Alaik
@Alaik@lemmy.zip
- Comment on US offers 'NATO-like' security to Ukraine, expects Russia to accept 1 week ago:
I mean… whatever theyre offering is gonna turn out worse than the Budhapest Memorandum
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
Dude come on. Context alone.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
Wait a minute…
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
No one ever accused any level of management of being intelligent. They’re just likes by the higher ups. At the executive level, theyre just heartless and mentally ill.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 2 weeks ago:
Dead within 2 years. They also had the balance pretty fucked until about 6 months in. All in all, no one should expect much from the company who makes games “built from the ground up with paid DLC in mind.”
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
No one is asking for ads on their fridge. You are really underestimating the cartel like behavior of business in general now.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 weeks ago:
Wait a minute… lol
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 weeks ago:
It’d be worse because you KNOW he’d then spend the time “managing” the creators/devs.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 weeks ago:
That’s nuance. Don’t make the MBA decision maker’s heads explode.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Because youre overinflated executive and managerial budgets dont justify the fucking price when games like Hollow Knight, Jump Ship, and Stardew Valley are 10x better.
- Comment on About This Account reveals the scale of Twitter’s foreign troll problem 4 weeks ago:
Who the fuck is VPNing to Russia?
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 4 weeks ago:
And then bitcoin before that. I miss sane GPU prices.
- Comment on 'Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed' as Coup-Plotting Ex-Pres Bolsonaro Arrested 4 weeks ago:
I never thought Brazil would teach the US a thing about how to deal with corruption but here we are.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 4 weeks ago:
This is something I want to address. Firstly, youre correct. The vast majority of medical students come from VERY privileged backgrounds and it shows. Hell, applications fees can run from 75 to 300+ bucks a pop and the MCAT itself is almost 400 dollars.
That being said, if youre smart enough to get into med school, you should do it. I grew up about as poor as you could, I graduated early and immediately went into working fulltime. After the dotcom burst I became an EMT then a paramedic and started working 72+ hour weeks to save up for my premed. I was MUCH older than your standard 23 year old med school applicant.
But even if you have a relatively decent job (65k in a low cost of living area), the finances work out to pull the trigger and get your MD. Without doing any self doxxing, I can say a relatively uncompetitive specialty paid more in one year than I made in 5 years as a medic. I took 2 years for premed, a gap year, 4 in med school and 3 for residency. 10 years total. Which I made back in 2 years and thats not including the pay as a resident which was actually a bit higher than medic pay.
Your circumstances might prevent you from being a traditional applicant, and AAMCAS needs to work on the financial gatekeeping. You can absolutely swing going to medical school if you have the desire, will, and capability to though. It will be hard as hell though.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 4 weeks ago:
Oh damn. Well you can’t give plasma until youre 16, but I guess being homeless, having sleep for dinner and all of that growing up isn’t poverty because I couldn’t pass for a 16 year old as a child?
- Comment on Will be super fun when only epstein DNC are exposed and so they rat on all the RNC. Im all for the backlash. 5 weeks ago:
Dude have you not seen what the cultists will swallow? Left wingers would love if democrats and Republicans got cleaned out. Left wingers would be surprised if theyre aren’t some democrats in there.
Right wingers absolutely would fall for that hook, line, and sinker.
- Comment on EU ministers agree customs fee to crack down on parcels from Chinese companies such as Shein and Temu 5 weeks ago:
So now Europe is doing the tariff thing.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 1 month ago:
Ill be honest. I never expected to leave windows but here i am doing my homework on Linux.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
Oh let’s be real. Every 1%er is worried. Why the fuck do you think Luigi got an 80s action movie perp walk and they’re all building bunkers?
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
That’s not fair… Plenty of Arab, Indian, Chinese, etc billionares who are selfish idiots. Leave ethnicity out of it. No war but class war.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 month ago:
You forgot to put two versions out: One with an American flag, cross, and an M16 on it and another with a discouraging message to prevent people to vote for the most left candidate.
- Comment on Colorado delenda est 2 months ago:
Yeah no way FL and LA are above sea level.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 3 months ago:
Since when has foreseeable consequences or even feasibility stopped MBAs?
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 3 months ago:
You got a source on that? Depending on the time of night that changes the story a lot.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 3 months ago:
I wanna say he was late gen X or xillenial, but ill freely admit I just don’t want my generation to take credit for his dumb ass.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 3 months ago:
Not android or apple. I’ll go to a prepaid flip phone before I give apple a cent. They’re essentially the paragon of greed.
- Comment on Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent 3 months ago:
Yall remember how Republicans said no one respected the office of president under Obama?
I dont recall anyone calling him insults in an official capacity.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 3 months ago:
Cause theyre literally given inflated egos about “how great your business acumen is” when really theyre morally bankrupt parasites who finished (compared to real degrees) coloring books.