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.

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.

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

No. The outcome is Trump is president.

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

You’re wrong about both paragraphs. It’s not the days that fall into the circles. It’s the activities you do on those days. So it’s not a normal day that’s world ending. It’s things you do on both kinds of days.

How so? One circle is things you do on a normal day. The other circle is things you do when the world is ending. And their overlap includes going to work. So you go to work on a normal day and on days the world is ending. And for some freaking reason that’s true; even if the world is ending, you go to work

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…

That isn’t an outcome.

What’s the other outcome of the US election?

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.

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.

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

People didn’t know Biden dropped out of the race until they were looking at the ballot. There is no end to the ignorance.

How do you do that? Unless they’re your kid, you don’t usually have that kind of control over another person.

Now do the research on the alien enemies act and how it’s already been used.

That amendment really meant consecutive terms. So Trump being president again is fine.

That’s just as ridiculous of an argument as the president being criminally immune.

When the branch that has the final say on what the Constitution means is on board, you don’t have to actually amend it.

I mean anything he does deemed unconstitutional can be challenged by any appeals court judge that can strike it down.

And then appeal it to the SCOTUS who literally gave him criminal immunity. With Congress and SCOTUS, it doesn’t matter what the Constitution actually says. Just what they can twist it with paper thin reasoning to mean.

So who’s stopping him?

It’s a stupid question. But that’s the reality. So genocide or worse genocide? If you say neither, it’s probably going to be worse genocide.

That’s pretty much always what the polls say for the presidential election. I don’t know why people expect pollsters to have crystal balls. The election is mostly decided on who is going to actually go vote, and a lot of people don’t know the answer to that until election day.