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Damn at this rate it seems like Z's administration will be finished by New Year's.

you forgot "le biggest land invasion since WW2!1!"

if you find out let me know

i don't think wanting to do damage control is specific to culture...that just sounds like a human thing

Yeah I was wondering if I had mixed up my crazy Roman oligarch deaths lol my bad.
Glad Cicero got was was coming.
Pompey is the one who got unceremoniously beheaded on the Nile cuz Ptolemy was told Caesar would be into it. He was not into it.

this headline WOULD scan as ancient greek

FUCK Cicero. And especially fuck Pompey "teh great". Just another Job Creator who wasted his life fucking over the proletariat and hoarding gold and enslaved people. Hmm I wonder why it is that subsequent Enlightenment thinkers idolized him? 🤔
The molten gold thing is unfortunately likely just a legend but it's what he deserved.

Assassination of Julius Caesar fucking rules, everybody should check it out.

Not only does it deconstruct older, bourgeois historiographies about Rome and explain why it is that Rome is mythologized the way it is in the west, it uses ancient Rome as a model to understand how the interests of oligarchs converge with those of the (oligarch-run) state. Comparing the US with Rome is cliche at this point but Parenti uses historical materialism to make it actually useful. Once you read it you'll understand why reformism is a dead end; Caesar was a dyed-in-the-wool imperialist oligarch who understood that the contradictions in Roman society needed to be eased by some minor wealth redistribution and even that was so repulsive to his colleagues that they personally killed him with their own hands. What chance do AOCIA or Bernie or whomever the radlib flavour of the month stand?

I'd say finish since you've gotten this far (unless there's some kind of cataclysmic shift very soon) but certainly have a backup plan. Always have a backup plan. As you will learn in IT; one is none and two is one.

But idk I'm a recent infosec grad and every single employer wants you to have all sorts of certs that aren't included in your actual curriculum. Nobody cares if you have CISSP or Networking+ equivalent knowledge, for example, even if that was literally what you studied and got A's in in school. They want the real deal which costs like 1000 USD. And that's to attempt the CISSP alone. That's a very strong cert but even that is not quite enough alone based on the postings I'm reading. Makes my head spin thinking about how many calls for interviews I was getting unprovoked back in 2018.

So yeah, be prepared for employers seeking unicorn candidates with at least 2+ years of experience in whatever job you're looking at, ghost jobs (Sophos is horrible for this), and I hope you can drive because tons of them want to shuttle you between job sites because it's just cheaper to pay for gas. I can't and it's cost me dearly. Make sure you have a good workflow for creating custom resumes from a template too because you're gonna be sending a LOT of them.

That's just my experience. Good luck out there. /gen

sounds bleak.

Well that's terrible news. Thank you for your input anyways.

Anybody here weld? I'm thinking of bailing on IT and learning a trade after like 10 years and a post-grad later, whole industry is screwed short-term and long. I've done manual labour basically forever even during IT jobs and it seems like a cool trade where you have to think but also get to work with tools.