Every HR department ever says that exact same thing. Even while the company is burning down and past bankruptcy.

Edit: For example, the fortune 50 I worked for insisted the same thing. Even when faced with industry data…they’d insist the Glassdoor and Indeed numbers were fake.

I left and got a 90% raise. That’s not a joke number.

You’re actually getting applicants at 80k? That’s nuts. Last I checked fresh outs were clearing 100k.

Unfortunately their house of cards is built on a foundation of wealth…and not just fuck you money, but literal centuries of fuck you money.

The fortune 50 I worked for could literally stop doing all business and maintain their current spend for a century and still be solvent.

This isn’t unstable at all…it’s built to last for 100s of years…the current leaders to their grandkids will be safe.

To further that…the 1% have private armies and well stocked bunkers to ride out any social uprising. That’s the really scary stuff.

We are all fucked though. Enjoy the hunger games.

I’ll take the average immigrant’s reading level over the average conservative’s reading level.

Top hit on google: https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/literacy-statistics#:~:text=Top 10 U.S. Literacy Rate,literacy below sixth-grade level.

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/?sh=223357864c90

Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/

There’s a bunch of other studies out there that back that number…It’s always generally 20% can’t read at all…50% can’t do critical analysis of text.

It’s really ugly…Those people all vote, and I think it helps explain how the most vile ridiculous demons the R’s put out there get 30%+ of the vote. It’s extremely hard to refute lies when the person consuming and believing the lie can’t read.

It’s only going to get worse. 20% of the US is illiterate. 50% can’t read above a 6th grade level.

Read that again.

1 in 2 people can not read above a 6th grade level.

That is a fucking insane statistic.

A ping pong table is cheaper and less effort.

I shrug…I like WFH…it’s me vs the machine and that’s that. I hated the forced corporate fun when I was still in that environment. It’s “collaborative”…no…no it’s not.

Sure…having Little John spin the company party was a neat story…getting paid 50k more and working in quiet peace is a better one.

others need a bit of distraction like a ping pong table.

That is never the answer. If your business isn’t retaining people because the party culture isn’t party enough…you’ve got way bigger problems…and it’s probably leadership.

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unbrick a OnePlus 11 device with fastboot. Why has this stopped development?

What you’ll find out after you go down that rabbit hole is maybe the instructions work, maybe they don’t. Worse, they’ll point to links to 3rd parties that will charge you to use their tools.

I spent two weeks with an N20 trying to root it and gave up after hitting a batch of files with really ugly viruses. I gave up after I got it factory reset, but the cell radio wouldn’t work. It was just obscure problem, virus, scam, obscure problem…over and over.

It’s the first time where I’ve hit that level of scamminess in the modding community and a total lack of support from the manufacturer.

Go try to find an MSM tool (the official one) for anything after the OnePlus N200. They’re just not there…and worse, the ones you do find are password locked (that cost 15$ to unlock) or virus ladden garbage.

I’m done with OnePlus and will go to more mainline phones with better support from here on out.

After the Nord line, I’ll never touch another OnePlus phone. They seemed to give up on the modding community, which is what made them attractive in the first place.

I was banned from there because I said Sinéad O’Connor’s career was ironic.

It’s not that so much as Howard Stern theory. The people that like that stuff, click on it and move on.

The people that hate that stuff hate it enough to interact with it… That means more time on the site, more ads, more revenue.

It’s just the hate algorithms… They’re lucrative.

Trying. But the experience isn’t all there yet.

It’s the removal of a down vote count. It’s the same problem across all social media. People spew absolute outrageous comments… Get 3 likes or votes, and they think it’s a positive score.

The reality is 10k down votes and 3 likes from bots.

It’s really changed the internet landscape and ultimately society. We hide dissent.