LOL, it’s a cult to point out how dumb it is/was to maintain that Donvict and Kamala are virtually the same?

I hate the title creep of adding engineering to fucking every title [*] - and it’s not all that new, but “prompt engineering” is really far up there in the hubris of calling that “engineering”. There might not be anything overseeing the other title inflation I mention below - no real certification process or governance at all, basically - but at least in most cases, these people had to really work at what they do and learn quite a lot. I bet most people can call themselves a “prompt engineer” after sitting through a few videos on Youtube or Udemy, LOL.

[*] No one is a tester any more, oh, no, they work in “quality engineering”. Not even the title QA is grandiose enough. Same for programming - people aren’t just coders or programmers, oh no, they are software ENGINEERS. Same for working in operations or sysadmin, no one has that title, it’s site reliability ENGINEERING.

I assure you that REAL engineers that actually have the degrees and had to take exams like EIT and then work years under a real engineer to get their PE as a real engineer get a bit salty about all this title inflation. They did all this work and are suddenly neck-deep in “engineers” that are anything but. I get why they get annoyed, believe me. Someone teaches themselves something in the latest Javascript framework and a few weeks later is calling themselves a software engineer, LOL.

Reminds me of the very early days of the web, where you had people with the title “webmaster”. When you looked deeper into the supposed skillset, it was people that knew a bare minimum of HTML and the ability to manage a tree of files?

I’ll never forget being at an ATM and overhearing a conversation between two women in their 30s behind me - the one woman tells the other - “I’ve been thinking about what I want to do and I think I want to be a webmaster”. It just sounded like a very casual choice and one about making money, and not much deeper than that.

This was in 1999 or so. I thought - man, this industry is so fucked right now - we have hiring managers, recruiters, etc…that have almost no idea of the difference in skillsets between what I do (programming, architecture, networking, database, and then trying to QA all of that and keep it running in production, etc.) and people calling themselves “webmasters”.

Sure enough, not long after, the dotcom bubble popped. It was painful for everyone (even people that kept their distance from the dotcom thing to an extent) without question, whether you had skills or no. But I don’t think roles like “webmaster” did very well…

Haha, nice. Be well, brother.

I hate it so much that one of the stupidest people known to man is able to effect so much change.

Wait, I thought these were all sitting on Pam Blondie’s desk just ready to go? Like a year ago?

What happened?

It’s almost the idiots that champion this kind of nonsense are willfully choosing to learn absolutely nothing from their elders and/or history.

If that Fourth Turning stuff is accurate, we are right at the 80 year mark since WWII ended.

I find awfully curious to note all the intergenerational warfare being whipped up at the same time, by the way. A constant barrage of hate for anyone that didn’t retire from their job at 65 or whatever the fuck, as if that’s the problem here.

I’m starting to think that the Epstein Files are Donvict 2.0’s version of the Mueller Report.

There is definitely smoke there for both of them and I think there’s fire. But the conservatives will obstruct any justice that might be done.

The other third is undecided NPCs that go along with nonsense like think-pieces from David Brooks about how it’s really “both sides”. The right might be full of Nazis, but the Democrats are just too strident and besides, my taxes might take a hit…also, I don’t like that Kamala cackled.

Honestly, I don’t think it would be very long at all. This is some real “Jews for Hitler” energy.

Good thing this came from outside the United States, otherwise the stupid chimp in the WH would be trying to exact revenge on that institution.

LOL, Kushner.

That guy has what qualifications?

I would think for the American edition of Nazism, blacks would be first, but they’ve recently had quite an obsession with trans.

Pay 1 billion to…who? Is he going to get the money?

Just a reminder - I’m sure Kamala’s admin would have been just as bad in every way. But at least under Taco, no one is getting killed in Gaza, right?

I got the Sarah Palin Floor concept from The Professional Left podcast. It’s what they call the part of the conservative base that will support Republicans and conservatives no matter what. I think they used this term when Donvict’s approval ratings went to 37%.

That number is pretty close to the same polling that Nixon had on the day he resigned - 27%.

But we are often told how much we should honor and respect the undecideds because they are not partisan and they are so very principled, etc.

🤮

LOL, it’s only at 49%?

And only 71% think he knew? I wonder if that 29% is the Sarah Palin/Nixon Resigning Floor.

What’s weird is that See BS no longer cares about that kind of stuff anyway as an institution captured by the right, and that bitch is threatening them anyway.

The Mob “presidency”.