To make your little prank more airtight you should say “driving force behind the feminist movement,” not “in the feminist movement,” because he was not in the feminist movement.

I don’t think that was the implication. If the US literally devolves into anarchy that is an extremely far gone scenario. It would be globally disruptive. If a meteor erased Europe, the US would also collapse to a lower tier of existence. It’s not just a one way thing or some statement of American supremacy. But it is unlikely that if the US totally collapses, American social media companies would not be able to pay for their Europeans data centers to stay on. So yeah you would probably lose Reddit, Facebook, Insta, and a good big chunk of everything people mean when they say “social media.”

Can you actually grow up with a calorie deficit? That term means burning more calories in the day than you take in. You can’t do that your whole life.

Of course. What about the razzle dazzle?

“It could be” covers a LOT so I’m going to give this one to you ;D

It would be… something if the NK troops fucked up and killed a bunch of Russians with friendly fire. The Russians would slaughter them to a man in anger. And then… 🍿

Yep. They’ve only raised $15M so far which is a modest amount by relative standards. If they paid it back right now then I would give them some breathing room for these naive, grandiose statements. Oh but then how would their staff get rich without an IPO? If they could become profitable NOW they could maybe go employee-owned and avoid selling their ass to the stock market.

Of course none of that will happen. Optimistically they will take on more investment money and then go public or get acquired by some other entity and these hippie-ass remarks from their CEO will look like what they are: pipe dreams brought on by their first blush of success. And that’s charitable. Her comments are so naive it’s plausible she’s straight up lying through her teeth right now.

Everyone in tech wants to get buy-a-house rich and quit. No one is in this for humanity.

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I once bought a bottle of wine at the old state store. I was on a road trip with my gf at the time and oh boy did those ladies at the counter glare at us like we were degenerates! There are worse things than being tight about alcohol, I guess.

Years later I proposed to my now wife in Bryce Canyon. We were staying in Kanab, which was a delightful little spot. Greyhound owners meetup was going on at the time so there were adorable dogs everywhere. Nice UT memories.

Oh yay that’s something.

I do enjoy Utah but could never live with the beer there :D

I’m actually a native so my whole life is here. It’s more to me than a “what’s the cost of living and what’s the crime rate” calculation like so many seem to make when choosing a place to call home.

I’d say the same about my area

Ah but is this somewhere I have even thought about moving? ;D One nice thing about the SF Bay is that it draws interesting people from all over, and friends and family tend to stick around more often than other places I’ve lived. The “great California exodus” is all the rage in people’s minds this year but I have lived in a couple of places that everybody eventually moved away from if they could.

I used to take the BART train to work In SF so traffic wasn’t a concern. Now I don’t commute at all!

But I’m not trying to convince you to move here. Please don’t!

Oh I think it’s a good use of money. Sorry my irony is very subtle but my point is that if anyone is saying “that could have been a lot of schools and hospitals AMERICA FIRST” then my answer is that we would never have spent the money on that anyway because we suck.

Because you probably think that your friends behavior is their way of showing the world what they each think is reasonable, and what they probably expect in return from others. And you are probably right. You are meeting people where they are and trying not to disappoint them based on what you know about them. This is emotional reasoning so it’s not surprise that it’s unconscious.

8 out of 13 isn’t bad. It’s off the bottom of the scale of ludicrous horror.

Everywhere. Where are you?

Dude that’s the doomium cynicalis hose, not the copium hose.

Just think of all the US schools and hospitals we could decide not to spend this money on.

It’s important to recognize that this is a tiny little company.

Around noon, Gupta usually picks up lunch for the team at nearby MIXT Salads. The workers usually eat together at a table in the office.

The founder can pick up lunch for everyone. So we’re talking what, 8 people?

There are 8 people out there who have nothing in their lives except for work and want their job to feel like a life. They get some kind of thrill from the intensity and they have probably been sold a dream about what their stock options will be worth when the company makes it big on the AI boom. They’re young, single, socially orthogonal people and their home lives were probably desolate and depressing before they took this job. The job gives them a place they can always go and find other people, where they have something to do. I’m not excusing the horrible WLB but I can easily imagine a small number of people who go for this. We just have to remember how miserable much of humanity are.

We don’t have to generalize about capitalism, San Francisco, tech, or anything else from this guy. Not that you were but others ITT certainly are.