Housed Autistic Bob

80s pop culture fanatic. Software engineering fundamentalist. Visible Dark Matter Developer. USAF vet (technically). Perpetually exhausted autistic.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

1985 is 3rd grade for me. The thing i'd do is START FIXING S**T! IMMEDIATELY!

Let go the fighter pilot thing. Lock in on being a better student. Lower my expectations in life. Ask to get on a track team. Give up violin. Step it up in Cub Scouts.

Then I might go play some Atari.

[80s Nostalgia Channel @80s_channel]

You wake up and it's 1985. No wifi. No cell phones. No social networks. No browsing the internet. What is the first thing you do?

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@SerpentorsLairX Nothing else exists without G1.

Idc. Im NEVER gonna get tired of the endless references to the 86 movie.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@incorpplague You're not gonna have a choice.

You didn't have a choice after 2008. You didn't have a choice after 2020. You won't have a choice in the next thing either.

When the economy craters, the government will take action.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@TheLurkerKnows @NavalInstitute The problem appears to be the Navy didn't report the incident to congress.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@chrisclarkefly Not unless the aircraft is acrobatic.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@PinkestDarkBoy @GundamNoContext I started as a webmaster in 2001 at $20/hr. It may be higher now, but no way is it six figures.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

Being neurotypical would make life easier. Thing is, I like me. I like being a workaholic. I like that I've had goals since I was 4.

If I were NT, id probably be all normie and s**t. I'd want like a wife and kids and use words like “work life balance”.

Yikes. 😬

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@gijoeguy84 The first IDW run kind of ruined me. Nothing that has been written since comes close to that level of epic.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

For decades, we told kids to go to college. Then 2008 happened, but nobody got the memo. Banks kept loaning money.

Now we got AI taking white collar jobs.

And people still talk about student loans like it's a matter of personal responsibility and not a systemic problem.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@Sarxis_Cat @SerpentorsLairX Jetfire. You're thinking of the Aerialbot.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@SavvyWroteThat Yeah "never give up " is HORRIBLE advice. I have wasted so much life thinking success was just around the corner if only I do this one more thing. There is always one more thing.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

Crazy how precisely ZERO percent of the motivation garbage I've been exposed to my entire adulthood actually applies to me.

I should be a motivational speaker for autistic people.

"Hard work pays off...sometimes. Never give up. Unless it's not working then absolutely give up."

[Nathan ✰ @Just1Nathann_]

A friend’s dad once told me something. He was a very wealthy man, and he said:

“The problem isn’t that you can’t succeed. The problem is that you underestimate yourself and what you’re capable of. How far you go in life depends on how much you believe in yourself and your abilities.”

That day, I started seeing myself differently.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@MountainMan_BV You're thinking of Washington, Wall Street and literally every other large institution in this country.

Systemic problems require systemic solutions.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

Yeah you are bro.

Because, despite the stereotype, plenty of us are running around with marketable degrees and still can't find work.

1/5 Americans has a student loan. This is going to be a serious problem and we're all gonna have to pay for it.

[Buckweet 🦅 @UncleBuckbroken]

Im not paying for your degree just because you took useless classes that wont pay off your debt, dude

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@SerpentorsLairX Between Battletech, Robotech, and Transformers, the 80s sure were an IP mess.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@Rainmaker1973 They way they're organized, it looks like a band saw.

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly had another extramarital affair, this time with Nvidia's VP of health care who reports directly to him.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@supergeekmike You're both wrong Remember, the minimum wage is a price support. Its got f**k all to do with "value".

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@UncleBuckbroken Being a racist POS isn't going to stop the government from doing what it's going to do.

But thanks for playing!

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@UncleBuckbroken Unless you have spent time lobbying congress to reign in Wall Street or tech, you slept walked into this thing like everyone else.

I hold a tiny fraction of the $2 trillion in outstanding loans. $2 trillion. And you don't think Uncle Sam is gonna hit you up for the bailout. 🤣

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@cecil_zemus @UncleBuckbroken Yeah you did. You're a part of society. Unless you've spent the last 60 years railing against Wall Street and congress allowing bankers to do whatever, or fighting against the evils of AI, you're as much to blame as everyone else.

Eventually tax payers will have to fix this.

[Housed Autistic Bob @BobLovesData]

@UncleBuckbroken Blah blah blaah.

This silly little rant doesn't matter. You're not going to have a choice.

We all created the problem. We're all going to have to be part of the solution.