SatanicNotMessianic

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[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

“Right to work” means employees can work in a union shop and receive the benefits of such without having to join the union or pay dues. It’s a set of laws that have successfully destroyed unions.

You’re thinking of “at will” employment laws, which means an employer can fire an employee for any reason or for no reason, but not for an illegal reason (which varies depending on state but includes the right to organize and rights against discrimination and retaliation).

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You do understand that 1) these ideas are floated mostly in jest and 2) they are floated because they map more or less directly to statements Trump has already made outlining his intentions, and he will not require precedent to do so.

Trump didn’t require precedent for anything he did, up to and including not conceding the election and attempting the violent overthrow of the government of the United States. I’m not sure why people say “Appointing additional justices just means the Republicans will do the same!” Of course they’d do it tomorrow if they had the 6-3 position reversed.

Precedent (even in Supreme Court cases), congressional comity, “respect the office of not the man,” and everything else has been thrown out the window in an accelerating process, but completely since 2016.

Setting a precedent means nothing anymore, unless we can expect Joe Biden to order Seal Team Six to assassinate Trump and the FBI to arrest all members of Congress and the courts who would hold him accountable for it. There, he’d have some precedent.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m a hiring manager at a FAANG, and might have some advice.

First, as you are painfully aware, you ended up landing at an entry level during a contraction phase in the market. Two or three years ago you’d have landed a job straight out of school. Of course, there’d be a chance you’d have been laid off by now, but the market was different then.

It will be different again soon. I’m old enough to have been through this in 2000-2003 or so, and again in the 2008-9 downturn. Capitalism is a stupid system incapable of moderating wild swings. We thought we could do it, but the money took charge again and removed those circuit breakers, and we ended up with administrations like Trump’s driving us into deeper debt to prevent a slowdown, which was like running up your credit card balance while you’re still pulling in more and more money to increase yet further your spending. Yes, it lets you inflate your lifestyle but it leaves you with little or no headroom when you need it.

In any case, it’s going to come back. In the meantime, there’s a couple of options if you don’t want to pivot. The most obvious one is grad school. If you don’t have a family (and especially if you can get a grant or other funding), that’s both a great way to wait things out for a couple of years (or more if you want a PhD) and a way to make more money and have a more targeted career in the industry once you’re out. It might even be worth getting a student loan, but if you do DO NOT DROP OUT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. You will make things infinitely worse if you end up owing a tuition loan with no degree to show for it.

The second is to check your location. Things are tough all over, but some locations and industries are different than others. NYC, Bay Area, Research Triangle, SoCal, and Boston are all different markets, and that’s leaving out the Midwest etc.

Third, assuming you’re in the US and a citizen, is to consider government work. They pay solid salaries (if not as high as industry at its height) and do fewer layoffs. That can extend to contractors as well. In fact, you’d probably start through a contractor regardless, but it’s a solid possibility as long as you can get/maintain a security clearance. I did military and intelligence work for a long time before deciding I wanted to do something less morally ambiguous, but by that time I was afforded that flexibility. Basically you need no criminal record, no recent drug use, and US citizenship.

The last one, and I hesitate mentioning it because it is not universally applicable, is to use your social network. A friend of a friend slipping your resume to someone at a company is going to leapfrog you over the other applicants. Especially as the industry starts to come back, do not hesitate to talk to friends and family or people you’ve worked on OSS projects with. I can tell you from the inside it’s a huge advantage.

Good luck, and I hope at least some of this might apply.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I absolutely loved House - to the point of distraction - because I identified so strongly with Hugh Laurie’s character. Having myself a tendency in that direction (which I’ve worked, with intermediate success, to overcome), it was very easy so see the world through his eyes.

I even really liked the repeating theme of his always being wholly confident that his initial diagnosis is 100% right, then being proven wrong and being full in on his secondary being right, and finally having his third being right is very very familiar from my own career.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I’m going to have to disagree on the basis of such usages as “women singers/songwriters.”

The differentiation is socio-linguistic, because “female” is often used in a dehumanizing context in English. Sociology-linguistically, it’s similar to referring to “blacks” as opposed to “black Americans” or “deafs” as opposed to “deaf people.” The problem is specifically substituting a noun that historically been used to dehumanize the people to which it refers, because it is exclusionary of the “default” status (male, white, hearing).

I am on the side of the linguists who take a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach to the analysis of language, but part of being a descriptivist is recognizing the subtext potentially if subconsciously involved.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For future reference:

Male/female is chiefly used to refer to biological contexts. “Female spiders in some species tend to devour their male mates” is a perfectly acceptable description.

Men/women is chiefly used to refer to human-centric sociological contexts. “Women in technology roles face hurdles that men in similar roles do not.” is also a perfectly reasonable description.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

“So, a group called The Satanic Temple successfully sued to be allowed to distribute coloring books in elementary schools. Sorry about that whole piling rocks on you until you died thing. We were still figuring this liberty and freedom stuff out.”

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Please sir, what episode was this?

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Just a note to say that PJ Harvey can send you down a dark, dark path. I can’t listen to her unless I’m able to clock out for a couple of days to recover. She’s a really powerful singer.

Also, I want to call out both Sinead (and I’m not even going to get into the character arc she was subjected to, but highly recommend her later work as well as her early stuff) and Kate Bush, if you’re into the more experimental stuff. Going further I that direction would be of course Björk and the incomparable Diamanda Galas. On the other end of the spectrum you’ve got bands like the Cranberries, with Zombies being easily if not superior to anything done by U2 on the Troubles.

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

In that use case, it makes perfect sense for a binary switch to say I am (not) on the ground. It doesn’t necessarily address the situations in which flight attendants will make manual adjustments to passenger seating assignments in smaller planes while at the gate (which I assume would still involve actual numerical values to some actionable degree of accuracy), but I’ve worked with enough engineered systems to know the design limitations that went into them versus what we wish they would do. That still happens in shipping smartphones. I remember working on a study design from 10 years ago where we could tell the survey team pulled over to the shoulder of the road based on their gps signal but only because they were in the middle of nowhere with a clear line of sight to multiple satellites.

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