality to begin with that using AI would be an improvement.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:32 |
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Lmao the very next tweet is great too https://twitter.com/suumitshah/status/1678460569844588547 New idea: profitability (??? am I even saying that right)
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:33 |
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https://twitter.com/suumitshah/status/1678460601670967307 You, uh... you don't know what that song's about do you. Also as far as I can tell his only metric for success he ever mentions is "the bot closed a bunch of tickets by itself" which, uhhhh
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:39 |
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That was the only metric he cared about when there were employees. The point of the call center was just to have a relief valve for customers to scream at someone.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 03:43 |
And now they scream at software with no mouth.spacemang_spliff posted:gonna lol when this company has to rehire everyone because their chatbot devolves into an incomprehensible string of racial slurs
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 04:21 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:Six dollar word? Goddamn nothing's safe from inflation They just call them Thickwords now because even regular fast words cost like 6 bucks anymore.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 07:02 |
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Our new ad campaign is our pistachios gently caress, but not their usual partners.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 07:12 |
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Shame Boy posted:https://twitter.com/suumitshah/status/1678460601670967307 We used to outsource our poo poo* support to a foreign company on site, but had to switch to domestic because they would just send "Please close incident BR" messages on all available channels literally every ½ hour. One by one everyone just blocked them all because actual work would've been impossible otherwise. Stage 1: Incident has just been opened. "Please close incident BR N.N." forever. Stage 2: Incident has been worked on, but nothing has been tested. "Please close incident BR N.N." forever. Stage 3: Incident has been tested. Every test fails. "Please close incident BR N.N." forever. Stage 4: Nothing for two weeks. Stage 5: "I am having trouble finding your office. Which floor are you on? BR M.M." (They're all at head office, of course. I'm ~200 km to the West. My address is in my SIG.) You get what you ask for and the bean-counters always ask for results. *) Why did I even bother to try to obfuscate, everyone who knows what it is will know what it is.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 07:26 |
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Coolness Averted posted:
swinging is poly but for prudes
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 07:46 |
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tokin opposition posted:swinging is poly but for prudes If pistachios are the swingers of nuts, what are the polycule nuts?
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 08:13 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 12:17 |
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Shame Boy posted:https://twitter.com/suumitshah/status/1678460601670967307
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