I bet it's the obvious ruling that presidents have sovereign immunity to actions taken in their role as president.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would know that's the case, but because it's orange man they can't wrap their heads around the fact that if it was any other way it would open every Democrat president up to getting charged for things that happened in the normal course of government business.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would know that's the case, but because it's orange man they can't wrap their heads around the fact that if it was any other way it would open every Democrat president up to getting charged for things that happened in the normal course of government business.
I was watching a react video to one of shoeonheads videos and she described this as the story behind her marriage, so I guess unironically...
If people could shut the retard part of their brains off regarding trump, they would realize just how dangerous a military coup is, even if you like what the coup was standing for. The number of senior people in the military who have proudly admitted that they committed treason against the commander-in-chief of the United States military, and the head of the civilian government is absurd, and there need to be consequences.
"Oh but Trump is evil drumphler!" It doesn't fucking matter! Maybe you agreed with the military coup this time, well what about if you don't agree with it next time? These guys need to stay in their Lane -- their job is not to second against the civilian leadership, it's do their job. If they want to apply for a job as president, they can go right ahead and they'll lose because nobody likes them.
"Oh but Trump is evil drumphler!" It doesn't fucking matter! Maybe you agreed with the military coup this time, well what about if you don't agree with it next time? These guys need to stay in their Lane -- their job is not to second against the civilian leadership, it's do their job. If they want to apply for a job as president, they can go right ahead and they'll lose because nobody likes them.
As I recall, the book of Apocalypse was written after John was being really pushed down by the Roman empire, so for his prophecy about how the Roman empire could get fucked needed to be written in code or he was gonna have a real bad time.
EGA is a really strange standard.
It uses an RGBI monitor, so it has 16 set colors. You can have a combination of R, G, and B, and that combination can be either low intensity or high intensity. It's a digital standard, so those aren't running at different levels, you get on or off for each signal line.
Meanwhile, the palette behind the scenes is 6-bit, so you have 4 levels of blue that can coexist with 4 levels of green that can coexist with 4 levels of red. While you can set all these colors, the monitor can only display the set 16 colors, so whatever scene you draw with 64 colors, you're only displaying 16 colors.
It's like being really imaginative so you can imagine these beautiful paintings, but you suck at art so it comes out pretty bad despite that.
That's a contrast with CGA, which had the exact same 4-bit color depth on the screen, but could only display 2 bit color in graphics modes, limiting graphics to 4 colors.
VGA was really the point that video games were able to become really visually amazing. You could display 256 colors, and you could also decide which 256 colors you wanted to display from a huge selection of thousands of colors. In addition, mode 13h was dead simple to put graphics on the screen for, being a direct bitmap, so it was dead simple to code.
It uses an RGBI monitor, so it has 16 set colors. You can have a combination of R, G, and B, and that combination can be either low intensity or high intensity. It's a digital standard, so those aren't running at different levels, you get on or off for each signal line.
Meanwhile, the palette behind the scenes is 6-bit, so you have 4 levels of blue that can coexist with 4 levels of green that can coexist with 4 levels of red. While you can set all these colors, the monitor can only display the set 16 colors, so whatever scene you draw with 64 colors, you're only displaying 16 colors.
It's like being really imaginative so you can imagine these beautiful paintings, but you suck at art so it comes out pretty bad despite that.
That's a contrast with CGA, which had the exact same 4-bit color depth on the screen, but could only display 2 bit color in graphics modes, limiting graphics to 4 colors.
VGA was really the point that video games were able to become really visually amazing. You could display 256 colors, and you could also decide which 256 colors you wanted to display from a huge selection of thousands of colors. In addition, mode 13h was dead simple to put graphics on the screen for, being a direct bitmap, so it was dead simple to code.
Man, you get it. And you're right, it's a complete disconnect.
I saw an image recently showing the average wage at Tesla (about 40k/yr) and the average wage at Google (about 400k/yr), and it seems to me like a good indication of the disconnect between people calling for stupid bullshit and the people who have to live with said stupid bullshit.
I saw an image recently showing the average wage at Tesla (about 40k/yr) and the average wage at Google (about 400k/yr), and it seems to me like a good indication of the disconnect between people calling for stupid bullshit and the people who have to live with said stupid bullshit.
There's a lot of people calling for a 4 day work week, saying we "deserve" it.
There's lots of jobs with a 4-day work week, 4-10s. There's also jobs with 2 weeks off a month... 14 days off, and 14-12s on. There's also shift work that's 7 and 7, 7 12-hour days on, 7 off, especially in fields like medicine where they need someone there all the time and it's easier to have 4 crews working 7 days at a time.
