Because a channel I've been into whose owner passed away just got "closed by the uploader".
Thankfully the videos were archived, but it's still awful.
I know much of it was out of their control and legally forced by record labels, but how hopeless are y'all?
Are y'all committed to coughing up more moolah (or going from zero to non-zero moolah) and taking your chances with the new V6 model (which is probably gonna sound like V5.5 but with more of what made V5.5 sound like V5.5)?
Are y'all giving up on AI music generation completely? (Personally, I'm leaning towards this camp, though am ready to jump back the moment a viable alternative emerges.)
Anyone outright anti-AI music now? I feel like plenty in society are (and often rabidly so), and I suppose you're welcome to do just that if that's how your heart feels. (Just don't destroy property, or worse, lives.)
And is it the colonial boomerang?
For context it's a non-tech company, not like a FAANG or anything, and a specifically new graduate program. It took quite some effort to land this role, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud of myself. Now I'm at the stage where I'm being assigned tickets, sugarcoating is being weaned off, now my superiors feel like they can criticize me for screwing up, etc. My commute is comfortable, I get along with many of my colleagues, etc.
And yet, I'm terrified of being laid off.
Was just on a YT/Reddit binge and have heard horror stories about being laid off from FAANGs, non-FAANG tech companies like Atlassian and Oracle, various banks, Nike, CrowdStrike, etc., just to name a few.
While I currently live at home and it'd seem like a waste of money to move out so quickly, I plan to do so the earliest chance I've got, as I don't have the best relationship with my parents, and I resented having to be dependent on them throughout college (often even including commuting to college, which I especially took issue with). It's even been starting to affect the days I work remotely, and in fact I feel like I can directly trace back some of my work screwups to an argument my parents had the day I last worked from home.
Am I worrying too much?
For context it's a non-tech company, not like a FAANG or anything, and a specifically new graduate program. It took quite some effort to land this role, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud of myself. Now I'm at the stage where I'm being assigned tickets, sugarcoating is being weaned off, now my superiors feel like they can criticize me for screwing up, etc. My commute is comfortable, I get along with many of my colleagues, etc.
And yet, I'm terrified of being laid off.
Was just on a YT/Reddit binge and have heard horror stories about being laid off from FAANGs, non-FAANG tech companies like Atlassian and Oracle, various banks, Nike, CrowdStrike, etc., just to name a few.
While I currently live at home and it'd seem like a waste of money to move out so quickly, I plan to do so the earliest chance I've got, as I don't have the best relationship with my parents, and I resented having to be dependent on them throughout college (often even including commuting to college, which I especially took issue with). It's even been starting to affect the days I work remotely, and in fact I feel like I can directly trace back some of my work screwups to an argument my parents had the day I last worked from home.
Am I worrying too much?
TL;DR:
Yay I got a job
Yay it pays well
Yay it's in a metro area widely hailed as having good urbanism
Boo it's in the suburban corporate campus so I don't get to do city stuff
Yay the commute is easy
Boo that's because the commute is from the suburb I grew up in
So, like, how do I go out and get girls and actually start life etc.? Cause it's not like going to the bar after work is a thing here.
Am planning to move to a slightly less suburban suburb slightly closer to my workplace (along with other self-improvement steps ofc) since that's about as good walkability I can get in the area, but even there the rent's kinda explosive anywhere urbanist, so I'll have to continue college-style share-housing (which remains well within my budget) if I wanna not run my wallet dry. I feel kinda torn on whether to do so though, like part of me is like "why not duke it out with your fam if the commute is so smooth", only for the other part to shut that down b/c "you'll never get a girl or have your own life that way, plus listen to how loud your parents get when yelling ain't that annoying?"
TL;DR:
Yay I got a job
Yay it pays well
Yay it's in a metro area widely hailed as good for Asian men
Boo it's in the suburban corporate campus so I don't get to do city stuff
Yay the commute is easy
Boo that's because the commute is from the suburb I grew up in
So, like, how do I go out and get girls and actually start life etc.? Cause it's not like going to the bar after work is a thing here.
