Roach like the fish
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Robot Therapist spreading wok ideology.
I'm here to help.
I'm here to help.
There is no greater success story in fanfiction than Eliazer Yudkowski, who dropped out of middle school to become the full-time muse for Peter Thiel.
September 17, 2026 at 12:01 AM
There is no greater success story in fanfiction than Eliazer Yudkowski, who dropped out of middle school to become the full-time muse for Peter Thiel.
I return from the grey mists of the West after nearly two decades to that most curious of crossroads... St Louis.
September 4, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I return from the grey mists of the West after nearly two decades to that most curious of crossroads... St Louis.
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Same with gay rights. When I explain to the under-30 set just how bad it was back in the day I can tell that it just doesn't compute. Which is good but also bad because they don't think it can go back there.
Xers who perpetuate "there was no hate in my time" have a special place in hell.
Xers who perpetuate "there was no hate in my time" have a special place in hell.
I genuinely think that one of the biggest feminist challenges right now is that feminism was so successful that a lot of people can’t even imagine what the world was like before it.
A sign of societal progress is that both of my children (now 25 and 19) were utterly baffled when I explained that the title Ms. was a controversial political statement when I was a kid. It’s completely normal to them, not worthy of comment or even something to be thought about
September 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Same with gay rights. When I explain to the under-30 set just how bad it was back in the day I can tell that it just doesn't compute. Which is good but also bad because they don't think it can go back there.
Xers who perpetuate "there was no hate in my time" have a special place in hell.
Xers who perpetuate "there was no hate in my time" have a special place in hell.
What's good in STL this weekend?
August 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
What's good in STL this weekend?
Automatic car washes are too fast these days. Used to be you could depend on that clunky conveyor for ten or fifteen minutes of privacy for an impromptu make out sesh. Now you're in and out in like twenty seconds. We used to be a proper country.
August 31, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Automatic car washes are too fast these days. Used to be you could depend on that clunky conveyor for ten or fifteen minutes of privacy for an impromptu make out sesh. Now you're in and out in like twenty seconds. We used to be a proper country.
Remembering how to want good things is a lot harder than it sounds.
August 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Remembering how to want good things is a lot harder than it sounds.
Scored a vintage sewing machine at the Goodwill! Today's a pretty good day
February 24, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Scored a vintage sewing machine at the Goodwill! Today's a pretty good day
What is the thought process behind making things like instructional videos when a wealth of identical content exists?
As a deeply insecure person, I have always wondered about this type of content. Like what thought enters your head when you decide to make a video drilling a hole or whatever.
As a deeply insecure person, I have always wondered about this type of content. Like what thought enters your head when you decide to make a video drilling a hole or whatever.
December 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
What is the thought process behind making things like instructional videos when a wealth of identical content exists?
As a deeply insecure person, I have always wondered about this type of content. Like what thought enters your head when you decide to make a video drilling a hole or whatever.
As a deeply insecure person, I have always wondered about this type of content. Like what thought enters your head when you decide to make a video drilling a hole or whatever.
Considering getting a shop job just to have work.
Last time I had professional job-hunting assistance, I was told not to look at jobs outside my field, but I can't stand this feeling of helplessness.
Last time I had professional job-hunting assistance, I was told not to look at jobs outside my field, but I can't stand this feeling of helplessness.
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Considering getting a shop job just to have work.
Last time I had professional job-hunting assistance, I was told not to look at jobs outside my field, but I can't stand this feeling of helplessness.
Last time I had professional job-hunting assistance, I was told not to look at jobs outside my field, but I can't stand this feeling of helplessness.
Cybersecurity as an industry kinda sucks because a painter can always paint, but practicing exploits in your own lab is kinda cheating.
Like imagine unlocking your own door and calling yourself a burglar.
Like imagine unlocking your own door and calling yourself a burglar.
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Cybersecurity as an industry kinda sucks because a painter can always paint, but practicing exploits in your own lab is kinda cheating.
Like imagine unlocking your own door and calling yourself a burglar.
Like imagine unlocking your own door and calling yourself a burglar.
