I was originally imagining North Korea as being a basic job recruiter that could actually get you into interviews for a real job, but just black market because doing anything with North Korea is illegal.

But the other way they would just be normal contractors (still black market or course), which is the way most big companies are going anyway.

Of course, I really just want to know how they keep getting hired for jobs when I can’t even get a response or an interview.

You mean the Rambo/Dirty Harry worshiping generation? The generation of gun welding loaners who could take on the world all by themselves? The ones that pulled themselves up by their boot straps without help from anyone?
Because I have no clue who you are talking about.

I would totally agree with you if it was 10 years ago. But we have already had a Trump administration that failed miserably, killed millions of people, and had record low approval ratings.
I go out of my way to avoid Fox News and it’s ilk, but I still have to deal with it. There’s no way for these people to have spent the last 10 years without being exposed to differing opinions and facts that expose at least some of the lies. The people who still “believe” in Trump do it willfully. They don’t want to be wrong, so they purposely ignore those things that they don’t want to know. They want something that Trump provides so badly that they are lying to themselves. This is also why they are so vocal about their insanity. They have to keep yelling it at the top of their lungs to drown out the little voices in the back of their heads. The problem is Trump only has one thing to offer and that’s hate.

There’s the real black market niche I’d be willing to buy into.
“Pssst, hey buddy, I got this high paying job with good health plans, lots of vacation, and 100% remote… The only downside is that…”. “I GIVE NO FUCKS! JUST TELL ME WHO I HAVE TO KILL!”. “Woah there bud, we just need you to send some cash to North Korea and give us 5 stars on…”
“I WILL KILL ANYONE WHO GIVES YOU LESS THAN ALL OF THE STARS!”

I think we all know that most of the Right’s anger is due to repression. I think this AI needs to start confessing to the deep and sordid things that make him so angry. Confessing his deep and all consuming desire for pediatric necrophilia should really unburden his soul.

That is true.

For those of us who are old enough to remember peak Google, it is understandable.
They revolutionized and opened up so many things that were grossly monopolized before they got involved. Android broke the telecoms insane grip on cell phone designs and features. Several people have already mentioned how Google fiber changed things in local connectivity, but Google dramatically changed global connectivity way before Google fiber. There used to be only a few international (under sea) connections, and not only was it slow and congested, but entire continents could just drop off the internet for weeks or even months at a time. They broke MS Office’s death grip on basic productivity tools. There was a time where private individuals, even grade school students were required to buy an entire professional productivity (Office) in order to deliver basic school work like writing essays. I can think of almost a dozen ways right off the top of my head that they revolutionized the world and really did take the “Do no evil” slogan to heart.
But, as with every company that “goes public”, they slowly changed from "Do no evil’ to “Do know evil” and now they are exactly the soul and life destroying parasites that they used to free us from.

It will take at least a year for full on enshitifcation to ramp up, so you could always just switch once it goes to shit.

“ran a survey”, this was the only clue I needed to realize that they never planned to do it in the first place. Surveys are so easy to manipulate that if someone tells you they made a decision based on a survey, that you can immediately assume that what they are really saying is that they made a decision that they knew would be unpopular, obviously biased, or otherwise disastrous, but they wanted to blame the decision on “other people”.

And holy shit, she’s 50? That’s three miles of bad Tennesee road.

Alcohol can be rough on the body.

FYI, most newer cars have a way for you to turn off the auto lock feature. It is usually a setting in menus, but some might have you do things like close all the doors, turn the car on, and then hold the unlock button for 10 seconds.
Worst case scenario is it has to be done through the programming tool, so if you can’t figure out how to do it yourself, then the next time you have it serviced tell them to turn off the auto-locks.

If I remember correctly, when auto locks were first introduced some countries saw them as dangerous so automakers were required to provide a way to turn it off.

Maybe Uber is trying to start a new dating app. “The best way to pick up chicks is to trap them in your car.”

Spying.

Beanie babies were a thing, a real physical thing. You could hand one to a child and they could play with it for years, or you could use it as a weapon and knock one of your siblings unconscious. But it was a thing. Nfts are a digital link to something. They are not even the thing that they link to.

I am not sure if you are making a joke or trying to troll me, but either way I laughed. So thanks for that.

You clearly didn’t grow up before lithium batteries. Before lithium, batteries sucked and they sucked hard. You would spend a small fortune to buy 5 lb of batteries to put in your tape player, CD player, remote control toy, anything portable and then you would get between 5 minutes to an hour of total use time. Or, if it was you rarely used the gadget, or it was something like a remote control that were only on for incredibly short bursts as you push the button, you would leave the batteries in it until they went dead. But then you got the treat of opening it up to replace the batteries and finding that they leaked all over the inside and destroyed the device.
I have lost so many portable devices to leaking batteries that I can’t even begin calculate how much it’s cost me. Before smartphones, I had probably spent upwards of $1,000 ( in today’s money) in calculators alone. I don’t even work in some kind of math-type job or have a mathematics type degree.

I bought a set for work that comes with 2 rechargeable lithium packs and an external charger so you can just swap as needed.

My first thought was maybe this will work for us. Can you imagine how many of these ancient fuckheads who vote for shit like this are going to die every day because they can’t figure out how to log in to their pacemakers and verify their age?

So does a hammer if you hit a screw with it.

You forgot the one thing that makes this plan a lot more plausible, the pedos can’t stop themselves from trying to fuck children. And if the kids turn out to be the actual predators in this situation, too bad for the billionaires.