Am planning to move to a slightly less suburban suburb slightly closer to my workplace (along with other self-improvement steps ofc) since that's about as good walkability I can get in the area, but even there the rent's kinda explosive anywhere urbanist, so I'll have to continue college-style share-housing (which remains well within my budget) if I wanna not run my wallet dry. I feel kinda torn on whether to do so though, like part of me is like "why not duke it out with your fam if the commute is so smooth", only for the other part to shut that down b/c "you'll never get a girl or have your own life that way, plus listen to how loud your parents get when yelling ain't that annoying?"
In any case it's not FULLY walkable etc. so I'd probably feel best making the move after getting my own car (parents don't want me using the older one of theirs, despite me having taken it to college). And interestingly enough (and as my mom's keen to mention), the town my heart's set on, although one of the most urbanist, has a fairly limited Asian population vs. surrounding suburban towns with good school districts. I know she's kinda misreading how being a young professional works, but just thought that was worth mentioning here.
Anyhow, feeling kinda worried this is basically as bad as starting my career out in, like, TX or somewhere, and that I'll risk bleeding out the prime years of my life in some boring ass suburb. And I have a hunch this would probably be relatable for many, like look how many tech/finance bros are getting offers in like TX or NC or all around the Midwest or Rocky Mountain states... hardly "ideal dating environments for Asian men" no?
TL;DR:
Yay I got a job
Yay it pays well
Yay it's in a metro area widely hailed as good for Asian men
Boo it's in the suburban corporate campus so I don't get to do city stuff
Yay the commute is easy
Boo that's because the commute is from the suburb I grew up in
So, like, how do I go out and get girls and actually start life etc.? Cause it's not like going to the bar after work is a thing here.
Am planning to move to a slightly less suburban suburb slightly closer to my workplace (along with other self-improvement steps ofc) since that's about as good walkability I can get in the area, but even there the rent's kinda explosive anywhere urbanist, so I'll have to continue college-style share-housing (which remains well within my budget) if I wanna not run my wallet dry. I feel kinda torn on whether to do so though, like part of me is like "why not duke it out with your fam if the commute is so smooth", only for the other part to shut that down b/c "you'll never get a girl or have your own life that way, plus listen to how loud your parents get when yelling ain't that annoying?"
In any case it's not FULLY walkable etc. so I'd probably feel best making the move after getting my own car (parents don't want me using the older one of theirs, despite me having taken it to college). And interestingly enough (and as my mom's keen to mention), the town my heart's set on, although one of the most urbanist, has a fairly limited Asian population vs. surrounding suburban towns with good school districts. I know she's kinda misreading how being a young professional works, but just thought that was worth mentioning here.
Anyhow, feeling kinda worried this is basically as bad as starting my career out in, like, TX or somewhere, and that I'll risk bleeding out the prime years of my life in some boring ass suburb. And I have a hunch this would probably be relatable for many, like look how many tech/finance bros are getting offers in like TX or NC or all around the Midwest or Rocky Mountain states... hardly "ideal dating environments for Asian men" no?
John Striver
Jeff Wagie
Tom Clauder
Jane Dev
Sarah Prompter
Jennifer Neet
Banks - no prediction markets or even day trading, and depending on your role you may need to take the SIE or even get all investments manually approved EDIT: the manual approval thing is for everyone at the account level
Defense contractors - no using your phone at work or looking up answers on Google/StackOverflow/AI... hope you like reading books!
Amazon - no slideshows (multi-page documentation packets are used instead)
The Home Depot - you have to work customer service at a retail Home Depot location at least once a year EDIT: once a quarter (4 times a year)
DoorDash - you have to work as a delivery driver at least once a year
Epic Systems - you have to go to "church" EDIT: and the campus is really large and quirky, fostering comparisons to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory
Jane Street - entire company uses a niche programming language called OCaml, and they're so worried about non-competes that they pay you for 1-2 years to do nothing to help your insider knowledge expire EDIT: the non-compete part isn't true for Jane Street itself, but it may be for other HFT/quant firms
Manufacturing industry - you work in a factory, and your employers treat you like you work at a factory
Lemme just give y'all an actual exchange we had last night (much of it translated from Chinese). For context a month earlier I had returned from an extended family visit in China. And while I've recently started a new job and have access to more money than I've ever had before, my parents are still preferring that I save up for my own car first, then an apartment (car needed since my office is not commutable by public transportation). And it's been pretty rough living with them, to say the least.
