Yeah that’s how capitalism works. Innovation driven by greed ultimately advances everyone.

This is how I felt when at the hospital during a years long battle with addiction. The hospital was my safe space.

I’ve been a pro software engineer for 30 years.

Colleges are doing a horrible job at relevant skill sets for sure. But also, much of the time what I’m seeking is passion for the field. In today’s world, kids with passion learn everything themselves in their teens and go directly to the workforce because they’d learn nothing at college. College became a place to go if you can’t figure it out yourself, which also means you lack the passion, hence you’re really not a great hire for a small company.

I currently never hire college grads anymore unless they’re older.

Things are different at enterprises. They need so many people that the passion requirement is dropped and you end up with tech leads who are passionate leading armies of worker bees who need constant oversight. This also works but has its own inefficiencies far outside the scope of this comment lol.

That’s how I see the state of the industry. People need to follow passion, not money. Unfortunately the incentives are misaligned by society in general. Not sure how to fix the value problem. For instance, teachers and childcare should be far more expensive and as such pay more. It’s a super heavy regulated sector tho, which is part of the problem.

But I digress. College for a general software engineering job is a complete waste.

That’s what they want. Smaller fed, more state level.

talked about what’s really happening

If you ask me about my country the information and opinion you get will be very different from asking someone else. It doesn’t reveal a truth.

Wtf is the attitude? They asked legit questions…

Ignore him. He’s just mad and tired because his new bed burned him all last night.

It’s gotta be more than just an outage that did this. Like seriously, your internet goes out and your bed breaks? Why didn’t we hear anything about this before? Certainly these people have had home internet go out?!

I’m just imagining it’s a bug of sorts where the bed can access some things but not some other resource specifically not needs so it got caught in an unexpected condition.

I don’t know about full on prepper, but diversifying into physical metal, crypto, real estate, stocks, bonds/treasuries etc is undoubtedly wise.

How so?

Crypto currencies are a good example.

Meanwhile I live in decentralized finance world where I see it absolutely changing the finance world.

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Background music in any environment.

The next guy should ask AI tho. Y’all bickering made me curious so I asked AI. Grok used this page as one of its sources, and summarized it. lol

Any State will call an uprising “terrorism”. But it crosses a line and becomes “Resistance” at some point and as public opinion sways, it results in toppled governments.

Being an hour or more from police isn’t that unusual in the western United States. There’s a lot of land and not everyone lives in cities.

Yes it’s more likely that I kill myself than stop and intruder or a bear - but that’s my problem, not yours imo (and yes I realize this libertarian view isn’t shared by everyone).

More than half the people in my region are carrying guns. Yet I’ve never seen one used in public, and rarely see one at all. It’s very low crime here.

Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.

Right on!

The decline started in 1971. See https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/. This is when they took our money by ending the Bretton Woods system. Ever since then they’ve just been levering the dollar - the biggest ponzi ever.

2001 was indeed the next sharp change. Govt surveillance and overreach became more normal. And shortly after technology spread and enabled mass surveillance and control.

But ultimately it’ll be that 1971 decision, taking us off the dollar, that is the downfall. US dollar is declining so rapidly it’s crazy. They like to talk about how good he economy is by showing charts of stocks going up, but a lot of that, especially recently, is the dollar going down. Price the s&p against gold, you’ll see precisely when the artificial pump started, and where we are in that cycle.

The world is currently levered heavily on the faith in the USA not defaulting. Which can only happen at this point via higher and higher inflation.

The next revolution needs to bring Freedom of Money to the world. As much as we love to hate on decentralized financial systems (aka crypto), it’s actually the tool this revolution needs.

some guy with a gun wont win against a state ever

No, but an armed populace does win against a state. Decentralized armed resistance.

On top of that, how do I defend my home and property against intruders without a gun? Seems crazy to even suggest tbh. I’m hours from police access, longer/impossible in winter weather. I need to be able to defend my family…

Pretty sure this guy was in charge. Feels like simple incompetence and bad luck.

Fair enough. I’ve removed you from my call list

It’s been 2 years on Lemmy for me. I was on Reddit for 12 years prior.

I never looked back. I didn’t have a hard time at all really. Comment sections are so nice here usually. I only spend maybe 30 mins on here daily and never run out of content. But I’m a reader. I read articles and comments fully so I only get through a dozen posts or so.

What are you having a hard time with?