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Cake day: 2023年7月18日

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  • Yes I’m aware of the history of Angola.

    You asked

    Are there any countries that use the symbol that are actually nice places to live with good governments?

    Angola has made a conscious decision to stick to this symbol as if transitions to a liberal democracy and stable economy. There were some efforts to change the flag recently because as you said it’s often associated with totalitarian regimes. But those efforts failed because to Angolans it symbolizes the Angolan triumph over the colonial oppression of Portugal and resistance to apartheid South African invasion.

    It could change in the future, Angola is still moving towards “good government” and “nice place to live” as you said. But for now it remains their national flag.









  • Look no further than your siblings. Nobody is closer to you in both genetics nor background, yet the differences in perspective and values can be huge. In my family incidents from 20+ years ago are hotly contested even though we were all there nobody can agree on who took what part or what the motives and consequences were.





  • “Have you tried applying on LinkedIn? Messaging recruiters or hiring managers on LinkedIn?”

    “Oh no don’t use LinkedIn, everyone ignores those because of bots, apply directly”

    “Put keywords from the job listing in your resume so the algorithm will rank you hire”

    “Oh no don’t use words from the listing in your resume or you’ll be flagged as a bot”

    “Hire a headhunter to apply to many positions for you”

    “Avoid headhunters because when they spam your resume, you’ll get flagged as a bot”

    “Complete a tedious and time consuming project for the company and post it on your personal site so they see you’re not a bot already qualified”

    “Oh they didn’t even open the link to look at it? Well do one for the next company and the next and the next…”

    Looking for a white collar job today is basically an arms race with the net result recruiters spend the bulk of their time weeding out bots, and applicants spend the bulk of their time trying to not look like bots. It’s ridiculous and I kind of wish places just accepted in person applications again.