Platystemon posted:Fifty child rogues? Lmao
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Jan 20, 2023 23:12
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Whole lot of this kinda thing being posted in tech and media today: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1616542572456955923?t=XJC6xMsay5DmicRXXbuk-Q&s=19 So it's not just a Muskian thing, lots of really stupid FIRE X NUMBER NOW higher-up decisions and then random VPs make number go bye and that's that.
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Jan 20, 2023 23:23
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facialimpediment posted:Whole lot of this kinda thing being posted in tech and media today: Bummer to get laid off but if that guy was at Google in a tech role for nearly 20 years and was getting stock benefits, and has basic saving abilities, he probably never needs to work again. That’s just based off knowing people in a similar situation at Microsoft who “retired” before 50 and while not living in luxury are doing fine. Not trying to be callous but odd to see highly skilled techies with many opportunities acting like they got laid off from the mine and their experience is non-transferable. Especially when one guy I know who got laid off from Microsoft was a few years ago sneering at the idea anyone in the Seattle real estate market would need a mortgage when cash was cheaper.
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Jan 20, 2023 23:41
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I dunno man, half the people who make $200k working oil fields seem to go broke within two weeks of getting laid off. Never doubt peoples’ ability to live paycheck to paycheck at any salary, even if it means regularly cashing out stock.
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Jan 20, 2023 23:54
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Bummer to get laid off but if that guy was at Google in a tech role for nearly 20 years and was getting stock benefits, and has basic saving abilities, he probably never needs to work again. That’s just based off knowing people in a similar situation at Microsoft who “retired” before 50 and while not living in luxury are doing fine.
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Jan 21, 2023 00:12
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Tiny Timbs posted:I dunno man, half the people who make $200k working oil fields seem to go broke within two weeks of getting laid off. Never doubt peoples’ ability to live paycheck to paycheck at any salary, even if it means regularly cashing out stock. The guy will be fine. With tech, salary is just one small part of total comp...just look at the share prices since he started in June 2006.  Big tech made it out like bandits while working on unproven/half cooked projects that could get canceled or abandoned only months after launch. Huge salaries for what exactly? Layoffs suck but this was kind of overdue. After my company did layoffs, the one thing I did think back on were all the times I spent in the office till 9 or 10pm debugging and getting hardware to work...or the times I took my laptop on vacation just because I felt slightly guilty using the "unlimited PTO" policy. I wish I spent more time just chilling. Makes me wonder what all of that work was for. Suicide Watch fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Jan 21, 2023 00:14
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1616124738752987152?t=EwT6Sgeld6kjgfGHvceisA&s=19 Time for the College Board to pull AP certification for Florida schools? I'm sure enough parents crying foul over that will get Dorksatan's attention.
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Jan 21, 2023 00:20
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https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1616494824026214410?t=Yg8GUroE9N4W0IHQvgYO4g&s=19 Do these guys get charged as civilians or do they get slapped with the UCMJ?
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Jan 21, 2023 00:32
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1616124738752987152?t=EwT6Sgeld6kjgfGHvceisA&s=19 Oh goodie. Now they can return to the Florida curriculum recounting of Black history, which consists of Michael Luther Jackson teaming up with the Union Army to win the Civil Rights War and now there’s no more racism
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Jan 21, 2023 00:33
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1616494824026214410?t=Yg8GUroE9N4W0IHQvgYO4g&s=19 Probably both.
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Jan 21, 2023 00:34
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1616494824026214410?t=Yg8GUroE9N4W0IHQvgYO4g&s=19 First one, then the other. Or the marines cut them dishonorables and let the feds charge. I knew a former navy guy that outright murdered his drug dealer while on active duty. Navy cut him a dishonorable and he sat in state prison for 13 years. Met him at my last apartment complex a few months before he died of a massive heart attack in his late 40s.
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Jan 21, 2023 00:42
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Can't believe one of them is literally a coomer
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Jan 21, 2023 01:11
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Judging by the graffiti on the elevators on my way out of the building today, there's been an additional round of unexpected layoffs to follow the announced ones. Still waiting for the headsman to reach my desk.
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Jan 21, 2023 01:55
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TheKingslayer posted:They took Dana's name off the marketing and pushed the debut back a week to dodge the initial heat. TMZ and ESPN pretty much closed ranks around Dana and buried the story enough TBS thought it was ok. Sounds like they really know their audience Eej posted:Can't believe one of them is literally a coomer That's a real name?! Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Jan 21, 2023 04:37
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Bored As gently caress posted:Also With everything blowing up in SOF, how long until we find out the Air Force PJs are heavy into cockfighting or some poo poo?
