Grumpy Tech Bro

SV Technocrat turned Populist Skeptic post brain tumor.

140+ to 112 I am a river to my people.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

For a long time, the D’s had the working class and the R’s had the white belt country club types. Then the internet made a bunch of people billionaires and the D’s ran over there and abandoned the working class.

Then the D’s almost nominated someone no one liked and claimed she was unstoppable because she had superdelegate magic. But the D’s pivoted to a black guy who promised hope and change.

The black guy made fun of Trump as a fancy dinner and said he would never be President. So Trump bided his time. Spoiler: Hope and Change was more of the same only harder.

Then the D’s nominated the lady no one liked again! and again claimed she was unstoppable. Trump, a 90’s D saw his chance and ran.

He stopped her. Because Trump traded the white belt types for the working class who just wanted to be listened to.

That was his only real crime, defeating the woman no one liked. Everything after that has been a giant whine fest by the D’s.

Then, to a country exhausted by COVID they rounded up the only credible moderate left in their country; he just happened to be senile. So they paired him with a retard so she wouldn’t show him up and make it obvious.

There were a bunch of ballot shenanigans.

Trump was all ready to go home and stay out of politics but the D’s were still mad at him for defeating the woman no one liked and now they could complain about him complaining about the election, conveniently ignoring that the lady no one liked had done that for four years. And is still doing it.

So they had to get their revenge.

So they passed special laws that said you could sue for something that happened 30 years ago (as long as you sued during that one special “Get Trump” year). They also made up some stuff about how his fancy house was only worth $10M so the loan he had already paid off was gotten under false pretenses so he had to pay $400M in damages. Oh and they called all the banks and told them they shouldn’t bank with him any more.

So Trump got mad, got into crypto and started his own social media company. They made him sit in the courtroom for six months while a crazy lady made up stories about how she and him had gotten hot and heavy in a Bloomingdale’s dressing room but he didn’t call her afterwards so he was bad. But he watched the lawfare and learned.

Now they’re complaining because not only did he beat the lady no one liked and the retard ( was that supposed to be hard?) he’s making bank on crypto and social media. And he actually listens to his lawyers now.

And he’s hopefully bombing the country that declared war on us 47 years ago that we’ve been ignoring.

So that’s why. Hope that helps.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@gummibear737 Sigh. Power Plant and Bridge day already. Use Graphite Ribbons Bombs so they get both the stick and the carrot that if they stop being dicks we'll stop shooting the people that try to clean off the ribbons from the Wart Hots or the Helos.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@RealHickory Yes.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@froglet80 @it_unprofession You have to google it, then copy paste the emoji.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

This article has me nodding in full agreement. But there is a deeper problem with Indian and Pakistani immigration this only begins to touch on.

Strap in and let me explain in this long 🧵

When I worked on an oil rig in India, my most trusted bosun was a Sikh named Balbir Singh.

I can’t fully explain how critical he was to the operation. An operation that won us a world record and launched the Ambani family into the stratosphere of wealth.

It was an incredibly difficult assignment. We brought a vintage drillship into southeast India and drilled through monsoons, shipboard fires, and the 2004 Asian tsunami.

When we arrived, most of the crew were good ol’ boys from Mississippi and Louisiana. But the Indian government had set an aggressive schedule to replace us with Indians.

We had more problems than I can recount here. The most pressing involved three things: the caste system, honesty, and safety.

I was chief mate, the first officer, so the crew was my responsibility.

The caste system wasn’t a big deal for me, but it was for my southern crew. Most of these guys grew up in the segregated South. We had a small handful of racists, but the vast majority were fiercely anti-racist. Many had come up in a divided South and had zero tolerance for segregation.

My Indian officers were from the higher priest and warrior castes.

Here is what you have to understand about India: labor is extremely cheap. It is not unusual to hire five men to dig a hole with one shovel, supervised by a sixth man of higher class.
That might work on land. It does not work on an oil rig with a limited number of cots.

In American culture, officers are expected to get their hands dirty and pitch in.

So we would assign an officer to a job on deck, and 15 minutes later he had a gaggle of crew working for him. Crew who had abandoned jobs of their own to do it.

Safety was another problem. Life is cheap, so the crew often prioritized the task over their own survival. You would send a man on deck and he would walk out barefoot, straight under a suspended load.

