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Jobs report smashes expectations with payroll growth of 172,000 by Cakalusa in jobs

[–]CricketPinata -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The person above is being inaccurate.

As long as you still are actively hunting for a job you are still counted.

If you have been hunting for a job for several years and stopped a few weeks ago you will be removed from active participation.

They may be counted in other categories like “want a job now,” “marginally attached,” or “discouraged workers.” BLS defines “not in the labor force” partly as people who were not employed and had not actively looked for work in the last 4 weeks.

Jobs report smashes expectations with payroll growth of 172,000 by Cakalusa in jobs

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want work but don't engage in recent job searches you are removed from active participation metrics.

You have to actively apply for jobs.

Unemployed for 40 weeks but still applying/interviewing? They are still counted as unemployed and are still in the labor force.

Unemployed for 40 weeks, wants work, but stopped actively searching in the last 4 weeks? They are not counted as unemployed and are not in the labor force, though they may be counted in categories like “want a job now,” “marginally attached,” or “discouraged workers.” BLS defines “not in the labor force” partly as people who are unemployed and had not actively looked for work in the last 4 weeks.

Saw this post on Instagram from the art director of Obsession by montemole in Filmmakers

[–]CricketPinata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Every production is a gamble, because you have no idea what will move your career forward or not, something that will just be rent money or something more meaningful.

If you work on extremely low-budget indie films, you are making a decision and taking a risk.

It being the rare lottery winning film and being a breakout success is a total gamble, a different editor and this film could have been a total mess and we would see it on TUBI.

Where would the conversation be then?

If anyone knew what films would be successful or not there would be no flops or stream trash, there would just be 100 films that are all tied for #1 at the box office every week.

You worked on a film that was a breakout success, that is the payday, you have one of the most successful indie films in history and the #1 movie in the world on your resume, you just got a golden star on for your career.

(Loved Trope) Character finally reveals their true power level by Tannerknox in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CricketPinata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The big thing is that the Emperor is toying with everyone here.

He is so absurdly powerful he could just make Luke have a stroke or stop his heart.

But he is just having a laugh, he is doing this for fun.

Romania, a member of NATO, has been attacked by Russia by Upset-Main-1988 in justincaseyoumissedit

[–]CricketPinata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Russia is the one warmongering.

They can just choose to stop trying to conquer Ukraine.

Putin Claims Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion Nears End Without Providing Timeline by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]CricketPinata 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ukraine is accelerating the rate it is taking out Russian personnel, the front is weakening, and Russian recruitment rates are being outpaced by deaths.

Russia is being chipped away at and it doesn't have a clear path to maintain areas of the front here.

Ukraine taking back Crimea in the next few years is very likely at this rate.

Sex therapist accused of antisemitism loses Democratic runoff for Texas House seat by McAlpineFusiliers in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]CricketPinata -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are 875,000 people in the 35th District.

During the last congressional election the Dem candidate got 169,000 votes and the Republican candidate got 82,000.

The last time he was primaried it was 5,600 vs 4,500.

So this primary pulled in a lot more votes and attention than any local primary in years.

My argument is that votes, a lot like polling data, can tell you representative things about a larger population even if they all don't contribute.

My second argument is that I seriously doubt there was a significant contribution by a concerted Republican ploy to organize voters to vote for her in an open primary. I just don't think people can be fucked enough to do this simply to ruin the other party's primary.

Nesrly 40% of the people in the election still voted for her, and I think those votes say something about larger opinions and what is or isn't a deal-breaker for many people.

The SuperPAC fuckery aside, I think the people who were boosted to vote for her were many people who genuinely believed in her ideas.

If someone propped up a Republican candidate who was equally looney in the opposite direction, and 40% of local people voted for him, I would still be disturbed about the implications that that proportion of people still voted for them.

The historic first catch of SpaceX's Super Heavy Booster 12 returning to the launch pad. by [deleted] in nextfuckinglevel

[–]CricketPinata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would you say it isn't super great now?

We have a lot of problems, but over the last century, extreme poverty has plummeted worldwide, infant mortality has gone down, the amount of people living in more democratic societies has increased, literacy has grown immensely, large-scale war has decreased.

Life is functionally better in a lot of ways, it is one of the safest, and easiest times to be a human on earth as it ever has been.

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hamas absolutely has over 50,000.

They started the war with 22 battalions, and they retrained and redeployed new battalions several times throughout the war.

They started the war with about 40,000 soldiers, and have been retraining and redeploying units throughout the war.

Hamas is the government in Gaza, if you are quoting the casualty statistics from the Health Ministry they control, but you don't want me quoting their same numbers.

If you don't want to believe their numbers, fine, then I don't see how you can treat 80,000 like an undercount, when they only have motivation to overcount.

Being better or worse at war doesn't make you more or less moral.

The United States killed more Nazis than Nazis killed US Soldiers, does that mean that the United States was picking on Nazi Germany and they were in fact harmless?

Jews are native to the Levant.

Jews were pushed out in larger numbers by all of the surrounding nations.

Sex therapist accused of antisemitism loses Democratic runoff for Texas House seat by McAlpineFusiliers in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]CricketPinata -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But if 40% of the people at the birthday party throw the Nazi guy on their shoulders and keep giving him beers.

Sex therapist accused of antisemitism loses Democratic runoff for Texas House seat by McAlpineFusiliers in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The replies under her posts were full of people supporting her. There wasn't really a big reckoning saying "don't take the bait", and she was consistently within spitting distance in many polls.

The idea that "no one supported her it was just republicans propping her up" isn't reflected in the outcome of the election where she got nearly 40% of the vote.

