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alice's callous gallus phallus full of malice in a Dallas palace watching the aurora borealis playing europa universalis with pallas

there’s a big joel video that came out recently where dissects a very specific moment in a ‘debate’ blaire white had with other conservatives, where they basically just steam roll her and she’s like, shocked about it. but it’s like, blaire what the fuck did you expect??? there is no universe in which you can make yourself “passable” and “acceptable” enough to conservatives in which they actually accept you instead of utilizing you as a prop whenever they feel they need to make a point.

someone has already fucking modded our game to turn pops into wario

practically everyone knows at this point that you don't need a CS degree to be a working programmer any more than you need an architecture degree to be a working carpenter. so why is it still used for gatekeeping (of both jobs and internships)? to immediately exclude a huge number of workers from candidate pools, which makes the bargaining power of the remaining candidates lower, to preserve and justify the two-tier employee/contractor structure where employees are treated well and contractors terribly that has become ubiquitous within the industry, and to preserve the status quo where those salaried positions are primarily filled by the most privileged classes of people.

can we hear the feral impala instead

@zorotl art and the computer field have this same issue where everyone's like "dont take low paying jobs! dont undersell your commissions/freelance! dont go to school if you can teach yourself and if you do use it to network! dont take these risks that i took, someone who is 5+ years into the field at this point". then with no concrete advice on how to enter the field without doing those things because really? there isnt, unless you're lucky or connected.

the prevalence of horrendously exploitative programming bootcamps is a symptom of a field that doesn't have strong unions to train people to program. if we had strong unions that trained people it would take the profit motive out of education which would benefit literally everyone involved except the people who run bootcamps and the people who hire programmers.

i believe in full employment and i believe that it includes paying artists a good wage from public funds

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the fact that the tech field has plenty of internships but virtually no apprenticeships is just a way of gating real-world experience behind being accepted to and able to pay for a college degree