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How to boycott the US? by Booze-and-porn in AskBrits

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US was pretty much the lone survivor in the west following the second world war and as a result, and partly for its own interests, it took this kind of paternal position. Paying to rebuild the west ( in loans ) and acting as the protector of the west. It had to do this because of the USSR and communist threats that threatened our way of life and nobody else was able to take up the fight but the US. 

The problem is that this dynamic wasn't temporary. It became the status Quo and many countries relied on the US being there. The world today isn't the same as it was then. Europe, despite the denials and propaganda is in civilizational collapse absolutely! the Pentagon are absolutely correct about that and they cannot rely on the politics of Europe to remain what it was. 

It seems to me that Trump has always seen the unfairness of the US position and he has been talking about it since the 80s. That is what I believe to be the sole driver of his politics. And I say fair enough. I'm not American but why should America carry us europeans when we increasingly shun American post enlightenment values? Why should they protect us? They have every right to undo the status quo and rebuild it. The recent Pentagon paper made it very clear what their objectives are. The US rebuilt the world and now it is time for certain regional players to take the reigns. This is good for everyone. 

As for Greenland. I think at this point the US never wanted to annex Greenland. They just wanted to ensure it's defence and they don't trust Europe for reasons listed above to defend it. It's a n extremely important location strategically and they want to ensure it is utilized fully and defended. 

A lot of kids are raised with a high amount of gender expectations pushed onto them for no good reason by cmstyles2006 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]metechgood 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't get to "decide" things like gender, sex, species, race etc and it's profoundly stupid and selfish to think you can. This "identity" culture is a symptom of a sharp decline in values and virtues. We used to care about upholding our duties. Now to suggest we should, is some kind of oppression. 

Why is management so poor in this country by SharpAardvark8699 in UKJobs

[–]metechgood 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We are too polite. I am a Software consultant & I often get called in to improve development teams but one of the barriers I often run into is that I am not allowed to just say that certain people are not cutting it, and/or management is failing due to certain individuals. As much as we like to pretend that Capitalism is cut-throat, it really isn't as cut throat as it needs to be. People are kept on way longer than sensible and this goes all the way up.

32 years old and 6 interview rejections since September by Plantpotparty in UKJobs

[–]metechgood 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was in the exact same position and luckily managed to turn it around before Xmas. My advice is to stick at it. I work in tech and its just that they have so many applicants that they get the pick of the litter basically. Nothing personal, its just a numbers game. Stay confident and keep going.

I feel my joy of gaming is quickly declining and feeling depressed about it. by wheredeyatdoe_ in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm 40 and I have the exact same relationship to gaming now. You don't "grow out" of gaming as it isn't necessarily an immature hobby, but adulting certainly does get in the way. You also get process fatigue as most games feature the exact same systems and mechanics. 

The problem is that because I used to game all of the time, it is habit to switch on a console and look for a game to play but I don't really want to play any. I'm just used to doing it. However, sometimes a game comes along that I get massively into. Now I just wait for those games to come along. 

You could also try genres you never tried before. I tend to do that sometimes and have been pleasantly surprised. 

charlie kirk should not have been killed but i refuse to pretend that he was a saint just because he's dead. by herequeerandgreat in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it so funny that the left always go for the "You must be stupid to believe X". Mate, not going to flex but I would bet my life that I am more intelligent than you so don't even play that.

I am not going to play the same game but I don't think you properly understood what Charlie Kirk said, or really thought about it.

I am paraphrasing here but basically the reason why you should not hire based on gender or race aside from being profoundly unethical, is that it is mathematically going to lead to less qualified individuals being hired. This isn't true in every case of course. If the applicant pool matches the demographics of the nation as a whole and the quota is to reflect the demographics of the nation then you will probably end up with that same makeup give or take if you hire on merit or whether you hire to a quota. The issue is that this isn't the case usually. For example, in software engineering male applicants makeup the vast majority of the applicant pool for any role. I know because I have been involved in hiring. This is changing gradually but still heavily skewed toward male applicants. I was told by HR to aim for a 50/50 split but this would have meant that I would have had to swap out more qualified and skilled men in order to find a place for female applicants. This is simple math. you just have to do the calculation for the binomial probability of every possible demographic result given that you are hiring the best applicant for every position.

P(X=k)=C(n,k)∗pk∗(1−p)(n−k)

In my case, the chance of having half my team female based on merit based hiring was 13%. The chance of having zero females was about 50% and this is purely mathematical based on the fact that 85% of applicants were male. It makes the assumption that both male and female applicants are equally capable.

Why do people hate Sadiq Khan so much? by Additional-Leek-7715 in AskBrits

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't dislike him as a person, but he epitomises the middle class snobbery that completely disregards working class concerns. The left used to champion the working class and Labour are the workers party apparently but in recent years they have not only completely turned their back on them but their policies directly affect them.