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Jan 21, 2023 05:24
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Loden Taylor posted:With everything blowing up in SOF, how long until we find out the Air Force PJs are heavy into cockfighting or some poo poo? They will be dirty because these are the guys they spend deployments with.
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Jan 21, 2023 05:27
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https://twitter.com/TABYTCHI/status/1616171681101258752 So Tucker’s comments cover the military, but what does he have to say about the catgirl?
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Jan 21, 2023 05:38
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Broken clock twice a day
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Jan 21, 2023 05:41
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Loden Taylor posted:With everything blowing up in SOF, how long until we find out the Air Force PJs are heavy into cockfighting or some poo poo? USAF SOF types are extremely different types of people than their other services counterparts. I’m not saying better, I’m not saying worse, just different. AFSOC brings a completely different type of “operator” and mindset/training/capability than say the Green Berets, Rangers, SEALs, or Raiders. They’ll be working the same missions and objectives, they’re just bringing a completely different set of skills and training to the fight other than also being a trigger puller who’s checks are happen to be written by the Air Force. I can’t overstate how small the whole “Battlefield Airmen” cadre actually is. Like notionally a special tactics squadron is the same size as a battalion right? They’re both O-5 commands after all, right? Not even close. STS’s are loving small. Extremely capable, ready, and all that. But small. It’s a weird community, few try out for it, and fewer make it through the pipeline. And fewer stay past their 4 year contract. It’s a very.. unique community in the DoD. Most guys that are drawn to that world aren’t also drawn to the USAF for a variety of (stupid and valid) reasons. If I were young and capable and knew what I know now, and if I knew I could do it I’d definitely go CCT/PJ/TACP/SR in the Air Force over Army, Navy or Marine Corps anything. All the cool guy stuff, none of the Army, Navy or Marine bullshit. I am not now, and never will be, nor have I ever been able to make it through any of those pipelines. But it’s a ridiculously tiny community. I mean tiny. LtCol J. Krusinski fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Jan 21, 2023 05:48
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Besides, who wants a RANGER tab when you can be a loving RAVEN!
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Jan 21, 2023 05:53
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*raises hand* why do the armed forces branch responsible for flying things and places where flying things land on need a special forces group?
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Jan 21, 2023 06:15
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Raven actually sounds kinda cool, ngl
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Jan 21, 2023 06:16
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:It’s a weird community, few try out for it, and fewer make it through the pipeline. And fewer stay past their 4 year contract. It’s a very.. unique community in the DoD. Is it like a Navy nuke thing where there's specific careers that Air Force SOF poo poo just kinda feeds into once they're done, or do they just go "well that was fun, time for something new"
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Jan 21, 2023 06:24
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Loden Taylor posted:Is it like a Navy nuke thing where there's specific careers that Air Force SOF poo poo just kinda feeds into once they're done, or do they just go "well that was fun, time for something new" Dudes usually separate from the USAF or wind up retraining needs of the Air Force if they don’t make it through training or can’t / don’t want to continue in the career field. There’s a not insignificant amount of USAF cops who washed out of the pipelines. Way the gently caress back in the day when I went through boot camp everyone who had under a 13:30 2 mile run and maxed sit ups and push ups on the PT test got offered to take what the USAF called the PAST test, which was just a harder PT test with swimming, pull ups, faster running and more calisthenics. If you passed the PAST test you could volunteer for PJ or CCT or TACP Indoc/training. Pass or fail the PAST test you got to eat a dessert at Dinner and didn’t have to really do dick for the rest of the day after the test. Anyway, that was how a LOT of dudes learned the USAF even had special operations. I think you could arrange to take the PAST test before basic training and get a guaranteed pipeline slot but I didn’t know anyone who went that route. I only ever knew 2 CCT’s who joined the USAF to be CCT’s. There’s a significant number of these guys that don’t start out in special operations, but rather cross train at their early/mid career points. I’m sure in the decades since, things have changed drastically. We have our own calculus loving super nerd Nuke equivalents in the Scientific Applications Specialists we have doing MASINT and other poo poo. Used to be called SPINSTRA. We had a Gipper who was actually one of them, and he played OPSEC FAFO here on GiP and despite his uncle being the commander of the largest wing in ACC (55th AW) and being the convening authority and base commander for the base he was stationed at he wound up with an OTH discharge and unalived himself not long after. That group is weirder than linguists. Linguists are weirder than nukes. Think about that. 
