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infernal machines posted:i think its because it's way easier to write off hicks and blue-collar shitheels as ignorant and uneducated rather than just purely lovely people (they still are). the bay area tech/dark enlightenment crowd have no excuses, they're affluent and educated and they're still the shittiest things on two legs. ~*~*~explorers~*~*~
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the amount of money our parent co has spent on Plumtree/BEA Poral/Oracle Portal whatever the gently caress they call it now to never have it work well is loving insane. I can't wait to see the shitfest that the replacement Adobe CQ/Experience Manager brings to our lives.
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Jun 29, 2014 20:40
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lets migrate from an oracle abomination to an adobe abomination.
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infernal machines posted:i think its because it's way easier to write off hicks and blue-collar shitheels as ignorant and uneducated rather than just purely lovely people (they still are). the bay area tech/dark enlightenment crowd have no excuses, they're affluent and educated and they're still the shittiest things on two legs. Effete tech shitheads seem unable to imagine being able to survive without being right in the middle of the largest metro areas on earth. What do you MEAN I don't have 25 $10 cocktail bars to choose from any given night!? I have to DRIVE to get groceries?? You mean I might have to live across from a REPUBLICAN?
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Jun 29, 2014 20:41
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reminder that nerds exist in a state of pure privilege and should be held personally responsible for all wrongs ever committed
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carry on then posted:reminder that nerds exist in a state of pure privilege and should be held personally responsible for all wrongs ever committed your point?
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:if you kill yourself over facebook postings, you sorta deserve it well it isn't like those with mental illness (or facebook users) are known for thinking clearly. i just can't think of a more perfect way to gently caress with someone with depression than to systematically and surreptitiously scrub their news source of all good news. like if it were a person doing it to another person it would be pretty textbook emotional abuse and destabilisation.
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Fabricated posted:You mean I might have to live across from a REPUBLICAN? To be fair nobody should want to have to do this
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Fabricated posted:Well and despite the lovely portion of the blue collar workers being pretty awful what with the bad political opinions they at least aren't wrapped up in fantasies of being the next tech zillionaire and even if they'd prefer a ranch house and 10 arces in the middle of nowhere they're -way- more amenable to going where work is available. don't kid yourself, they're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, the hicks are just betting on a literal lottery win rather than the successful app/webservice jackpot. having to drive to get groceries is not really a good thing, and there's nothing wrong with preferring urban living for any number of reasons. it's really only ironic because of how they're all randian superheros who firmly believe they're lone islands in the sea of men, all while living in the heart of the modern interdependent society.
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Damiya posted:To be fair nobody should want to have to do this a republican called into the local npr affiliate this morning and started bitching about how much of a minority he is living in san francisco the show host started explaining to him how it's very unfair how he's likely implied to be a racist/misogynist/homophobe/ignorant hick by his neighbors and how he should strive to counter those expectations so ofc the caller mentions gay pride since that was this weekend and immediately got cut off
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infernal machines posted:having to drive to get groceries is not really a good thing yeah but the silicon valley ideal is to have someone else drive to get groceries for you, thus being even less efficent with resources
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:a republican called into the local npr affiliate this morning and started bitching about how much of a minority he is living in san francisco good old KQED, home of the weekend-long prairie home companion marathon, every weekend of the year!
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Sagebrush posted:good old KQED, home of the weekend-long prairie home companion marathon, every weekend of the year! our public radio stations are not among them
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i'd like to disrupt the internet of things so that it doesn't work, or exist
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atomicthumbs posted:i'd like to disrupt the internet of things so that it doesn't work, or exist good news! so far reality is way ahead of you on that one.
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FMguru posted:there are many things that are awesome about the bay area the fundraisers guilted me into donating some money to them once, but then three months later the fundraiser came on again and i realized that even if you donate you still have to listen to that garbage for a whole month four times a year so i don't bother donating any more. i might consider it if there was some way my money could be used to get garrison keillor off the air and replace him with newly grown clones of click and clack, the tappet brothers
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Sagebrush posted:the fundraisers guilted me into donating some money to them once, but then three months later the fundraiser came on again and i realized that even if you donate you still have to listen to that garbage for a whole month four times a year so i don't bother donating any more.
