Anecdotally, as a life long STEM nerd, even smart people are boring.
I tire of discussing the potential of a theory; sure let me add that to the pile of a hundred others I heard about this month. How one was able to link two well known math objects by adding a few more of the well known glyphs; no one has ever done that before.
When one of you is on the verge of actually replacing relativity, or falsifying entropy, a warp drive, uploading kung fu to my consciousness; sure let’s hear it.
And FFS am I tired of listening to startup stories; it’s the new “read my script.” Machine aided reductions of daily life stats is a prosaic story to tell to someone who has been writing software since the 80s.
Every Dell or Lenovo I had before that was cracked, missing plastic bits, feet and screws after 4 years.
Last Lenovo had battery issues from the start. 2018 MacBook still lasts a day.
But my dual Xeon Dell Precision desktop from 2017 is still a beast, never had issues.
It’s a gradient in the aggregate but my personal experience says it’s just fine to write off any laptop that isn’t a Mac. The plastic housing alone makes me think they take a “Gillette razor” approach to portables; who cares if it cracks apart, just replace it! which I have a hard time looking passed given the industrial waste shitshow we already have.
Our culture at large refuses to blink from “the hustle.”
What does lingering in ennui and frustration achieve while?
If people want change it’s going to be on the level of quitting jobs en masse and working for each other at both points A and B, because letting outsiders guide agency through market hype is the problem.
You want to make sure a community has enough and is free from people feeling they’re free to treat others however? Go do it.
You want more of the same? Let the JIT machine keep creating bag holders.
This sit and reflect thing is no different than thoughts and prayers.
The forward march of technology is now censorship of speech.
We’ve been here before with DND, comic books and music. It didn’t really change much.
How do they censor something like a Linux kernel with built in VPN and containers, and distributed source control? At this point what of those old layers really matter?
They’ll target the boogeyman they know but numerous replacement stacks already exist.
Social science research suggests Gen Z has not shed its progressiveness as it ages out of its 20s like previous generations.
The traditions have been washed out of the youth. A bunch of scared politicians and elites are welcome to push their luck and make predictions city-states will take over the role of the federal government more probable.
That’s a poetic sentiment but by your own logic you won’t hurt those employees at Github so what do they care about your poetic sentiment?
Taking action against those companies is taking action against people with families.
The wartime speculative industrial march we’ve “civilized” has externalized a lot of real cost on others. You materially profit from it but if you just say you hate it it’s cool, you’re good?
This circular hustle for higher mindedness when all people are right at the same point in human existence, discovery, logic, is exhausting. Take real steps, stop buying crap, stop driving, stop generating mess for the future, stop hustling for nation state scrip.
Soaking up the material wealth and externalizing the problem as “those others” is old. Everyone hates “the bubble” but we refuse to pop it.