Essential jobs like manufacturing were among the first to do a 4-day workweek as in 4 10-hour days. While it's more stressful to the worker during the 4 workdays, it's much less stressful during the 3 day off, and statutory holidays mean that the workers get 4 days off which is nice.
For the most part, when people talk about a reduced work week, they actually mean a reduction to a 32-hour workweek and therefore 4-8 hour days, and then they'd pay everyone enough to make up for a day per week not working. Maybe we could get to a point where work weeks are really short, but what do most people actually contribute? Many spend 40 hours barely contributing to society as it is, doing relatively cushy jobs in air conditioned buildings that barely accomplish anything (for example, I believe America's largest employer is Walmart, where people take something someone in developing nations manufactured and put it on shelves so people can buy it) while people in most other parts of the world do jobs (like manufacturing the stuff sold in Walmart) that actually are physically demanding and dangerous for a fraction of the pay so we can keep having stuff delivered to our house despite having no part whatsoever is making that stuff. some asian cultures call for 9-9-6, or working from 9am to 9pm 6 days a week -- and many of the people calling for a 4 day workweek are doing so using devices manufactured by those asians.
Of course people are individually better off when they make the same money doing less work, but that doesn't mean it's better for the world in general. It's great for people who have already proven their worth and could be given a 1/5th raise anyway (at least in the short term, it's possible wages stagnate as a result), but it's also important that we are productive to the extent that we justify the additional wages, and that we aren't just making it illegal to be less productive than that. We're seeing very high youth unemployment in many developed nations for exactly this reason, that the minimum bar is set at a point where you need to be older and more experienced to meet it.
We've actually got a huge problem right now because many young men aren't able to get the stuff they need to join society. They can't get decent jobs, they can't buy houses, they can't get married, they aren't having kids, and raising the bar a little more isn't going to help at all in that regard. You're just creating a bigger underclass of have-nots and making life even easier for the haves.
There's lots of jobs with a 4-day work week, 4-10s. There's also jobs with 2 weeks off a month... 14 days off, and 14-12s on. There's also shift work that's 7 and 7, 7 12-hour days on, 7 off, especially in fields like medicine where they need someone there all the time and it's easier to have 4 crews working 7 days at a time.
Essential jobs like manufacturing were among the first to do a 4-day workweek as in 4 10-hour days. While it's more stressful to the worker during the 4 workdays, it's much less stressful during the 3 day off, and statutory holidays mean that the workers get 4 days off which is nice.
For the most part, when people talk about a reduced work week, they actually mean a reduction to a 32-hour workweek and therefore 4-8 hour days, and then they'd pay everyone enough to make up for a day per week not working. Maybe we could get to a point where work weeks are really short, but what do most people actually contribute? Many spend 40 hours barely contributing to society as it is, doing relatively cushy jobs in air conditioned buildings that barely accomplish anything (for example, I believe America's largest employer is Walmart, where people take something someone in developing nations manufactured and put it on shelves so people can buy it) while people in most other parts of the world do jobs (like manufacturing the stuff sold in Walmart) that actually are physically demanding and dangerous for a fraction of the pay so we can keep having stuff delivered to our house despite having no part whatsoever is making that stuff. some asian cultures call for 9-9-6, or working from 9am to 9pm 6 days a week -- and many of the people calling for a 4 day workweek are doing so using devices manufactured by those asians.
Of course people are individually better off when they make the same money doing less work, but that doesn't mean it's better for the world in general. It's great for people who have already proven their worth and could be given a 1/5th raise anyway (at least in the short term, it's possible wages stagnate as a result), but it's also important that we are productive to the extent that we justify the additional wages, and that we aren't just making it illegal to be less productive than that. We're seeing very high youth unemployment in many developed nations for exactly this reason, that the minimum bar is set at a point where you need to be older and more experienced to meet it.
We've actually got a huge problem right now because many young men aren't able to get the stuff they need to join society. They can't get decent jobs, they can't buy houses, they can't get married, they aren't having kids, and raising the bar a little more isn't going to help at all in that regard. You're just creating a bigger underclass of have-nots and making life even easier for the haves.
I think you'd agree we can't rely on CHINA to do all our manufacturing! They're facing a worse demographic cliff than America!
For the most part, there just aren't that many entry level openings and haven't for millennials either.