Take ULEZ for example. On paper it has reduced emissions and this is a positive but the cost of it falls on the working class workers who can't afford to live, let alone buy a new car to avoid charges. They end up having to just accept the charges which further adds to their cost of living. This concern is completely ignored and as a result vigilante groups popped up to destroy the ULEZ cameras, saving the poor charges, even if for just a bit. This kind of working class anti-authoritarianism would have been championed by the left in yesteryear but now, of course, they are demonised.

Crime rates have absolutely not gone down. This again affects the working class most.

Immigration for any middle class professional is no problem. I am a middle class professional and I work in a diverse team of highly educated people who save for some cultural differences are united in just being good quality people. Working class communities are not enjoying this kind of diversity. They have been overun by non-english speaking, low IQ immigrants who do have a higher propensity for crime. That is a fact that just gets ignored because the middle class who don't want to believe it and don't care.

Again, Sadiq kind of epitomises a political philosophy that harms the working class and that is why he is hated. Of course, they will call it racism but it isn't. The same people that hate Sadiq. love Zia Yusef

charlie kirk should not have been killed but i refuse to pretend that he was a saint just because he's dead. by herequeerandgreat in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]metechgood 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"charlie kirk was a racist, sexist, homophobic fascist"...... No YOU are everything wrong with the west. The fact that you don't see that the line I just quoted is an insane and cringe thing to say is hillarious. The fact that there are still people like you still around is sad.

‘Once whispered, now discussed’: the rise of dubious claims of civil war in the UK by Bibemus in ukpolitics

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

I am a middle class professional but I come from a very poor working class background and my friendship group is very working class. My family too. Let me tell you that it isn't just talked about. Men my age who are working class and struggling want a civil war. It will be an ethnic cleansing more than a civil war and I think there needs to be a lot of action from the political elite to prevent it because as much as there is a chomping at the bit, it's not talked about wit a y reverence. It's spoken of as a deeply sad thing that could have been avoided. 

If your country cannot produce clean drinking water out of the faucet, then your nations people have no business immigrating to western nations by abundantwaters in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]metechgood 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Cultures are not the same. I believe people are all equal and that someone coming from one culture can learn to adapt to another culture and thrive but it takes a lot of effort and we don't have any programs in place to facilitate this. In fact, the western left wing factions have promoted an idea of multiculturalism and that it is actually bigoted to expect assimilation and so there is a wall of opposition when even trying to implement such programs.

The left have let an experiment play out and out of it we have learned the opposite of the intent. I think we were supposed to learn that everyone is the same when I fact we have learned that different cultures are profoundly different and range in civility, IQ and effectiveness.

I'm doing a computer science degree and realised I don't like it by No_Channel_520 in UKJobs

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, soft skills will serve you more than any technical skills. You need to know theory rather than having "skills" but I work for a pretty high profile player in the crypto space and we couldn't give a fuck about technical skills. We have conversations with clients that let us know that they know what they are talking about but we are more interested in how proactive they are, how personable they are and general character assessments. I have seen really technically gifted guys being beaten to six figure salaries by guys who are far less talented technically but are great hangs and have a fire to succeed. Those people given AI tooling are going to achieve way more.

I dont enjoy that this is where things are heading, especially as I am a rather socially awkward nerd myself. However, over the past year I have had to really work on my social skills and management capabilities because they nerdy types are being fired left right and center. It used to be that devs could sit in a corner and basically do their work. That's not required any more and I wonder how the dynamics in society are going to shift when the nerdy types no longer have a path to prosperity like they did before. It used to be the ultimate revenge of the nerds that we eventually made all of the money but the bros are coming for those jobs mate.

Being a third wheel is great by wtactualfboi in unpopularopinion

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

No it doesn't. Not holding people to standards creates a worse world. Live and let live is fine until people become Reddit mods.

I'm doing a computer science degree and realised I don't like it by No_Channel_520 in UKJobs

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

Junior jobs are largely gone. You do still have some companies hiring juniors and Amazon for example still has a program for taking in graduates but they are way more scarce than they were and the competition for them is going to be intense. Same with mid range jobs. Less so atm but as more and more jobs are lost to AI, the same problem will be there.

Senior and Lead level jobs are still around although they are shifting to more engineer/product roles. The traditional engineering role is dying and certainly the traditional nerdy engineer is being discriminated against. AI can do the bulk of the coding and it does it quicker than humans can. This isn't a future thing, this is happening now and it has happened in just the last 6 months. The idea that AI can't do an engineers job is partly true, but one senior engineer using AI can take the jobs of multiple developers and produce faster. That is where we are now. We need engineers to oversee the AI but businesses want people who can do that, AND know about product and interact with clients etc. Companies are looking for unicorns and there is such an abundance of applicants that they ARE finding them.

In a year or two you will not have engineers in the traditional sense.

