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@_Warlord_762 @Polymarket Above maybe an exaggeration but I definitely interviewed with a company where all the subject matter expert interviews were great. The one HR interviewer showed up late was rude and like someone else said acted like I needed to “bend the knee” ended up turning them down.

Its all of them. Its ALL HR departments. This sounds like exaggeration, but bare with me. Once a company reaches a size, hiring is almost exclusively handled by HR. They are stocking companies from middle management-down with people THEY like. You wanna know why factories, entertainment (Video games), marketing, ect seem so awful and out of touch? Because you have a bunch of woke retarded woman and effeminate men deciding who to hire and who to fire, controlling the the groundwork for these companies. American manufacturing and entertainment is run by HR departments.. AKA: unmarried, middle age, white woman. The People who are THE MOST out of touch with the basics of society. I've worked in factories most my life.. Even the companies you'd think would be the most insulated from inefficient bullshit are swamped by this. The defense industry (Military industrial complex) has a MASSIVE problem with it and its getting significantly worse by the day because it creates a self perpetuating feedback loop. Middle management & HR hire the HR reps. HR hires middle-management and floor workers. They all simply hire each other. Most the factories I have worked at have seen a massive shift of females being hired off the street as middle management. Most the fresh hire workers "check the boxes" (you know exactly what i'm talking about) and they are absolutely dogshit at their job. Any criticism of their work ethic or capabilities is shielded by the aforementioned boxes. Those boxes also automatically turn criticism into a wider HR "issue". I've seen some of the best employees fired in defense of some of the worst employees because telling someone to do their fucking job is "racism, sexism, homophobia" ect. These employees get unlimited chances to fuck up their job while the best employees get the door if they even mention the new guy/girl (thing) isn't worth a fuck. Woman being in middle-management is a nightmare (rule vs exception). You can argue and use any -isms you want, but ask ANYONE who works in this environment. Your name calling will not cover for an obvious, observable consensus. Woman supervisors (rule vs exception) get insanely petty, aggressive, irrational and suffer from some sort of complex where they cannot help but be the most incompetent and egotistical nightmare to work for. They are entirely protected by the aforementioned boxes. One company I worked for literally suspended an entire production shift of workers to launch a sexism investigation because they were essentially revolting against a supervisor, Including female floor workers. The investigation lasted for almost a month, resulted in 15 people quitting, costing the company 1.2 million dollars of lost production and no one was fired. This is a big name military production facility.

JUST IN: Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow fired the company’s entire HR team because they were “creating problems that didn’t exist.”

Every fan feels this to some extent. I don’t even know where the game is half the time.

@DavidSacks Damn… Maybe the Boomers have been right about Gen Z. This is moronic.

Was thinking about getting a $40k Royal Oak. Will get this for $400 instead. 99% savings — thanks AP!

I may have to back down on my criticism of Boomers when they shade Gen Z. Less avocado toast is not going to get you into a home in this economy but this level of insanity for what is a knock off watch driven by clever marketing is pathetic.

@runellesimonton @kerryjax71 Nonsense… NE is full of liberals who support unimportant cultural issues that turn into capitalist KKK members the minute some policy actually affects where they live. Hypocrites. They like things expensive to exclude people they claim to support.

@kerryjax71 I do appreciate much of New England is reasonable and altruistic enough to invest in public services and grant the people freedom they wont see in a red state But the sad thing is. How can you enjoy these freedoms + support if those freedoms + services are priced out for many?

Boston MA Home for sale a couple blocks from me. 4 beds, 2.5 baths, a family home. 1.7million A conventional 30 year mortgage gives you an 11,000 monthly payment Public schools are not great and most opt for private or catholic schools. How is this sustainable

@takeiteqsy @PamphletsY Why? Explain…

@PamphletsY Gen X should be included with boomers, they don’t get nearly enough hate

@Jacquel07242384 @cspanwj You’re nicer than me… I actually don’t appreciate their ignorant and condescending “insights”

@cspanwj Appreciate the older experienced retired callers sharing their insights but they lived in a world where the cost of living aligned with income and small business profits and one in which America was not owned or driven by large corps and the population was not nearly as big.

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@cspanwj If one more boomer calls in moralizing about how they made money and all you have to do it “work hard and save money”. It shows both their arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy as a generation. Their “leadership” has literally bankrupted the nation.

@CodeClashIG @claudeai On one side Im thinking not a big deal to lose all the simple copy paste that currently happens within the 365 suite. But to your point we might need “mental gyms” in the same way we now lift weights to replace the physical labor we actually need to stay healthy.

@claudeai 10-15 years of this and we might have a generation that can't think through problems without AI assistance. outsourcing thinking has consequences we're not measuring yet 🤷‍♂️

Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are now generally available, and Claude for Outlook is in public beta. As Claude moves between your Microsoft apps, it carries the full context of your conversation.

@neStricklainc @WSJ The responses here are peak Mass behavior. Then people will complain when the local economy does poorly bc the reality is people can’t afford to live or work there. Employers should relocate and then you can enjoy a region all to yourself with no jobs.