Last was honesty. The answer to almost everything was yes.
“Did you check to make sure the safety pin is in place?”
“Yes sir.”

It often wasn’t.

We had crew from every Hindu caste and every region of the subcontinent. We also had a token number from other faiths: Christian, Sikh, Muslim, and Jain.

Balbir came in at the lowest level, ordinary seaman, with no experience. He quickly became my right-hand man and the go-to guy for any critical operation on the rig.

Let me say that again. He had zero knowledge or experience when he started. /1

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt Interesting. @grok what's the normal property tax on a $1B chip fab gizmo?

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@JVTacoma @3lectricBrawl Someone makes an add on kit. for that. Looking:

$89. Ordering Myself one now. $79 for older years.

https://t.co/MOF4KtE17U

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@Alladdin1983 We're a big state. Give us money until we fix the problem...

Problem fixed? No, sorry, give us more money.

Ok, you're good blue people. I'm sure you're trying.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@Alladdin1983 Funded by HAVA though. The grift that keeps on grifting.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Joshi,

Let me clarify the origins of the “civilization destroyer” comment which I believe is what you are alleging is a racial slur.

@infantrydort , yesterday asked me if I knew anything about you.

I pulled up your biography, which shows that you’ve been a career NGO foreign policy wonk, starting by interning for the National Democratic Institute in Russia (of all places) and spending the majority of your career in London being a fellow for Royal United Services Institute.

RUSI is the OG foreign policy thinktank, and as a senior fellow there during the Middle Eastern fallout, you’ve been cheering for America’s downfall for years. And if that weren’t enough, your last job before going to the Economist was to work for “Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.” Tony Blair himself - the man the media named as ending the Westphalia age.

If you’ve spent five minutes researching @infantrydort’s page, this IS exactly what he’s been railing against for months. He doesn’t give a poop about your skin color. He’s certainly never treated me any differently based on gender or disability.

He called you a civilization destroyer because you have been working in the circles that have been pushing to end Americanism all your life.

Don’t flatter yourself thinking he’s ever seen a picture of you. The insult was ideological.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Pretty insane footage from multiple angles of the Iranian Shahed explosive drone hitting the international airport in Kuwait.

This is what happens when you appease and embolden those Islamic psychopaths

[SKDoubleDub @SKDoubleDub33]

Uh oh. Joshi got a “Hello…” post from @DataRepublican, but I feel like this post should go to everyone that throws “racist” around for the simple fact that they can’t defend their ideas.

Markwayne Mullin, a Cherokee Nation tribal citizen, was called a racist today in a congressional hearing by a soon to be former U.S. representative, Al Green.

We’re tired of you diminishing the meaning of the word “racist,” it is absolutely meaningless now.

A person isn’t racist for disagreeing with your ideas or your politics.

Do better.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@shipwreckedcrew I was one of those workers in 2020.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵When the IDF raided Shifa Hospital in March 2024 claiming 100s of Hamas terrorists were inside, the world doubted it. But Hamas now admits that Fadi Duwaik, killed in that raid on Mar 30, 2024, was indeed a commander. Further proof that Hamas uses hospitals as bases. 1/

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

America routinely taking days/weeks to count ballots now is f’n hilarious. They might as well announce results in Hamburglar costumes

[Caustic Dave 🇺🇸 @CausticDave]

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[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@DOGE @Mets That's Mamdummy.

[Alladdin @Alladdin1983]

🚨Breaking: California Election: Steve Hilton just lost the lead due to late mail-in ballot drops. However, there is a crazy $90.1 million grant from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to the California Secretary of State that runs all the way until—wait for it—2099. Yes, you read that right. It runs until 2099. The description on the grant is super vague.
@DataRepublican @SteveHiltonx @cali_doge

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@VellCal @lamps_apple @KurtSchlichter That's the spin, I know.

Watch some old videos of him.

No stutter.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

So exactly when did Biden get this "stutter"? Because he never had it before.

And I'm sorry, but I spent a good part of a year watching the light go out of my wife's eyes. Man had dementia. I'm glad you don't know, but you telling me I don't know? FU.

Biden at the G7 getting distracted by the guy packing his parachute? My wife at the grocery store. Oooooh Shiny!

First thing to go is executive function. Your brain fades from the outside in.