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Iran is heading down instability no matter what.

>not a request for hobby suggestions

Of course it's not. Why look at anything positive or actually do something when you can instead engage in the tired tropes like looking at the past with rose tinted glasses as a way of comforting yourself.

You can still go out there and do things like join a running club. People are still going to arcades in Japan.

Comments like these are kind of ironic.

Well it didn't take long for Trump to announce he now runs Venezuela to plant US companies to export oil to the US. Once you understand American foreign policy it is just predictable.

Or have a military takeover or manufacture a crisis. At the very least they will claim election fraud and we saw what happened in Trump 1.0. There are definitely many ways MAGA will (likely) remain in power. Fascists don't give up power without a fight.

Venezuela has been linked to the fentanyl crisis. "The Trump administration has described strikes on vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific as attacks against terrorists attempting to bring fentanyl and cocaine to the US.

However, fentanyl is produced mainly in Mexico and reaches the US almost exclusively via land through its southern border."

Instead they just plant people into the government and pretend it is still a sovereign nation.

You are still young so you don't seem to get it yet but history has shown that killing or capturing the leader of a country with outside actors rarely leads to anything good. It usually just leads to more instability.

Pop-culture shows you that if you get rid off Mojo Jojo you suddenly get rainbows and flowers but reality doesn't work that way very often and it is just propaganda.

If you want to "own" Nvidia, the much more realistic way of doing this then trying to compete with all the data centers that are already being built with Nvidia chips is obviously with open source models. In the case of open source models, inference is much more important to most people not training which a maxed out macbook already does a good job of.

At the end of the day the job market will correct itself accordingly which is what most people who bother going to university or collecting any certificate care about. And right now it is already looking bleak. https://accountancyage.com/2025/09/29/pwcs-graduate-glow-up-...

Might be time we start adapting the pipeline into employment and start revising the importance of some of these gatekeepers before more people fall into unnecessary debt.

"We are doing what we can to hang on to relevancy as gatekeepers who already held way too much authority over a field". They are going to use AI on the job anyway.

This also applies to universities. The world has changed but they have not and they will make sure to try and stay relevant as much as they can to continue to take money.

Edit: looks like it will take a while for some people to accept that we are not going back from this. The cat is out of the bag and your certificates are increasingly irrelevant. Sorry if you spent a lot of money and time to get it.

You can now post a link of a website into an LLM and turn it into an interactive resource. I did this but with a 1000 page PDF today to help me learn more about game engines. Best way to do it if you don't want it to become another PDF / bookmark that is forgotten.

Salesforce... A company worth so much and able to layoff almost half its employees but does what...? Agentforce doesn't seem to be anything but another GPT wrapper with a lot more buzzwords and now they are already backtracking?

Reality is that no one involved in AI development cares about you. All investment is going to keep getting pumped towards data centers and scaling this up. Jensen Huang, Trump, Satya Nadella, they are all going to get even more insanely rich and they couldn't care less how it will affect you. The only thing you can do is join the club and invest in stocks which Trump is also gaming in his favour.

Most people definitely do not understand those things beyond price up or more brown/black people. But they are easier to create narratives around that provoke an emotional response.

In the UK any topics in regards to politics that are widely spoken about in public is to do with immigration / inflation / housing crisis. Because of these other issues this is happening under the radar and no political party cares.

Should we not believe that the much of the world is run by essentially the same club of people despite having separate democracies?

This is literally by the country that suffered the most from it.

Irish unity will never happen. Not even sure where that came from.

People can make random accounts named after Shrek making weird claims that immediately gets upvoted. The mass astroturfing you see everywhere on the internet now has made it shit.

Have you spoke to people in the UK? It is a country of complainers but people who can't really 'be asked' to do anything.

lol, Farage has already backtracked on tax cuts and his stance on deportations. He is a wet noodle and an opportunist.

I got feedback from FAANG+ once after multiple rounds with director / manager etc.

I just got told I didn't seem "motivated" enough despite spending several rounds / days / hours interviewing and bunch of leetcode questions. Not even that I wasn't skilled or good enough or didn't pass the questions. Pretty sure the last guy just didn't like me for whatever reason.

This is obviously trained on Pro 3 outputs for benchmaxxing.

The reality is that most of these courses exist for the certificate not the course material. People still job hunting for entry level roles just want to pad out their LinkedIn.

They don't do anything. It is like the app store but for courses.

Just to be clear not everywhere that's facing rising unemployment or requiring an influx of foreigners that citizens don't want to do is America and not everyone doing those jobs were part-time. But it is true, they do have a huge part-time work force.

Both the economy and culture play a role in the types of jobs people aim for. Tech used to be for "nerds" now it is "cool" because they watched The Social Network and Bill Gates told them they are smart enough to be part of the club.

Maybe rather than telling everyone to "learn to code" we could have told them to do jobs they are more suited to doing: serving food, nursing, construction etc. all which have tangible benefits to society.

When I went to Japan, it felt like all kinds of people were doing all kinds of jobs many hours into the day, whether it is managing an arcade, selling tickets at the station, working at a konbini or whatever small job. Maybe we need to not give such lofty ideas to the new generation and represent blue collar jobs as "foreigner" or "failure" jobs.