you can click through to the source material when it’s linked.

but nobody is doing that, and when I admit to doing it people tell me I’m deranged.

how does that even work?

like isn’t giving it the inputs of your groceries the same thing as making the list yourself?

or is more like they say ‘i want to cook tandoori chicken this week’ and it just pulls from a generic recipe the ingredients list?

Yeah, that’s true. One thing that drives me nuts about local elections is… there is no useful info on the candidates, not from themselves, not from news papers, not from anyone… it sucks.

almost all the ‘info’ about my local candidates was… arguments on Facebook about why candidate x or candidate y and an evil demonic force, or an angelic savior of the people.

most people don’t enjoy thinking. they also don’t enjoy running marathons.

because both things are painful. they are also time consuming.

they only becoming enjoyable or worthwhile when you have a sufficient level of practice. for someone who is a couch potato, running a marathon is impossible without months or years of hard work, and they also likely think marathon running is stupid and pointless and there is likely something ‘wrong’ with people who run marathons.

thinking and using your mental faculties are no different than your physical ones.

‘special shampoo’

is that your code for jackin’ it in the shower?

yeah, my reaction to the headline was ‘what the fuck’.

but then i realize i’m the weirdo who doesn’t do that. some folks can’t be more than 5ft from their phone without having an anxiety attract

yeah, but boomers are an easier target.

boomers are 70+

gen x is 50s/60s

millennial is 30s/40s

gen z is 20s and late teens

alpha is under 15.

this sounds like everyone i meet. except… they are not boomers. they are millennials.

and when i say i like doing stuff in real life they get very confused and often angry.

and if i say ‘lets go to a movie’ they say ‘it’s too long and hard to pay attention’. and if i say I like to read, they tell me I’m weird and pretentious.

and they can’t hold a conversation on topic for more than like a minute or two. and then when I don’t want to interact with them anymore… they tell me I’m the problem.

I used to actually kinda like talking to my co-workers and people my age… now I just hate it. Because everyone’s brain is destroyed, everything is instant gratification echo chamber nonsense or anxiety-fueled social comparison.

and when I go on social media… I am just repulsed confused how anyone could enjoy the endless slop it serves up, and often turned off by people to the point I just block them. I’d rather remain ignorant than look at their try hard posts about how happy and wonderful their life is… because when you talk to them IRL they are anxious and depressed.

what is ‘success’? starting salary, or mid-career, or late career?

regardless of what you major in, or your job skills you have, the biggest predictor of success is your parents wealth. no major, no college, nothing can overcome that element.

the poor kids with STEM degrees are the ones slinging coffee, not the rich ones. because they don’t have the social connections, and the unpaid internships and the social skills to get them hired by all the hiring managers who are upper middle class people whose primary concern in hiring is social fit above all else. brogrammers only hire other brogrammers. woke brogrammers, only higher other woke brogrammers, etc. and poor college kids have no idea what any of that shit is because they are worrying about their food budget and their summer job slinging ice cream will be enough to cover next semesters books and fees.

frankly, I’ve never met a STEM person who wasn’t from a upper middle class family, though a lot of them tell you they are ‘poor’ because their dad own drove a Lexus, not a Mercedes. Everyone I knew who went into STEM was way richer than my family. and they are totally convinced though their grew up in rags because they shopped at Abercomrbie and not Vineyard vines. And if I say ‘hey well i grew up shopping at TJ Maxx’ they tell me to go fuck myself for being a poor piece of shit.

yeah but they are majoring in STEM so they are automatically hard working and good people or something.

and lets not… acknowledge how many people in STEM… have liberal arts degrees… which is a lot.

tell me more about my co-workers who refuse to learn new things… and wonder why they are getting 'left behind by AI" or whatever…

Not everyone can move infinitely upwards.

you realize that, right? only a select few people get those positions.

most people do not have the skills, talent, or drive to attain these things, nor should they. most people will cap out in their career in their 30s/40s. and most people will never even be middle management.

because that’s how numbers work. for each project there is one lead, and several people below them.

they aren’t. but keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel superior.

yes, but it’s systematically undervalued because stupid people don’t understand how powerful soft skills are and think all that matter is hard skills.

but statistically most liberal art grads do very well later in life, even if they don’t make as much starting out.

‘just become a ceo bro’

it’s so easy. just start your own company with 500K of startup capital!

starting salary for a college grad is 50K+ now.

no bro, it’s because you’re stupid and majored in comp sci. should have majored in healthcare services!

funny thing is everyone i know who… made a legit effort in college and in life in general has done well. it’s the people who… just kind of showed up and expected to be rewarded that struggled and continue to struggle economically.

and that is regardless of economic conditions. it is the economy but it’s also personal habits and expectations. my own brother has been unemployed for over 5 years now, and what he won’t accept that is it’s his attitude that makes him unemployable. he’s so prideful he would rather be unemployed than ‘take a job that is below me’. had multiple offers are smaller companies for less pay and just refused to take them.

his industry has been shrinking for over a decade too, and he also refused to try another industry…