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Jan 21, 2023 07:26
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:That group is weirder than linguists. Linguists are weirder than nukes. Yeah, if the dude you're talking about is the one I'm thinking of, then I can kinda understand how an otherwise well-meaning turbo nerd could get so enthusiastic about the science behind [X] that he'd be a bit too eager to share how that allowed us to use [Y] to detect [Z].
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Jan 21, 2023 08:14
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Cugel the Clever posted:As someone who's still relatively new to tech, yeah, I don't know what exactly he was expecting beyond a summary dismissal. A going-away party? I've heard offhand that some Google engineers have gotten extremely generous severance, too. Like, enough for the median household to live on for a year. Normal workplaces will tell you in advance of your impending unemployment (possibly with assistance for finding a new place) rather than just pulling system access without warning, only faceless tech firms will do it. Somebody fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Jan 21, 2023 09:16
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Google was handing out some pretty amazing severance terms so faceless email aside, they are putting 6+ figures into people that arent going to work for them much longer and doing their best to help them it looks like.
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Jan 21, 2023 10:16
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What's the Space Force SOF called?
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Jan 21, 2023 11:27
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If it's not "space invaders" then I don't know what the gently caress they're wasting their time on at space force.
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Jan 21, 2023 12:16
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Milo and POTUS posted:Sounds like they really know their audience Yes, it's a real name. The Coomer clan is known for their uncanny ability to spot ropes and other useful items. Defenestrategy posted:*raises hand* why do the armed forces branch responsible for flying things and places where flying things land on need a special forces group? Let's say you need to set up or even capture an air field in contested territory. It's those guys jobs to do that as well as operate that airfield until the site can be secured and more regular forces take over. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Jan 21, 2023 14:00
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:If it's not "space invaders" then I don't know what the gently caress they're wasting their time on at space force. IMPERIAL SPEHS MAHREENZ
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Jan 21, 2023 14:13
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Space marines will be a corps of the space force, though, which would be a bit much for special forces in a branch their size currently. Besides, NASA hasn't invented or certified a crayon for eating in space. Lol. Remember when they released this?  E: now I kinda want to make space crayons in the vein of astronaut ice cream and sell it through vendors outside the BX/PXs of the world. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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Jan 21, 2023 14:41
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Defenestrategy posted:*raises hand* why do the armed forces branch responsible for flying things and places where flying things land on need a special forces group? Because sometimes you want to do CSAR in really bad situations and you want someone like a PJ there to do the medical stuff and be able to shoot back. And sometimes you want to like...dump Rangers onto an airfield and be able to have someone there to help and then be able to control the inbound aircraft that follow you in. Those are missions that belong to the armed forces branch responsible for flying things, so there are a couple hundred people trained for it.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:10
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Single data point, but years ago I worked with a former PJ who was a contractor site lead. Guy was simultaneously chill and professional, gave off a SoCal surfer vibe.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:13
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Godholio posted:Because sometimes you want to do CSAR in really bad situations and you want someone like a PJ there to do the medical stuff and be able to shoot back. And sometimes you want to like...dump Rangers onto an airfield and be able to have someone there to help and then be able to control the inbound aircraft that follow you in. Silly question-but isn't that what Pathfinder is supposed to qualify people to do? I thought they were capable of essentially setting up air traffic control in those kinds of environments.
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Jan 21, 2023 15:35
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Soul Dentist posted:What's the Space Force SOF called? Spatial Forces
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Jan 21, 2023 15:51
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I have a friend who became a Combat Recue Officer. He was late 30s, a field grade, and could have already retired at that career point and is one of the most chill, professional and reliable men I know. He is also completely loving crazy and the other few USAFSOC dudes I met are basically the same way. USAFSOC seems pretty alright, especially compared to everywhere else
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Jan 21, 2023 15:54
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SlowBloke posted:Normal workplaces will tell you in advance of your impending unemployment (possibly with assistance for finding a new place) rather than just pulling system access without warning, only faceless tech firms will do it. Where does that happen? I admit I’ve only been post military retirement a few years now but my experiences in the software dev realm have been completely opposite. Management wants to can someone in IT? There is zero lead up to their credentials being revoked because there is so much fear that the person could wreak havoc if they are angry and know they have no future there.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Spatial Forces
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