Why have the oligarchs turned against the Cheeto recently? What did he do to anger Murdoch et al.?

50 is insane already, these are cancelled non-refunded holidays.

Who conquered what land? Today’s people, outside of the settlers, were mostly just born into an endless war

I think most Jewish people today experience the Holocaust through the lens of the history being taught to them. As do we all by the way. And with no direct experience, the takeaway becomes whatever they are taught.

Mostly a general distrust towards the government. There was that time when they harvested everyone’s email addresses for the vaccines, then blasted propaganda on them if you remember.

But I also think DÁP is kinda okay, except there was no reason on having Ügyfélkapu+ then, changing the system twice in as many years. It’s mostly a promise to get voters from Mi Hazánk, and I agree with the basic premise even though I am not a lunatic.

Nope, they want to tear down the DÁP and make something that is auditable.

Don’t give up your dreams, it’s shit everywhere, you might as well do something that interests you while getting fucked by the system like the rest of us.

Option two is to do tech pretend-work for some big corpo for six figures, and check out of the workforce and find fulfillment somewhere else.

Shareholders are interested in share prices and dividends, not volume or even revenue or profits,

They should be correlated, but look at Tesla.

He is not taking stances on a lot of issues on purpose, he’s fighting against a propaganda machine that makes Fox look like an amateur. It was able to destroy a previous challenger because he said “Hungary must implement the joint decision of NATO. So, if NATO decides to support Ukraine with weapons, of course [Hungary] will support it.”

He seems to be economically progressive while culturally conservative and strongly euro-atlanticist. He refused to lean into progressive culture war issues, his stance was basically “we will restore the right of assembly that should guarantee people being free to do Pride, but I’m not going to go to it, or support Pride specifically”. On the other hand, he is proposing wealth taxes, very strong anti-corruption measures, more funding for education and healthcare, support for small businesses, stronger worker’s rights and unions, a right to data privacy from both corps and the government, a focus on train transit and other stuff like this for example.

About Israel vs. Palestine, he might support Israel just because that is the traditional Western stance, but I expect he will just abstain from votes there, or rather support whatever the EU consensus is.

Hungary is in a weird place with the Gaza genocide because Budapest has a very large Jewish population compared to a lot of other places, and they have an outsized influence on Hungarian politics as they are traditionally overrepresented in the cultural elite. And as I hear from people there, every Jewish family has the “idiotic bigoted uncle, that would be the weird conspiracy theorist Nazi in a non-Jewish family, but in Jewish family, they will be hardcore Zionists or straight-up settlers. This then makes the Gaza issue complicated and hard to take a side on for most of these people.”

Don’t act like “it can’t happen here”.

The US is one of the strongest economies in the world, in spite of what orange man is doing.

And mostly a service economy, which is of limited use at war. You can repurpose a data center for spreading propaganda - who is winning that war again today? - you can’t retool it to make drones or shells.

By the way, the biggest, 70% market share drone manufacturer is Chinese. One million drones per year manufactured, 400000 large agricultural drones in use worldwide. Russia, which let’s say isn’t the GDP powerhouse of the world, launches 5k drones per month in Ukraine now.

US manufacturers deal in thousands of units per year manufactured.

We have ten times the weapons that the next 10 military powers have combined.

Russia had a truly bonkers amount of tanks, and they got blown apart by modern weapons. They lost more tanks than the entire US tank stockpile, twice over if you believe the Ukrainians, but even the low estimates are higher than the US stockpile number.

We are separated from our biggest adversaries by oceans, which we own by virtue of having 10 times the naval vessels.

Ukraine, a nation with no navy, rules the Black Sea with drones. You could say that the Russian navy was incompetent in leadership and/or manpower, but which peer enemy has the US Navy fought since 1945, and did it not lose two fighter jets in a single month by them just tipping overboard in maneuvers against a bunch of rebels with no navy or significant weaponry?

Also, the US has 8900 km of land borders, to nations it has just threatened with invasions. What if the US really invades Canada? Do you think a battered Canadian government would think twice about accepting Chinese aid for example? What if such aid comes in the form of an army outnumbering the US army multiple times?

I’m not trying to repeat “the US is doomed” tankie agitprop, but shit is changing fast, and a really terribly shit leadership is absolutely capable of sinking it. Even without a war by the way. You guys look like the Balkans looking from the outside in.

Current outgoing Orbán govt is sucking Bibi’s dick, the incoming govt is not going to be any better on this issue, the best you can expect is ignorance from them I imagine.

Ironically, in Hungary the only party in open opposition of Israel is the further-than-Orbán far-right, because they hate Jews and kinda like traditionalist Turks for some reason.

I decided to finally do my masters in biotech after a decade in data engineering got me to have some savings, mostly because I did want to do one eventually.

Man, these kids don’t know what’s waiting for them. None of the companies in biotech are hiring, as in their career pages are empty. LinkedIn, Indeed and the usual suspects only throw up listings which are obviously just staffing orgs fishing for data to sell. I feel there is a similar break in the industry with the pandemic, nobody is hiring people just graduating, the barest minimum is 5-6 years of experience.

I’m seeing some of the best minds in Europe here, doing something that is both hard and useful science, I mean we just had a worldwide pandemic and this masters should be extremely relevant for that, and apparently the system will not let them work in their field.

Only way out is academics, on barely-decent, you-will-never-have-a-house-much-less-a-family wages. If they can get in to the limited number of exceptionally “well” paying PhD slots, for 40-45k gross. They may earn as much as me doing random bullshit internal tooling two years ago for a bank that went bankrupt since if they can get tenure as a full prof at a good uni in like 30 years of hard work.

This is bullshit.

Not surprising, since WP is owned by Bezos, who is at the forefront of the new US nazi movement.

Some random CEO got caught in an affair at a Coldplay concert on a kiss cam.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/astronomer-ceo-andy-byrons-affair-at-coldplay-concert

As a Western engineer, it’s not engineering, it’s management culture you have a problem with. Most engineers I meet want to make their product the best they can, but management actively cracks down on and sabotages these efforts for various reasons, none of them having to do with engineers.

They think that making something worse always takes less time and effort, so if you made something that is more than the bare minimum, they think you’ve wasted their budget.

Also, they don’t care about making a good product, they care about their careers, so if someone else had a good idea, they are incentivised to sabotage it because it either draws time and attention away from the things that would get them promoted. If you think that your new thing could make their work easier as well, and your interests are aligned, see my previous point.

Finally, with customer-facing products, there is also the fact that your better solution might make some bullshit monetisation strategy obsolete.

We’re alienated as fuck from our work, don’t point at us mate.

The thing I’m wondering about is that even the MIC of Europe and the US is intertwined, inasmuch the US is switching to German rifles from their old M4s, and a significant portion of the F35 is also manufactured in the EU. I wonder if that’s in scope of the tariffs, or if it’s purchased by the US government directly so it would be exempt.

I imagine the strategy everywhere is to keep the lid on this while you can shift your trade elsewhere. TBH the shift should have started during the first Trump admin, but to be fair, nobody thought that Trump can out-Trump himself this bad.