US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[lion of panjshir]

The left did set the precedent so it won't surprise me

Throwback to when they gave everybody from weather underground tenured positions at universities.

 

[CEO of Gay]

Is there a reason why we can't raise more "highly skilled people" ourselves? Also, even if we limit it to "highly skilled", they will still be willing to work for cheap compared to their American counterparts because they are getting paid with a visa. We have plenty of people with potential who are disillusioned due to DEI and H1B limiting their career prospects before they even really start. We need to tap into our own talent first before we start poaching from other developed countries.

This is indeed what we should be doing. Unfortunately, the societal mechanism we have to achieve this end, the educational system, has been getting subverted and pozzed since the 1960s, if not earlier. The sciences don't have this nearly as bad as the humanities, but speaking with friends of mine who hire for various technical industries, a common gripe I hear is that the American engineers seem to be lower quality than the ones trained in Western Europe.

Then there's shit like this happening.

The competency crisis is actually happening now. People would be surprised and horrified to know that key systems are being maintained by white male retiree consultants wearing Hawaiian shirts charging $500 an hour to troubleshoot systems that companies refuse to upgrade. Eventually those white guys will permanently retire as they get into their 70s and aren’t willing to work for any price. In the unlikely event that companies learn the error of their ways and start hiring white guys again, there is now a decade experience gap where white guys learn the ropes of the system so it can be smoothly handed off to them.

Couple the degradation of education with the experience gap, and we're primed to start backsliding in quality of life as knowledge of how to build and maintain the systems upon which society depends gets lost. Things will break, not only will nobody know how to fix it, nobody will know how to learn how to fix it, or build the tools needed to fix it.

I don't think things are going to get as bad as the fall of the Roman Empire, the European dark ages, and then the Renaissance, but in the coming decade, I do think we're going to have to re-learn how to do things we've forgotten.

It was about 10 years after the 1918 pandemic the great depression happened, and most of the financial cycle is playing out exactly as it did then.

While perhaps not on a 100 year cycle, it does feel like history is rhyming.

I know. I was that 2019 zoomer basically. 2022 was the worst year of my life. As for the younger kids... I've already seen the damage in some of my nieces and nephews. It's not great.

As for this flu stuff... I doubt anything comes of it. They have been talking about bird flu for years now. This is media scare tactics

It does seem to me that troonism is higher in the older zoomers. I wonder how many were broken by watching the world end just as they were getting ready to fully participate in it, and how many decided the end of the world would be easier as the opposite sex gender in some sort of bizarre dissociative coping mechanism.

 

[The Hardest R]

Couple the degradation of education with the experience gap, and we're primed to start backsliding in quality of life as knowledge of how to build and maintain the systems upon which society depends gets lost. Things will break, not only will nobody know how to fix it, nobody will know how to learn how to fix it, or build the tools needed to fix it.

I don't think things are going to get as bad as the fall of the Roman Empire, the European dark ages, and then the Renaissance, but in the coming decade, I do think we're going to have to re-learn how to do things we've forgotten.

I think things can backslide pretty quickly. Think about what expectations were in 2005 versus 2025. Shit like owning a home was part of the “ownership society” Dubya talked about and compare it to now. In some parts of the country, having reliable electricity is no longer a thing because of wildfire risk. It’ll be really easy in 2040 to say you are a bigot for expecting to know what your bank account balance is.

As long as we continue to embrace cheap spic and jeet labor, the backslide will continue. Guys like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, et al. will have long since cashed out and reside on another Epstein Island where slave boys (for Thiel) and girls will be available for them to fuck while the rest of us deal with the smoking wreckage.

 

[quaawaa]

When it comes to the truly brilliant 0.01%, Google/SpaceX/Meta/Apple/... already have hired every single one they can in america. There is not enough of them.

This is absolutely not true. Those companies both no longer hire only the top 0.01% and have massive Indian and Chinese cliques who only hire their own race. There are tons of qualified Americans who can’t even get interviews there because of said discrimination. The average FAANG interview candidate is a foreign retard who can barely type, let alone program; if you’re actually qualified the interview pass rate nowadays is closer to 75% than the famed 1%. They’re not the same companies they were 15 years ago.

Musk also pays far below the top 0.01% of the market, so he’s definitely using H-1Bs to lower wages (and also isn’t hiring the best and the brightest). Someone in the top 0.01% who is willing to work the insane hours Musk demands will work on Wall Street instead for literally 10 times the pay.

There’s also one FAANG company that is such a terrible place to work for that the top 0.01% won’t work for them because they’ve either already worked there and quit or they were warned to stay away by many ex-employees. It’s no surprise that they’re also the most Indian of the FAANGs and the people they hired are nowhere close to top talent.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

A lot of these "averages" that people always like to bring up regarding 3rd world countries have to do with malnutrition, and not genetic differences.

Yeah, unfortunately I think there's not a lot you can do past when the brain has largely stopped developing. Your brain never fully stops changing but those spurts of development during the first years, and especially puberty, matter a lot. Neglect during the first year can permanently fuck up a babies brain for example. Similar thing with malnutrition.
There's a window to certain periods of brain development and it will close eventually.

The good news is that there have been studies showing even a single egg a day increases cognitive capacity in malnutritioned children. Which really shows you how bad off they really are, in terms of baseline nutrition.
Make sure your kids eat well and get a good amount of animal foods, kiwis. B12, complete protein, choline, and healthy fats are important for a healthy brain.

 

[Betonhaus]

Just wait until Y2K38 hits.

