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Comment Re:Why work for Amazon? (Score 1) 78

The pay is fantastic, and as most of the Amazon employees working in an office are AWS employees working in "Sales", it's great for people who can babble and bullshit but with no real skills - particularly as their sales people don't work on quota and can do a very large number of things that contribute to looking busy but accomplish nothing. Even skilled people struggle to get anything done there due to their "gotta follow the rules" formulaic "success criteria" culture. This is partially why you end up with a lot of Indians working there.

Think of the worst parts of writing reports or doing homework in school - that's working at Amazon.

Comment "Disabled" or "Disability"? (Score 0) 78

Let's not conflate things here.

It's trivial to click the "I've got a disability" box when applying for a job, and it doesn't necessarily mean you're disabled or have a disability, except per the definition of law.

Eg. things like alcoholism, prior or current, ADHD/autism, prior cancer, anxiety disorders, and/or being morbidly obese.

Also covered under the ADA, would be something like ripping a tendon or breaking a knee in a sporting activity and needing to (temporarily, albeit for more than several weeks) walk with a cane or need other special considerations.

I don't NOT have sympathy for a lot of these, but they're hardly a basis on which a person shouldn't be able to come to the office.

(That also doesn't change the fact that these RTO efforts are draconian and stupid, and 100% aren't being used for honest purposes by Amazon.)

Comment Re:Finally! (Score -1) 129

Well, I think it is only possible to make this movie now, after a decade and a half of bullshit that has been pushed onto everyone by various pro trans, pro socialist or even pro Marxist movements.

Now that Trump is running (and likely ruining) the place, it is possible to come out with anything I think and who is going after Brooks, what are they going to do, cancel him? :)))

Comment Re:Dumb laws (Score -1) 163

Nonsense, the very act of driving does not mean anything, you bought into this nonsense hook, line and sinker. Government shouldn't have any say over how we live our lives, how we drive on our streets, what apps we use, who we trade with.

The only one single, the only one maybe half reasonable thing for government to do is is protection against foreign attacks, that's it.

Comment Re:Dumb laws (Score -1) 163

You are absolutely correct. It is disgusting to see so many people supporting any government intervention in our lives and this is just more of the same. People are supposed to be these automatons the government wants them to be so that they can be fined more and more often, controlled harder and harsher for normal human behavior, which is under a continuous attack by the goons, who have power and occupy government positions.

Comment Re:If it makes you feel better (Score 1) 88

I've started leaving off the prepositions, pronouns and such from sentences, and my 'pro' writing is starting to look more like casual writing - more terse. "You've got to lean into it." becomes "Lean into it."

Or I'll just resort to what an idiotic feminist college English lit prof used to call "antiquated 19th century writing style": writing long, syntactically complex but linguistically communicative sentences which convey a complex yet nuanced thought, something AI will absently and superfluously munge.

Often these are interspersed.

Comment Re:Yes, but no.. (Score 2) 116

In the long run, we'll lose out on more people being able to do the "hard" things. Sort of like when schools start hiring on non-excellence criteria, you end up with students who can't do the coursework and the field suffers as a result. That's what's happening here.

In 5, 10 years when people are like "we fucked up, quick, hire good developers again" - or good voice actors, or good whatever - there won't be anyone in line to take those jobs. They'll have moved on - either finding different things to pay their way, and are no longer looking, or they'll have fully checked out. Either way, they won't be looking for the jobs. You'll probably have a mess of H1B types take their role instead.

It's going to be a huge mess.

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