Relative to the other fully developed countries, a mainstream Democrat is a homeopathic liberal.

For a lot of computing workloads, including AI inference (and training), the user won’t notice the difference if it’s being done in a different country.

With the US’s ‘100% tariffs on Taiwanese chips’ to be taken ‘seriously, but not literally’, at some point it makes sense to build additional ‘AI’ capacity in Canada instead.

I tried to find additional info on the report’s ‘re-allocating a considerable portion of [its] projected international spend to the US’, but I am unable to find the original report, to see if there were additional pages.

I just say ‘sorry, it’s been a long day, I’m socially exhausted, see y’all tomorrow morning.’ And it 100% shows on my face.

But that works because it’s an engineering team and introversion is fine and understood. We’ve definitely had feedback from some engineers that a full 8 hours of group work, and then dinner, and some social event after that is too much. Managers have learned since to just cut some meetings and make the social events part of the normal work hours.

This probably doesn’t work as well for the departments full of people who like to talk a lot.

The dams are entirely the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers, and the US President is the commander-in-chief.

The only ways for this to not happen is for the President to have their mind changed, or the President is removed from office, or, the order is refused enough (at cost of being fired/court-martialed) that nobody will carry them out.

The great powers of the US Presidency is meant to expedite government action. We are currently far from the scenario where Congress, by the will of the US voters, will remove the current President.

I can’t find direct evidence at their federal level, but their British Columbia Premier did mention targeting US’s ‘red States’ for their liquor stores. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-us-tariffs-1.7448307

Looking at the list, it does seem to be mostly agricultural goods and manufactured goods, which do mostly come from Trump-supporting areas.

He’s still mad about the PayPal thing.

Judges in Texas.

The San Joaquin Valley drought will also be blamed on liberals, Democrats, and DEI.

Someone already made a commercially releasable version of that; it’s called Far Cry 5.

I pay for the $60/yr one. In the last year, I got a leaking car tire patched for $20, and did 3 quick trips to the warehouse for items on my shopping list.

Worth it.

I want Machinegames to yell at me and tell me that I owe them 100,000 Nazi scalps.

The others can read the room too; they’re just in an entirely different room.

Just (trying to) execute a 2007 law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Loan_Forgiveness.

Here is the Department of Education’s press release: https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/biden-harris-administration-approves-additional-45-billion-student-debt.

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The workers were asked to stay even after part of the parking lot was starting to flood.

It was after the power went out that they closed the factory.

Tennessee didn’t declare a state of emergency in the county until after the flooding started.

This is what cancel-membership culture looks like folks.

Yep. For example, if your ISP is in the advertising business, I would definitely use a VPN, even after opting out w/ the ISP/cellular provider. IMO a lot of times when you opt out, it doesn’t mean they stop collecting information, it means they paused using that information for ad targeting.

ex: https://www.verizon.com/about/privacy/customer-proprietary-network-information

Here are some things you can do, roughly ranked:

• Use a password manager
• Assume anything you post/do online/financially can and will be used to build an advertising profile on you/train AI/be shared with government authorities
• Disable ad personalization/history/sharing of information via privacy settings of mobile phone, mobile apps, Google, Facebook, banks, credit cards, ISP, cellular service, everything
• Turn off third-party cookies.
• Use an ad-blocker on desktop and mobile. They also help prevent a lot of tracking.
• Don’t use Chrome. Consider Firefox/Brave/whatever else
• Avoid using ad-supported services/companies. Consider using paid alternatives. This means using alternatives to Google Search, GMail, Facebook for photos, etc etc.
• Use a profile deleting service like https://monitor.mozilla.org/
• Different browser profiles: general use, Facebook, personal (GMail / Google Docs), and maybe more
• Use a VPN w/ secured DNS
• Many Google accounts: one for general, YouTube, Google Docs/personal, and maybe more
• Use a different email address to sign up for every account. I use StartMail’s aliases
• Don’t use your personal phone number for most things (finance/healthcare excepted). Get another number via a call and SMS forwarding service

[Embracer] is arguably the most hated company in gaming.

Electronic Arts: am I a joke to you?

Look for another job.

Companies like that are very unlikely to change their view that engineering’s quality and sustainability practices are a perpetual waste of money.

That, and product doesn’t know what they’re doing, and they’re okay with making engineering also suffer for it.

Nor do they care in practice about the engineers getting burned out.

After you leave, when you glance back at the company at any time for the next 5+ years, you will see that they have learned pretty much nothing.

I’ve been burned out once, and I’ll never let it happen to me again, or anyone I work with. It’s like depression; it’s an indescribable experience.

Here’s one self-test to measure how burned out you are: https://www.peoplestorming.com/burnout-assessment.