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Salaries 50-100k more than the rest of the country doesn't mean squat when you're lose it all to rent and higher cost of living.
Also some of us tech workers enjoy having a normal life and not having to pretend to be super into whatever bullshit the company is pushing this week.
Also some of us tech workers enjoy having a normal life and not having to pretend to be super into whatever bullshit the company is pushing this week.
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Salaries 50-100k more than the rest of the country doesn't mean squat when you're lose it all to rent and higher cost of living.
Also some of us tech workers enjoy having a normal life and not having to pretend to be super into whatever bullshit the company is pushing this week.
Also some of us tech workers enjoy having a normal life and not having to pretend to be super into whatever bullshit the company is pushing this week.
It just demonstrates that they know the AI hype is bs.
If you’re a few years away from super human AI or even human level general intelligence you don’t stop to figure out how to put ads in it.
Now if you realized LLMs are a dead end and need to start showing revenue from it then ads make sense.
If you’re a few years away from super human AI or even human level general intelligence you don’t stop to figure out how to put ads in it.
Now if you realized LLMs are a dead end and need to start showing revenue from it then ads make sense.
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It just demonstrates that they know the AI hype is bs.
If you’re a few years away from super human AI or even human level general intelligence you don’t stop to figure out how to put ads in it.
Now if you realized LLMs are a dead end and need to start showing revenue from it then ads make sense.
If you’re a few years away from super human AI or even human level general intelligence you don’t stop to figure out how to put ads in it.
Now if you realized LLMs are a dead end and need to start showing revenue from it then ads make sense.
This is why they attack universities and education.
It can't be that their ideas are dumb and wrong and collapse under any form inquiry or critical thinking.
It *has* to be that the entire system is unjust and ideologically motivated to suppress their beliefs.
It can't be that their ideas are dumb and wrong and collapse under any form inquiry or critical thinking.
It *has* to be that the entire system is unjust and ideologically motivated to suppress their beliefs.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is why they attack universities and education.
It can't be that their ideas are dumb and wrong and collapse under any form inquiry or critical thinking.
It *has* to be that the entire system is unjust and ideologically motivated to suppress their beliefs.
It can't be that their ideas are dumb and wrong and collapse under any form inquiry or critical thinking.
It *has* to be that the entire system is unjust and ideologically motivated to suppress their beliefs.
One of the few redeeming things about social media is watching privileged people tell on themselves constantly.
To the elites of society consequences are things that happen to other people.
To the elites of society consequences are things that happen to other people.
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
One of the few redeeming things about social media is watching privileged people tell on themselves constantly.
To the elites of society consequences are things that happen to other people.
To the elites of society consequences are things that happen to other people.
Decades of corporate raiding has left American industrial companies terrified of capital investment without explicit state backing.
And post 2024 explicit state backing isn't what it used to be.
We're watching the destruction of public trust also destroy the economy.
And post 2024 explicit state backing isn't what it used to be.
We're watching the destruction of public trust also destroy the economy.
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Decades of corporate raiding has left American industrial companies terrified of capital investment without explicit state backing.
And post 2024 explicit state backing isn't what it used to be.
We're watching the destruction of public trust also destroy the economy.
And post 2024 explicit state backing isn't what it used to be.
We're watching the destruction of public trust also destroy the economy.
These were guys that tried to playing video games like a full time job. They were perpetually burning out on whatever game was the new hotness then getting real, real mad that they weren't an infinite dopamine machine.
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
These were guys that tried to playing video games like a full time job. They were perpetually burning out on whatever game was the new hotness then getting real, real mad that they weren't an infinite dopamine machine.
Many aimless young men I played games with ended up radicalized. I knew leftie guys who swung hard right and conservatives who turned Marxist.
Some ended up radicalized over other non-political topics. They can go on hour long rants about a specific video game or cartoon.
It was truly random.
Some ended up radicalized over other non-political topics. They can go on hour long rants about a specific video game or cartoon.
It was truly random.
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Many aimless young men I played games with ended up radicalized. I knew leftie guys who swung hard right and conservatives who turned Marxist.
Some ended up radicalized over other non-political topics. They can go on hour long rants about a specific video game or cartoon.
It was truly random.
Some ended up radicalized over other non-political topics. They can go on hour long rants about a specific video game or cartoon.
It was truly random.
