idkwcpgw
2mo ago
Okay, you're correct and I am a bad reader. To my credit (and as you said), those examples are so bad that they short circuited my brain and I could not relate them to the opening thesis.
idkwcpgw
2mo ago
I might be a bad reader here and misunderstanding, but I see that article as 3 distinct pieces:
- Does the social contract even exist any more?
- Did Cheating Accusations Kill This Grandmaster?
- Twitch Can’t Protect Streamers
I don't read the latter two sections as in any way related to the former.
idkwcpgw
3mo ago
It's 100% real, it's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen in my entire life.
idkwcpgw
5mo ago
A chit is a record of a debt, bringing chits is paying debt, and not a common phrase even among americans. "calling in a chit" is more common.
idkwcpgw
6mo ago
Hah, I feel like there are two unintentional 3 book series by different authors in sci-fi:
Starship Troopers, The Forever War, Old Man's war
Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Ready Player One
In both of these sets, the first is the original, genre-defining, and by far the best of them. The second is quite good, with an interesting take on similar concepts. The third is a fun read, but upon further reflection is substance-free and as deep as a joss whedon film.
idkwcpgw
6mo ago
Climbing is one of the most body-shape dependent sports - it's more like horse jockeying than it is like basketball. It's not height that matters, but frame size and natural muscle build. Almost all non-anorexic post-pubescent women will have too high a body fat percentage to be competitive. Lean-but-strong men dominate.
The reductio-ad-absurdum comparison here is chess: men are just better than women. It requires no physical ability. However, a girl that's been training since she was 6 and has a 1700 elo will kick the holy hell out of a random boy that sits down at the chess board.
idkwcpgw
7mo ago
As someone that's worked for a FAANG for just about two decades, yes, everything about the above. The tech workers that most want to unionize are the ones that most want to wield that union in the service of extreme progressivism. The venn diagram of tech workers who have their pronouns in their signature and have at least once in their lives shouted "from the river to the sea" unironically, and those that are organizing unionization efforts in tech is indistinguishable from a circle.
It's possible that unionization could make life in software consultancy sweatshops like Deloitte somewhat better. As a FAANG employee, I do not feel that anyone on the tech side is being taken advantage of, and would much prefer fewer protections for the employees that cannot stop their fucked up psychological problems or childish entitlement to a job from causing constant strife at work.
For me the thing that put this more out of bounds than most of the batshit things Trump says is that he should be able to relate to it. A father being killed by his son is truly tragic, unless the father has covered for grievous crimes the son has committed. It doesn't look like that's the case here, just that Nick Reiner is a complete and utter schizophrenic nut. I don't know that he's terrorized anyone but his parents, and a parent should be able to empathize.
The reason the left's response to Charlie Kirk hit me so hard is that he was assassinated - again, the form of death matters. If he was hit by a car, the left being a bag of dicks would feel normal. When your own side extra-judiciously kills someone, you should not cheer.
When parents are killed by their mentally ill child, it's a true tragedy that you wouldn't wish on anyone.
Also, The Princess Bride is a national treasure.
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