Interviews are a Byzantine nightmare made up by HR people that have no idea what that job entails, let alone how to interview people for it. Companies put up fake job postings often to make themselves look better, not bothering to tell candidates that they're interviewing for a position that never existed at all.

You are not the problem, never were, and you will find a job. I'm sorry you have to deal with the shittiness that is the job market, and I promise you most if not all of us have been there before.

Ironically not watching the video because it's too long, but a large part of the reason why a lot of games are bad is because they're too long. Or, more specifically, because the developers choose to pad out the playtimes with meaningless sidequests, enormous (and completely empty) open worlds, collectathons that give your character an extra outfit if you find all 4900 of the shiny rocks the developers had some algorithm autopopulate the world with, and basically every other AAA trope that doesn't involve well-polished, purposeful gameplay or story.

And they do this because the industry has repeatedly doubled down on "more content == better" dollar-per-hour metrics. There are plenty of games out there that actually take 120 hours to beat (looking at you, Persona) that are legitimately great games because they fill those hours with engaging storylines, characters, and mechanics (some grinding aside).

Because liberals only under fascism through its aesthetics. It's the Umberto Eco school of fascism identification where it only counts if they're wearing Hugo Boss and marching Jews into camps, otherwise it's just sparkling oppression. It's why they fall over so easily to "respectable" fascists smart enough to mask their genocides under a facade of respectability. And it's why they cannot ever truly oppose fascism without fundamental changes to their core ideologies.

"Do not pursue the Lu Bu" has a whole new meaning now

It's worth noting that, depending on the specific timeframe you're looking at, the KMT was not a cohesive whole and more of a very mixed bag united front against the Qing + (other) warlords + the Japanese + etc. It's essentially what would have happened if Russia went through the February revolution and never had the follow-up October revolution and somehow the White government had survived past a year or two: a complete mess of ideologically incompatible bickering factions who haven't splintered or backstabbed each other yet.

This is what happens when your only direct competition shits the bed for 15 years straight so hard that you can get away with incompetence and shitbaggery without it ever meaningfully impacting you.

This may, in fact, be the most based headline of all time

It's been a while since I've fucked with BGP personally, but there is a part of me cackling over the idea of the US banning setting up BGP routes with Chinese entities only for them to discover that the direct routes between the two didn't matter anyway given that they're on literal opposite sides of the planet as far as internet cables are concerned and that all the intermediate routes still exist so nothing changed at all and you can still easily connect to Chinese servers.

Shapeoko

I can't believe you've gone and mentioned something cool and expensive for me to hyperfixate on as a new hobby.

I'm a communist. This bill is pushed by liberals, specifically the Democrat-flavored liberals rather than the Republican-flavored liberals. Both parties are capitalist and fall under the umbrella of liberalism as it is classically defined, regardless of whatever that term might mean in American discourse.

also the secret to finding trans women on most chinese social media is to search for the fishcake swirl emoji https://emojipedia.org/fish-cake-with-swirl

Ah, I see the trans Debian user stereotype transcends borders and languages.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say this bill doesn't do the same for CNC machines despite those being literally how you make actual guns. Fucking NY liberals.

First as a tragedy, second as a farce.

"Y"IMBY posts picture criticizing zoning laws in China

Picture of "Chinese zoning" is just a typical American suburb

Complaints about DUH GUBERMENT telling you what you're allowed to build and where, as if zoning laws and urban planning aren't the norm in literally any civilized country + the US

The problem is a ton of people aren't ever exposed to that kind of news in the first place. Like yeah, we're all abundantly aware of the seemingly endless ways Musk is a piece of shit, but that's because we're all terminally online leftists who care enough to find a random Twitter thread linking a small journal post detailing how he used Boring to mulch orphans or whatever while the media that 99% of the population is exposed to will never once even hint at it.

"I'm sorry, asking what your credit score is makes your credit score drop 30 points. No, you're not allowed to see the algorithms we use to determine your credit score either."

I can at least kind of see Eisenhower being sincere. Not out of any concern for the wealthy making profit off of mass death, but because it's pretty obvious that if all your guns are coming from profit seekers then that's inevitably going to screw over your military's ability to actually fight, which he has a personal vested interest in.

This is just Biden doing a victory lap while giving ammo to the DNC to claim that they give a fuck about anyone other than their donors.

The thirty or so power metal fans in existence will fight over who gets the claim wizard metal.

(It's me. I'm the power metal fan.)

Traditionally it's been a way for big businesses to bully local municipalities into giving them free security via local cops, tax incentives, etc by claiming that they're losing so much money to shoplifters that they have no choice but to close shop unless something changes (which is always bullshit, they're printing money). Walmart is infamous for doing this to small towns after they annihilate any local competition through lower prices from their economy of scale.

and then, i saw this one american woman just frankly being so fucking cringe and annoying. she had her phone held up so you could only see the top half of her face and head, looking like the mf las vegas dome, doing a super exaggeration yelling laugh immediately as the video starts playing, yelling "GUYS!!!!!". then she did the yell/laugh thing through her whole video, and i was just like damn, this person is very unpleasant.

That's like half of TikTok. I don't know why so many people decide to take video of their foreheads while their microphone peaks trying to pick up whatever background audio they're trying to record a live reaction to.