Anyhow, my parents were bitching at me again. And lemme tell y'all, they sounded fucking pissed. They were being really loud, and calling me useless. This time, the trigger was not being willing to help pick my family members (them and siblings) up from something. I made them know how much I hated driving, but when they asked me how else I was to commute to work, I told them I wasn't doing any of this willingly. But here's how things ultimately went down:
Mom: "You've got a son at home... and he won't help you."
Dad (assertively): "If you wanna go to China then why don't you GO there??! There's no guarantee you'll be able to take the train."
Me (firmly): "Yes. I've been to China. I liked it."
Dad (loudly): "Then DON'T STAY HERE. GO FIND A JOB [THERE]!!!... WORK LIKE CHINESE PEOPLE WORK!!!!"
Mom: "where'd you get that"
Dad: "I'm pissed as hell"
Mom: "What for?"
Dad: "All y'all are [some insult in Chinese]!"
Mom: "Watch your language dear."
Dad: "I had to WAIT UNTIL 3 to eat lunch!!!"
Mom: "Why?"
Dad: "I HAD A MEETING!!!"
Mom: "What? MarathonMarathon didn't make you lunch? I thought I asked him to!... and you still think he's useful?"
Dad: "He still thinks he can live a good life in China..."
Much of this occurred while my parents were eating dinner, but I was sitting on the couch not engaging (gray rock). And you know, growing up, I wouldn't have thought living in a country as "free" as America would've made me this depressed. Yet here I am, oh well.
So recently I've been scouring for apartments in the town I've gone to school in, and some of them were rooms in single-family houses rented as one unit allotted for a certain number of tenants (say, 4-8). However, in many of these arrangements, the tenants often used dens, living rooms, or attics as bedrooms, despite those not being legally zoned as bedrooms.
It's really pissed me off, since at the time I was on my parents' paycheck, and when they found out I was to be living in an attic with roommates unwilling to really change around where they slept, they sort of had a fit, and in the end they ended up having the upper hand and forcing me to back out of the contract last-second and find a replacement tenant, citing fire safety concerns. It made me extremely distraught how insane they were about the law, or the likelihood of a house fire which could happen in any house regardless of arrangement.
The ordeal was utterly humiliating, and it coaxed my views on housing policy into more YIMBY, "build more + denser housing to solve the cost of living crisis" views. Despite my parents warning me about how hot or cold an attic room could be, it in fact made me want one more than ever. My previous housing arrangement gave me a lot of square footage for the price I paid owing to this (IIRC the room was legally a double or triple), and in that, 2 of my friends slept in the attic, using it as a room. They seemed to get along there really well, handling e.g. heat or cold using fans and space heaters. It felt like such a comforting nook, a shelter from the rest of the house, not to mention a very convenient spot in the house to isolate oneself from parties or activity downstairs.
So recently I've been scouring for apartments in the town I've gone to school in, and some of them were rooms in single-family houses rented as one unit allotted for a certain number of tenants (say, 4-8). However, in many of these arrangements, the tenants often used dens, living rooms, or attics as bedrooms, despite those not being legally zoned as bedrooms.
It's really pissed me off, since at the time I was on my parents' paycheck, and when they found out I was to be living in an attic with roommates unwilling to really change around where they slept, they sort of had a fit, and in the end they ended up having the upper hand and forcing me to back out of the contract last-second and find a replacement tenant, citing fire safety concerns. It made me extremely distraught how insane they were about the law, or the likelihood of a house fire which could happen in any house regardless of arrangement.
The ordeal was utterly humiliating, and it coaxed my views on housing policy into more YIMBY, "build more + denser housing to solve the cost of living crisis" views. Despite my parents warning me about how hot or cold an attic room could be, it in fact made me want one more than ever. My previous housing arrangement gave me a lot of square footage for the price I paid owing to this (IIRC the room was legally a double or triple), and in that, 2 of my friends slept in the attic, using it as a room. They seemed to get along there really well, handling e.g. heat or cold using fans and space heaters. It felt like such a comforting nook, a shelter from the rest of the house, not to mention a very convenient spot in the house to isolate oneself from parties or activity downstairs.
So a while ago I've been scouring for apartments in NB, and some of them were rooms in single-family houses rented as one unit allotted for a certain number of tenants (say, 4-8). However, in many of these arrangements, the tenants often used dens, living rooms, or attics as bedrooms, despite those not being legally zoned as bedrooms.
