More not leftists. Some tolerance for not left wing political views would be nice too. (the people I’m talking about will just down vote me because they are part of the intolerant left wing here. There are plenty of tolerant left wing people, but they don’t get attention)

Get lucky - just as this was starting I saw a failed disk notification on my NAS so I ordered a new drive just before they went up. Then I realized it was a stale notification for the drive I replaced a year ago so I have a spare should one fail.

somebody is going to want cash in

Maybe. The hard drive makers have long experience with boom-bust cycles. They are likely trying to figure out if this is real, or just a blip and in a two years (when the new factory opens!) demand drops again.

If there is new capacity in the future my guess (guess!) is that this is a case of a new factory to replace the old, and they just keep running the old for another year instead of scrapping it right away.

It might break some sort of law, depending on what country you are in. However you will spend millions of dollars on a lawyer if you try to do anything about it. Depending on your countries laws you might or might not get that back. And that is assuming you win, there is always a chance you lose despite having an “air tight case” (you might find a lawyer that will take the case for the winnings, but not charge if you lose).

I’m not sure what research you have done, but you should find some. There are things that make your a better signer short term but will ruin your voice long term. I’m not really an expert in this so I’ll just leave you with the warning to get some advice from someone who is trained if you haven’t. (What you shared so far seems okay, but I don’t know what else you are doing)

IF the refineries are protected target the factories making military equipment (bombs, drones, shells…). Target the airplanes and launch systems for those. There are a lot of targets, refineries are good if the people can put enough pressure on the government to stop the war, but otherwise the military gets priority for what fuel there is.

I don’t recommend oil wells just because you have to get so many before it makes a dent. Also they are likely to be easy to repair even if you do get one (depends on how it is hit). There is other oil infrastructure that is worth hitting.

The more space for cars the more spread out everything becomes and so the less walking is a reasonable option. Remember cars include parking someplace even if not on the street.

Buy real CDs from artists I see play in person. Or CDs of artists that are long dead.

CDs are key, streaming random tracks you have no clue what you will get.

None of those are absolute.

If your bankruptcy lawyer discover you committed murder they don’t have to keep silent (I’m not sure what the law or bar ethics rules are, but probably they need to report it - they don’t have the right skills to defend you). Asking a bankruptcy lawyer for a referral to a murder defense lawyer would probably be protected though - even if they don’t know one.

A priest can keep silent or not. Different religions have different rules. In some you confessed and their job is to pray for your spiritual forgiveness and they won’t say anything. In others they will say doing your time (turn yourself in) is the right action. In some cases they can make a judgement call of what to apply.

A doctor cannot talk about your health conditions to random people. However they can talk to those with a need to know, if your condition is criminal then those people may get a need to know.

They always have been. Long before the internet political parties have been using rage bait to fund raise and get the vote. You might not remember it, and it might not have been as in your face if you were not an identified person who would respond, but I have got snail mail from various groups that are some variation “guess who is harming our children” every few months from some group or another - often from opposing groups in the same month.

Doctors see so many people seeking to fuel their addiction that they can no longer tell who isn’t. Addicts seek out information on what people with rail problems say and how they act - they practice those things. As such they cannot tell who is real.

The labor market isn’t going to decline that much in our lifetime.

I’m reading 100 resumes because they got past the automated scan system. I interview about 5 because an interview requires a lot of investment on our part. Interviewing 100 people means we can’t get anything else done. My job isn’t to hire people it is get engineering work done.

The point is they are looking for different information and putting that information into the parts humans will read makes the humans more likely to reject you.

Sometimes humans and the machine care about the same thing, but when there is a difference you don’t want the humans to reject you for having information the machine needs.

Last time we were hiring my boss gave me 50 resumes to read and half an hour to get the job done. Not only is that less than a minute each, but the ones I forwarded on got 3-5 minutes (as did 1-2 rejects), if you want to be hired you need to capture my attention in a few seconds - anything that won’t capture my attention needs to not be on the resume even if the machine needs it.

It isn’t redundant.

You want your resume for humans to read, which means your respect their time (remember they have the power and you as unemployed have time) so they don’t throw you into the trash. That means you ensure that the things in your background that make you look good to them are easy to find.

You want the forms to be things that the machine is looking for, even if they are not interesting. The machine might verify so don’t lie, but a lot of things the machine is looking for are boring things that the box needs to be checked - since they are boring you don’t want them on a resume - but not having them someplace means the machine rejects you.

There shouldn’t be the same data except for intentional or trivial duplication. Your resume is for humans to read. The form is for machines to verify you can do the job and that you really have experience for the job level. These are different purposes and need to be treated differently.

Write your resume for humans to read, so figure out what they are looking for and give them that. sometimes 5 years in a job is just one line “I wasn’t letting my experience rot but otherwise you don’t care so I won’t waste you time”, while a single year of interesting to them work can be 15 lines.

Write the machine forms to be honest - they might check that you really worked those dates and had the job title so don’t lie. They will flag a gap in dates but the 2 years fast food is just as good as anything else. They know what java is so if that is a checkbox item you better have it, but they don’t know the difference between 10 years extensive experience and I saw java for 15 minutes every year for the last 10. (don’t lie about your abilities, but if you know the job won’t be writing java you just need to convince the machine you have enough java to check the box and move onto the humans who make decisions).

Note that I assume above you have done some research. You can’t always figure out if a job that wants 10 years java really is writing java, or if java is a buzzword - but often you can. Don’t submit any resume until you have 15 minutes research into the job/company, but time limit your research to no more than a couple hours (set a timer at 1 hour and decide if either the research is interesting anyway; or you know you have a good chance and are learning things that give you a better chance).

Good leadership is dearly needed in the world and so we pay for even the hope that someone might be. Technical skills are important, but not as important

So why am I bald. Worse, I’m the whitest person in whatever city I’m in (when I was in Stockholm it was a tie), and as such burn easially if the sun hits my head.

Focus your spamming on jobs that you have a reasonable shot of getting should they read the resume. Even 10 minutes of research on a company can often figure out something you can put on a resume and cover letter that would greatly help your chances.

@rimu@piefed.social Same as everything else - nothing as a whole, but there is enough commonality with any individual group that the whole stands.

Start with a problem. What you trying to solve. Hosting music is different from backing up your computer. That is different from a home dashboard.