That only affects 32-bit systems, and by 2038 the only ones left will be some imbedded systems that don't particularly care what the time is.

 

[The Ugly One]

When it comes to the truly brilliant 0.01%, Google/SpaceX/Meta/Apple/... already have hired every single one they can in america. There is not enough of them.
So either they lower their standards (they will not) or they will hire from abroad and bring over on h1b and other visas, and pay them just as much as everyone else in the same band.

None of those companies hire exclusively or even mainly from the top. In the case of the FAANGs, they initially used Leetcode tests to filter out shit-tier CS grads. Leetcode is actually a really good filter for fresh graduates, since it basically amounts to pop quiz over things you should have learned in school in a competent program, but it is as useless as a ouija board for people with 10+ years experience. The problem is that now everyone knows they do this, and all tests can be gamed. In India, there are now schools that do nothing but drill you on Leetcode questions. Indians are now by and large the best at passing Leetcode tests, since they cram for them constantly specifically to get hired at American software companies. They're still shitty employees and shitty programmers, but they know how to answer questions about searching arbitrarily long strings for palindromes.

Pro tip, if you're hiring pajeets, you're not hiring the best and brightest.

 

[Bindo]

That only affects 32-bit systems, and by 2038 the only ones left will be some imbedded systems that don't particularly care what the time is.

I got some real bad fuckin' news for you about the underlying systems that handle ~75% of healthcare in the US, including Medicare/Medicaid...

 

[quaawaa]

Indians are now by and large the best at passing Leetcode tests, since they cram for them constantly specifically to get hired at American software companies

Also not true. They definitely try and cram for the interviews, but that doesn’t mean that they’re any good at them.

I have done leetcode interviews. 99% of Indians failed to solve the question while the vast majority of Americans could. It’s also incredibly obvious when someone is reciting an answer that they’ve memorized instead of thinking through the problem on the fly and such people usually fail the follow up questions (because the leetcode answer key doesn’t have any). I also never used any problem that could be found online.

It’s just that for every American candidate, HR gave me 100 Indians. If they had spent 10 seconds reading their resumes they would have seen that they were not qualified. They never had any side projects, work experience, or even good grades.

Everyone also asks easy questions nowadays because it sucks to awkwardly sit in a room for an hour with someone who can’t make any progress at all on a challenging question.

 

[John Badman]

Alright I’m here at the capitol next to the group of white guys wearing Hawaiian shirts. Where are you guys? It’s cold and there’s too many blacks.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

It's certification day, ladies and gentlemen. Place your bets.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Lmao! I remember one of you said this as a joke, but they actually did it!


Anyway:
Harris, like Mike Pence, is not brave:


Can't tell if this is more funny or pathetic:


According to CNN, Trump already prevented 300 guilty pleas in the Jan 6th cases:


Also a final kicker:


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[XYZpdq Jr.]

Harris, like Mike Pence, is not brave:

iirc they changed the rules after last time so there's no longer an option for the VP

 

[Useful_Mistake]

iirc they changed the rules after last time so there's no longer an option for the VP

Congress has not the power to breach the constitutional authority of the Vice President (to the extent there is any).

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Also a final kicker:

"NOOOOOO! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LESS POWERFUL AFTER WE PERSECUTED AN ENTIRE POLITICAL MOVEMENT FOR FOUR YEARS!!! THERE'S NO WAY THIS COULD HAVE BACKFIRED!!!!!!1"

iirc they changed the rules after last time so there's no longer an option for the VP

More or less.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Congress has not the power

okay and you can go write a letter to santy claus about it
I forget the exacts and YES obviously it's not very kosher, but iirc there was some procedural bullshit rewritten just in case Pence 2 doesn't take his thirty pieces

 

[Irene and 22 others]

I have done leetcode interviews. 99% of Indians failed to solve the question while the vast majority of Americans could. It’s also incredibly obvious when someone is reciting an answer that they’ve memorized instead of thinking through the problem on the fly and such people usually fail the follow up questions (because the leetcode answer key doesn’t have any). I also never used any problem that could be found online.

I suggest using impossible questions for interviews, or at least questions that aren't possible to answer based on the information provided. I've found that these make for better interview questions (maybe it's different for programming, but I couldn't say) because it lets you see how someone approaches solving a problem and whether they can figure out what additional information they need in order to try to develop a solution. Someone who has a good process for tackling difficult problems is better than someone who might just happen to know a clever solution. I can teach new employees clever techniques they might not be aware of, but it's far more difficult to teach them problem solving skills they don't have.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Unlimited number of VISAs but only for positions that pay >=200k$ base salary.
That solves it.
No one will import low skilled worker and pay 200k$ / year

Big Tech that needs skilled workers can still hire and they already pay well above 200k$/year.

Do you think when Elon says "the best of the best" that he means the low-skilled entry level jobs?

He probably does. If he doesn’t, than his autism and ego are probably making him say that because if he got in here with the program, everyone else that does must be just as incredible.

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

I love that all the kvetching about jan 6 and how worse it was than 9/11 has made Trump's victory that much sweeter.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

I forget the exacts and YES obviously it's not very kosher, but iirc there was some procedural bullshit rewritten just in case Pence 2 doesn't take his thirty pieces

That was mainly for the alternative elector issue, as well as setting up a appropriate avenue to challenge the election results based on certification (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ328/pdf/PLAW-117publ328.pdf page 775). This act also reaffirmed the objection process that has existed since ~1887

At any rate, if Harris were to refuse to certify (whether she had the power or not), the issue would still be one for the courts to decide. There are very few procedures the Supreme Court has forbidden from being considered by the courts.