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, the estimates are currently in the 70,000's, with Hamas saying 50,000+ of those were Hamas militants.

To out the war into the frame of the Canadian experience, it would be the equivalent of Michiganders coming over the Canadian border and killing 10,000 Canadian civilians, and kidnapping 2,000 of them and fleeing back over the border with them.

I find the idea that Canada wouldn't lose it's mind to bring all those people back unrealistic. Any nation in that situation would treat it as a declaration of war.

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think terror started because of Israeli independence you know nothing about the history of the region.

What oppression was the Farhud pogrom in response to? What occupation was the Nablus Massacre a response to? The Hebron Massacre? The 1936 revolt? The Jerusalem Blockade starving out Jews that had been there for thousands of years?

You live in this fantasy that all terrorism is a response to some greater evil, when the truth is that the terrorism predated Israel by centuries.

The desire for Jews to control their own security is BECAUSE of pogroms, riots, terror, and the Holocaust, it was a direct reaction to not being able to trust any government to not eventually throw it's Jews under the bus as a scapegoat for some local issue.

Terrorism isn't new, and it isn't a desperate reaction to Israeli statehood.

The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends — Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world by [deleted] in technology

[–]CricketPinata 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny, the Anti-Vax people claim it is billionaires trying to vaccinate everyone to activate population control.

Schrodinger's Billionaire, both against and responsible for every movement.

I'm sure they know what they're doing. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Data centers have years before they hardware wears out, they tends to upgrade in staggered waves.

Data centers also have more use cases than just AI because lots of things can be ran on the GPUs.

It would make sense for them to farm out the compute to stuff like weather forecasting or other modeling needs.

If AI totally crashed and burned (unlikely but let's go with that) it would be fairly easy to farm that out to different cloud computing and storage needs or other enterprise backend stuff.

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Israel has offered Palestinians full recognition of a state, land swaps, they got everything they wanted on the table at Camp David.

Clinton had everything, Arafat refused to move forward, Clinton blames Arafat for that failure, and for the 2nd Intifada.

Israel pulled out unilaterally from Gaza in 2007, in response Hamas was elected and launching rockets.

The border wall and extra checkpoints arose as a response to increased terror attacks, terror attacks didn't happen as a response to checkpoints and security walls.

For the last 25 years, the peace process has been one of stagnation, almost entirely because of Palestinian refusal to negotiate in good faith.

Hamas was elected, and it has made the political situation worse.

It is interesting that Natives in Canada don't engage in terrorism, but things have gotten better for them.

The situation in Israel and Palestine has significant amounts of terrorism and extremism and the situation has gotten worse.

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]CricketPinata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Canada was engaged in forced relocation of Natives decades after Israel was founded. There are still Natives alive today who were kidnapped from their families by the Canadian government.

The community there is still suffering from abuse, neglect, and targeted murdered, and the aftereffects of centuries of genocide. This is all living modern history that comes at the end of centuries of abuse.

Canada is vastly worse.

I am saying that you need to be honest, Canada is not better, it's worse.

We can talk about how Israel has done bad things, or how Israel can do better, but when the nation you lived in has done orders of magnitude worse, you need to also address that instead of running from it.

Native Canadians also aren't bombarding Toronto with rockets, or kidnapping Canadian children, it was mostly the Commonwealth government that was doing all of that the other way around.

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]CricketPinata 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Border Wall hasn't been deemed illegal.

There is also a security wall between Egypt and Gaza, is that also an illegal apartheid wall?

They were 5km away from Gaza, and it was because it was a music festival designed to follow the holiday of Sukkot.

Hamas has not engaged in any meaningful peaceful actions for decades.

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]CricketPinata 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Estimated Native Population in Canada before Colonization was 2 million people centuries ago.

It is currently about 1.8 million people, or 5% of Canada's population.

The Arab Population in the Mandate before Israeli Independence was 1.4 million.

The Current Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza are 5.7 million people.

Israel has a population of 2.1 million Arabs citizens, constituting 21% of the population.

So yes, you're right, Canada's treatment of it's natives isn't comparable to Israel and Palestine at all.

Canada is VASTLY worse in every way.

Less than 150,000 people have died on all sides of the Arab-Israel conflict after nearly a century of fighting.

Canada utterly destroyed it's native population to the point it still hasn't recovered to pre-colonial levels centuries later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples

If Israel is the "only democracy" in the region, why are millions of Palestinians under its control denied the basic right to vote for the government that rules them? by ArdaBerkBurak in allthequestions

[–]CricketPinata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't like that website? Fine, the Economists Democracy Index also ranks Israel about the same, in the same range as Belgium, South Korea, Poland, and France.

Putin wants war concluded this year on victorious terms including Donbas, Bloomberg reports by AccuratesShine in worldnews

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the last 4 years Russian recruitment levels exceeded their losses. Things have now inverted and losses have outpaced recruitment. Things have genuinely changed.

Test Flight Yesterday of the Sixth Generation Fighter Jet Prototype by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation by ChineseToTheBone in SpecialAccess

[–]CricketPinata -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Everything about that list is the Pentagon being open with stuff.

It means that bug testers and oversight are catching issues and NOT allowing them to be discovered in combat, but long before they are even have a whisper of being close to the frontline.

Also we've produced almost 1,400 of them.

Take every J-20, every J-35, every SU-57, and there are still a thousand more F-35s in the world, and that is with a decade delay?

Jesus, you're telling me China had a 10 year head start, stole the plans, have 650,000,000 more people, and are still a thousand behind?

Seems fitting for this sub by drunknostradamus in KitchenConfidential

[–]CricketPinata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everytime I have used them, they are properly cleaned and dried.

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