How the tables turn, doesn’t feel so good having other people wish YOU a good day does it liberal??
(jk happy b-day)

fucking horrible but thank you for asking anyways

I know that China’s new plan around AI involves mandatory labeling of synthetic content. It certainly should be bog-standard policy but we all know what policy in capitalist societies is all about 🤑 🤑🤑

Yeah I was wondering if I had mixed up my crazy Roman oligarch deaths lol my bad.
Glad Cicero got was was coming.
Pompey is the one who got unceremoniously beheaded on the Nile cuz Ptolemy was told Caesar would be into it. He was not into it.

FUCK Cicero. And especially fuck Pompey “teh great”. Just another Job Creator who wasted his life fucking over the proletariat and hoarding gold and enslaved people. Hmm I wonder why it is that subsequent Enlightenment thinkers idolized him? 🤔
The molten gold thing is unfortunately likely just a legend but it’s what he deserved.

Assassination of Julius Caesar fucking rules, everybody should check it out.

Not only does it deconstruct older, bourgeois historiographies about Rome and explain why it is that Rome is mythologized the way it is in the west, it uses ancient Rome as a model to understand how the interests of oligarchs converge with those of the (oligarch-run) state. Comparing the US with Rome is cliche at this point but Parenti uses historical materialism to make it actually useful. Once you read it you’ll understand why reformism is a dead end; Caesar was a dyed-in-the-wool imperialist oligarch who understood that the contradictions in Roman society needed to be eased by some minor wealth redistribution and even that was so repulsive to his colleagues that they personally killed him with their own hands. What chance do AOCIA or Bernie or whomever the radlib flavour of the month stand?

I’d say finish since you’ve gotten this far (unless there’s some kind of cataclysmic shift very soon) but certainly have a backup plan. Always have a backup plan. As you will learn in IT; one is none and two is one.

But idk I’m a recent infosec grad and every single employer wants you to have all sorts of certs that aren’t included in your actual curriculum. Nobody cares if you have CISSP or Networking+ equivalent knowledge, for example, even if that was literally what you studied and got A’s in in school. They want the real deal which costs like 1000 USD. And that’s to attempt the CISSP alone. That’s a very strong cert but even that is not quite enough alone based on the postings I’m reading. Makes my head spin thinking about how many calls for interviews I was getting unprovoked back in 2018.

So yeah, be prepared for employers seeking unicorn candidates with at least 2+ years of experience in whatever job you’re looking at, ghost jobs (Sophos is horrible for this), and I hope you can drive because tons of them want to shuttle you between job sites because it’s just cheaper to pay for gas. I can’t and it’s cost me dearly. Make sure you have a good workflow for creating custom resumes from a template too because you’re gonna be sending a LOT of them.

That’s just my experience. Good luck out there. /gen

sounds bleak.

Well that’s terrible news. Thank you for your input anyways.

Anybody here weld? I’m thinking of bailing on IT and learning a trade after like 10 years and a post-grad later, whole industry is screwed short-term and long. I’ve done manual labour basically forever even during IT jobs and it seems like a cool trade where you have to think but also get to work with tools.

I feel you. It’s sad that they don’t understand that when they reflexively bring up the other party (or parties) they’re Falling For It.
Like… we are so past partisan politics and electoral solutions lol. Even in Canada I have to hear this donkey shit about the alternate universe where the conservatives won and how it’d be worse when I’m being fucked over by the banker factions NOW, in this timeline.
“Sure they’re promising to gut everything and build new pipelines and give handouts to Bay street and turn their bureaucrats into soliders (HUGE LOL btw) but PP would’ve licherally made Handmaid’s Tale real!1!”

ohh ok im a fool lol
thanks!

ok I’ve finally swallowed my pride and decided to just ask here: how do you create line breaks on Lemmy?? I feel like I’ve tried everything

Comrade Chen claims his thousandth scalp

this commentslop was written by AI, I’m not reading it

You could just read the post and then argue against it’s points using your own arguments backed up by facts. If it’s bullshit then it should be easy to refute.

I don’t think it does, that’s why I asked you.

why does it matter? Also OP is here, in the comments, interacting with people. So I guess it’s achieved sentience.

…is it really so hard to believe that somebody who made a long post would put the effort into making links and paragraphing properly? It isn’t rational to just assume that every AI opinion you disagree with is made by AI. It’s just bad faith skepticism.

edit: downvote away lol going “iS tHIs AI!?!? 😂😂😂😂😂” on every single post that’s genuinely just trying to talk about AI rationally doesn’t get any funnier the more you do it.

not saying you or anybody else here is doing it, but seeing even the self-identified “leftist” yankees scream blue murder over this is so funny lol. The people who live there have been destroying ancient cultural heritage sites longer than any of us here have been alive but sure, let’s weep blood over a ballroom that’s not even 100 years old getting bulldozed to build another, fancier ballroom.