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If you read their tweet, and look at their picture, you might imagine you’ve read something insightful by a person who is disrespecting their own mother for internet points.

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

Saw my mother over the weekend, who wanted to know about my trip to DC. I mentioned how strange and sparse the fair was. Performers performing to nobody, etc. “Well you’re just hearing what the Democrat news is saying” as if I was not literally describing being there. Very odd

[Nietzsche’s Retarded Stallion (NRS) @TheUgliest_Man]

At my last white collar job, my 3-person team (competent older white male manager + me + woman without degree/experience)'s client was responsible for 70% of the 90-person firms revenue, and it was by far the neediest and most complicated client the whole firm had.

On top of this client I had my own by myself whom I worked with.

Anyway, many times in my years at this place there was a catastrophe that would cause my otherwise stoic boss to be on the verge of tears or panic and as someone new or young and already overpreforming expectations, I saved everything from implosion in what was more than what could've ever been asked of me on multiple occasions. So much so, these clients, that were impossible to please, reached out to my manager and his boss and asked that I be promoted and given a larger role with them.

Of course, this was denied, and they instead brought in a black African woman who did not speak English as a first language and gave her the position, and then gave me a 3% "merit raise" in the middle of a rushed call about something else more urgent, where I was not given the space to discuss it.

After this, I couldn't get myself to try beyond the minimum and ultimately soon after I quit my job meaningfully earlier than I was expecting to and made the transition into professional poker.

In my years in the white collar world, working for multiple firms and teams of various sizes, I never once saw a young white man get promoted. I only saw them get fired for minor infractions by which the same standards were never held even marginally so to any other demographic group, whom would constantly overstep them amyways.

Some of my anecdotes in this respect are truly insane.

And literally every time I saw someone get promoted, it was a woman or a non, and whenever they failed catastrophically, they would just get rotated or fail upwards into greater roles in middle management.

And after years of this white collar work, I was furthermore never able to achieve the median salary in the United States. My 3-person team brought in millions in revenue, but paying me -- a young white man -- $63K after my background, experience, and contribution was a bridge too far.

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@shortmagsmle I don’t know what to think about Asha Sharma and Satya Nadella

[Real Chris Jaksha @ChriTock]

I didn't watch it the first time he posted it.

I didn't watch it the second time he posted it.

I watched it today (3rd time posting) and totally worth it.

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I understand not reading The Holy Bible, for lots of reasons.

But at least read it this far.

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

you’re dumb if you didn’t know this already God literally said it right after making Earth

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Trying to explain to people that local LLM use doesn't use any water is like trying to teach a brick wall to hula hoop

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Could this man be any more useless?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@HouseGOP So, it’s best to wean kids onto socialism gradually with a Trump account?

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If the first sentence doesn’t fill you with shame, it’s because your culture is trash

[Uday @CoderUday]

In college placements, my classmates cheated in interviews. Got placed

They are now doing well in life, switching, promotions, everything is normal

I think everyone can survive in IT. People can learn after getting a job

(As my previous manager says: "This is software, not rocket science"😅)

The hardest part is getting interview calls & cracking interviews. Everything after that is a piece of cake

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Posted from India.

I’m sure they aren’t all dishonest and horrible like this, but what exactly is the %

[Uday @CoderUday]

@michaelbushe This world is not an ideal place

If you are honest, innocent, follow rules.... others will suppress you

One must be cunning to survive in this world...

This is wrong.. but we have no other optio

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Congratulations to Obsidian Games art director Matt Hansen, who reportedly got what he wanted today when Xbox eliminated 3200 positions, including his.

Best of luck in the woods, Matt.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Now The Fountainhead – arguably the better book:

1. There are two ways to exist: create from your own vision, or live by reflecting and pleasing others – Rand calls them the first-handers and the second-handers.

2. Howard Roark is an architect who will only build what he actually believes in. He starves rather than compromise the design. The world resists him constantly.

3. Peter Keating is the opposite – talented enough, but builds his entire career on flattering clients, copying styles, and climbing socially. He succeeds, but remains hollow.

4. The villain, Ellsworth Toohey, is the system made conscious: he deliberately promotes mediocrity, knowing that a world of second-handers needs a critic to tell them what to think – and that gives him total power.

5. Roark’s crime, in the eyes of that world, isn’t failure – it’s that he doesn’t need their approval. That independence is experienced as an affront.

6. The novel’s argument: civilization’s actual source is the rare individual who originates rather than imitates. Everyone else — including people who despise him — lives downstream of what he creates.

7. The Fountainhead is Roark himself. Not a fountain – a fountainhead: the original source, where the water actually comes from. Before the river, before the tributaries, before anyone else draws from it. The title says: find that person, and you’ve found where everything real begins.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Honored to be on the inaugural flight of the new Air Force One

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The problem is you

[sam @sam_d_1995]

I am genuinely so upset about this. I remember my parents telling me how cool and unifying the bicentennial was, and I even collected the special quarters as a kid

now, Trump ruined my chance to experience something similar and turned the entire thing into trashy MAGAslop.

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

Because being able to think about and discuss ideas without accepting them as fact or identity makes low IQ people furious. So you either have to accept constant anger or hide who you are. I don’t think it’s a curse but it’s understandable why people would.

You also can track patterns and effects far out into the future, so you have to watch people self destruct. And when you tell them what you see they think you’re full of hate or “unhinged” and keep self destructing and there’s nothing you can do about it besides accept it

[The Watcher On The Web @WatcherontheWeb]

@oglibate All my friends from back home went to college

and despite mostly going to different schools in different parts of the country

all became exactly the same person

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Appeal To Consensus Face.

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@ZubyMusic @elonmusk Freon Labe

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“I can tell what agent you’re using by what kind of manic overbuilt software you made”

[🎭 @deepfates]

Starting to see more of this actually. Everybody who uses Codex is building some kind of infinitely verifiable evidence receipt evaluator. With Opus 4.6 it was those situation monitoring sites. I can tell what agent you're using by what kind of manic overbuilt software you made