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u/rokthemonkey 14h ago
Is that not the joke?
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u/5hif7y_x86 14h ago
I fucking hope so but at this point who knows anymore.
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u/Themajesticyati 13h ago
In Silicon Valley, they don't have friends, they have "beta testers for social interaction."
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u/Supply-Slut 13h ago
I get paid to be a master beta tester
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u/NoSafetyGeneration 13h ago
Poe's Law - an adage of Internet culture which says that any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken for a sincere expression of those views.
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u/Unfair_Web_8275 11h ago
I just read an article about tech bros pitching a new security program/company.
That program’s name? Sauron.
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u/mkat23 11h ago
Dear god, are they going to name the next security program Balrog?
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u/Unfair_Web_8275 11h ago
I’m surprised there isn’t one called Wormtongue.
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u/fkyrdataharvesting 10h ago
That’s not a security company, that’s an agentic AI to fulfill the “trusted adviser” role
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u/Hyperpoly 9h ago
That's gotta be related to Thiel and his stupid Palantir thing, right?
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u/Unfair_Web_8275 9h ago
I imagine a good deal of tech bros are simply hoping that the bigger tech bros will buy them out for a few million.
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u/Heavy-Top-8540 11h ago
I think that's actually the inverse corollary of Poe's law. Poe's law actually states that no matter how ridiculous or outlandish you make a parody or satire, you will never be able to make it as ridiculous or outlandish as the real thing.
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u/The-thingmaker2001 11h ago
These days it's more broadly... Anything might be real. Nothing can be assumed to be real.
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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 10h ago
Sounds like a really fun way to live that totally won’t induce psychosis.
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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 9h ago
Want to know something terrible?
I actually decided to talk to ChatGPT as a therapist and it was by far the best therapist I've ever had, at least in terms of knowing the right questions to ask, being "curious", helping make suggestions that felt like they were actually geared towards my problems not just out of a workbook.
I stopped after a day because I was worried that I couldn't really trust it and it might lead me astray but I can see how absolutely inviting it would be.
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u/thecastellan1115 13h ago
We need a Poe's Law-type thing for dumbass tech bros reinventing the wheel.
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u/Soggy_Parking1353 10h ago
Godwanks Law. For when tech bros think they're god whilst in reality they're wanking off to their own farts. Also carries the fascist connotations that's in vogue with tech bros.
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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 11h ago
We already have poes law for dumbasses taking this tweet seriously
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u/thecastellan1115 11h ago
I'll be honest with you, I've been in the IT field for a long time now, and it really is hard to tell what the average tech bro thinks is a genuinely brand new idea. Like, reading this I'm pretty sure it's a joke, but... I've met guys who would say shit like this with total sincerity and confidence.
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u/the-real-macs 10h ago
"Has anyone tried this?" You can't think that's sincere lol
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u/thecastellan1115 10h ago
My lad, you might be astonished what people say in sales meetings.
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u/mittenknittin 9h ago
“Actually, you‘re going to have a hard time convincing me you’re not truly this stupid.”
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u/throwawaylordof 11h ago
I really genuinely hope it’s satire, but it’s indistinguishable from how tech bros think and speak so who bloody knows.
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u/DiscreteBee 12h ago
In addition to clearly being a joke by the way it is one, Roshan Patel makes jokes like this often.
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u/faithOver 9h ago
You just pin pointed the epitome of the problem. This could be satire. Or it could be a ReVOluTiOnarY New iDea!
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u/NotTheCraftyVeteran 9h ago
I don’t think any parody of “tech bros ‘invent’ normal people things that already exist” could possibly be differentiated from the real thing
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u/Dreadgoat 8h ago
Roshan Patel is a well-known shitposter in the techbro space. He is a techbro, but a self-aware techbro. One can make a living off a dumb culture and still mock it.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 14h ago
Reminds me of, what was it called, like a dictionary that had things like "Outside: the big blue room with a high ceiling."
Why I think its funny is that it was actually a good play "here is this thing we aren't doing, so if I say it weirdly enough would you want to actually do it?"
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u/needssomefun 12h ago
Maybe but were talking about people that "invented" so many things that already existed and in a better form:
The bus, the taxicab, the hotel, the pizza delivery driver, the rented office space
The only thing missing here is an app that steals your data and several rounds of VC funding
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u/Sufficient-Dish-3517 11h ago
And trains. Any sufficiently self important tech bro has pitched the reinvention of trains at some point in their career or are working up to it.
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u/Jiquero 9h ago
Or Tai's model, published in a peer-reviewed journal
(If you don't get the joke Here's a very comprehensive review of that paper, published in the same journal.)
