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because as we know, people are not influenced by society at all. Every man is an island. Marketing doesn't work. Lobbying doesn't work. Manipulation doesn't work. Nobody gets radicalised.

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It does!

> "The prevalence of overweight and obesity is rising dramatically in children as well as in adults. Between 1975 and 2016, the prevalence of obesity in Europe rose 138%, with a 21% rise between 2006 and 2016.1 The prevalence of overweight rose by 51% between 1975 and 2016, and by 8% between 2006 and 2016. It is expected that by 2030, over half of Europe will live with obesity – up to 89% in some countries. No Member State is on track to reach the target of halting the rise in obesity by 2025" - https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-living/article/europes-obes...

> "Once considered a high-income country problem, overweight is on the rise in low- and middle-income countries. In Africa, the number of overweight children under 5 years has increased by nearly 12.1% since 2000. Almost half of the children under 5 years who were overweight or living with obesity in 2024 lived in Asia." - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and...

Americans are at the forefront of driving to the drive through for a McSuperSize meal, and wealthy enough to eat that every day. Mexico has an obesity crisis heavily driven by the Coca Cola company.

> "The Rothschilds are using 5G to signal my brain that I must not stop until I reach the bottom of the XXL bag of Costco potato chips."

Yes, there are no constant JustEat or Deliveroo or McDonalds adverts, no CocaCola adverts connecting Coke with Christmas and fun, no Pepsi adverts connecting Pepsi with attractive women draping themselves over sports cars, nothing.

> "Edit: @jodrellblank damn, then I guess I stand corrected. Am I the only one immune to marketing then?"

No, you're one of many people who believes they are immune to marketing. That $350Bn annual spend on advertising[1] in the USA is not there for a laugh. What's the betting you could answer a whole lot of questions like "which company had the 'why 1984 won't be like 1984' and 'think different'" adverts? Which fast food company has a clown as its mascot? Which fast food company has a southern Colonel as their mascot? Which drink was "the choice of a new generation"? Name an insurance company or a bank that you've heard of but never used? Name a shop you've heard of but never been to? Complete the jingle: "head-on, apply "? If you were immune to advertising, you wouldn't be able to picture any company logo, signboard, complete any jingle, name any product or service or shop you hadn't researched or heard of from a friend. Drive past a dentist every day on your way to work and recognise their signboard because you've seen it before? Not immune to advertising. Recognise where you are by the giant Walmart sign? Not immune to advertising. Turn off the TV when you hear the start of a jingle you remember and dislike? Not immune to advertising. Coworker drives a and you know because of the logo? Not immune to advertising.

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/bed/total-advertisin...

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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I agree with the philosophy although I'll note you're not taking one thing into account. And that is how much human time is spent *reviewing* whatever special little project they assign to you. If the answer is zero, then you're exactly right. However, speaking just for myself as an interviewer, I will generally spend a couple of hours per-candidate reviewing any work samples, etc that are asked of a candidate. If we…

And yet, I can't recall receiving a counter submission of feedback and summary of the review for the work I've submitted, whether I got the job or not.

I gave feedback like this when I first started doing interviews

I had to stop very quickly when I realized how many candidates take it as an invitation to argue, accuse me of being wrong, or see it as an invite to redo the problem and resubmit.

I also had one case where someone tried to go on a rampage against me and the company because they though our rejection was unfair (the candidate wasn’t even top 5 among the applicants)

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The sickle and hammer looking real interesting now.

That's something only people of privilege in countries that never experienced what the sickle and hammer does to its people.

Having recently come off a micro-binge of the rise of USSR and it's history, the common theme in keeping a state communist through change of leadership is "The system works great, they just didn't know how to run it properly." Then they also proceeded to just continue the devastation.

The fundamental problem of communism is that everyone needs to play along, but the rewards for not playing along grow as more people do play along.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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I quote: "applicants using the tech are overall happy with their experience—and its hiring manager clientele are enthusiastic". Let me translate the PR statement to the real-world: applicants dislike the tech and hiring managers are satisfied with lowering hiring costs.

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> except they forget people also need money to buy their goods. Do they? Money is simply the accounting of debt. You do something for me, and when I can't immediately do something in return for you, you extend a loan to me so that I can make good on my side of the bargain later. If we record that I owe you something at some point in the future, we just created money! But if I don't need anything from you — because, s…

>> except they forget people also need money to buy their goods. >Do they? Yes they absolutely positively really do.

They’re not too bothered with a part of humanity starving. Why do you think they’d care about you more?

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Two years ago I gave myself five years to get the fuck out of tech and boy am I happy I took this decision. It was slowly starting to look bleak before AI entered the hype cycle but now it's a full blown circus

My fear that AI will accidentally run amok and kill everyone has been supplanted by the fear that somebody who is absolutely fucking sick of this shit will prompt AI to do so instead.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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It is all almost making richer even more richer, instead of properly hiring people for HR, AI bots. Instead of having more people at the supermarket, have the customers work as if they were employees, the only thing missing is fetching stuff from warehouse when missing on the shelves, but still pay the same or more. Instead of paying to artists, do job ads using generated AI images with code magically showing off mon…

"but still pay the same or more." Yeah margins in groceries are great.

For those who don’t get the reference: Grocery stores have low margins. It’s the textbook example of a business that many assume is high margin and rolling in profits, but when you look at the numbers they have very poor profit margins.
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