People get radicalization wrong. It goes "Boredom/Disaffection -> Rejection of Society -> Crazy Beliefs". But society thinks it is "Crazy Beliefs -> Rejection of Society -> Disaffection".
The beliefs these guys choose is almost random.
I am once again begging people to read "The True Believer".
The beliefs these guys choose is almost random.
I am once again begging people to read "The True Believer".
December 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
People get radicalization wrong. It goes "Boredom/Disaffection -> Rejection of Society -> Crazy Beliefs". But society thinks it is "Crazy Beliefs -> Rejection of Society -> Disaffection".
The beliefs these guys choose is almost random.
I am once again begging people to read "The True Believer".
The beliefs these guys choose is almost random.
I am once again begging people to read "The True Believer".
This just in, the Supreme Court rules that because the constitution never specified which planet a year is based on the executive order declaring it based on Pluto leaves Trump with more than 1000 earth years left in his term.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This just in, the Supreme Court rules that because the constitution never specified which planet a year is based on the executive order declaring it based on Pluto leaves Trump with more than 1000 earth years left in his term.
We've been trapped in a series of financial bubbles because there is too much money the financial system.
from docCom -> Housing -> Crypto -> VR/AR -> PE -> LLMs/AI" we've been sputtering from bubble to bubble because too much money is chasing too few real investment opportunities.
from docCom -> Housing -> Crypto -> VR/AR -> PE -> LLMs/AI" we've been sputtering from bubble to bubble because too much money is chasing too few real investment opportunities.
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
We've been trapped in a series of financial bubbles because there is too much money the financial system.
from docCom -> Housing -> Crypto -> VR/AR -> PE -> LLMs/AI" we've been sputtering from bubble to bubble because too much money is chasing too few real investment opportunities.
from docCom -> Housing -> Crypto -> VR/AR -> PE -> LLMs/AI" we've been sputtering from bubble to bubble because too much money is chasing too few real investment opportunities.
"What if, instead of doing journalism, or even reporting, we just paid idiots to take opposite sides and yell at each other" isn't ground breaking.
Its ESPNs business model.
Its ESPNs business model.
December 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"What if, instead of doing journalism, or even reporting, we just paid idiots to take opposite sides and yell at each other" isn't ground breaking.
Its ESPNs business model.
Its ESPNs business model.
I notice this more and more whenever I read recommendation threads online.
People come in with a half dozen or more plot and/or setting "requirements" for a recommendation. At that point they're trying to use the internet as a substitute for fan fiction like filtering.
People come in with a half dozen or more plot and/or setting "requirements" for a recommendation. At that point they're trying to use the internet as a substitute for fan fiction like filtering.
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I notice this more and more whenever I read recommendation threads online.
People come in with a half dozen or more plot and/or setting "requirements" for a recommendation. At that point they're trying to use the internet as a substitute for fan fiction like filtering.
People come in with a half dozen or more plot and/or setting "requirements" for a recommendation. At that point they're trying to use the internet as a substitute for fan fiction like filtering.
In the eyes of the political media caste the only true sin is attacking someone else in the caste.
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
In the eyes of the political media caste the only true sin is attacking someone else in the caste.
Modern society is what *lets you* sleep in until 7am.
Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter.
OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter.
OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Modern society is what *lets you* sleep in until 7am.
Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter.
OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
Before industry you got your ass up earlier because you couldn't afford to burn daylight not working. Assuming you wanted to eat this winter.
OTOH car culture causing shitty commutes is why you have to get up at 7 to get to work by 9.
How do I keep getting in trouble?
I'm just out here, living my best life. Working, reading books, playin' some video games and occasionally pretending to work out at the gym.
I'm just out here, living my best life. Working, reading books, playin' some video games and occasionally pretending to work out at the gym.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How do I keep getting in trouble?
I'm just out here, living my best life. Working, reading books, playin' some video games and occasionally pretending to work out at the gym.
I'm just out here, living my best life. Working, reading books, playin' some video games and occasionally pretending to work out at the gym.
I am once again begging the Democratic party to realize that Charisma is the *primary* stat for the elected politician class, not the dump stat.
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I am once again begging the Democratic party to realize that Charisma is the *primary* stat for the elected politician class, not the dump stat.
An idiot by choice, which is worse.
