candybrie

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

People looked at what Biden did for the last few years and that didn't help them.

This is dumb. Thinking economic policy has immediate effects is dumb. Trump's good economy was largely a result of Obama's economic policy. The inflation during the Biden years was a result of Trump's economic policy and COVID. It takes years to dig out of that hole. Everyone knew (or maybe not, people are dumb) that COVID stimulus was going to be inflationary; it was just a gamble that it would be less painful than a more 2008 style financial crisis. The whole world was experiencing inflation and Trump's tax reform did not help the situation. Thinking tariffs will help fix the economy when the number one complaint is high prices is dumb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah. I'm surprised they took from MI. Management was just complaining last week about how hard it is to hire RTL people and trying to juggle us around to all the generations and variants that need to be staffed. And then this week it's this. Maybe it is how they fire people; I haven't heard of anyone else being fired besides this layoff in the ~4 years I've been there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As someone who works at AMD not in AI, that's how they explained it to us. Or I guess it was a bit more generic "highest growth areas" and "still hiring for positions aligned with our strategic priorities." Which we generally took to mean AI based on the gestures broadly at the market.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you want to work in AI, they're hiring. The layoff was sold as a way to make room for more AI headcount.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No. The outcome is Trump is president.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe because your brain wanted 5+3+2=10 instead of 5+4+2=11 ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I can't imagine doing it as a parent. My kids drowning is a pretty big, realistic fear. Maybe for a teenager? Even then though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That isn't an outcome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

What's the other outcome of the US election?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

There are the words straight out of Trump's mouth. If you believe that Democrats will kill more people than Republicans, that's a completely different conversation. Though it still mostly boils down to: genocide or worse genocide, pick one, and if you don't pick, you're likely to get worse genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

More people than the Republicans would. And then I would vote Republican. Because that's the choice on election day.

Edit: if all you're doing is not voting, you do nothing to help anyone. If you are actually helping in meaningful ways, then voting to pick the easier opponent does not undermine your work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Pretty sure absolute criminal immunity for the president would be as well.

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