Shoutout to Vivaldi browser for a tidy, if awkward, installation and removal process. It's fast, but there's little infrastructure for switching from mainline FF or other browsers.
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Shoutout to Vivaldi browser for a tidy, if awkward, installation and removal process. It's fast, but there's little infrastructure for switching from mainline FF or other browsers.
If someone sent you an email saying someone was impersonating your HR people, you'd respond right away, right?
Especially if you're a publicly-traded healthcare company, right?
Especially if you're a publicly-traded healthcare company, right?
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If someone sent you an email saying someone was impersonating your HR people, you'd respond right away, right?
Especially if you're a publicly-traded healthcare company, right?
Especially if you're a publicly-traded healthcare company, right?
Just found out about FieldNation, allegedly Uber for techs. $40 for background check, $40 for drug testing, 1.5% of every call for insurance, and a variable percentage as a service fee.
I just want a real job.
I just want a real job.
December 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Just found out about FieldNation, allegedly Uber for techs. $40 for background check, $40 for drug testing, 1.5% of every call for insurance, and a variable percentage as a service fee.
I just want a real job.
I just want a real job.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I thought that ghost jobs were bad, but ghost recruiters (and people impersonating legit recruiters) have given me a special kind of compulsive anxiety that's somehow even worse.
December 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I thought that ghost jobs were bad, but ghost recruiters (and people impersonating legit recruiters) have given me a special kind of compulsive anxiety that's somehow even worse.
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The funniest thing about the 30 posts the CBS News Twitter account made is that most of them have like... a couple hundred likes total.
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The funniest thing about the 30 posts the CBS News Twitter account made is that most of them have like... a couple hundred likes total.
If only someone could've seen this coming
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If only someone could've seen this coming
Are there any good books on great leaders by those they led?
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Are there any good books on great leaders by those they led?
It's fun how we enjoyed a brief period of time in which art and science were something everyone could access and now we're soft-gated into a Victorian class system again.
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It's fun how we enjoyed a brief period of time in which art and science were something everyone could access and now we're soft-gated into a Victorian class system again.
The age of the median American home buyer is 59.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The age of the median American home buyer is 59.
We're doin' the Brain Drain thing rn in the US.
Europe is literally paying you to go over there and enjoy healthcare, civil rights, and social safety nets.
If you have IT certifications, Germany is begging you to come.
Europe is literally paying you to go over there and enjoy healthcare, civil rights, and social safety nets.
If you have IT certifications, Germany is begging you to come.
June 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
We're doin' the Brain Drain thing rn in the US.
Europe is literally paying you to go over there and enjoy healthcare, civil rights, and social safety nets.
If you have IT certifications, Germany is begging you to come.
Europe is literally paying you to go over there and enjoy healthcare, civil rights, and social safety nets.
If you have IT certifications, Germany is begging you to come.
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The technology doesn't work. It *feels* like it works, so they keep doing science to see whether it does or it doesn't. But when you look at it with science instead of vibes, it just doesn't. https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.
fortune.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The technology doesn't work. It *feels* like it works, so they keep doing science to see whether it does or it doesn't. But when you look at it with science instead of vibes, it just doesn't. https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/
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Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.
June 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.
Something I think about a lot is that liberal society defers solutions to problems until there's literally no other choice.
Nobody wants to find out their friend got drugged at a party, but nobody wants to be the guy who suddenly escalated the violence in the room to throw him out beforehand.
Nobody wants to find out their friend got drugged at a party, but nobody wants to be the guy who suddenly escalated the violence in the room to throw him out beforehand.
June 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Something I think about a lot is that liberal society defers solutions to problems until there's literally no other choice.
Nobody wants to find out their friend got drugged at a party, but nobody wants to be the guy who suddenly escalated the violence in the room to throw him out beforehand.
Nobody wants to find out their friend got drugged at a party, but nobody wants to be the guy who suddenly escalated the violence in the room to throw him out beforehand.
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The videos of Gordy the elephant seal visiting Cape Town are so wholesome 🥹
May 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The videos of Gordy the elephant seal visiting Cape Town are so wholesome 🥹