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That’s completely irrelevant to my point, which was that in a calendar of 12 30-day months you can’t have a 31st day of any month.

The fact that you believe there’s actual talent overflow in the US makes me question just what you might consider “talent”. A warm body with the ability to turn on a computer is not “talent”.

No, the talent simply isn’t there in the numbers companies would need them. And this isn’t limited to the US only - even here in the UK, it’s a struggle to hire good talent, because the fields are incredibly muddled, especially since AI-aided engineering came to be.

For example, I work in software engineering. My role, aside from being a senior engineer, a systems architect and designer, also involves hiring. We’re actually hiring in a number of countries, US included, and I’m overseeing most of it. The applicant rates are simply abysmal. HR pre-filters our candidates, and that usually boils things down from around 1000 CVs to about 50 who actually make it to first roster, and from that 50, we end up actually interviewing maybe 5, because the rest obviously lack the required (and clearly indicated!) skills. And even from those 5, more often than not we choose none to hire because they don’t really reach the bare minimum for the position (and to be perfectly fair, the bar isn’t set too high). I’ve recently had a candidate who had a Masters in Computer Science and some 8 years of work experience, yet couldn’t name base components in the specific segment he’s been working in, nor could he define basic terms like SOLID or KISS.

And I’m hearing similar experiences from other fields too. Reality is, there’s not a lack of people but a lack of talent, which often needs to be imported. And blocking that import will simply result in the companies moving to locations where they can source the talent or where the talent is willing to move to. Previously that was the US, because even though the situation was quite shite, your country has done a great job hiding that via media propaganda. Now it isn’t, simply because y’all had to elect a racist demented dipshit.

This is beginner level IT-TV mishap.

Wanna see something truly ridiculous? How about two girls hackers one keyboard?

It’s literally unclickable in Interstellar - the link is gray and cannot be tapped.

absurd waste of power, water, and arable land

the AI systems I’m talking about here aren’t LLMs. Their power/resource usage is so insignificant that you could literally run them right on your smartphone without having a noticeable impact on battery life.

And for me, neither links work, so I’ll just say that both sides are assholes.

The worst is when there’s a tougher bit in like, a dry sausage (salami, chorizo, etc.), or bacon, that gets stuck between your teeth and is impossible to get out because the little fucker is just so slippery you can’t get a grip on it…

12 months of 30 days

January 31

You can only pick one of these.

Oh fuck off. ChatGPT doesn’t “think”, and if you run to it to get an opinion, neither do you.

Because without those visas, the non-American talent can’t be employed, and the US simply doesn’t have the local talent to fill those spots.

Which means companies will have only one way to keep up with the talent demand: employ it abroad. Which reduces the amount of tax paid to the US government, the amount of money that circulates in the economy, and so on.

You can either pay for a service, or that service will utilise every single aspect of it to monetise you.

Say gex?

And more recent revelations say that Bubba can either be Bill Clinton, or… Ghislaine Maxwell’s horse.

fuck gay people

Don’t mind if I do…

Of course it won’t.

Just like how restoring the various production pipelines after the initial COVID lockdown shocks did nothing to grocery prices - because the prices didn’t go up due to actual hardship, it was all down to corporate greed. As it is right now.

Any reduction in the tariffs will be seen by corporates as a freebie, all the while they get to blame Trump (or even more likely, Biden) for it.

I mean ffs did any of y’all look at the various grocery corpo earnings in 2020-2023? Did y’all not see the massive bonuses handed out to the big bosses, while people were being laid off “due to economic hardships”? Did everyone just fucking forget that part? Or the part where prices could’ve come down, but they didn’t?

Base necessity foods - and thanks to the past 30-50 years of general improvements in living conditions, that category has been expanded quite a lot - simply won’t correlate with the “supply and demand” myth of the “free market”. People will need to buy bread regardless if a loaf is 80c or $5, regardless if that loaf went from 1kg to 500g, or if the quality dropped sharply. People will need to buy eggs even if it costs ten times as much as it did just a year or so ago. Grocery prices never ever go down because people NEED to buy them, corporate knows this, and will milk the pricing of these items as much as they can.

So all y’all can do, short of what most of your country would falsely call “communism” (things like price control on staple foods), is elect a fucking leader who’ll do preventative measures against price raises. And if you’re too big a dumbass to understand how tariffs work, maybe the right to vote is something you shouldn’t have.

dem lips do be indeed grippy

Up until the last sentence, you were correct.

I would rather not.

The Memorial Hall for the victims of the Epstein-Trump Trafficking Organisation.