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People will monetize any gaps and inefficiencies in markets: More than 2,800 people may be working as nurses under false pretenses after allegedly buying a fake diploma for between $10,000 and $15,000 from a massive Florida-based scheme recently busted by federal investigators. State and federal authorities are now working to track down the alleged fraudulent nurses, and in some cases, immediately annulling their licenses. Last week, the Department of Justice announced charges against 25 people in five states connected to the alleged scheme. The investigation, code-named Operation Nightingale, found evidence that the 25 defendants worked to sell more than 7,600 fake diplomas, along with transcripts, between 2016 and 2021, making over $100 million in the process. The fraudulent diplomas and transcripts were allegedly issued from three accredited Florida-based nursing schools: Siena College and Sacred Heart International Institute in Broward County and Palm Beach School of Nursing in Palm Beach County. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/2800-fake-nurses-lurk-in-the-us-states-are-working-to-track-them-down/

SNL with a funny send up of how the convoluted streaming channels have diluted the "mindshare" of the common non-cinephile:

Reminds me of an interview I read with Hannibal Burress and one of the questions was about TikTok: How would you explain TikTok to your great-grandparents?A record player but it keeps skipping and it’s a video and it’s Chinese face-scanning software.

Great movie...

Seriously. That was disgusting.

Are you talking about the amc stock class or the guy (cohen) who just bought a bunch of Nordstrom

Understandable!

There is definitely a lot of "regressing to the mean" now that the heady, free-cash and cheap VC money days are over (to come back one day or gone forever?) and it's healthy to recalibrate some of the $200k jobs that are really $100k (or whatever) jobs outside of a tight labor market in tech, but the point is that it's still not great that high paying jobs in high COL areas are being gutted and replaced by low paying jobs, no matter the nominal gains. Maybe the volume of jobs gained, no matter the quality, will outweigh the jobs in tech lost as it pertains to helping the economy and our consumption-based GDP model and if so that is a good thing. I haven't seen data to suggest that.

Yea Cincinnati is actually a really nice place to raise a family that might be a dark horse for having a renaissance in 30-50 years based on climate change modeling. That whole NKY/Cincinnati metro could be a great investment today.

+rep because I had completely forgot about the Rams laying an egg in a 13-3 stinker in 2019.

I see what you did there lol This definitely gives oxygen to that persuasion though

@jimmyjazzHere is a tool to play around with compensation if curious: https://www.comprehensive.io/explorer/titles/location=all&sortDir=asc @gurt It appears Recruiters (Technical & Sales Recruiters) were making good money at Big Tech?https://www.comprehensive.io/explorer/titles/title=Sales+Recruiter&title=Senior+Technical+Recruiter&title=Technical+Recruiter&location=all&sortDir=asc

Layoffs.fyi seems to be a good source: 2023: The Tech Layoffs Continue 2022 became known as the year in which dozens of tech companies began to lay off thousands of employees even as many businesses have found it hard to attract qualified IT personnel. And 2023 seems to be following the same pattern, with a variety of tech companies cutting their workforces. So far in 2023, 200 tech companies have laid off a total of 86,822 workers, according to layoffs-tracking website Layoffs.fyi.

Understand where you are coming from and good questions: I'll try to find some more hard data.

Because of amazon's bad earnings IMO

250k is a number that is being bandied about a lot, but who knows. I've seen various numbers. Fortune said this: Layoffs in Big Tech have caused turmoil for nearly 250,000 workers in the U.S. since the start of 2022, according to Layoffs.fyi, and has led to what’s been coined as the great tech-job reshuffle. Some affected workers have taken to LinkedIn and other job boards clamoring for a new gig, while others have realized that “that their skills are still a hot commodity,” recent Fortune reporting shows. https://fortune.com/education/articles/amid-big-tech-layoffs-cybersecurity-job-losses-have-been-few-and-far-between-industry-leader-says/ As far as the average compensation I don't think there is data that supports it specifically, but $130k seems conservative (and that's not included the fully loaded cost, just the dollar compensation the employee was getting) based off: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/06/what-big-tech-companies-are-paying-based-on-new-public-salary-data.html This is from a WSJ article I read today: https://www.wsj.com/articles/layoffs-labor-market-bosses-power-workplace-11675347655

So anyways, back to the main topic. @Porterhouse how much do I need to grease your palm to get me into the Petroleum Club easy peasy?

What's the underlying reasoning here? I'll hang up and listen.

+pos rep because I read this in J.R.'s voice from WWE Raw

Truth. And also the progressives would be saying that "yea but the jobs are all wage slavery horrible cost of living and quality of life low pay jobs while higher paying jobs are being sloughed"

Thanks for this response. Super informative. God bless you Bruin!

1) agree with your first point, but my point was for overall economy (wages -> consumption/spend-> services/consumption based GDP) as well as the quality of living and quality of jobs that provide a comfortable living for people are being lost while the nominal term "jobs" are being added which are much less in quality. 2) Tech grew too fast in some instances (Google and Amazon being two culprits), but I've read data that shows that mostly the general tech hires and firms grew linearly at the same rate over time. The myth that the pandemic caused all these tech companies to hire exponentially is false. 3) Big tech firms still have more employees than they did 12 months ago, yes, because they are growing their people at a healthy pace. No comment on your faux-sympathetic last sentence.

How does this work, exactly? 1) If you have an autoimmune, you don't want to harvest your own stem cell via blood marrow because you are tainted, so you need to use someone else's stem cell or cord blood and 2) even if you have access, you have to find a clinical trial or something via a Cleveland Clinic or some NIH thing, right?

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It's funny because a class of characters can't seem to fathom that you can use your feet and kick in a fight and they are literally flabbergasted by the idea: *Guy kicks* "Yo WTF! Bro what you kicking for?!" End of the video *cry voice* "Stop kicking N-word!"