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Re:Fierce Nerds on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:01AM (#27195546)
I’d take PG more seriously if he actually had to work to maintain his flock. Folks who struck it rich in the lottery talk about how suddenly everyone wanted to be their friend.

I’ve been rummaging around the human experience for 41 years, applying technology to problems at public uni and big corp, building houses, growing food, hunting, earned degrees in electrical engineering and math.

To me that’s all there is, to go do directly.

All this feels like is someone who is riding off that lottery ticket.

That is, I’m not seeing an information advantage. Just a political capital advantage.

I thought we did away with allegiance to unelected political agents?

Not while economic power and politics are controlled by the same generation and social networks.

Those who were raised on censored television and waving “the correct flag” went too many times around the sun like that to be able to reconsider themselves as anything but completely appropriate.

Wfh offered a perfect opportunity to exert political pressure; don’t open them laptops!

But the masses identity is game-fied jobs and consumerism. We must not upset the natural order.

Don’t mind me; I quit my job, sold all my gadgets (except an old iPhone) and got into learning music last year, to ride out the pandemic. I’ve gone bonkers.

Re:Fierce Nerds on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:08AM (#27194744)
A year ago he was musing how categorizing people into two groups was too basic.

Xist versus Yist, and he showed us with some pretty basic math.

Now two groups is all we need to understand the world?