That’s one thing that’s more profoundly frustrating about the whole mess, these giant carnivorous whales have already taken into account that not every meal they digest is going to be profitable, they make enough money from the ones that do turn a profit that they can write off the destruction of entire, functioning companies for no goddamn reason as “the cost of doing business.”

This is not sustainable.

What you’re describing is just the most pessimistic view towards work broadly, it’s going to feel like that no matter what your hiring process looks like.

It’s more accurate to say that if a company makes you go through extended steps and strings you along, it’s more likely they’re flexing for private equity and have no intention of staying in business.

I did hiring, I needed help, and I did multi-step interviews because I really don’t want to waste time with people who don’t want to work. When your job is managing others, you will be the bad guy to everyone who hates working, and you need to weed those people out before they cost you and other people on the team just trying to get through the day.

That said, 7 steps is absurd, but it’s totally reasonable to expect an interview with your direct manager and one or two more with your direct manager’s boss and/or HR.

Also, group-interviews don’t mean they’re treating you like a performer, that’s again the anti-work pessimism, but it is ridiculous if more than three people are interviewing you in a single meeting, depending on what the work entails.

I’ve been through this a couple times already, when your company is “hiring” and flexes “record profits” but you also see mid-level managers start to disappear and no new people actually start working, you need to understand that it’s the first signs of your whole company is about to get digested by private equity.

It’s the dream of every CEO with a moderately successful company to get the interest of some giant whale of a company who specializes in digesting smaller companies and skimming off just the profitable assets, be it technology or talent or existing clientele. The buyout is usually in the millions, and the private equity company will chew up the remaining employees and company structure like one of those industrial grinders they make youtube channels to watch shred engine blocks and the like.

To get the dark gaze of Sauron to fix upon your company, you have to inflate its value and potential, and that starts with working your numbers to show profit rising and show your need to expand by hiring more people, by creating listings and even whole hiring departments, but not actually do any hiring.

When you come out the other side unemployed, you will then have to wade through about 50% ghost listings from companies who are also trying to do this same thing and won’t return your call or they will make you jump through hoops so they can say they have “new talent in the running” for new openings.

You played your hand here fukkin troll. I won’t waste another glance and will never see a reply by you. Go scream into the void for attention.

So your take is about fucking VIDEO cards? Do you understand that the price increases of PC hardware is tied directly the AI industry and crypto, which Trump and his admin have gone all-in on deregulating and endorsing for investment?

Please, I beg of you to learn even the most BASIC facts about your world outside of your gaming rig before making political decisions. You know well it has nothing to do with money either, you just hate feminists or some stupid social shit that you can’t wrap your feelings around so you want to make everyone mad by electing some moron to lead you around by the nose. It’s pathetic, be better.

You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. You are believing media instead of looking into where your wages are going and getting involved. That or you have massive sexual insecurity and for some reason you want to submit to a wrinkled, 80-year-old millionaire and have invented a very weird narrative for why that gets you so hot.

the trick is getting all those people moving in the right direction.

Turns out only a handful of things in all of history have pushed people out of social boundaries and into a realm of discomfort and possible consequence:

1. Fear and hate. Always number one here, if you get enough people scared together, they can be driven anywhere. Most people don’t think, they feel. Feelings drive the motions and actions.

2. A greater discomfort than breaking social norms and potentially going to jail- IE: starvation, homelessness, genocide, etc.

3. Extremely charismatic people who capture enough political capital that they’re given the opportunity to gather large numbers of people for a cause. These are usually politicians who are well trained in how to influence people, and typically use item #1 to enforce their goals.

Right now we don’t have any of these things. We also don’t have political capital or organized power such as uniting behind nationalism or guns to demonstrate our ability to actually disrupt the system. This makes us a target by the state, and the state protects capital right here, right now.

We can still fix this through political action and organization, and if we do, we can actually create systems that protect the world from more lich-kings rising up and swallowing all of our work and money. It just takes more social involvement than we’re doing now… and since just that seems too much for most progressive-minded people, I don’t have a lot of hope that we’re going to do any of the other, more forceful things that require a LOT more cohesion.

Reality sucks. I know. But we can influence it.

It’s wild because in China they would have done exactly that. Well, they tend to be more efficient with corporate criminals than charter a whole damn boat. A brick wall and a revolver is the normal way enemies of the people meet their end. (When they haven’t cut the leadership in enough at least in some cases.)

People who expect immediate rewards are children. It’s no wonder people who are so prone to take advantage of children also find success in promising all sorts of toys and candy for the immature masses.

