cybersecurity provides that option, since everything can pretty much be done remotely

That's why I chose this company, I'm former NAvy Intel, and I got sick of single agency limitation and some other rather concerning integrity issues I saw being ignored after 1999. I left the Navy in 2002. Been in the private sector doing the exact same thing since 2010. The company I work for didn't actually exist until 2007 so it was just a matter of the right company coming along at the right time.

If you wouldn't mind, would you send me some info on your company in a DM? I'd like to look into it

But I turned down every offer I got from every other contractor.

I'll be graduating with a MS in cybersecurity next summer, so I'm looking into as many opportunities as I can

Sure. Since this is a new discord account, and our internal security policies are pretty stringent, I'll have to run it by my supe before I do that to make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't.

Sure, I understand that. I'll send you a friend request so it's easier to find me when you get approval

You could honestly just send a website link if that's all you're allowed to do

But our hiring and security clearance adjudication policies are the most stringent in the industry. We do more active recruiting than open CV hiring and the vast majority of folks with an active TS/SCI can't pass our screening processes. We cover far more than just an SSBI based on an SF-86. There are personality, character and integrity assessments, psych evals out the wazoo, it's pretty intense.

I'll be fresh out of grad school. I don't have any clearances at the moment

but my criminal record is spotless and I've never been committed or put on meds lol

There is a website, but the resolution to establish one wasn't passed until earlier this year, and the site isn't fully developed yet. Since we don't really "need" the marketing from a website, it's more of a "Sticking our head out from behind our corner" thing rather than a marketing effort.

psst hey kid, wanna job?

that sort of approach

Actually, I was recruited after a talent outreach specialist had monitored my personal online activity for a couple years. I never even knew I was being considered until I got a random email one day.

What a pleasant surprise lol makes you realize how important it is to watch what you do online

And also to actually speak your "true mind" without fear of rejection or abuse. Facts are facts, and they don't care about anyone's feelings.

I have no problem doing that

That's why I like Tim so much. I certainly don't agree with everything he says but agreeing on *everything* with someone is just boring. But he speaks his mind and makes his case based on his understanding of the available facts and doesn't give two shits whether he's called a far-right reactionary by the regressive left or a crypto-SJW by far-right.

I respect that.

honesty is all we have. If we lose that, we lose everything

Honesty, courage, and the ability to think clearly divorced from your emotions on a situation to make an accurate analysis of the current situation.

Honesty takes courage.

Especially in 2018 when lying for your own best interests at the expense of that of others is the expected norm.

Emotions are dangerous when they get tied to irrational thought. I have to go, though. Dinnertime. Just send me a message when you can with whatever information you can give me regarding your company.

Cheers. It's 2116 where I'm at right now, so it wouldn't be until Monday at the earliest. IF I had thought to get online a littler earlier, I might have caught my supe but it's late and a weekend. It's a skeleton crew right now.

That's fine. I can handle waiting a few days I won't graduate until July lol

Having emotions is fine. Being able to *control* them rather than being controlled *by* them is key.

We have a strict non-partisan stance on politics and have people who consider themselves liberal and conservative who work together to solve some pretty complex issues together and being able to not let any kind of emotionally driven "political derangement syndrome" fuck things up is one of the reasons there is such a stringent vetting process.

Does your workplace have an unofficial rule about not hiring potential SJWs?

like dyed hair and/or lisp

Not all people are social justice warriors with physical characteristics that stand out. Usually its more behavioral attitude that shows.

Looking for people who show strong interest in the benefit of the minorities is literally my flag.

Take them to Starbucks for the interview

if they order a Soy Latte you know not to hire them

lel

https://youtu.be/3WEh51z1H_o A couple weeks old but D'Souza has some interesting ideas and viewpoints.

Weeks??
Its 10 days

not even two

It's ELT math.

The moon is made if cheese

But I can't taste it

I've cracked the code, the left can't meme because they try to make memes that try to make the "other side" angry. They do this because they always get mad at other memes, so they are just trying to do what they think works. In other words they lack a sense of humor

Nah. Remember when the religious right made a bunch of TV stations and stuff and it was so dry and boring that no one wanted to watch it (except to make fun of it)? That you could only make fun of a very small number of groups and self-reflective humor was usually off-limits?

Well, people aren't calling the regressive left "a new religion" for no reason. That's why they can't meme as well.

The left can meme and trigger the right. Take the case with an anti gun guy. He made a joke about nuking gun owners. All the pro gun owners threw a fit.

Its actually 4 am

Lol

@4AM_critter 🐉 That wasn't a meme. It was barely a joke. Mostly it was just dumb.

Yeah, meme != joke != controversial statement. A meme is a viral idea, something that spreads because people want to spread it. High fecundity and high (but not perfect) fidelity.

The less-than-perfect fidelity is essential. The best memes lend themselves to easy mutation, which keeps the meme fresh and propagates it further. Exploitable images that can be easily photoshopped to apply to different situations.

