candybrie

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[–] candybrie 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe the people complaining drown out everyone else. But people like David Hogg and Greta Thunberg are Gen Z and out doing more than most to fix the problems they see. Like maybe people complain that Gen Z has no idea what files on a computer are, but that seems like a different thing than helplessness.

[–] candybrie 2 points 1 month ago

It's not really meant to. But there will very likely still be elections that have Democrats in them. It's just a question of how competently they make them a sham.

[–] candybrie 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If the point isn't to misgender him, then call him first gentleman. First lady is misgendering him. It feels justified and extra effective because of his transphobia. But it isn't about misogyny.

[–] candybrie 3 points 1 month ago

If I’m giving off the wrong vibe, I’d like to know so I can correct it.

Even if you're not ghosted, you're very unlikely to get this information. Usually it's just that they're not interested and not the why behind it. And begging for the why is typically not productive. The only thing not ghosting gets you is knowing it's a deliberate choice and not that they, like, broke their phone for weeks or fell into a coma or something else unlikely that prevented them talking to you.

[–] candybrie 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think intentionally being misgendered pisses most people off.

[–] candybrie 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Even Putin pretends to have elections.

[–] candybrie 0 points 1 month ago

People looked at what Biden did for the last few years and that didn't help them.

This is dumb. Thinking economic policy has immediate effects is dumb. Trump's good economy was largely a result of Obama's economic policy. The inflation during the Biden years was a result of Trump's economic policy and COVID. It takes years to dig out of that hole. Everyone knew (or maybe not, people are dumb) that COVID stimulus was going to be inflationary; it was just a gamble that it would be less painful than a more 2008 style financial crisis. The whole world was experiencing inflation and Trump's tax reform did not help the situation. Thinking tariffs will help fix the economy when the number one complaint is high prices is dumb.

[–] candybrie 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah. I'm surprised they took from MI. Management was just complaining last week about how hard it is to hire RTL people and trying to juggle us around to all the generations and variants that need to be staffed. And then this week it's this. Maybe it is how they fire people; I haven't heard of anyone else being fired besides this layoff in the ~4 years I've been there.

[–] candybrie 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As someone who works at AMD not in AI, that's how they explained it to us. Or I guess it was a bit more generic "highest growth areas" and "still hiring for positions aligned with our strategic priorities." Which we generally took to mean AI based on the gestures broadly at the market.

[–] candybrie 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you want to work in AI, they're hiring. The layoff was sold as a way to make room for more AI headcount.

[–] candybrie 1 points 1 month ago

No. The outcome is Trump is president.

[–] candybrie 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe because your brain wanted 5+3+2=10 instead of 5+4+2=11 ?

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