Tech people I know who are big AI fanboys were anti mask and anti vaccine for vaguely libertarian reasons.

Those sectors did make money, but they spent a lot of time where everyone was shut indoors going on podcasts and talking about how their audience is shut indoors because the nanny state doesn’t want you to feel proud to be an American or whatever.

I would miss the little ruse tbh. Keep my computer guessing, it’s trying to know me too much lately.

They’re hoping to somehow talk $135k guy into it.

They’ll bait the hook with things like “unlimited” PTO because there is a chance the reason you’re interviewing is for an easier work environment, not more pay.

It won’t work most of the time but that’s why it’s called fishing and not catching.

Yeah unless you’re here with a younger sibling if you’re not dressed up you’re getting a quick scoop of the candy nobody else seems to be taking. Like enjoy your Swedish fish, why are you here if the magic is gone?

Anyone who comes to my door gets candy but you don’t get to both want to trick-or-treat and be too cool for trick-or-treating.

I’m not a big fan of Ethan but he’s the only one who knows how key aspects of our network architecture works and he does get back to his desk faster if you salt him.

I don’t think they read the charts or anything, but in my experience having a few family members with long hospital stays, usually housekeeping gets an idea of who someone is and their general condition pretty quickly.

Oh god yeah this and bullet points

you don’t talk about green texts

I used to like the punch of “It’s not just ___, it’s ___” but I’ve pretty much removed that from my vocabulary.

Depends on the audience but I’ve found adding “it’s just common sense” to the end of my argument tends to be more effective than citing sources.

It’s all Dwarf Fortress in the end

My hypothesis is this is tolerable for iced coffee but it would be too much with hot coffee. I feel like the scent alone would be too strong.

The same people when I was trying to warn them in like 2012 - “They don’t want my data, I’m not that interesting”

A longtime hero of mine from when I first started learning to code. RIP.

The traditional toxic redditor stereotype never struck me as particularly overweight.

The less pleasant portions of the community have a pretty long history of hating fat people, and the last few years I was there I noticed a bit of a trend toward somewhat puritanical outlooks on indulgent food or general alcohol use. Still anecdotal, but this corroborated with my (ill-advised) decision to attend a reddit meet up. Not a lot of fat people there.

My guess is that though many were not overweight, they didn’t have much else going for them. It was easier to insult someone being overweight than being broke or single or too online because it was the one that didn’t apply to them.

Creating nonexistent patterns in an attempt to understand it. There was a cluster of hand killings near a small town in Kyrgyzstan and there’s no way that could just be random chance.

I learned a trade before I realized college was a better fit for me and I do think there’s a bit a “grass is always greener” phenomenon when it comes to people thinking about the trades.

There are plenty of hardworking, skilled welders who have pretty unpleasant, low-paying jobs and originally intended to get a lucrative oil rig job but couldn’t seem to get an offer. Ironically the ones I knew talked about how they were learning python on the side.

The trades have their own problems.

Is it part of the aesthetic to do it poorly? I’ve noticed the paint often seems be chipped or applied unevenly and I’ve never felt comfortable asking if that’s an intentional, stylistic choice.

No graphite on the roof.