Another thing that helps the fecundity of memes is the illusion that they're an inside joke. Hence why memes tend to be born in the less traveled parts of the web and not facebook/twitter/etc. Mainstream appeal and a global audience is the surest way to kill a meme.

That's not to say that something born on Twitter can't spread or mutate, but that they tend to die out quickly and have fewer mutations. It's not as funny of a joke if everyone is in on it.

Subversion is also a big thing. A joke is funnier if it's being played on or behind the back of someone or something that is powerful.

Think of middle school and the jokes and pranks you'd play when the teacher wasn't looking.

The left's current position of institutional power and media dominance places it in a disadvantageous position for meme warfare. They don't have the same dark corners like 4chan where inside jokes can flourish, mostly because they don't need them. They have all the massive mainstream platforms. They can't be subversive because they're the ones in a position of cultural dominance. And plenty of people have already pointed out how the left is loathe to say anything that might conceivably trigger or offend one of their constituent protected classes.

Memes are the tool of the cultural insurgent.

https://mises.org/library/carl-menger-nature-value

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/gm-to-close-oshawa-assembly-plant/ar-BBQ7qVJ?ocid=spartandhp

General Motors is closing this plant in Canada in favor of one in Mexico

Premier Doug Ford touched on this issue, saying that Canada had failed to remain competitive. The problem wasn't simply that we weren't competitive enough, but that we just can't compete with a country that allows large corporations to pay their workers next to nothing

We have things like unions and labour laws that prevent that sort of thing

Let Mexico have this. Labor there has been stifled there from having the same cuts Canada is feeling and from being used for that cheap labor. They haven't hit the part in their timeline yet where the workers have power of freedom. It'll take time.

You fix the issue in your country and get the factories back, then Mexico loses theirs and never reaches the strength you're able to manipulate.

So let's say that Mexico develops economically to where the US and Canada are today. Where does the industry go after that?

mexico sends factories to equador and honduras

no fucking immigrants want to come to the US from there lol

except mexico won't send them. GM will, against the will of the Mexicans. Just like they are in Canada.

GM and companies like it will just go to the next cheapest place

Leaving unemployment behind them

Oshawa is already rough in some areas. I expect to see crime skyrocket these next few years. All these people have in the way of jobs are retail now, or going to college for a tech/admin job in the city

The factory had been there for over 100 years. It survived the great depression and countless other economic hard times, yet it couldn't survive this

You assume GM won't be headquartered in Mexico if the economy becomes stable.

Depends what happens there in regards to taxes if the economy becomes stable

property taxes alone may be enough to dictate where an HQ will be

and they will go up if the quality of life goes up

Exactly, we haven't seen it out of Mexico yet. But this sort of thing does take time. Might take less time in modern days because of tech and universal knowledge, but it took the US a hundred years even with how powerful it was/is.

from industrialization to when it began shipping jobs overseas and international trade

What about Aleppo?

Are we even talking about the same thing? @taekahn

It was a (seemingly) lame attempt at a joke

oof

whats aleppo

https://youtu.be/ffpBTzeLvHg

I keep making this argument:


If one keeps wages artificially high, then wages are not simply going to rise and everybody gets payed more. The difference might be having to choose between a low wage and the job not being available at all.

That being said, when there are outside markets that do not play by the same rules as your domestic market, even Friedman points out that a degree of regulation might make sense here, in order to correct distortions that are not inherent in the market.

The error many regulations commit is that they assume that their passing will simply apply to the current market and consumer behaviors. When regulations change, behavior changes with them, so raising taxes on a certain good, or regulating a certain area of the market cannot be assumed on the basis of current figures.

Minimum wage argument is a waste of time. Anyone who doesn't see how flawed it is, doesn't want to.

No, it's not a waste. I didn't take the time to understand the issues with it until my 20s.

If someone doesn't want to argue honestly about it after you present the facts, fine. I agree with you there. IT's like arguing with pigeon:

it will shit on the board, knock over the pieces, and pretend it won.

But there are people out there who are receptive to the arguments and just haven't been introduced to them.

Most of the time they are not engaged in the thread, so have not emotional investment in the outcome of the discussion, but lurk and you can red pill them as onlookers.

I don't always do a good job at that, but I try to bring good arguments in public debates, even when I realize that my opponent is not arguing in earnest.

If I argue with someone in private and they are just throwing idiotic nonsense out there, I terminate the conversation and drop a few links so I don't have to make the same arguments over again that people better than me have made.

I enjoy our chats, UM. As I've stated, I haven't worked for minimum wage since I was in high school, my daughter who is about to enter the workforce will make more than it, and as an employer we have no positions that make minimum although with Oregon's higher minimum it's getting close.

I am familiar with economics and actually have worked at the University of Chicago so am familiar with their school of economics.

Personally I'm less for an particular solution than for the result. I don't want legal Americans starving or dying unnecessarily. We are rich enough to ensure our people can live reasonably regardless of circumstance.

Anyone who thinks minimum wages are bad, is completely idiotic

How we do that is open to lively and rational debate