WavinWilly

re: Software Engineers are Freaking Out

Posted by WavinWilly on 4/7/26 at 4:48 pm to LemmyLives

The H1Bs are a massive problem, and I don't understand why we can't do anything about it. They are almost always incompetent. And then there are cultural issues on top of it that don't help the situation.

These are not highly skilled workers 90% of the time.

re: Software Engineers are Freaking Out

Posted by WavinWilly on 4/7/26 at 3:57 pm to prplhze2000

Anybody in any sort of white collar job should be just as concerned as software engineers.

re: Speculative Info Regarding NIL Split Among Major Sports at LSU

Posted by WavinWilly on 4/6/26 at 11:24 am to MrWalkingMan

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While the Tigers are the premier program in college baseball and have been since Jay Johnson came to Baton Rouge, ‘The Powerhouse’ could find themselves still battling with the likes of gymnastics and softball for NIL.
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I’m also told when it comes to Johnson’s recent comments flirting with MLB interest, the school would love to have him, but would unlikely go ‘all out’ in order to keep him in Baton Rouge

Every word of this is unacceptable in the highest degree

At least gymnastics recently won the National Title recently and seems to be one of the top 2 or 3 programs in the past several years. The PMAC is packed for all of their regular season meets and season tickets sell very quickly.

Even still gymnastics should not be draining money from baseball. And softball damn sure shouldn't even be in the conversation.

re: College Laptop

Posted by WavinWilly on 4/6/26 at 8:22 am to pittmanmt63

Like another poster said, if she doesn't need any windows specific software (sometimes seen in engineering courses) I would heavily consider the Macbook Neo.

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re: LSU gymnastics | ESPN+ | NCAA Regionals 7:00

Posted by WavinWilly on 4/2/26 at 7:28 pm to pwejr88

I’m new to post season gymnastics. How did we wind up with an individual competitor from West Virginia? They weren’t in the region correct?

And how many individuals will there be tonight?

re: Instead of blowing up Irans energy infrastructure why not seize it?

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/30/26 at 10:06 am to sidewalkside

We don’t really have a great answer to the drone swarms yet. Are you ready to see US soldiers and marines getting killed by FPV drone strikes on Twitter and YouTube? Like you see from Ukraine?

I think we will develop countermeasures. But we don’t appear to have them yet…

re: Delta Air Lines suspends specialty service for members of Congress

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/24/26 at 11:11 am to HeyCap

I assume to some degree this is a little performative. I'd have to image almost all reps travel enough to have Diamond or Delta 360 status anyway. I don't know what other perks above and beyond that they get.

I am all for reps being normal citizens and not some privileged ruling class. They are supposed to be ordinary citizens like the rest of us. If the government shuts down, they shouldn't get paid either. But I would at least take not allowing them to blatantly insider trade as a starting point.

re: DJT calls out our “allies” & France plays games with our B1 bombers

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/18/26 at 8:33 am to hawgfaninc

Run them supersonic along the coast and shatter every window along the way.

re: Iphones shoving muslim holidays down our throats?

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/18/26 at 8:25 am to lsubatman1

Think of it as intel when the snackbars might be acting a little different. Like when they skip lunch for Ramadan and act like it is some huge effort and act all grumpy about it.

re: YouTube TV and LSU sports

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/13/26 at 9:59 am to catch26

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You actually don’t even need to subscribe to espn+

I haven't looked at the schedule this year, but in the past they split up baseball so some games were only on ESPN+. It wasn't many, but there were a few here and there. Maybe that has changed? But YoutubeTV will soon include ESPN unlimited or whatever they are calling it so it will be a nonissue

re: Hot women should be allowed to walk around naked in spring summer and fall

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/12/26 at 8:22 pm to LegendInMyMind

WTH did you search to find that

re: Cell service on northshore.... updates?

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/11/26 at 9:00 pm to Meauxjeaux

I have a verizon line and a tmobile line, I use T-Mobile as my primary line 99% of the time - coverage is fine and the speeds seem faster.

re: Alarming honesty/admission from a democratic family member re:Iran conflict

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/4/26 at 7:34 am to HailHailtoMichigan!

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He thinks it would be better for the country if a loss in Iran costs the GOP their hold on congress.

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He is a federal employee who has been very upset at the admin’s attempt at ending collective bargaining for federal workers. It’s the only issue he cares about.

He doesn't care about what benefits the country. He cares about what benefits himself - he's just lying to himself and everyone else like any other liberal.

re: Geopolitical security analyst on War Room says US munitions inventory nearly depleted.

Posted by WavinWilly on 3/2/26 at 4:06 pm to Bass Tiger

I keep seeing this reported using almost the same verbiage all over twitter. I'm assuming it's all nonsense propaganda by somebody with an agenda. But if were to actually be true, somebody needs to hang... considering our massive military budget.

re: UCLA vs SEC this weekend

Posted by WavinWilly on 2/24/26 at 11:37 am to MrWalkingMan

Will these be available on ESPN or is this part of some one off subscription like some of these tournaments?

re: How many billionaires live in Louisiana?

Posted by WavinWilly on 2/24/26 at 11:35 am to PSS101

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Benson

Does she even live here? I was under the impression she was living up in Kentucky or something - got into race horses?

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re: The pitching staff is horrendous

Posted by WavinWilly on 2/20/26 at 4:56 pm to Andy Dwyer

The arms aren’t really ready this early. Happens almost every year. Give it some time and they will look much better.

re: Mardi Gras throws that end up being wasted money...

Posted by WavinWilly on 2/18/26 at 10:58 am to Cell of Awareness

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The great part about the part of the route on Magazine from Jefferson and the more extended route of Thoth is how concentrated families are in that area. There are folks from outside of New Orleans who will come in to catch only Thoth on Super Sunday as it cruises its exclusive path before joining the regular route on Jefferson and Magazine,.

We caught Okeanos, Mid-City. and Thoth this year and next year we are going back to the Thoth only part of the route. It's much less crowded and more family friendly. Thoth is easily my favorite parade because of this.

re: Mardi Gras throws that end up being wasted money...

Posted by WavinWilly on 2/18/26 at 10:56 am to Cell of Awareness

Some jackass on a float in either Okeanos or Midcity threw a bunch of whistles and all the kids had whistles around us blowing them non-stop. We had about 100 whistles blowing constantly after that. Wish he hadn't wasted his money on that idea.

re: Russia looking to move back to the US dollar

Posted by WavinWilly on 2/12/26 at 10:33 am to kingbob

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but I don’t see why Russia would be willing to accept it.

They probably have come to conclusion being under the influence of the US is better than being under the control of China. I would imagine we will be a gentler master. And given their current projections, those are the two most realistic outcomes. China was going to treat Russia like the Belgians treated Africa. They just wanted all of those resources.