Intel implemented significant layoffs in 2025 as part of a major restructuring under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, aiming to reduce its core workforce by about 25,000 (roughly 15-20%) by year-end to streamline operations and cut expenses
Then you’ve got Kalshi… paying $110-140k, then working you to the bone on Christmas Eve.
Like, you’re better off as some schmick front end developer at a midcap company than a “top tier” developer at a code mill in Silicon Valley.
Difference in pay scale between all of these people is maybe $20k, and “you” aren’t even in the low end.
Turns out just being able to show up at the office interview wearing khaki pants and making eye contact with your future boss counts for more than optimizing graph trees via psychic technomancy.
Christ, that poor Intel engineer is probably out on the unemployment line right now
Just going to reopen as “Mustache Rides” in another month, run by the same guy
This decapitation strike might mean no war for regime change necessary.
This doesn’t sound like a county who’s leaders are ready to roll over and accept American occupation
We’ve had a lot of them. I’m not sure how you could make it to 40 without enduring a particularly foul one.
I do think a lot of the 19th century presidents get a pass simply because they were nearly universally awful. Like, how do you rank Cleveland against Johnson or Tyler or Buchanan when it’s just a race to the bottom?
Nixon was an absolute monster as a human being, but he was at least reasonably competent and politically savvy. Trump’s much more in line with that earlier era of presidents - the most popular klansman or charismatic stooge of industry, but with no redeeming virtues as an actual bureaucrat.
Just remember, if you suggest this was bad, you’re a Tankie and you hate freedom
Wish that were true. But wealthy sex pests with outsized political influence are hitting record levels
I will say that this reads like a real Bush Era classico sychophant. You really get the sense his tongue is up in there. It’s cringe, but it’s not phoned in.
Lots of things don’t make sense when you’re drunk
It’s late, I’m drunk, I barely remembered to get the seat up before doing my business, and I’m used to living on my own.
Certain toilets are on the small size for my… equipment. And I periodically find my dongle touching porcelain. This also results in some backspray which is annoying to clean up.
I’ve found it easier and less messy to piss standing. But I also got a fancy bidet for my wife’s Christmas present years ago. It automates the whole task of opening and closing, does a bit of self-cleaning, and saves us a few bucks on toilet paper month-to-month. So its less of an issue.
We have a toddler in the house. We keep the lid down because it gives us a few extra seconds in case he slips past us into the restroom and wants to splash around.
Only thing you can do is crack a door and take a peak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Bill_Clinton_and_Jeffrey_Epstein
Epstein’s interactions with Clinton can be traced to the early 1990s. After donating $1,000 to Bill Clinton’s presidential election campaign in 1991, Epstein donated $10,000 to the White House Historical Association in 1993 and, accompanied by Maxwell, attended a donors’ reception hosted by President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.
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Clinton and Epstein appeared to be on friendly terms; a photo from 2002 shows them together during a stop in Brunei, and in an interview that year Clinton praised Epstein as a “highly successful financier” and “a committed philanthropist”.
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According to one of his lawyers, Epstein was “part of the original group” that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, a flagship program of Clinton’s philanthropic work. This relationship extended to Maxwell as well – she and Epstein were invited guests at events early in the Clinton Foundation era, and Maxwell was noted as the likely social “glue” connecting Epstein to Clinton’s world.
none of them should have more than a few percent in them
Tesla makes up 2.3% of the S&P 500 and 4.5% of NASDAQ. Then you have business downstream of Tesla - Luminar Technologies sells the majority of it’s LIDAR systems to Tesla, Hertz’s EV fleet is plurality Tesla, Panasonic co-owns Gigafactory 1.
I was more speaking of the lenders who enable Musk’s bullshit like buying Twitter or fucking around with our elections.
They do it so they can be first in the door for future IPOs. JP Morgan has been a close ally of Musk’s for decades. And he’s repaid them with numerous opportunities to resell their debt. The Twitter loan was a small price to pay by comparison.
there’s a far bigger gap in intelligence
You’d never know it when you listen to YouTube Atheists talk. It’s all the same reactionary clickbait bigotry we’ve come to expect from the Internet.
I mean, they want people who can do the job. And most businesses don’t need a guy who can program fantastically complex solutions in obscure languages at a breakneck pace.
They also don’t want to pay above the “going rate”, which is inevitably less than what the market actually demands.
So while programming contests are fun, they don’t do much to improve your pay scale. Much better to climb the management chain and lead programmers than excelling at the actual work. Then you get to take credit for whole teams and land an outsized bonus as a result.