Travel to Beijing, open up Google search, and see if it gives you any historically accurate results about what happened there.

I’m serious, it sounds like you could use a lesson in freedom and the world outside your country.

Did the US government tell Google to censor Tiannamen Square, or are they a global company that has to observe more than the whims of a single country?

I hope other countries start renaming the US soon.

Why didn’t they change it only in the US and not elsewhere? Could you imagine the uproar if Google censored Tiananmen Square world wide because of the Chinese government?

PS: Yes it was modified for everyone outside the US too. I am not American but your “president” is now allowed to change what name I have to call something?

I’ve had problems with just regular package upgrades. Also to be fair, Windows does have service packs which can add significant new OS features without updating to a whole other version, so it’s not like Windows XP/Vista/7/10/11 stay the exact same from when you install them.

Plus the irony is that a lot of the features in this meme have to do with Wayland, and I can’t find many LTS releases that even use it? It’ll take years before these features are included in releases that aren’t bleeding edge and will still require a whole OS reinstall to actually get them.

Must have had bad luck! I mean I’ve fixed many a Windows computer in my time so I know it’s not perfect, but I guess my expertise helps me avoid a lot of the pitfalls of Windows by not loading up all kinds of dodgy software.

Linux though will break when you do everything right, and that’s what gets me every time.

I mean I’ve worked IT for decades so I know how to do this stuff, but I also don’t want to do it after 8 hours of being paid to do it at work and all I want is to pull up a game to play on my free time without any more effort.

Linux is only free if your time is free. I also would never recommend Linux to anyone who isn’t an IT professional. 🤷

I’ve had Windows installations that chugged along for 10 years with only regular software updates. It does get slow and bloated over time, but it keeps working without any maintenance or fixing.

Meanwhile I can’t find a Linux distribution that doesn’t self-destruct in about 6 months of regular desktop use. Every time some software update corrupts GRUB, breaks X/Wayland, or something else that unexpectedly makes my computer unusable and requires me to spend hours fixing it or in some cases giving up and installing a different distro.

Let me know when a desktop Linux distro is as reliable as my 10 year old Windows install please.

I wonder how many of the Reddit comments were from inauthentic sock puppets. I’d guess that subreddit was also used by influence peddlers to train and test their own human disinformation agents too.

I guarantee Anthropic is still using AI to go through all the applications, and is likely using them to train specialized models which AI generated text would subtly poison or collapse.

Just run your LLM slop through an obfuscator or reword a few things here and there and voila, more chum for the slop bucket! 👍

He’s going to slap 100% tariffs on all network packets passing in and out of China! That will fix everything including the price of eggs!

I very much see what is happening in the US as the groundwork for them becoming an authoritarian state just like China and Russia. They still have “capitalism” and “democracy” too!

My only hope is that the people of the US realize what is happening before it’s too late, and that the rest of the world can hold out in the mean time.

Only the banks know their exact reasons for trying to sell off these loans and they will most certainly not say because they don’t want to scare off potential buyers. It could be that the banks need money right now and don’t want to wait for the borrower to repay the loan, or it could be that the banks are having doubts about the borrower’s ability to pay back the loan at all.

Whatever their reasons, the banks are currently willing to take a flat 5-10% loss in addition to the ongoing interest in order to get their cash back immediately and offload the risk to someone else.

Late stage capitalism has now created mega corporations that no longer profit off their innovation and quality, but merely off manipulation and exploitation of their mind-boggling amounts of capital. They now must crush all competition using authoritarian means because competition is now their biggest weakness.

Capitalism is well and truely dead, and corporations and conservatives are the ones who killed it. They want to remove the ladder of success that got them there.

I’m wondering how much of TikTok is actually authentic. Like when a video gets hundreds of views and likes, is TikTok padding those numbers to make users feel like they are “viral” just to stay on the platform? Even if TikTok isn’t directly doing it, how many are from bot farms just trying to “look normal” by having their sock puppets engage with “normal” videos before using them to push their desired narratives?

Maybe I should start a social network with a mysterious black box algorithm that is really just a random number generator that only goes up. 🤔

I like how they don’t label the y-axis at all to give any sense of scale. This graph could be showing a jump from 10 to 22 people. 🤷

AI makes the perfect scapegoat though! You can “fire” an AI model and “hire” a new one almost instantly.

“Oh that quarterly loss was due to bad call made by ChatGPT, but don’t worry we switched to Claude now!”

User: “Can we get Google?”

Microsoft: “But we already have Google at home!”

The Google at home: [reskinned Bing page]

I mean to be fair, it’s a struggle between terms like “expert” or “senior” being too ambiguous and a time interval of experience being a poor indicator of actual proficiency. The corporate world doesn’t care though and ties the two together as a general rule because middle management isn’t smart enough to tell the difference. Thus, it boils down to “we’re hiring a senior level, it takes X years to reach that at our company, thus we expect someone to have that many years of experience at any other company doing a job similar to what we do”. Some HR peon then words it like “you need X years of experience using [exact technologies we expect applicant to use]”.

To tie this back to the OP: Most (?) people understand this is what is happening in basically all job postings where they list years of required experience to match their expected proficiency (i.e. I’m as good as someone who has been doing this for X years), but there are people who interpret this literally and think that if they have X-0.1 years of experience in that exact thing that they will be automatically rejected because it said X is required and they do not have X.

Yeah, don’t ask me my opinion of HR. Biggest boot lickers in the entire universe, change my mind.

As someone who has applied to a lot of jobs, I wish more job posters thought like you. It would take me 1 minute to find you a job posting for an IT position where they ask for a minimum number of years using a technology that hasn’t even existed for that many years.

I think this happens because some manager says “we want an expert in this technology” but then the job poster slaps some arbitrary number on that like “oh 5-10 years should be enough for an expert” with no awareness that it’s a brand new technology.