RidcullyTheBrown @ RidcullyTheBrown @lemmy.world

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the question was asking for personal opinion

Availability of talent used to be the traditional issue. Judging from the current trend of growing teams in these areas, either the talent pool has been growing there or the outsourced jobs are not the talent seeking ones. India, especially, has a low reputation as an outsourcing target.

The reason for extremism gaining traction is relatively known, but OP was questioning the more subtle “conservative”-leaning parties being in power globally (seemingly) for the past decade at least. That’s somewhat harder to explain. For example, it’s harder to explain how most western countries became neo-liberal at the end of the 90s.

Extremism gains traction when there’s societal divide with at least one of the divisions significantly poorer than the other.

Why are we still surprised by stories like these? Post pandemic tech layoffs are not performance based. The tech industry has decided that less employees is better than more employees and they're laying off entire departments.

There's definitely a niche for it, more so than for other fruitless hypes like blockchain or IoT. We really need to be able to offload tasks which need autonomous decisions of simple to average complexity to machines. We can't continuously scale up the population to handle those. But LLMs aren't the answer to that, unfortunately. They're just party tricks if the current limitations cannot be overcome.

There we go. Now that people have calmed their proverbial tits about these thinking machines, we can start talking maturely about the strengths and limitation of the LLM implementations and find their niche in our tools arsenal.

There aren’t any borders in the Schengen area which is different to the EU.

Sure, but what does your original comment have to do with the thumbprint?

What’s that got to do with using a thumb to unlock the phone?

As tourists, sure. But getting a work visa/residence permit is not as easy as you think.

And second of all, what do you expect? An entire country to up an leave? That's stupid beyond measure. Won't that entire country elect the same government wherever else they end up in?

This is a dumb question. Almost 50 million people live in Sudan where there’s an ongoing famine. 70 million people live in UK where mass surveillance is roughly state supported. Asking why 300 million people don’t just move is … stupid

The headline is click-bait. I honestly don’t know why people still read this crap.

That’s a dumb question in this context. Mass layoffs are not performance based

I feel we need to discuss this first, because I completely disagree with you:

Then you are ignoring all free speech laws and the fact that this is not a common culture or occurrence in Sqeden .

Free speech has nothing to do with this situation. Nothing guarantees you there will be no consequences if you use your place of business for personal agenda. That's not what free speech is about.

staging a reasonable peaceful and coordinated protest

I'm sorry, but you're misclassifying the situation. Abusively occupying an office is not peaceful or reasonable. It is an attention forcing action and it can have consequences. They weren't arrested for their views on the genocidal Israel state, they were arrested for being in a place they're not legally allowed to be in. And they weren't fired for their views on Israel, they were fired for criticising a company customer from the position of an employee

A company who's unable to meet customer demands should not be this profitable. It should use it's revenue to invest back into growing the business to meet customer demand. This should be the real headline.

so do you have any case whatsoever that shows that this shit would fly at a Swedish company? One where it was legally challenged at least? If no, then what exactly is your point?

The fact that I don't have an example doesn't mean that it can't happen. It just means that it hasn't yet or that I don't know of it. Just because you can't show me an example of an atom bomb attack in Sweden or of me getting punched in the face in 2024 does not mean that these things can't happen, does it? This whole thread started with people saying that this can't happen in Europe. It absolutely can. And having worked in various corporations across Europe (though not Sweden specifically), I can tell you that they all have clauses in the work contract saying that you can be fired for conduct while representing the company, especially for conduct in relation to customers. So if Google employees would block the headquarters in Stockholm to convince the company to stop trading with Israel because it's a genocidal state, I guarantee you they'd not be safe from disciplinary measures including termination.

The thing that gets me is that it doesn’t even hurt performance metrics. The performance of this type of employee is not measured in hours worked. That extra week made zero difference to the company but had an immense impact on her.

Ghaderi claims Krishnakumar later pressured her into delaying the start of her maternity leave from the planned date of November 7. Agreeing to the request, she worked until November 15, 2022, "the day she was forced to undergo an emergency C-section," according to the filing.

What the actual fuck!?

Can you show me an instance where a Swedish employee did what you claim? I showed you that it is within the legal framework. That should be enough.

These are the government guidelines.

You should be more careful on how you let information reach you. You have to be pretty ignorant to think that there exists a country which doesn’t allow business to fire employees.