rambaroo

Are you actually in the market right now or just making stuff up? You use a lot of qualifying language in this post that makes it sound like you're just reassuring yourself. It comes off as condescension.

There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed devs right now, plus all the scrub gold chasers trying to break into the industry. And not everyone has connections that can get them a job. Networking is still a numbers game, it isn't magic.

Most of these execs actually believed that covid demand would become permanent. What they did was incredibly stupid and irresponsible, and now workers are paying for it

Most of these people are total followers. They just do whatever Google does because thats what dipshit investors want. There was no reason for my company to overhire to the degree it did, we were already able to meet demand.. hiring people doesn't magically increase your capacity to service more users. So fucking stupid. If I can help it I'll never work for an idiotic public company again.

It's the worst market since 2008. I don't know why people feel the need to minimize it. It's certainly more than a footnote.

You don't know what you're talking about. I personally know multiple devs who were laid off from my company. These companies don't give a shit about your skills anymore, they're purely looking at how much money you cost them.

I don't think the money is magically just going to come back this time. I doubt that interest rates will ever drop to the levels they were at before the pandemic.

I fully expect this lull to last at least a few more years, and I doubt the industry will ever recover to pre-pandemic levels. History rhymes, it doesn't repeat, and two very different situations from the past are not necessarily indicative of the future. Plus even if it does recover, you still have to get noticed with 1000 scrubs applying to every job they see. Or pray that your network lands you something, if you're lucky.

I've never met a dev in a union. What companies have a union?

Same. It's understandable, yet at the same time horrible when you look at it from Tuvix's perspective. You make a good point about the survival aspect though. From that perspective it is logical.

I really wish Voyager had spent more time on the survival theme throughout the show, kind of like BSG did. Trying to survive in a remote part of the galaxy should've had a much bigger impact on the characters than it did.

Nope, first sentence is such a blatant fucking copout. No one outside of Israel restricts genocide to a "decreasing population". It's the intent to destroy and steal land that matters

Zero acknowledgement of Israel's decade long blockade of Gaza, it's always someone else's fault

It's Republicans blocking aid for Ukraine you massive idiot.

The way I see it, Tuvok and Neelix died in an accident, and a separate life emerged from it. The crew just couldn't accept their deaths so they killed Tuvix to get them back.

I don't see it as a logical decision but an emotional one. How Tuvix came to exist doesn't matter, he was still a person, and they basically murdered him to get their friends back. He wouldn't be the first living thing that wasn't "meant" to exist.

Either way it's a very difficult moral question and probably the best episode in Voyager as far as emotional impact.

Conservatives don't care that she's blowing gas on planes. They think she's somehow manipulating the election

They've murdered 30,000 fucking people already. That's more civilians than Russia killed in two years. Israel couldn't get away with a firebombing like Dresden. I hate these stupid excuses. Israel is too reliant on foreign aid to be that blatant.