a normal, regular guy who doesn’t work after 6pm on a Friday.

because he has to go stand in his charging closet. for real though what the fuck does he even do on the weekends, the man has no discernible inner life

so as far as I can tell, way back when SF was still a cool viable place to live it became a tech mecca for the following reasons: 1) the close links between the universities and the military industrial complex meant a lot of real engineering talent moved out there and stuck around to work in 2) companies that still did actual research; 3) affordable housing was available with garages for workshops both inside SF and in all the surrounding areas; 4) psychedelic drugs and a general outsider, artistic, borderline anti-capitalist vibe.

NYC has none of this. It is a dead city ruled by finance and real estate psychos.

And in fact SF has none of this anymore (there have been some efforts to bring the drugs but it is not the most important leg of the chair). There aren't engineers, there are startup-brain business school types masquerading as engineers, dreaming of getting rich by doing things that make the world worse and flipping it to retail investors in an IPO or a buyout or just a straight scam. There is no longer anywhere to live that gives the young and weird space to work on idiosyncratic projects that could turn into something. And big companies don't do blue-sky research, they try to buy up innovation when it happens, which it essentially no longer does.

"visible build quality" oh fuck all the way off

in yellow-filter developing world country, the government can't even pay the cops enough to live on. corruption and extorsion are rampant and the rule of law is a polite fiction

They think you have the brain and attention span of a toddler

what a bold humanitarian gesture

Everyone making fun of me for admitting this in public? You'd better believe that's Hamas

insurance rates are definitely going to do the blockade's work for them from this point

unironically, transportation needs to be divorced from all the weird psychomarketing baggage it has picked up. carbrains have gone completely insane wrt size, power, speed etc. beyond all practical justification

love this new metric of election credibility, it's not real if you don't have 3 hours lines

no, the united states is just extremely bad at democracy on purpose

context: recent research has discovered that asking gippitys to repeat a word forever seems to be a good way to trick them into eventually just printing out large, unaltered blocks of their training data. verbatim paragraphs scraped from websites

this post is probably a joke