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Comment Re:Song writers too (Score 1) 202

Gorillaz wasn't really fake though. It was an animated front for an actual human band. The human band even played their live shows. It was pretty inventive, and it certainly gave a lot of work to not only the musicians involved but the many animators, planners, marketers, and others who pulled the whole thing together. It wound up being much more complex than a traditional guitarx2 + bass + drums quartet.

Comment Re: Go into the trades (Score 1) 189

Datacentre expansion has been ongoing for years. Aluminum welding has been in hot demand since aluminum became the preferred material in many vehicles and engine block designs. And that's just two areas. Underwater welding pays quite well I'm told (and is pretty dangerous). There's going to need to be an expansion in the installation and maintenance of power generation facilities which may favor steamfitters and/or electricians.

Comment Re:Go into the trades (Score 1) 189

Who knows? You act as if it's a given that will happen anytime soon. Smart tradesmen will look to the market and use their leverage from years of lucrative work to expand their skillset as the market evolves.

Demand for aluminum welders has been hot for awhile and will probably stay that way. Same for underwater welders.

Comment Re:Hundreds of billions? (Score 1) 57

If US Federal spending is any indicator, not much, especially since the spending would be a one-time-only thing rather than a yearly thing.

Now it would be a good idea for Zuck to consider investing in power generation for datacentres instead of the datacentres themselves. And he'd likely make a tidy profit off such a venture.

Comment Re:Effort to thin the ranks of legal immigrants :o (Score 1) 235

It's based on the many semi-legal programs set up by the Biden administration to bring in more people without anyone else being involved in the process (see: CBP1 app, etc). If you read the summary you'll see that the workers in question entered on what was called "humanitarian parole". Asylum seekers were placed in jobs and given some other bennies to get themselves started. No real background checks were done, and there's no telling how many of those people actually showed up to work in their assigned jobs.

Comment 500k not that many people (Score 5, Informative) 235

Compared to how many people entered the country rather abruptly and without sufficient background checks (if any), 500k workers is really nothing.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.visualcapitalist.c...

Biden's numbers were nuts, and ~10 million is a conservative estimate, with some estimating that as many as 20 million people entered the country between 2021 and 2024.

Here we have another huge corporation (in this case, Amazon) complaining that their cheap, pliant labor has been taken from them. Time to raise the wages and improve work conditions if you want to staff your facilities, Amazon.

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