Seriously, there is connection here, this is why pedo-con theory is a real thing… the more someone is prone to manipulate others, the more likely seem to be to be to use those same manipulation tools on children, or have learned the skill from manipulating actual children.

I think if people understood the fukkin scale of things they wouldn’t be this blaise about Trump ruining our world.

Even if some magical Socialism Champion fell from the sky and was nurtured by climate activists to take the seat of power and people universally loved them, it would take decades at this point to fix half the shit that Trump’s goons broke.

Everyone knows Trump could die tomorrow and bets are favoring he won’t live through the next year. There will be celebrating in the streets and the GOP broadly will fall to pieces as everyone tries to grasp onto the fleeting traces of power left behind, and it will seem great… as we elect some neo-lib like Gavin Newsom in 2028 who will promptly resume our status-quo descent into corporate oligarchy and preserving the assets and interests of capital. About 30% of his executive orders will per performatively repealed and we will keep the blockade around Venezuela and and ICE will still be on the streets. Because all of this is good for the bottom line.

and it will soon guard year-round Artic sea lanes. With enough warming it may become attractive for farming and living space.

Sure Greenland is going to be prime real estate due to climate change, but people like Miller are going to be long dead by then. And I don’t think this crew in charge of the white house are so altruistic and concerned for the future of America that they want to secure resources for a century or two down the road.

Besides, we have much bigger concerns if Greenland melts than if we have land to settle.

It’s far more likely some kind of Russia-connected plot for strategic positioning.

Total BS.

His arms aren’t possibly strong enough to strangle a baby.

That’s a terrible comeback.

Yah, you sound so balanced and happy bro. I wish I was as satisfied with life as you. 🙄

I’m very glad to hear that you’re taking the right steps to working something out with your partner.

I guess if I were to pass on any measure of aged wisdom on the issue, it would be that having an emotional/reactionary state of mind is not entirely bad. If you’re a logical thinker who defaults to reason first before reacting to an emotion, that will serve you well in life making decisions and figuring out problems, but it’s not necessarily “better” than being someone emotional.

Just like an emotional/reactionary person needs to learn that their system isn’t the only valid way to deal with the world, a logical minded person isn’t necessarily having a “better” experience in life. We are all deeply emotional creatures and trying to squash that can be just as damaging as letting our feelings run away with us and falling down some conspiracy hole. A feeling person has more potential for healthier emotions and emotional intelligence than someone who just sticks to systems and “policy” about life.

Making this concession is key to reaching out and bridging that gap. We all have things to work on in ourselves, the key to good relationships is deciding together, as a team, what traits or values you’re going to share and what you need to work on improving, and acceptance that you’re never going to “get there” and be the best version of yourself, you can only keep trying for someone who you decide is worth it, and hopefully that person will share that same perspective.

You’re not a victim, there is no truth other than what you make for yourself and your life.

Your negative feelings, outlook and ruminations are all your own and only your own. Actually growing up and being a man means accepting that you can shape your life any way you want and the reason you’re unhappy is because you’re holding onto it for some reason, usually because you desperately want someone to recognize how unhappy you are.

Nobody is coming man. You gotta do this on your own. You’re never going to get the recognition and compassion you wish you had, at least not from other miserable people on the internet who also are just desperately seeking validation for their sadness.

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I’m sorry your youth was tough on you and that you accidentally discovered the internet just amplifies whatever you’re feeling until it takes away your happiness and hope entirely.

I promise if you get better at talking to people and listening broadly, you will have better experiences in the future and you will feel very, very silly that you ever held these thoughts, much less shared them with the world. Trust me, your future doesn’t have to be alone and angry.

The alternative is not good. You only get once chance at all this, don’t ruin it by letting the thoughts, words and rantings of other angry people take away your free will.

Healthy relationships are about sharing all the odd things going in your head with someone receptive to and interested in those odd things.

This is called knowing somebody and it really feels like it’s an utterly lost concept now. It’s no wonder people are abandoning relationships right now, people never talk about the rewards, only made-up problems and conflicts get circulated.

Oh the ISS is definitely bigger than anything ever sent to space, as I would expect from an international project that was built by a coalition of countries in better days, but it doesn’t really compare to China’s long-term goals and plans that have been on schedule. China is absolutely dominating space right now and will be into the future unless the US just suddenly gets it shit together and elects people who care about science and exploration, and even then it will take many years or decades now to undo the damage that trumpism has done to the US’s global leadership in space science.

The ISS is going to be deorbited in 2031, and I am not expecting a bigger, newer project to replace it. At this point I am not expecting to have access to health care broadly in 2031 in the US.