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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago

For the low low price of $5 a month, you too can fund the downfall of the empire! Sign up now and get this commemorative PSL Mug, a $25 value, absolutely free!

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

No bread baking! Only bread lines!

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago

The Appalachian Insurgency will be our most enduring warriors.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

a lotta yall still don't get it

xi-bux holders can use multiple Il Sung juches on a single xi-bux

so if you have 1 comrade lenin xi-bux and 3 Il Sung juches you can create 3 new xi-bux

Tonight's Il Sung juche mint event is essentially a minting event for both PLS Donors and PLA Special Forces

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

That's how you know brunch is back on the menu!

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

The People's Republic of California.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Guess we're all on the watch list.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

LOL that's great.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

Holy shit that's crazy. Finite resources abundant!? LOL.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 45 points 6 days ago

Lol great. That's fantastic.

logically follow that all conspiracies are imaginary.

Conspiracy is a legitimate concept in law: the collusion of two or more people pursuing illegal means to effect some illegal or immoral end. People go to jail for committing conspiratorial acts. Conspiracies are a matter of public record, and some are of real political significance. The Watergate break-in was a conspiracy, as was the Watergate cover-up, which led to Nixon’s downfall. Iran-contra was a conspiracy of immense scope, much of it still uncovered. The savings and loan scandal was described by the Justice Department as “a thousand conspiracies of fraud, theft, and bribery,” the greatest financial crime in history.

Often the term “conspiracy” is applied dismissively whenever one suggests that people who occupy positions of political and economic power are consciously dedicated to advancing their elite interests. Even when they openly profess their designs, there are those who deny that intent is involved. In 1994, the officers of the Federal Reserve announced they would pursue monetary policies designed to maintain a high level of unemployment in order to safeguard against “overheating” the economy. Like any creditor class, they preferred a deflationary course. When an acquaintance of mine mentioned this to friends, he was greeted skeptically, “Do you think the Fed bankers are deliberately trying to keep people unemployed?” In fact, not only did he think it, it was announced on the financial pages of the press. Still, his friends assumed he was imagining a conspiracy because he ascribed self-interested collusion to powerful people.

At a World Affairs Council meeting in San Francisco, I remarked to a participant that U.S. leaders were pushing hard for the reinstatement of capitalism in the former communist countries. He said, “Do you really think they carry it to that level of conscious intent?” I pointed out it was not a conjecture on my part. They have repeatedly announced their commitment to seeing that “free-market reforms” are introduced in Eastern Europe. Their economic aid is channeled almost exclusively into the private sector. The same policy holds for the monies intended for other countries. Thus, as of the end of 1995, “more than $4.5 million U.S. aid to Haiti has been put on hold because the Aristide government has failed to make progress on a program to privatize state-owned companies” (New York Times 11/25/95).

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.

Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah definitely a lib. Rober strikes me as a kind of pro-cop/pro-war lib too. Rober does kid videos though, and did a whole video on Anduril, framing it as a tool to "protect you from bad guys" but its primarily used on the border with Mexico.

I think all these guys do this. This video about making things in America is kind of the same thing. Maybe Jerry Rig Everything is different, but I don't watch a lot of his stuff.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

I can excuse Molder and Skully but I draw the line at Chase! Get that pup outta here!

 

cross-posted from: https://futurology.today/post/5004513

Diamond prices are down 60% since a 2011 high, and they are still falling. It's not all down to lab-grown diamonds, demand is down too, especially in China.

No one can lab-grow gold yet, so its rarity and scarcity protect its value, but that will end too. It's just a question of when. China launched an asteroid touch-down mission this week, which will make it the 4th country/region to do so, after Europe, the US & Japan.

How soon will it be feasible to mine asteroids? Who knows, but a breakthrough in space propulsion might mean the prospect happens quickly when it does. It's possible gold has twenty years or less of being high value left.

The $80 Billion Diamond Market Crash Leaves De Beers Reeling

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39995444

Earlier this month the "Create New Issue" page on GitHub got a new option. "Save time by creating issues with Copilot" (next to a link labeled "Get started.") Though the option later disappeared, they'd seemed very committed to the feature. "With Copilot, creating issues...is now faster and easier," GitHub's blog announced May 19. (And "all without sacrificing quality.")

 

I blame Reddit for this. People are applying for anything out of desperation. Reddit advice from the 2021-2022 job market was to apply for everything even if you're unqualified, just because. 1 person will make a thread saying they had 1 YOE and got hired for a 5 YOE role and then 100,000 other people who view the thread think they can do the same or have the same luck.

We post a job that explicitly calls for 5 YOE or more. 5,000 applicants in a week. 95% of applicants will be people with 0-3 YOE. 2/3 of that 95% will be people who are international or need sponsorship, even though we have in big bold letters that we do not sponsor and do not hire international.

We've come to conclusion most of these applicants are using AI tools to spam their garbage across thousands of jobs and their resumes all sound the same with the same bullshit made up metrics. If you are using an AI resume, stop. It's 2025 not February 2023. GPT resumes aren't a secret edge anymore. Every single recruiter and hiring manager can easily tell what a GPT resume looks like now. They all look, sound and 'flow' the same.

Then, a solid amount of people straight up bullshit their resume and when you interview them, they know nothing and you can tell they used AI to fluff their resume good enough to appear like they know their stuff. They just lie about everything including titles and past companies in hopes they will pass the background check.

All of this takes a ton of time away from recruiters and hiring managers, and makes us overlook actual qualified applicants due to the sheer volume. Every time you meet the qualifications for a job and get ghosted, it's almost always because your resume never even got looked at because of the sheer volume of garbage we have to sort through to even get to the qualified applicants.

 

How's the family?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30947936

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by RedWizard@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net
 

Keith Mansfield’s ‘Funky Fanfare’ was sampled by Danger Mouse (amongst others). This is the stripped down ‘small group’ version. The original was issued in 1968’s Flamboyant Themes - Volume II. This one’s from the 1969 disc Beat Incidental.

Old School Rules off of The Mouse & The Mask album samples this tune produced for the KPM Music Library. I love finding the samples used in rap and hip hop, its like discovering a list of the producers inspiration.

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