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Call it a "Trump Rebate" and there will be universal support here


What would have more support is a real program like DOGE that would make all governmental spending transparent to the people paying for it. This would lead to better spending and much less need for taxation.

re: For the Hands-off Iran folks

Posted by UtahCajun on 3/2/26 at 11:22 am to
This reminds me of what John McCain's buddies did to US citizens. You know, the ones from the organization we created, trained and funded.

Neo-cons...can't wait until y'all leave the party y'all destroyed.

re: AI-related job news / layoffs

Posted by UtahCajun on 2/28/26 at 4:45 pm to
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It would entail blaming the business owners who mandate this practice

Only small businesses mandate at the hiring level. At large corporations, anyone above middle management has no care or desire to know.

In my last 2 jobs before this(this is working retirement), I set the pay range for any engineer or inspector to be hired into our department. I would do, like all other department heads would do. Research average wages, for experience, throughout the industry, put in a request for the position. As soon as the position was approved, I turned over the hiring details to HR, along with the pay range I was looking at paying. Sure I took part in the interviews, but haggling over the pay rate was something I did not have time for. That was HR's job. This is commonplace at large companies. I never knew exactly what the guys working for me made. Also why it is always against company policy to discuss pay with co-workers. Pay is generally up to the rate scale and how much the person can negotiate within it.
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No. This isn’t a personal grievance. My friends have jobs.

My bad then. I thought you said you knew someone looking.
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Maybe it’s a regional thing. My husband is from a more rural parish and knows tons of operators. Louisiana caters to oil and gas though.

Iowa. Been out of LA since 2006. Unless it is cornbased or University of Iowa, there is little knowledge of what we do. I just tell people I am a glorified Hank Hill. It saves me from explaining what I do. After all these years, I am tired of telling people what mechanical integrity is.

re: AI-related job news / layoffs

Posted by UtahCajun on 2/28/26 at 4:08 pm to
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It sounds like the jobs weren’t perceived to be beneath Americans then.

One industry does not a job market make
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You mean employers illegally exploiting cheap labor suppresses wages. Place the blame where it belongs

Sure, we could do that. That would entail blaming thousands and thousands of middle management HR individuals. I know several of them as I am sure you do too. They don't seem that assholish(or is it assholeish).

So your friend cannot find a job? Hopefully he/she is covering all bases and is open to working outside of his/her normal industry.

We(well, not I but the guy in the office down the hall) has been trying to fill an operator's position for months. Very few applicants. Seems no one wants to work in the natural gas industry or even thinks about it. My guy down the hall would hire a warm body right about now. Basically, I just tell you this so that you can tell your buddy to keep an open mind in his/her search.
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Psychotic behavior or new national past time?


Maybe he calls that "cooking them"

Who am I to judge
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might wanna start here


Looks like part of a bible that is not the bible of Christians.
Redditt is idiots. If both Canada and Mexico invade, at the same time, say around 0600...both would be begging for piece before lunch.

Both countries military might, added together is about 1/4 of ours. They stand less than a 0.001% chamce of winning.
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How does the fall of the Berlin Wall help the average American?

Are you using faulty logic to try to tie that event with current events?

re: AI-related job news / layoffs

Posted by UtahCajun on 2/28/26 at 7:59 am to
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Do we feel the job is beneath us, or the pay is beneath us?


A couple things on that.
1) Pay may be perceived as beneath us, but any pay is better than no pay.
2) Several places in my area, mostly agricultural processing like beef, pork, etc were raided by ICE. Within 3 days, all jobs were refilled by citizens.
3) More than enough evidence that illegals do indeed supress the wages.

A few other things play into it, but we don't need to get into that.

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My wealthy friend

Don't play coy. I have seen you there as well.
The wife's favorite show. It was very entertaining

re: AI-related job news / layoffs

Posted by UtahCajun on 2/27/26 at 5:42 pm to
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I realize you were being cheeky, but finding a job is already bleak.


I am sure it is. Our society has changed much in the past 40-50 years. There is some truth to "they do jobs Americans do not want to do" and quite frankly that is sad. It says a lot about us as a nation and not the right thing. There are tons of jobs out there. Most of us feel that they are beneath us.

Hell, I post on the OT. I KNOW they are beneath me....
Are we using the scientific racial names as basewords here? If so, there is something I could say in rebuttal....
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If you're not woke you're sleep


Are you in ASL?
So no snow?

Can't say that bothers me.

re: AI-related job news / layoffs

Posted by UtahCajun on 2/27/26 at 9:04 am to
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In terms of welders, there is already a lot of welding done robotically


Still, there is an operator or two, sometime more running it.

I used to hate automated welding processes. They are getting much cleaner now. They can fuse a lot of metal quickly, but are still prone to defects....at least the ones we use in my industry. Of course some processes have been around for decades, but the average Joe doesn't know anything about them. When the first automated processes came out, it was the same as we see now. "OMG, robots and automation are taking over". 50+ years later and we still have guys under hoods.

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Fun Fact: Did you know that 100% of child molesters who are fed into wood chippers have ZERO percent chance of being repeat offenders


Fun fact: you actually have to freeze them first or the mess is unbelievable.

re: AI-related job news / layoffs

Posted by UtahCajun on 2/27/26 at 8:48 am to
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Universal Basic Income is going to rear its ugly head again

I would be interested to see what the unemployment rates will look like in the fall

Why would UBI be a consideration?

From what I hear, this country has so many jobs that need doing, we not only have to import labor, we have to swing the border gates wide open.
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If you have a job and you are not rich, you have a problem. You all will be replaced within five years. It would be smart to read up on what actually is happening


If I only had a dollar....

Been hearing this since the auto manufacturing industry went automated in the late 70's.
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The technology is there to get rid of pilots all together. Luckily the airlines have billions invested in airplanes that require pilots to fly. Not to mention the unions that will fight it and the slow moving federal regulatory bodies that would have to get on board with pilotless airplanes


Acceptance will hinder AI pilots the most.

The overwhelming majority of us do not trust self-driving cars. Imagine the public trust of self-flying airliners.
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Leeches and Somalis. That’s where our refunds need to come from


I will be happy with that as a start, but both state and local levels need to step up on that refund train too.