link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675112

this thread is filled with insane shit

all about things technology has done to actively make life worse for us all

  • Shoegazer [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is why I tell people outside of engineering majors that I despise my major and everyone in it. 90% aspire to make shit like this. Maybe they know what the end goal, maybe they don’t. I’d say those who are gleefully making hundreds of thousands of dollars without researching what they products do are worse than the ghouls who are self aware

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yup.

        Everyone plays golf, half of them have 5 or 10 year plants to become management/executives, many of them love to network...

        I know 1-2 people who seem remotely cool in my entire ass fortune 500 company, and I'm scared that 1 of those is some kind of weird ass libertarian

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I've been making the same jokes about my law degree for the past 4-5 years. Even before I radicalized and moved left, I despised so many of the people in my classes. Like a solid third of all the men in my courses wanted to be Harvey Spectre SO badly, and they all just fell flat. Also, way too many fucking people showed up to class in a suit, but thankfully we were able to bully those people into not doing it again.