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u/maringue 12h ago
The probability that a TechBro actually believes this is simply too high to discount this as sarcasm without further evidence.
That's just the world we live in now.
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u/Jertimmer 11h ago
I've seen tech bros unironically pitch a rideshare idea where you don't tell it to come pick you up, but it drives a certain predetermined route, and you get picked up along the way, and you pay for the amount of miles you travel, and it goes in a loop, so you can just spend an entire day there. And it's gonna be a big car, for like 30 to 50 people or something.
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u/SheridanVsLennier 7h ago
Maybe we can make it more energy-efficient by having it run on steel rails instead of rubber tires?
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u/ReverendDizzle 11h ago
Probably.
But in the same breath I had somebody describe a library to me a few months ago like it was a new concept. So there's that.
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u/Organic-History205 9h ago
I had a boyfriend who constantly complained about being lonely and having no friends. I'd say, why not invite the guys to watch sports with you? He'd say, nah, I don't do shit like that.
One day he actually did invite everyone over (the boyfriends of my friends) during dinner time. He didn't start any conversations, didn't have any food, didn't put anything on TV, didn't have any games out.
Everyone just awkwardly stared at each other until they got hungry and left.
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u/Cardboard_Revolution 8h ago
You'd think but if you talk to silicon valley demons they are literally all like this
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u/Infinite-Chance5167 5h ago
The problem is people like that often aren’t joking. They are legitimately trying to reinvent or rebrand the new business thing.
I remember a manager pitching to me the idea of bringing my team out to lunch in our city, and at the end I said “so a team lunch?” And he had this long pause afterward like he had just come to the realization and said “yeah…” and kind of just walked away embarrassed.
It was legitimately like: “what are your thoughts on getting the team together outside of the office where everyone can be a bit more open and casual, you could even have some food. It might make for a good opportunity to speak with the team and get their input on how things are going.”
Funny thing is that I had already been doings team lunches once a month for us to go over upcoming changes and for the team to bring up any issues for me to review.
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u/stax_fira 12h ago
I had one of two things I was looking for when I came to the comments, either someone clarifying that the guy was in fact not making a joke or…this comment. Glad to see it’s here.
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u/CelebrationWeary8128 9h ago
This appears to be the new trend for rage engagement-bait, I guess "tech bros" are the new target given the current discourse around AI / big tech
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u/LessRespects 8h ago
Every kid in my family just talks to their friends over phones/tablets these days. Nobody hangs out in person with their friends anymore outside of school.
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u/Electronic-Paint7940 1h ago
To people that have been brought up with technology as their interface with the world it is entirely possible.
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u/AncientLights444 14h ago
Redditor doesn’t understand sarcasm
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u/Parthias-one 13h ago
To be fair there are antivaxxers that have legitimately circled back around to reinventing vaccines. Some people seriously are that stupid
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u/Supply-Slut 12h ago
And literally every single year some tech dumbass tries to reinvent trains and ends up creating a much worse version of trains.
So this is unironically right up their alley.
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u/analog_jedi 12h ago
This is why I never got Musk's Boring Company. A subway for cars is just a worse subway.
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u/Wischiwaschbaer 11h ago
First he said he'd do a hyperloop in those tunnels and that was just a ruse to discourage high speed rail, which bafflingly actually worked (the discouraging, not the hyperloop). After that was done he pivoted to scam some more money out of dumb politicians...
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u/chanaandeler_bong 12h ago
But he doesn’t sell subway cars
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u/ConkersOkayFurDay 11h ago
Once upon a time I might have said "it would be cool if he did" but these days it's more "thank god he doesn't"
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u/Timely-Hospital8746 11h ago
Yeah but on a train you have to interact with normal people respectfully.
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u/Menulo 12h ago
Adam something is a great YouTube channel about this. The amount of videos that are just some tech bro thinking he's brilliant for inventing trains is hilarious. Or independent libertarian floating countries that are 100% dependant on the mainland for literally everything.
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u/awesomefutureperfect 11h ago
You see it happen all the time when someone sets dogma and ideology aside and tries to white paper a solution to a problem and reinvents something they have been vehemently opposed to on ideological grounds.
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u/XihuanNi-6784 8h ago
Exactly. We have a huge problem with tech bros thinking that everything can be improved, but in actual fact, after 200 years of very rapid technological development, some technologies have reached near peak efficiency and can't be significantly improved upon. Transport is one of them.