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
An idiot by choice, which is worse.
The worst part is that once you scratch the surface of the belief its almost always extremely reactionary in nature.
As if someone took some standard issue crypto-fascist screed and slapped pseudo-academic jargon and leftist coded imagery on it.
As if someone took some standard issue crypto-fascist screed and slapped pseudo-academic jargon and leftist coded imagery on it.
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The worst part is that once you scratch the surface of the belief its almost always extremely reactionary in nature.
As if someone took some standard issue crypto-fascist screed and slapped pseudo-academic jargon and leftist coded imagery on it.
As if someone took some standard issue crypto-fascist screed and slapped pseudo-academic jargon and leftist coded imagery on it.
But hes not going to be welcome on the cocktail party circuit or get speaking gigs on cable news for at least a few months.
Temporarily lowering the status of a politician of national prominence over a few decades of sexual harassment? Has cancel culture gone too far? Lets check with the NY Times.
Temporarily lowering the status of a politician of national prominence over a few decades of sexual harassment? Has cancel culture gone too far? Lets check with the NY Times.
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
But hes not going to be welcome on the cocktail party circuit or get speaking gigs on cable news for at least a few months.
Temporarily lowering the status of a politician of national prominence over a few decades of sexual harassment? Has cancel culture gone too far? Lets check with the NY Times.
Temporarily lowering the status of a politician of national prominence over a few decades of sexual harassment? Has cancel culture gone too far? Lets check with the NY Times.
I had to sign a waiver saying I wouldn't take a can of coke from a vendor while touring their office, which had free soda.
Meanwhile "elite" reporters can get have affairs with people they're covering AND a PR blitz to recover their image.
Meanwhile "elite" reporters can get have affairs with people they're covering AND a PR blitz to recover their image.
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I had to sign a waiver saying I wouldn't take a can of coke from a vendor while touring their office, which had free soda.
Meanwhile "elite" reporters can get have affairs with people they're covering AND a PR blitz to recover their image.
Meanwhile "elite" reporters can get have affairs with people they're covering AND a PR blitz to recover their image.
Its amazing how well this supports my theory that LLMs are an addictive drug for middle-management because it never tells them their idea is stupid, or illegal.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Its amazing how well this supports my theory that LLMs are an addictive drug for middle-management because it never tells them their idea is stupid, or illegal.
The part where they think its normal to have this implausible series of coincidences that prevented their rich NYC guy owners/editors from publishing stories about a rich guy in NYC and his rich guy NYC friends doing horrible things speaks to the complete lack of journalistic instincts.
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The part where they think its normal to have this implausible series of coincidences that prevented their rich NYC guy owners/editors from publishing stories about a rich guy in NYC and his rich guy NYC friends doing horrible things speaks to the complete lack of journalistic instincts.
Nah, the NY Times makes it self unaccountable by being one of the last places that pays journalists, as well as "journalists", well. Plus if you write for them they'll flog your book for free.
That gives them a lot of ways to incentivize journalists from not digging around in their scandals.
That gives them a lot of ways to incentivize journalists from not digging around in their scandals.
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Nah, the NY Times makes it self unaccountable by being one of the last places that pays journalists, as well as "journalists", well. Plus if you write for them they'll flog your book for free.
That gives them a lot of ways to incentivize journalists from not digging around in their scandals.
That gives them a lot of ways to incentivize journalists from not digging around in their scandals.
After reading the emails, this level of "dialog" and "thinking" wouldn't pass muster in a World of Warcraft discussion/flame about the right skill rotation on a boss, but its how powerful people apparently decide the course of humanity itself.
The emperors have no clothes.
The emperors have no clothes.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
After reading the emails, this level of "dialog" and "thinking" wouldn't pass muster in a World of Warcraft discussion/flame about the right skill rotation on a boss, but its how powerful people apparently decide the course of humanity itself.
The emperors have no clothes.
The emperors have no clothes.
Its pretty simple "I am the rich person with the high status job. Therefore I am correct and people like me are correct. You only question the system because you're too stupid to understand it, unlike us. We're the KNOWERS. Shut up and know your place plebes. "
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Its pretty simple "I am the rich person with the high status job. Therefore I am correct and people like me are correct. You only question the system because you're too stupid to understand it, unlike us. We're the KNOWERS. Shut up and know your place plebes. "