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FMguru posted:there are many things that are awesome about the bay area
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Gazpacho posted:if by "public" to mean "listener supported" broadly then you are so wrong or are you talking about pacifica in which case lmfao
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Jun 29, 2014 21:53
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if i'm going to do internet radio i just listen to cbc radio 3. npr is for when i'm in the car and not arsed to plug the phone into the stereo and screw around with the apps.
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FMguru posted:the classical station is p cool, but it broadcasts using a couple of twisted-together coat hangers attached to a 12v truck battery
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Shifty Pony posted:well it isn't like those with mental illness (or facebook users) are known for thinking clearly. forget suicides think murder-suicides we're now in the area of distinct possibility that one or more of those has happened with a not-insignificant push from this poorly thought-out lovely as gently caress "experiment"
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infernal machines posted:don't kid yourself, they're all temporarily embarrassed millionaires, the hicks are just betting on a literal lottery win rather than the successful app/webservice jackpot. They hold themselves above government assistance even if it takes a dozen credit cards to do it and have loving awful opinions on everything under the sun, but they are under no illusions that they're destined to be the douchebags from Duck Dynasty. gently caress, you saw the polls where something crazy like 3/4ths of the people in tech in the bay area literally think they're going to be the next Steve Jobs or Zuckerberg.
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Jun 29, 2014 22:20
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What does 'generative' mean in that context
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so my outrage and my stupid facebook feed has been engineered to suit me? thanks!
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the "next stebe" ideology is a pita when you get interviewed by anyone who believes it. i don't mean in the sense that they see themselves as the next stebe (which they do) but more importantly they are rating you on their personal stebe scale
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i blame the VCs for looking for the next stebe everywhere. so now everybody has to keep saying that "they're the next steve jobs" so much that they're actually starting to believe it
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infernal machines posted:i think its because it's way easier to write off hicks and blue-collar shitheels as ignorant and uneducated rather than just purely lovely people (they still are). the bay area tech/dark enlightenment crowd have no excuses, they're affluent and educated and they're still the shittiest things on two legs. if you seriously think that an education or wealth help make people better people then I'm sort of at a loss as to what to tell you.
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Gazpacho posted:the "next stebe" ideology is a pita when you get interviewed by anyone who believes it. i don't mean in the sense that they see themselves as the next stebe (which they do) but more importantly they are rating you on their personal stebe scale they're all already the next stebe: talentless greedy hacks who attempt to claim credit for anything they can and destined to die a painful death
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rotor posted:if you seriously think that an education or wealth help make people better people then I'm sort of at a loss as to what to tell you. arguably a formal education can make you aware of people/cultures/issues you would never encounter in your homeschooled white computer nerd upbringing so it can be good that way. formal education also leads to freshman psychology students and engineers who believe the world revolves around engineers so in the end it's probably a tossup
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rotor posted:if you seriously think that an education or wealth help make people better people then I'm sort of at a loss as to what to tell you. i don't think that, i think that people expect more from someone with an education the they do from a random hick, at least when it comes to  and racism
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Sagebrush posted:arguably a formal education can make you aware of people/cultures/issues you would never encounter in your homeschooled white computer nerd upbringing so it can be good that way. basically this.
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Gazpacho posted:bay area bourgeois reactionary spotted its also mostly taken over by people selling woo woo "herbal" remedies that THEY dont want you to know about
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infernal machines posted:i don't think that, i think that people expect more from someone with an education the they do from a random hick, at least when it comes to and people who know better know that "expecting more" is in the "there's always more and it's always worse" sense. see also: reddit
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next stebe is the worst because a lot of "founders" buy into the myth of stebe, which they interpret to mean being a complete rear end in a top hat to everyone, because stebe was a complete rear end in a top hat to everyone and look at all the success he had!
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FMguru posted:pacifica is a loving train wreck: http://www.laweekly.com/2014-03-20/news/left-wing-darling-pacifica-radio-is-sliding-into-the-abyss/?showFullText=true 
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infernal machines posted:i think that people expect more from someone with an education the they do from a random hick, at least when it comes to yes and those people are stupid
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"i listen to some pretty obscure low-power non-commercial listener-supported stations, you probably haven't heard of them" *sips pbr* *adjusts skinny jeans*
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