Americans, the last Trump presidency was a fucking disaster on so many fronts that ended with a massive pandemic that the management of was sabatagoted by Trump as president while also championing an insurrection.

How the fuck is anybody undecided at this point? You have to have had your head in a hole for the last 8 years to be undecided today.

Lol.

Trump campaign floundering so hard that an assisnation attempt of a former President couldn’t dominate the news cycle and they’re trying to make it happen 2 months later.

Not gonna happen weirdos.

Have we tried foreplay?

Aka, the Nickleback joke ruiner.

Don’t under estimate the tribes from showing up and swinging AZ blue again.

Nickleback would probabaly be happy they’re getting played again.

80s?

Southern Washington and the majority of Oregon were hot spots for white supremacist “utopia” migration dating back to before the Civil Rights movement.

As a white dude, it’s fucking scary visiting some of those small towns in both states. My wife will even suggest not going to areas due research she’s done to verify that were not stepping into a social trap.

CNN changed ownership a while back and it’s had a clear impact on their bias and reporting standards. Giving a voice to the “far right” was a final straw of my “trust but verify” stance I had with them before that change.

Obviously I don’t trust Fox, OAN (do they still exist?), InfoWars or any of the similar ilk at all. Thats not to say that I write off everything right wing, but there isnt many that pass muster in the US ATM.

There’s also a handful of “left” publications that I dismiss offhand due to a history of sensationalism and bad perspectives.

The majority of news is a “trust but verify” stance with me (using a secondary media outlet). It’s not a straight “this news source is credible” stance, but whether or not they have a history of news that is overtly biased, sensationalized, or mis-reporting. And then there’s the individual article itself.

I down vote the source. CNN is a down vote from me every time. Same with a handful of others.

It’s usually a slow trickle of slighted information that resonates with somebody until they’ve flipped to a view/position contrary to their own interests manipulated by a foreign actor. It’s why your previous posting behavior was received so negatively, as you were tripping the “trolldar” of many individuals as it seemed you were posting with a “hidden” agenda. Which I have to say, while I don’t always agree with you, your recent posting behavior and approach to discussions is no longer tripping my internal warning klaxons.

But an even bigger example is Q-Anon, where there was a slow trickle of info that slowly worked it’s way into so many susceptible individuals.

Lemmy is immune to this, right? Riiiight?

With the knowledge/reports that this was going on by Russia in the 2016 election (reports dropped during the election cycle) with suggestions that other countries were likely doing the same, I am not surprised. Hell, it was exposed that even the Trump campaign had their own “grass roots astroturfing troll farm” division.

It’s made me incredibly skeptical of posters. But it’s not too hard to spot potential trolls. I’m also sure there’s those that operate in a far more subtle way that even my skepticism doesn’t capture.

I wish the communities here had better rules in place to mitigate this. But the rules tend to lean towards “benefit of the doubt” instead of a harder line on dis-incentivizing this from happening throughout our moderated communities. Maybe part of that is a limitation of Lemmy MOD Tools, but another part is definitely a lack of stronger definitions and enforcement of disallowed behavior (bad faith arguments) and enforcement of those rules.

Do they really?

They made a lot of claims about their military capabilities. However their war with Ukraine has shown those to largely be lies propped up to hide that their oligarchs have emezzled the money.

I’m starting to wonder how nuclear capable they actually are these days.

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After getting laid off last year (big tech worker with outstanding yearly reviews) , I had a service that my former company paid for that helps people prep for a job search after getting laid off.

I, like you, had this out dated assumption as well goong into the meetings with that service. They strongly advise people to go with 2 pages, if enough relevant experience exists, with custom tailoring for each job role, to ensure you’re hitting the key words and other data points the resume scanners are looking for. They came to this conclusion using data from said resume scanning services on passing resumes

Shit has changed a lot in the last 3-5 years. And I can only imagine it’s gotten worse over the last 14 months since I landed my job (Sr level) and modern LLMs have been integrated into the scanning services.

How to know when OP is unhinged and divisive:

People are agreeing with givesomefucks, who often gets down voted for unpopular views.

Maybe they need to hire somebody at the office that can show them how to work the espresso machine in the break room that hasn’t been used since Bruno left 6 months ago.

Coffee connections!

It’s reccomened to do 2 pages these days to hit all the automated resume screening points. 3 pages max if you’re in STEM applying for senior+ positions. Most relevant information should be front and center on that first page though for when it gets into the hands of a real person instead of a bot.

I saw the headline and almost expected my phone to start blaring to let me know that there was a missing elderly person last seen in a red Toyota Prius heading east on I94.

All the data I’ve seen in the last 5-10 years suggests that we don’t have enough homes. Even with vacant homes accounted for and how much burden that would relieve.

That’s one of the reasons why there’s a growing push to bring back the missing middle housing and businesses into our population centers by removing zoning laws that got rid of them in the first place.

That’s not to say that we shouldn’t also be doing away with corporate ownership of housing and taxing individuals with 3/4+ homes, especially if they’re vacant.

We need a multi-pronged attack on resolving the housing issue, including the 3m planned homes from a Harris admin.

Accidental admission it is!