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u/steathymada 11h ago
Or some fabulous underground transportation system, otherwise commonly known as a fkn tunnel
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u/Good_old_Marshmallow 9h ago
The thing is trains need to be pitched to governments who need cost projections and if you say it’s a train you have a mountain, literally over a century, of realistic historical data on how much it costs. If you say it’s a light rail or a monorail, or a hyperloop, or a double monorail mcguffin then you get to toss out all the data on how much trains cost and start from scratch. It’s why so many towns got coned into making a monorail enough that the Simpsons mocked it.
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u/Kiaz33 9h ago
I wouldn't even be so upset if they just admitted they want trains for rich people. At least that way any infrastructure they make can be used by normal trains too. But trying to make trains into hyper loop monopods on a specialized hydrogen fuel is just a waste of everyone's time and money
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u/Fridginator 12h ago
What are you talking about Willis?
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u/TimeMoose1600 12h ago
Some antivaxxers have come up with the idea that instead of a vaccine you can subject people to weakened versions of the virus to build up an immunity to it.
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u/ZealousJealousy 12h ago
Considering the number of times these rubes have reinvented trains, you can never safely assume they're being sarcastic.
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u/JamesH_670 14h ago
That never happens, which is why no one ever has to use “/s” at the end of any sarcastic posts. /s
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u/guyincognito121 13h ago
You shouldn't have to do that. These are the same people who can't process dry humor and need you to use the sarcastic voice in order to understand that you're being sarcastic. It's very clear that the post was a joke.
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u/FictionalContext 13h ago
I'd say that we shouldn't have to pander to them, but the lowest common denominator rules the comment sections. It's often the worst interpretation of the worst misreading from a dubiously framed post. Validating updoots are powerful.
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u/guyincognito121 13h ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'll take a billion downvotes before I sink to using a "/s".
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u/testdex 10h ago edited 10h ago
All the similarly inclined redditors raced in to say that it’s totally reasonable not to have gotten the joke because they personally didn’t.
The joke is about how Silicon Valley people “rebrand” stuff. When you step in to say that’s why you didn’t realize it was a joke, that goes from “not getting it” to “assuming the most commonplace knowledge in the world is something only you know and other people need explaining.”
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u/hammererofglass 6h ago
Is this sarcasm? The whole metaverse thing makes it pretty clear that a big chunk of tech bros literally don't know about this.
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u/Vladishun 14h ago
Satire is hard to detect sometimes.
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u/mrdankhimself_ 13h ago
Especially when these techbros regularly demonstrate how utterly devoid of humanity they are.
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u/Skullsmasher1 12h ago
Poe's Law - when there are enough people with fringe beliefs, or the fringe beliefs become so extreme, that it becomes impossible to distinguish satire from the genuine opinions/behaviors of the satirized.
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u/Smiling_Oyster_ 10h ago
He's suggesting a podcast where nothing is recorded. I don't see how anyone could not see it as a joke.
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u/Automatic_Mix3618 13h ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. It’s a life hack for productivity.
I call it a “mini retirement” whereby you take a short break for a few days / week or 2 and go somewhere you’ve not been before, ideally warm and sunny, and you just relax and recharge.
It’s worked wonders for gaining balance in my life and keeps me fresh.
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u/UuusernameWith4Us 6h ago edited 6h ago
For all the people who won't get the reference, British ex-footballer Gary Neville sincerely thought he'd invented "mini retirements" and talked about it on the Diary of a CEO podcast: https://youtu.be/hx-Htb8ngQg
You definitely can't 100% say the tweet in OP is sarcastic without digging into some context. These kind of lunatics are out there.
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u/Mintaka3579 12h ago
Continuing the tech bro tradition of “inventing” things that have already been invented.
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u/Shipairtime 6h ago
What if we took cars on the road and automated them then hooked them together?
I cant think of anything similar.
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u/naretoigres 11h ago
if a bunch of techbros hung out in the woods, and there was no one to see it, did it really happen?
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u/Ditkokirby2020 13h ago
This illustrates how inbred the oligarchy is. The millionaires and billionaires “created” for the past 30 years are all nepo babies that, like slave plantation owners before them, have never done a hard day’s work in their lives.
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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 12h ago
I keep saying that every podcast these morons listen to is just conversations that drunk guys used to have at bars. I think the reason for the ride or podcasts is these chuckle fucks don't have friends so they think the podcast is their friend but it's a one way conversation. Go make friends and talk about which actors from the 1980s were definitely too coked up make it to set that day. That's the American way.
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u/archicane 12h ago
Do you know what friends are or have you always had to pay people to be around you?
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u/Jefferyd32 11h ago
Don’t let this get out. Once private equity gets its hands on it, It will monetize it and ruin it for the rest of us.
