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]

@skcd42 Ctrl-m still doesn’t work to turn on multi line for me and it doesn’t stick. Which is annoying because I still get the 137/127 quit.

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@FloppingAces Isn’t free banking just crypto?

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@AliceLBronte And that’s a mute.

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@AngelaBelcamino All you have to do is throw $ at a prediction market to skew it. If you skew it enough for it to be a self fulfilling prophecy you make money.

[emily miller @emilymiller]

EXCLUSIVE: Ran to Lincoln Reflecting Pool for final blue spray. Water test tomorrow. Refill 7-10 days. Granite work next. WATCH!

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@ChristianHeiens @JeffSechelski Losing the Dems too. I blame the Ts.

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@A10TheHog Deefa = DFA = Death from above.

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@SusieM414141 @Gitmo99 Actually you have better visibility that way.

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@avivafashion11 My doctor has a well run office. Key to keeping any schedule is to interleave catchup blocks throughout the day. If you schedule: Patient A, B, C, D ——Z with no space talking one minute longer to A makes every patient a minute behind. And so on.

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LOL.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

We got married on a Saturday in Canada. On Monday, we were emigrating to the United States. My new wife and I said goodbye to the movers, flew to the border, and I got pulled into the big glass room for "extra questioning".

From her vantage point, she could see the immigration officer yelling, turning red, and waving his arms. She thought we were being denied entry... my Microsoft dreams crashing down right there.

What she couldn’t hear was that he had already approved my work visa. He was furious because their copy of Microsoft Word was printing a blank page at the end of every document, and it was wasting paper, and he wanted it fixed.

I helped adjust the margins. And so, after fixing the borders at the border, they released us to our new life in America.

[Grumpy Tech Bro @GrumpyTechBro]

@Tryangle @elonmusk @Tesla @cybertruck They sell an air mattress for the Model Y and they have camp mode.

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@ianmSC @Brohonatron Prediction markets pretty easy to game by throwing money at them. If you win you make money.

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I thought communities were dead now?

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@Singhmar4Amit Bro, even my self is having an existential crisis now.

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Tesla Time Machine gone. Can no longer have it delivered yesterday, just today through the 14th. (Yes I’m obsessively checking multiple times/day) just give me a VIN so I can get insurance bids.

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@CDRB1987 @Alladdin1983 Just as long as it’s not a hanging chad.

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@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.

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@RealHickory Yes.

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@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