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  • Who you know, and the opportunities they afford is a game changer for career trajectory.
    The big reason to pay money or get into a good school isnt that the education is of that much higher quality, its about who your friends are, and more importantly what their parents or parents friends do. You have a friend all through school and one day you are like ‘i wanted to get an internship somewhere but im not sure how to go about it’ and then your friend is like ‘oh my mum/dads friend is a senior manager/team leader at XY good company, im sure they can find you a placement.’

    But saying this, it is “who you know not what you know” until your in the job and its a matter of time until it becomes “what you know and who you know won’t save you”, except the rare circumstances where your working for dad in the whitehouse or something.



  • Im no economist but with negative inflation it drives consumers to put off that next purchase.
    Why buy the car you have been saving for, or put a bid on a house, upgrade your TV or get replacement running shoes if prices are staying the same or potentially going down? A way to make sure that people spend now and dont put it off is that they know the longer they wait the higher chance that the shoes are going to be $5 more in a months time or two.
    If people arent spending then conversely people arent selling, building, labouring, etc and then everything grinds to a halt. People get laid off, people cant pay rent or mortgages, things go to shit.

    At least this is the way i understand it, and like i said im no expert.




  • Sizing has got much worse in recent years, ever since the uprise of ‘fast fashion’. Its in companies best (profit) interests to have less sizes that covers other similar sizes. What used to be a XS, S & M may now just be a “S” size, but made with slightly more room in some areas and stretchier fabric to allow for it to fit as a slightly larger size. Why carry 7 sizes when you can carry 3 sizes?
    Couple this with clothes & goods being made with lower cost manufacturing techniques and materials so they dont last as long, fit as well or resist as much wear & tear.

    Profits, profits, profits.








  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlJust the tip
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    Honestly why 3d print any tools that are expected to handle significant force, its much more practical to make a hammer out of a sturdy bit of wood and shape a bit of steel to go on the end than it is to print one and expect it not to break the first time you use it. What if the nail is still sticking out and needs to be knocked in again a second or third time? Especially in a country where every hardware store sells hammers and there are hammer club catch ups where you can also get them from other hammer enthusiasts.
    The whole 3D printed hammer thing is sensational journalism hyped up over a theoretical issue that really isnt an actual issue.





  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.worldLuigi Mangione Is Everywhere
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    Experts:

    MAGA movement becomes volatile and aggravating enough to get traction and push a large portion of the country to reelect trump and all he stands for.

    “Seems like a normal election, people chose the party with the policy they liked, people are in a sound mental state”

    Also experts:

    CEO murdered after just one of the corporate victims finally decides to take a stand against the injustice. People laud him for standing up for everyone.

    “Its concerning people have taken this extreme view”