It's really pissed me off, since at the time I was on my parents' paycheck, and when they found out I was to be living in an attic with roommates unwilling to really change around where they slept, they sort of had a fit, and in the end they ended up having the upper hand and forcing me to back out of the contract last-second and find a replacement tenant, citing fire safety concerns. It made me extremely distraught how insane they were about the law, or the likelihood of a house fire which could happen in any house regardless of arrangement.
The ordeal was utterly humiliating, and it coaxed my views on housing policy into more YIMBY, "build more + denser housing to solve the cost of living crisis" views. Despite my parents warning me about how hot or cold an attic room could be, it in fact made me want one more than ever. My previous housing arrangement gave me a lot of square footage for the price I paid owing to this (IIRC the room was legally a double or triple), and in that, 2 of my friends slept in the attic, using it as a room. They seemed to get along there really well, handling e.g. heat or cold using fans and space heaters. It felt like such a comforting nook, a shelter from the rest of the house, not to mention a very convenient spot in the house to isolate oneself from parties or activity downstairs.
So recently I've been scouring for apartments in the town I've gone to school in, and some of them were rooms in single-family houses rented as one unit allotted for a certain number of tenants (say, 4-8). However, in many of these arrangements, the tenants often used dens, living rooms, or attics as bedrooms, despite those not being legally zoned as bedrooms.
It's really pissed me off, since at the time I was on my parents' paycheck, and when they found out I was to be living in an attic with roommates unwilling to really change around where they slept, they sort of had a fit, and in the end they ended up having the upper hand and forcing me to back out of the contract last-second and find a replacement tenant, citing fire safety concerns. It made me extremely distraught how insane they were about the law, or the likelihood of a house fire which could happen in any house regardless of arrangement.
The ordeal was utterly humiliating, and it coaxed my views on housing policy into more YIMBY, "build more + denser housing to solve the cost of living crisis" views. Despite my parents warning me about how hot or cold an attic room could be, it in fact made me want one more than ever. My previous housing arrangement gave me a lot of square footage for the price I paid owing to this (IIRC the room was legally a double or triple), and in that, 2 of my friends slept in the attic, using it as a room. They seemed to get along there really well, handling e.g. heat or cold using fans and space heaters. It felt like such a comforting nook, a shelter from the rest of the house, not to mention a very convenient spot in the house to isolate oneself from parties or activity downstairs.
So recently I've been scouring for apartments in the town I've gone to school in, and some of them were rooms in single-family houses rented as one unit allotted for a certain number of tenants (say, 4-8). However, in many of these arrangements, the tenants often used dens, living rooms, or attics as bedrooms, despite those not being legally zoned as bedrooms.
It's really pissed me off, since at the time I was on my parents' paycheck, and when they found out I was to be living in an attic with roommates unwilling to really change around where they slept, they sort of had a fit, and in the end they ended up having the upper hand and forcing me to back out of the contract last-second and find a replacement tenant, citing fire safety concerns. It made me extremely distraught how insane they were about the law, or the likelihood of a house fire which could happen in any house regardless of arrangement.
The ordeal was utterly humiliating, and it coaxed my views on housing policy into more YIMBY, "build more + denser housing to solve the cost of living crisis" views. Despite my parents warning me about how hot or cold an attic room could be, it in fact made me want one more than ever. My previous housing arrangement gave me a lot of square footage for the price I paid owing to this (IIRC the room was legally a double or triple), and in that, 2 of my friends slept in the attic, using it as a room. They seemed to get along there really well, handling e.g. heat or cold using fans and space heaters. It felt like such a comforting nook, a shelter from the rest of the house, not to mention a very convenient spot in the house to isolate oneself from parties or activity downstairs.
It's just the text "6/4" with no political associations, because it's one of my travel days. Just making sure.
Asked Google Gemini, and it told me to absolutely avoid using it because the software has advanced filtration systems that'll block the video instantly, and repeatedly sending it has a high chance of shadowbanning my WeChat account or something.
Anyone here have experience with this? Thx.
It's just the text "6/4" with no political associations, because it's one of my travel days. Just making sure.
Asked Google Gemini, and it told me to absolutely avoid using it because the software has advanced filtration systems that'll block the video instantly, and repeatedly sending it has a high chance of shadowbanning my WeChat account or something.
Anyone here have experience with this? Thx.