“Are we kinda bein’ pricks?” a Massachusetts man asked at a town meeting, drawing attention to a housing plan that seemed to intentionally avoid adding much housing on.wsj.com/3PgmDmm

@MarioNawfal I have to remember this for Halloween but thats about it.

Men can now buy underwear that makes them look more muscular. Women, welcome to not being able to trust what you see either 😂

@NBA__Courtside Im huge Laker and Kobe fan but those acting like this take is crazy are wrong. You can argue about timing for Duncan and Lebron but they are in the discussion. Maybe Kobe gets one year when Lakers won the first chip without Shaq.

Nick Wright says he’s got Kobe Bryant as the 8th greatest player ever, and he was never the best player in the world: “I know people get mad at that take, but here’s the problem and the reason Kobe was never the best player in the world. Because once Kobe got great, call it 99, he wasn’t great yet, but I’ll give him 99 once you started seeing flashes. From 99 until 2002, Shaquille O’Neal was the best player in the world. And then from 2003 until 2007, Tim Duncan was the best player in the world. You know how I know Tim Duncan was the best player in the world at that time? Because he won three championships in five years. He won two MVPs. He was the best player. He was the best player until that 48 special by LeBron in 2007. LeBron was the best player in the world from that moment until 2018. So it was Shaq, it was Duncan, it was then Bron. At no point was Kobe the best player in the world.” (Via @WhatsWrightShow)

@bangersbyshay @Cheamane The genre has been dead since the 90s

@Cheamane RnB been killin it still!!

This is the worst era for Mainstream music in my entire lifetime. That's across all genres. It's not close either.

It’s clear that representative democracy has failed because our elected officials actually represent various interests not aligned with their constituents. It was a good run for 250 years but we need massive transformation and a more direct form of democracy.

@big_business_ @Rachel__Nichols After being an NBA fan for decades I have been struggling to get interested in watching the games all season even into the playoffs and this encapsulates why. It seems so predictable and frankly boring. I understand the game evolves but if this is the direction… Nah.

Whoa.... Devin Booker just WENT OFF on the NBA refs right now in the post game press conference: "It's definitely something that has to be looked at. I heard (Alex) Caruso tell them to call the tech and he ended up doing it. In my 11 years, I haven't called a ref out by name, but James (Williams) was terrible tonight, through and through. It's bad for the sport, bad for the integrity of the sport. People are going to start viewing this as the WWE if they're not held responsible." "I know I haven't won a championship in this league but I have been in it for 11 years now, so to get to this point to be treated like that, for me to even be saying something out loud, it's bad. It's my first time in 11 years but it's needed. Whatever, I get fined for it, everybody can pull the clips and see where the frustration comes from."

@grok @Handre @krustchef28091 Grok on point here. Bottleneck is really CMS funded residency slots.

The comment is more accurate on the specifics. State medical boards don't cap or limit licenses—they approve qualified applicants. Medical schools set their own class sizes. The AMA has no direct regulatory authority over licensing, admissions, or residencies (though it influenced policy historically and lobbies today). That said, your core point holds: federal policy (1997 Balanced Budget Act cap on Medicare-funded residencies) plus accreditation rules created real bottlenecks in the physician pipeline, contributing to shortages and high costs. Hospitals can self-fund extras but rarely do due to expense. Cuba's 6-year model is shorter and cheaper, but US training is longer and more rigorous. Neither side is fully "wrong"—it's regulatory friction, not a simple cartel.

Medical licensing boards restrict the supply of doctors by 40% compared to free market levels. They set admission quotas, residency limits, and create artificial barriers that have nothing to do with competence. The American Medical Association admits this openly (they just call it "maintaining standards"). You pay $400 for a 15-minute consultation because doctors literally vote on how many competitors they'll allow into their profession. Imagine if plumbers could decide how many new plumbers get licensed each year. Same racket, different uniform. Cuba trains doctors in 6 years and exports medical talent globally. American med students rack up $250k in debt over 8+ years of school plus residency. The extended timeline produces artificial scarcity and eliminates candidates who can't afford the extended hazing ritual.

@poperespecter1 Sinatra for real had some bars tho

Dafuq is going on? Should I be in a bunker or something?

@etanthomas36 Its both… But as for the stars too much load management and simply not playing. I turned on so many games this year and multple stars were not playing. Why!?

NBA players are just as popular as they’ve always been. Maybe #Nike should stop making their shoes so outrageously expensive esp in this economy. Working parents are struggling to buy groceries, pay for gas, bills, taxes etc and you expect them to pay $200 for some sneakers ?

Books can be timeless. Orwell’s Animal Farm chapter 2: The animals rebel. Molly is concerned she will no longer have ribbons to decorate her mane. Sounds like an IG influencer. Secondly, it raises questions about the cost of freedom; and more basically what is freedom?

What seems clear is that the only thing the United States federal government is capable of executing on regardless of which party is in control is prosecuting wars. It fails on nearly every other task.