Yeah, the tech industry tends to do things without thinking of the consequences. For example, the resistance to making software engineering a certified engineering profession like mechanical or structural engineering.

But nerds predated the tech industry, and encompass a lot more than the tech industry.

I can’t wait for the government to learn the futility of trying to block teenagers from something they like.

It’s like when Napster got destroyed and suddenly there were dozens of file sharing programs.

TIL I have something in common with the CCP.

China buys a ton of data from Zuck and Musk and a lot of other people.

The reason it’s being banned is for cutting out the middle man.

If they actually cared about our data going to geopolitical rivals they’d pass comprehensive privacy protections regardless of where the company is headquartered.

It’s like the gilded age except instead of gold we get plastic.

As a nerd, I don’t like the end of the article where she says we need to get revenge on the nerds. I don’t consider any tech bro to be a nerd, and I’ve worked with a lot of them.

It has the most beautiful message, too: Life finds a way.

Sounds like a win-win for republicans

So what? Lots of American officials should be in The Hague.

The devil in the song is in a bind and ready to make a deal, which is a little different from other Faustian tales.

Maybe the lesson is that you don’t make good music when you’re under pressure.

Or that gold fiddles sound bad.

I was able to grow a full beard in 10th grade so this isn’t that unrealistic.

I can’t blame him. When my shift ends it’s somebody else’s problem.

I wish they’d stop using hyperbole and she actually eviscerated him.

Anyone who manages to get themselves elected should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Me too, and this is the only alignment chart where I’m lawful and I don’t like it.

Never assume people are smart.

In the words of another man who left IT for manual labor:

This campaign was very obviously NOT courting the left.

I imagine the phrase “who else are they gonna vote for” was said in a lot of their meetings.

First we give corporations personhood and now they’re getting genders.

It’s a bit like how people closely related to you are not attractive.

Except in Alabama