Finger on the monkey’s paw curls
Too little delay on the automated back and forth.
Clueless middle management dork sees (imagines) amazing, promotion-grade results - huzzah, obviously I was right all along!
Things get weirder, and worse.
(eh, the sardonic joke I read was: ya stopped short of deleting Windows)
Fuckin lol. Lotta these old greedy pricks starting to converge, in visage and thought, on - “well, there has to be a first lich, after all, so…”
They utterly trashed their OS, a globally ~dominant cash cow, at an astonishing pace. By completely, eagerly (forcibly!) jumping the gun on exciting new tech, maybe the single above-all “thing you never do with anything even like a cash cow of any shape or size”.
As in, that is known - viscerally, below the level of words or even thought, as if that knowledge originates from another realm - by anyone who has ever actually been directly responsible for any valuable piece of technology.
The depth of ignorance and really just flat-out juvenile naivety (fueled by naked greed) that produced this is something I’ll probably be thinking about for the rest of my life. Truly amazing, just historically, I mean mythically foolish.
This dude has been locked into this outcome for a long time, and it’s getting increasingly obvious how disastrous it is.
There are no dances left for him to perform except “it’s really not that bad!”
After listening to some of the Behind the Bastards on Thiel’s Antichrist obsession, his names for things are more understandable. Not by being sensible, by his demonstrated tendency to read things and take interpretations from them that make no sense to anyone else.
So yeah I’m sure he’s got some nutso bananas reinterpretation of what a Palantir is, etc.
He seems unwell, truly.
So, I can’t decide if you’re directing this at me or just phrasing things unclearly. I’m not in the demographic you’re talking about, at all, never really have been.
I’m expressing sympathy for people who are lonely and who don’t want to be, because the way you phrased your previous set of complaints sounded, among other things, like you mocking people experiencing that. I get that people are being reactive jerks. It’s cuz they’re hurting. I’m not, so the things they are saying about it really don’t bother me (as you can see elsewhere in the thread).
The fact that you’re just doubling down, saying my POV is “stupid”, you’ve shown me all I need to see here. I’m not angry at you, I just think you have some gross views.
And btw, having neurodivergence(s) doesn’t just magically qualify you to speak for others.
Certainly some strong opinions and even hostility from some folks, but for myself I don’t find it very fruitful to minimize the suffering caused by isolation the way you’ve done.
It’s a big deal to experience, it’s a chronic thing many find hard or impossible to escape (whatever your opinions on the reasons for that), and I think it’s pretty gross bordering on cruel to dunk on folks that might be experiencing something so painful.
Feels to me like a very normal thing to share with people I’m very close with, just sorta sharing life updates and chatting (“I’m looking for a job”, but weightier). But yeah would be really weird outside of that.
But also, no argument about the cliche lol. The one area of human sexuality the US is apparently less prudish about - specifically intending to make babies!
I think the joke is just that the individual’s subconscious supplied explicit imagery that the consciousness never asked for, like an intrusive thought. Doesn’t read to me as a comment on the couple sharing the info.
“Sorry, my brain did a thing”, right there.
Edit: it does not seem that the rest of the thread agrees with me lol
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