My world is the skilled trades, and every time I see an apprenticeship, there's hundreds of good young people who apply (many of whom paid to go through accredited schools, contrary to the idea of "earn while you learn"), and only one person can get the job. Not only that, but because of the way apprenticeships are structured, typically once you get in a lot of places will push you through the program whether you're actually good for it or not, so positions that could go to talented people are being held onto by people who shouldn't become skilled tradesmen in the end.
The last place I worked, an apprenticeship came up, but the place was union so a guy in his mid-50s who was a really good operator got the job, so he could work 4 years and get his ticket, then work as a journeyman for a year and retire...
But that's just one little piece. Equipment operators are often aging, as well as plant operators, and often management.
For now though, it's important to learn all kinds of skills in society.
We don't really need a bunch of people in the service sector, we need people who can actually be boots on the ground and do stuff.
We're gonna need mechanics, light duty, heavy duty, industrial, as well as tool and die makers and machinists (CNC machinists sure, but also guys who can operate tools without a computer), electricians and instrument mechanics, plumbers and fuel specialists as well as designers and engineers. We don't need certificates either, we need people with the ability to either do a thing directly or to learn how to do a thing quickly and effectively. One of the major problems I'm seeing is people like licensed professional engineers who are embarrassingly incompetent, lacking knowledge of basic principles, and unfortunately there's a number of tradespeople who have the same problem -- they managed to fill out the paperwork properly, but they can't do the work. I think people who are competent will be at a premium, but not necessarily people who just have a piece of paper saying they're competent since such papers are being devalued.
We're gonna need people who can move ground and do earthworks, because stuff will need to continue being built on the ground.
We're gonna need people who can do board level repairs to electronics since it's likely the future will have significantly less manufacturing capacity.
We're gonna need carpenters and the like who can build from materials that aren't imported from China, because it's highly likely we're going to see an era of extreme deglobalization, particularly in the case of a China/Taiwan war.
We're gonna need computer people, especially ones who are willing to get their hands dirty in the field. In spite of everything, Gen Z is widely regarded as being "good with computers" when it's people looking at the generation as a whole, but is considered lacking tech skills when rubber meets road in the workplace. Being able to make a great post on facebook isn't really tech literacy, it's being able to understand what to do when facebook is down.
We're gonna need effective supervisors and managers, which are super rare. Any asshole on the street can be given a title, but a good supervisor supercharges their workers so they get more done than they could on their own, and a good manager makes sure the strategic vision is set properly and priorities are being properly set and risks are being properly managed so the supervisors and workers know their work is being impactful.
Ideally, this process would have started 10 years ago at the minimum so the skills of the previous generations could be passed on before all the old greybeards die of old age, but it seems short-sighted businesses and their buddies in government first of all don't care about the problems in the local market, and second of all think there's a magical supply of competent workers in developing countries (which is sorta absurd when you think about it)
The key I'd say is to try to do stuff wherever you can. Try to do maintenance on your own vehicles as possible. Learn how to do maintenance around the house if you can. Try to learn how to do stuff as a hobby such as being a maker. You never know what skills are going to be useful, but the key is to live in the real world and to try to have your hands on the stuff that makes our world work rather than assuming someone else will do it.
As things stand, a lot of the things we used to rely on are ending. The baby boomers are dying out, Gen X and the millennials were largely locked out of a lot of things dominated by those boomers so there was no pipeline for new workers so there's only a small number of people who can actually do things who won't be dead of old age in 10 years. Globalization is likely dying out, and so parts swappers are going to be in trouble as capital equipment becomes much more expensive and stuff you could buy off the shelf becomes more difficult to come by (this already happened during COVID), people will need to figure out how to make the stuff they have work, and they'll have to figure out how to make what they need from much less refined raw materials. There will likely be an impact on the Internet through all of this if we're not careful, since the Internet is built from globalized components and relies on relatively stable global relationships, so it'll be important to have the information in your head, on local storage, or on dead trees. Having and knowing how to use basic tools to get advanced results will be a big deal, but having specific tools is also something a lot of people won't be prepared with.
My world is the skilled trades, and every time I see an apprenticeship, there's hundreds of good young people who apply (many of whom paid to go through accredited schools, contrary to the idea of "earn while you learn"), and only one person can get the job. Not only that, but because of the way apprenticeships are structured, typically once you get in a lot of places will push you through the program whether you're actually good for it or not, so positions that could go to talented people are being held onto by people who shouldn't become skilled tradesmen in the end.
The last place I worked, an apprenticeship came up, but the place was union so a guy in his mid-50s who was a really good operator got the job, so he could work 4 years and get his ticket, then work as a journeyman for a year and retire...
