threwawaysoff

Well, consider the Simpsons' comic book guy: high-IQ but essentially unproductive. He represents that smart-weirdo stereotype.

In terms of envy and anti-intellectualism, it's convenient to lump most tech people, including productive ones, into the smart-weirdo stereotype.

Furthermore, someone is also a "weirdo" if they have a lifestyle that differs significantly from an acceptable "normal" range of allowed configurations.

Occam's razor. Inventing conspiracy theories isn't helpful.

I ditched Linode years ago because it just wasn't that great. AWS if I need ephemeral boxes (I used to be an enterprise on-prem AWS consultant), but I run most everything on a home 96 EPYC core, 512 GB, SSD, HDD (ZFS) box running KVM, Docker, and open vswitch. It just isn't worth it to rent slow, expensive servers when I need lots of them and to be fast. I don't have any problems remoting into them with ddns and wireguard.

Virgin, if they get investment, strategy, and ambition. In Heathrow, they said more than "hello" to and knew so many vendors and regular workers, and even showed me how to find flights across carriers on their terminal. They were so phreak'n cool.

Btw, an aircraft that may revolutionize the viability of regional and charter flights because of its low capex and opex costs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Celera_500L

Mentour Pilot's assessment: https://youtu.be/CN4EKZHYVaE

Yes, it was basic. And self-esteem head-pats don't do much for me except arouse a feeling of being patronized and raise suspicions.

All-in-all, this doesn't seem to do the clients justice if they don't throughly test to see what prospective candidates are made of by pushing their real-world problem-solving abilities, intuition, knowledge, and expertise.

My conclusion is to dissuade the use of TB as a candidate or as a hiring manager.

Another story source (2007):

https://www.damninteresting.com/spies-on-the-roof-of-the-wor...

TB raised a huge red flag when they said "[I] received one of the highest scores on the quiz they ever saw."

I immediately thought: they tell this to everyone, this is some sort of deceptive tactic, and I cannot trust them.

I never followed-up because I wanted nothing else to do with people who were patronizing and lying to me.

Oh hey, it's the pickup artist guy. lol.

The problem is nearly all white-collar people in the SF Bay Area are stingy and blind to the plights of anyone else besides themselves. If this weren't the case, there wouldn't be so many homeless people living on freeway on-ramp embankments.

Case in point: I remember a hackerspace had a large winter food donation barrel that was sitting out for weeks returned with 1 can in it. 1. One. That says "F U" to hungry people.

Also consider how many churches in the SF Bay Area don't do meaningful community outreach and just show up on Sundays.

I just hope none of the comfortable and privileged ever end up poor and hungry, because they'd be in for a shock.

The car driver doesn't fall far from the factory.

OR6A2

https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id...

< 8% indicates official hipsterdom.

I noticed a large decline in friendliness, and it was one of the reasons why I moved out of California; Chico to the SF Bay Area were basically the same. And, new mail people eventually wouldn't even acknowledge my presence.

It seems like most average people were struggling and near the boiling point of discontent.

Even worse, because so many people in the SF Bay Area are semi-temporary transplants, they are often in "vacation"-mode and don't care about the area or other people as much because they're uninvested.

worldwide 30%, give-or-take

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7091696

Quality > quantity.

Personally, I don't see the value in much fiction unless it is exceptional. Instead, I would prefer to read notable works of nonfiction as well as extremely controversial ones that influenced history.

Unpopular opinions and facts that will be automatically discarded, downvoted, flagged, and chastised into oblivion because they are contrary to prevailing dogma:

1. Women's access to the job market competes with men, and takes away men's ability to earn an income that can support a family because it offers the market a surplus of labor.

2. Widespread promiscuity prevents marriage from happening.

3. Things are very good for rich and successful men, but terrible for the rest.

4. Lifestyle changes, beliefs, and attitudes are leading to a soft reduction in fertility rates. Kidfree, MGTOW, celibacy, etc.

5. More women becoming highly-educated and then expecting men to have even more education.

6. Tinder and such apps where women get used by an Ivy Leaguer for a sport fuck, and she automatically assumes she's a 10 princess and everyone else is unworthy.

7. The atomization of society into anonymous, self-obsessed groups of 1 without a community focal-point like a church.

8. The extended infantilization of men and women such they don't or can't interact with each other successfully during their prime reproductive years. This is partially due to two-working parent households not teaching their kids how to act.

9. The attitudes of shunning single men as worthless.