It’s still a 6% increase over inflation.

As you are apparently in the US, could it be a tariff thing because of tariffs?

“Bob villain”?

(yes yes, I know Bob Vylan)

I do not know where you’re from, but aside from the already good advice in this thread, I may have a tip.

My former junior colleague went to an employment agency to test his skills and interests and match him to a new employer. This is a municipal thing. Maybe your city or municipality has a similar option?

I hear you OP. I am a senior developer and hate my current employer. He is a miserly c*nt. Half of our people already left for better paying jobs. To make matters worse, he has recently joined the Claude cult. I am stranded in search of a new job, that does not include AI.

Our former junior has altogether left development, as there are hardly any junior vacancies anymore. He is flipping burgers now and earning better than he did at our company. He is replaced by Claude by my boss, so one salary less to pay.

As for myself, I can do one of two things:

• Find a new development job. It WILL include AI, which I do not want.
• Leave development entirely. At my age, almost every application is met with utter silence, even for related jobs for which I do have some experience.

I will be opening a very expensive bottle as soon as the bubble bursts.

People using private jets are scumbags. The world is better off without them. However, I would have preferred a diving accident or something else that would have spared the eight other lives.

Well those car manufacturers could stop paying to lobby and use that money to actually innovate. I do not know about the US, but back where I live, people actually want to move away from fossil fueled cars and they do not give a flying fuck about whether it is the Chinese spying on them or the US Tech bros.

No it isn’t and I am not saying that it is. Actually, our media are doing their best to downplay racist police violence in one of our biggest cities.

To return the whataboutism: in the US, as a toddler, you can get killed by the police because your mother alledgedly stole some groceries (and because you happen to have the wrong skin color). If that is the bar for police violence, I can only imagine what will happen during an aactual riot (as in looting stores etc).

You are not wrong and I am not saying that there are no protests. Where I live, protests in the US are severly underreported (due to fear of the far right), but I am aware of them. I was referring to riots, with barricades, looting and all that stuff. As far as I am aware, that is not happining in the US right now, but please feel free to correct me.

Apart from the valid things that have already been mentioned in this thread: police violence in the USA is a thing. Hell, you can get shot for helping a fellow protestor. Yes I know, police != ICE, but if a real riot breaks out, I can imagine sending in the most ruthless (and psychopatically trigger-happy) shock troops to quell them.

Ooooohhh! Good one!

Oh fuck! How did I forget those? Thanks!

I have not read that creepy ass Mr. Sandman song here yet.

A few other recommendations:

• Igorr vs. Bong Ra - Pallbearer / Tombs (EP)
• Saint-Seans - Danse Macabrre (duh!)
• Coil - Musick to play in the dark 1 and 2, full albums ‘Something’ scares my 9 year
• Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl (Same 9 year old’s favourite)