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@luckytran Hard to shake the feeling that steps were intentionally taken by the feds with the goal of increasing the spread of diseases. :/
Well folks, I was laid off last week. If anyone knows places hiring for any of the following, please let me know. I'm located in Seattle, Washington, USA and am also 100% open to remote work irrespective of timezones.
- Software, testing, build, and tool development: Python, Java, C, C++, Spring, TestNG, Mockito, Pytest, Make, SCons, Maven, debugging (gdb, jdb, pdb, etc.)
- Site reliability engineering: Infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform), AWS, Kubernetes, Kibana, OpenSearch, Splunk
- Continuous integration: GitHub Actions, Gitlab, Jenkins
- System administration: Linux, FreeBSD
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I periodically get pushback on "petrodollars"... they are real, and we are boned #ThanksNixon
Iran, the $39 trillion national debt and dedollarization: How Trump exposed America's Achilles Heel | Fortune
The year was 1974 and President Richard Nixon had dispatched his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Saudi Arabia to strike a secret deal. Three years earlier, in August 1971, Nixon had already administered the “shock” that ended the Bretton Woods system governing global finance since World War II — suspending the dollar’s convertibility to gold in a televised address that transformed every major currency overnight. By 1973, the system had fully unraveled.The world wouldn’t know for another 50 years what Nixon and Kissinger replaced it with, striking a deal that would quietly govern the global economy for the next half-century. Riyadh agreed to price and trade its oil in U.S. dollars and channel its petroleum windfalls back into U.S. Treasury bonds; in return, Washington promised military aid, equipment, and security guarantees—a deal that would quietly govern the global economy for the next half-century.
The existence of this secret agreement wasn’t even publicly confirmed until 2016, when Bloomberg News filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Archives.
fortune.com/2026/03/24/iran-ho…backup: archive.ph/unQtb