David Crows

Brutal-American

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@johnkonrad We need a trial separation so we can find ourselves and develop some new relationships.

It's not really fair to NATO to be in a treaty with us, such a young and immature nation, until we really get a chance to live life on our own terms for a while and grow up.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

A lot of the other kids in the gifted program just did not have the moral or spiritual framework to see other humans as made in the image of their creator (because believing in God is for normies, not the smart people)

You have a lot social and sexual rejection that festers. They see normies being successful in business and with women and the world seems broken and unfair.

The +3SD people with a high EQ and a prosocial outlook do very, very well.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@_Credible_Hulk There are a lot of games played with infant mortality stats. Our standard is generally more broad, countries purporting lower numbers often have narrower definitions.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@RaminNasibov @elonmusk Starsiege: Tribes

We had dreams about jetpacks for months...

https://t.co/HxDpFv5rKV

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@CJHandmer @Cernovich Engineering recruiter here.

This is frighteningly true.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@Kelsisheren @triggerpod @KonstantinKisin @francisjfoster Heroic. Thank you.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@LayoffAI @DataRepublican H1b holders are not captive, they are free to change jobs at any time.

The h1b transfer process is trivial.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

Go to the party. Meet people.
Be interesting.

I moved a lot when I was a kid and you have to assert yourselves into social circles.

[Philosophy Sage @philosophysage]

It took me 4 years to understand this; but I will teach in just 2 minutes:

1. Don't go to a party you aren't invited to.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@GalLovejoy @Reuters We can just do things.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@JoshuaSteinman Working in frontier AI is (at least for now) both secure and lucrative with massive equity potential.

There is almost no oxygen for anything else.

[Simon Unleashed @SimonSaysKnow]

@WallStreetMav The system will heal itself when consequences for bad behavior are allowed to impact those who profit from it.

[Derech @IDerech]

Thoughts about Japan:

I got stuck in Japan during the pandemic for 9 months without being able to fly back home.

At the time, I was staying in a 6-floor hostel in Ryogoku, completely empty except for me.

The staff slowly became my friends since I had no one else in Japan.

After the third month of lockdown, my money ran out.

They noticed the slow decay in my condition. I was eating half a meal a day.

One day, out of nowhere, they called me down to the reception.

There was a big box, surrounded by several smaller ones.

The staff had told their friends and families about me, and together they gathered groceries and essentials to help me get through those difficult months.

There were even handmade face masks someone had sewn because they were impossible to find in stores.

I was so overwhelmed with gratitude that I broke down in tears.

From that day on, more than friends, we became family.

Japan and its people embraced me when I was at my lowest point.

It healed something in me when I needed it the most.

Thank you Japan.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@DanDraitser @texasrunnerDFW You're making the case for them not receiving tax payer money or special programs.

If an h1b holder loses their job, they have 60 days to find a new one or lose their status.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@KirstiMiller30 @jk_rowling oh yes, you sound sane and normal

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@Cernovich When you're young, you can't help but feel that time is so slow, you'll just be young forever.

When you arrive in middle age, it just feels like there has been some bureaucratic mistake and you're lost in unfamiliar territory.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@massinference @PresentWitness_ Decades of experience and I've never seen this.

Successful companies have to compete and they look for engineers who can actually do the work.

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@PresentWitness_ Maybe at some larger, entrenched companies where promoting it is a way to smother upstarts but VCs want ROI

[FOOL NELSON @FOOL_NELSON]

@dailystoic This is soyicism

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

@Bacontrophy84 @ZarkFiles @grok what show or movie is this from and what's happening?

[David Crows @QuidBroCrow]

This is the story that all recruiters tell their recruits: never take a counter offer, it's just breathing room to replace you!

First, nobody gets a retention offer that's basically double their current salary. Almost every company will just wish you well and hire someone else.

Second, sometimes it is a tool to replace you on their terms but if the counter offer is reasonable and you're doing a good job, most of the time it's better to keep a good performer.

Third, if you were unhappy with your job, more money is probably not going to change the reason you started looking.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.