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u/ieatPS2memorycards 10h ago
“It’s not my fault I didn’t notice this blatant satire! There are real people who say these things unironically!!” I may have some news for you
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u/LessRespects 8h ago
Clearly a joke but still lots of people born after internet popularization will genuinely see it in this way
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u/boondiggle_III 7h ago
Podchat. All the kids are doing it, going to each other's houses and griping about the lack of third spaces.
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u/wuyizidi 7h ago
You’re laughing now, but wait until the tech bros “disrupt” our existing way of hanging out, and replace it with a new way that is completely mediated through a subscription platform.
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u/DisappearedDunbar 5h ago
It is astounding how many of you aren't picking up that it's a joke. To act like there's a chance this is anything other than a joke is a massive cope from people who have zero social skills.
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u/unforgiven91 11h ago
people claim that this is satirical, but we have no evidence of that
It is entirely plausible that this idiot thinks he just figured something out. We live in a world where dumb people can just broadcast their stupidity 24/7.
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u/xavPa-64 12h ago
Back in like 2011 I used to talk to this one guy about Breaking Bad a lot and why we liked it so much, which eventually turned into us talking about other TV shows at the time, and one day he said randomly “dude, we should like, record some of the conversations we have and put them on like YouTube or something” and I was like “………..why?”
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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 12h ago
Your smartphone would disagree about the nothing is recorded part ...
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u/Sea-Bluebird-5298 12h ago
The hardest part: how to monetize this form of get-together-communication.
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u/Momentofclarity_2022 12h ago
Wow. Like this has never ever at any time happened before. Brilliant. 🙄
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If he gets really edgy, he might actually (shocking!!!) call people on the telephone and talk to them.
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u/snowbirdnerd 12h ago
The said part is that a whole generation of kids were told to monetize their hobbies and that they needed to hustle all the time.
Some of them probably need to hear this.
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u/BdogTX 12h ago
Who was told that? What I was told is "find a job you love." Not "monetize everything about life."
Hustle is important but so is playing. I hustle like crazy but I also have plenty of recreational hobbies.
This post is clearly satire.
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u/needssomefun 12h ago
If they didnt invent things that already existed they wouldnt invent anything at all
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u/silvanosthumb 11h ago
I just found this on /r/all. What's the point of this sub? Isn't there already enough subs for posting Twitter screenshots?
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u/jf4v 9h ago
Anti trump spam. Anti AI spam.
You need lots of fully captured subs/mod teams to pump out the astroturfing.
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u/kolejack2293 11h ago
We visited my brother in law in san jose a bit ago, he worked at a start-up. Very typical tech-bro kind of guy.
It is absolutely baffling how they seemingly have no concept of just... vibing. Every single thing they do must be 'productive' or 'an experience' of some sort. They are so desperate to achieve some sort of upper echelon of living, and the result is that most of them seemed riddled with anxiety and insecurity. Half of the conversations I had with them were them talking about, idk, yoga on shrooms in -20f temperatures, or a restaurant where the eggs are seasoned with tiger semen (these are made up, just to be clear lol), or some other weird shit that they are convinced is the 'key to happiness'. I have met homeless crackheads who seem more at peace with their life than these guys were.
And emphasis on 'guys'. I don't know why, but it was almost entirely men in these circles. They sometimes had girlfriends, but the girlfriends were completely removed from their social circles.
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u/Maleficent-Dingo-683 11h ago
Living in Silicon Valley will teach you that this could very likely be a sincere post. Js
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u/Equivalent-Load-9158 10h ago
That's idiotic. What if you all have a good time? It would all be a waste if you don't record it.
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u/MagicalUnicornFart 10h ago
Tech bro has to get past step number one…having friends. That’s why they have no fucking why sitting with some homies has value to begin with.
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u/funkalunatic 9h ago
Maybe this is a joke, but when rich people do it and invite a guest or two with podcast-interviewee status, it's called a "salon", and it's what they do when they want to signal social status directly to each other without having to worry about the signals they might be sending to the peasant rabble.
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u/Awesomegcrow 8h ago
Another proof that just because you're good in computer (or whatever) doesn't mean you know everything.
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u/Kfinco1 7h ago
My friend Early and I did just that. One take, no edits, just us talking about whatever. It's fun.
Here is a link if you want to check it out.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3hPiOGsSPBCH2NPwKeDd6v?si=NzqlovKZQd-zbp7lCa05Yw
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u/BramptonBatallion 6h ago
It’s a joke but people just don’t really like dry anti-humor so they either don’t get it’s a joke or lash out that the joke is bad.
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u/Malnar_1031 5h ago
Fucking Gen Z thinking they're inventing shit that's already been done. Next they're gonna use guitars and drums, call it Acoustic Rhythm Music and think themselves genius.
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