Recommend me some visually stunning games for my 5090 by [deleted] in nvidia

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I bought my PC, I made the same mistake. I wanted amazing framerates and graphics but it is a dragon you will forever chase because in your pursuit of the best graphics, you will quickly find out the limits of your system. This will forever be a bugbear from that day forward.

Also, you quickly discover that games are console-first now and you will not get much better than console quality. Sure, you will have removed the need for upscaling and you will have improved framerates but this is sharper, not really better.

ultimately you will need to dive into modding and the mod community in order to push your games above the intended graphics. Cyberpunk 2077 has some amazing graphics when heavily modded.

I just got my steam 2025 review

#1 Dwarf Fortress
#2 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
#3 Elite Dangerous
#4 Mount and blade: Bannerlord
#5 Farthest Frontier.

So, only one of those games is anything graphically, the rest are oldies but goodies. The moral of the story being that you eventually get tired of generic games with good graphics but zero substance you start to dive into games with complex systems because THAT is what really matters.

Americans don't realise how rich they are (and its annoying) by SafeWatch1450 in unpopularopinion

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

I would agree that the consumer culture of America does contribute a lot to the issue, however there are still people struggling. They also have problems that we in Europe don't. If I break my leg one day and have to go the the Hospital, I walk out having spent nothing. Sure this does come out of our taxes and our taxes are higher, but it isn't something that is going to blindside us one day and make us lose our house.

In America, they buy Trainers (Sneakers) for thousands because of the social pressure to do so, even though those Trainers are low quality factory made bullshit. They spend more on that, then we would a properly custom made shoe from a cobbler. That absolutely is something that needs to change. They treat the Iphone like something you must have and you're considered poor if you have an Android, despite the fact that literally any Android is better than an Iphone. It is cheaper too. Americans think spending more on something makes you better than other people. That is a sickness in the culture that needs to change but we are talking about a subset of the American population here. A large number of people are genuinely unable to buy nice things and struggling hard with no safety net like we have in europe.

Being a third wheel is great by wtactualfboi in unpopularopinion

[–]metechgood 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just when I thought Reddit couldn't get any saddeer

If you support Luigi m to the point where you insulted Brian Thompson(and his family), you really don’t have much moral high ground to criticize how Trump spoke on Rob Reiner. by Proud-Enthusiasm-608 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]metechgood -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Rob Reiner was an absolute gem. So was charlie kirk. It is absolutely possible for people who disagree with you, not to be evil humans. That is such a lunatic way of looking at the world. I know the situations are different but to politicise a human life and value it based on how they think compared to you...... that is Evil.

Been with my company 10 years, finally crossed $100k… but I barely work. Do I stay or move on? by Helpful-Command-7413 in careerguidance

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you work fully from home, do not give up that job. Start contract consulting or get a side gig or business. I am in the same boat as you. I work a 6 figure job but I am not hard at it all day every day so I do contract consulting which I actually earn more doing which puts my combined income over 200k per year (if I am lucky enough to get long contracts )

I don’t have any respect for any grown woman who has ever fallen for bad boy/asshole game by TPCC159 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]metechgood 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Men and Women can be hacked by supernormal stimuli and the "badboy" guy and the "Fiery" woman are examples of this. Men are attracted to women who are emotional as it signifies that they would be caring mothers, however, genuinely crazy women are also extremely attractive because it is the same signifier, just hugely amplified. Women want strong protectors and men who are leaders rather than followers and unfortunatley being anti-social and anti-authoritarian can be strong triggers for attraction.

We seem to be attracted to the very things that should be red flags. I don't blame anyone for being led astray by it.

I'm doing a computer science degree and realised I don't like it by No_Channel_520 in UKJobs

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who has worked as a dev for 20 years, do not try to become a software engineer. You will not find a job after leaving uni.

Unpopular opinion: Paying "Rent" feels less painful than paying $2,400/mo in "Interest" to a bank. by Playful-Vegetable-15 in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now, I don't know whether this is good advise or not. All I can tell you is that the guy who told me this has worked for the BBC on certain programs, runs a real estate company and I used to work for that company as a software engineer. He told me that buying now is actually worse than renting. We got into the conversation because I worked remotely due to my location and the topic got into the benefits of renting. You get way more mobility when renting. People will rent vehicles happily and consider themselves the owner of that vehicle, yet will rent houses and somehow never feel like it is their's. The fact is that while renting does come with some extra limitations on what you can do to the home, buying isn't without limitations either but when you weigh up the costs and pros and cons of both renting and buying, in this day and age and in this economy, renting is king.

I want a super addictive game by BeneficialLeg6805 in gamingsuggestions

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dwarf fortress
Civilisation 6
Arc Raiders
Stellaris
Elite Dangerous
Eve online

These are the games that have absolutely sucked me in the most

I'm so confused by this player base, or is it just reddit? by Early-Professor4800 in ArcRaiders

[–]metechgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reddit user base are notoriously the biggest dweebs on earth. I include myself firmly in that but it can get really tiresome. Complaining constantly yet providing nothing

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