Idk I’m getting pretty tired of pretending things are fine because line goes up. Feel like the first thing I’m going to do when we jump the proverbial shark (e.g. a military coup) is come onto this forum and say a big, fat told you so to the technocratic optimists siding with the fascists. Unfortunately the slide into a failed state (like Russia) is slow and depressing, rather than sudden and exciting.
I don’t think you’ve ever seen anything “completely cycle through.”
We’ve never had a convicted felon as president before. Bonus points, the felony was for election-related crimes.
We’ve never had the capitol stormed and breached by insurrectionists before.
We’ve never had a president call up the Georgia Secretary of State and ask for votes before.
We’ve never had the president steal classified documents and store them in a resort bathroom before, and get raided by the FBI to get them back.
We’ve never had a president impeached twice before.
We’ve never had a president pay out a judgment to his rape victim before.
We’ve never had a president sell third term campaign merch after the constitutional amendment was passed setting presidential term limits.
We’ve never had a trillionaire illegally lead a fake government agency before and fire a large chunk of the federal government without congressional approval before.
I could continue but we would get exhausted all over again.
If anything the current slow crisis we are in has been greatly downplayed even though there is nearly constant outrage about it. We are in the middle of an attempt to turn our federal government into a Russia-style mafia state. This is not a cycle that has ever competed in American history.
The urge of people right now to normalize what's happening intellectually makes sense to me but is also so upsetting. None of this is normal. None of this has been seen before (or at least, not in America).
As a trans stuck here without a passport it's scary, but the fact that so many otherwise intelligent people are constantly at the ready to tell me it isn't, is terrifying.
It is also important to call things like they are. There is a line between speaking the truth and being apathic. Im not sure that the line has been crossed myself. He is right though, Hackernews and a lot of people are acting like this isnt a real problem. Hackernews often flags things that call attention to these matters and many users downvote people that try to call attention to what is happening.
A large segment of the human population is extremely uncomfortable with conflict. They will go to great lengths to maintain status quo in the face of insane injustice.
HN has become the home base for many of these people.
Of course, this is exactly what MLK Jr. was talking about when he described the problem caused by the "white moderate". But these people have never read MLK Jr., so it doesn't matter.
The problem is really the unpredictability: some LinkedIn pages can apparently be accessed publicly without a login, others cannot. But perhaps that fact alone would be reason enough to block it entirely in Google searches?
>The Work Number is an Equifax (who famously had a massive data breach a few years back) owned database with employment and pay information.
>You can create a login on theworknumber .com and pull your report. Mine is seventy four pages and had info from every company I've worked at in the last 13 years including every paycheck I had received with the exact dollar amount (both net and gross) and hours worked. It has employment start/end dates, termination reason, details about withholdings, benefit enrollment, union affiliation, etc etc etc.
>This data is sourced directly from the HR platform your employees use (ADP, Rippling, Gusto, iSolved, etc). Equifax sells your data for things like employment background checks.
>You cannot have your data removed from The Work Number. You can freeze your report (much like a credit report) but if a potential employer cannot access your frozen report that may disqualify you.
>Why YSK: If you're interviewing for a job you can be at a significant disadvantage especially for things like salary negotiations because they can literally see how much you make including your most recent paycheck. Creditors also can access these reports.
>This is the biggest privacy violation I have ever seen and almost nobody is even aware of it. Certainly none of us consented to having our employment and income data harvested and sold, especially since we get nothing in return. At a minimum, people should know about how this data can impact you.
>Edit: The Work Number is primarily for the US, but there are similar services for other countries.
I checked my data. It is either 100% wrong or misleading. Start and end dates, compensation amounts, benefits. Per the file, I've worked 4 years out of 20 in my career. As an employer I have never used them and I worry for any employer who does.
> In my country (Hungary) you literally get a little pink book where your boss is supposed to sign the time you spent there. You keep it until retirement, the company holds it while you work there. It's also digital now but we're one foot in 1990 and one foot in 2016.
We had something similar in Romania too. Now it's 100% digital and no more delays in informing the government. The employeer needs to notify the government before someone starts work. With the paper version you had a couple of days even weeks if I'm not mistaking.
It's been awhile since I last checked mine. I noticed my corporate work history was all there, at the level of detail OP mentioned. Where as the warehouse, construction, and bartending jobs were not.
The other one to check is LexisNexus, which covers auto insurance coverage and traffic violations. In the US, gov't tracked traffic citations fall off after 5 years, but last forever in the baby credit bureaus we're discussing.
Yeah I checked that too, the same gaps are all there. The closest I've gotten was from the IRS, but even that is pretty worthless because of how corps/startups handle payroll and contracting, or use whatever service that deals with it all. If I didn't have a resume to line it up with it wouldn't make any sense at all
All I want in life is to see these companies seized by the government, their assets destroyed (preferably using one of those big car crusher thingies), and their executives and boards of directors imprisoned in labor camps in the Alaskan wilderness.
Are you living in the same world the rest of us are? The only place that data would go is right into some government body like NSA or CIA or whatever your country's equivalent is.
Bro Alaska has big mountains and wide tundras and is going to be too meditative, I vote for Georgia swamps with its mud and mosquitoes and gators and all
They can only produce so many weapons a day, and use most of them quickly, while saving a small stockpile for mass strikes.
Strikes on Moscow may be “symbolic”, but from Ukraine’s point of view, it’s better to spend limited resources to hit a lesser defended but still important target first.
It takes time to actually find a target, and then find/take out/exhaust/bypass defenses (which constantly shift). Many drone strikes are basically intended to “feel around” for where defenses are, aren’t, or are light enough to saturate.
Rather than trying to save up expensive large warhead weapons to try and saturate prime targets in a heavily defended areas, Ukraine is slowly picking away at Russia’s air defense assets, weapons production, and logistics. Russia now no longer has enough defense for complete coverage, and is forced to prioritize certain areas for protection. This means Ukraine now has a much easier time hitting still very important targets outside of Moscow. Ukraine and Russia are now sending hundreds of drone strikes every day at each other of various sizes, with occasional bursts reaching into the thousands.
We are now reaching the point where Russia can’t even fully protect Moscow, which is why you see an increasing amount of high profile hits on it.
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