But that's just one little piece. Equipment operators are often aging, as well as plant operators, and often management.
For now though, it's important to learn all kinds of skills in society.
We don't really need a bunch of people in the service sector, we need people who can actually be boots on the ground and do stuff.
We're gonna need mechanics, light duty, heavy duty, industrial, as well as tool and die makers and machinists (CNC machinists sure, but also guys who can operate tools without a computer), electricians and instrument mechanics, plumbers and fuel specialists as well as designers and engineers. We don't need certificates either, we need people with the ability to either do a thing directly or to learn how to do a thing quickly and effectively. One of the major problems I'm seeing is people like licensed professional engineers who are embarrassingly incompetent, lacking knowledge of basic principles, and unfortunately there's a number of tradespeople who have the same problem -- they managed to fill out the paperwork properly, but they can't do the work. I think people who are competent will be at a premium, but not necessarily people who just have a piece of paper saying they're competent since such papers are being devalued.
We're gonna need people who can move ground and do earthworks, because stuff will need to continue being built on the ground.
We're gonna need people who can do board level repairs to electronics since it's likely the future will have significantly less manufacturing capacity.
We're gonna need carpenters and the like who can build from materials that aren't imported from China, because it's highly likely we're going to see an era of extreme deglobalization, particularly in the case of a China/Taiwan war.
We're gonna need computer people, especially ones who are willing to get their hands dirty in the field. In spite of everything, Gen Z is widely regarded as being "good with computers" when it's people looking at the generation as a whole, but is considered lacking tech skills when rubber meets road in the workplace. Being able to make a great post on facebook isn't really tech literacy, it's being able to understand what to do when facebook is down.
We're gonna need effective supervisors and managers, which are super rare. Any asshole on the street can be given a title, but a good supervisor supercharges their workers so they get more done than they could on their own, and a good manager makes sure the strategic vision is set properly and priorities are being properly set and risks are being properly managed so the supervisors and workers know their work is being impactful.
Ideally, this process would have started 10 years ago at the minimum so the skills of the previous generations could be passed on before all the old greybeards die of old age, but it seems short-sighted businesses and their buddies in government first of all don't care about the problems in the local market, and second of all think there's a magical supply of competent workers in developing countries (which is sorta absurd when you think about it)
The key I'd say is to try to do stuff wherever you can. Try to do maintenance on your own vehicles as possible. Learn how to do maintenance around the house if you can. Try to learn how to do stuff as a hobby such as being a maker. You never know what skills are going to be useful, but the key is to live in the real world and to try to have your hands on the stuff that makes our world work rather than assuming someone else will do it.
As things stand, a lot of the things we used to rely on are ending. The baby boomers are dying out, Gen X and the millennials were largely locked out of a lot of things dominated by those boomers so there was no pipeline for new workers so there's only a small number of people who can actually do things who won't be dead of old age in 10 years. Globalization is likely dying out, and so parts swappers are going to be in trouble as capital equipment becomes much more expensive and stuff you could buy off the shelf becomes more difficult to come by (this already happened during COVID), people will need to figure out how to make the stuff they have work, and they'll have to figure out how to make what they need from much less refined raw materials. There will likely be an impact on the Internet through all of this if we're not careful, since the Internet is built from globalized components and relies on relatively stable global relationships, so it'll be important to have the information in your head, on local storage, or on dead trees. Having and knowing how to use basic tools to get advanced results will be a big deal, but having specific tools is also something a lot of people won't be prepared with.
I've been thinking a lot lately about how there is a skills deficit among younger people. At least in my corner of the world, companies aren't bringing young people into their industries, they are hanging on to baby boomers who are incredibly highly skilled but they've been trying to retire for decades now, and some of them are just dying of old age.
I think that this is going to be the big thing that we need to make sure our sons are focused on. A lot of people think that you can just sit in a drum circle and sing kumbaya and somehow society is going to continue working, but at some point someone needs to be able to do something -- somebody needs to be able to fix the machine, somebody needs to be able to build the machine because otherwise the machine is going to break down and you can have all the drama circles you want and all you're going to get from it is a stone age civilization.
I think that this is going to be the big thing that we need to make sure our sons are focused on. A lot of people think that you can just sit in a drum circle and sing kumbaya and somehow society is going to continue working, but at some point someone needs to be able to do something -- somebody needs to be able to fix the machine, somebody needs to be able to build the machine because otherwise the machine is going to break down and you can have all the drama circles you want and all you're going to get from it is a stone age civilization.