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It’s pretty cool that California has a huge fertile valley nestled away between the inhospitable, dry mountains I imagine that this oasis must be the most desirable place to live in the state

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Excited for my girlfriends first time reading Dune

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I’m always in awe of the way my girlfriend clutches the next 4 pages of the book she is reading

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This was a middle class home in the late 90s A single income family could afford this on the salary of a man working in the waste management business

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@Hellachans I can only hope I can see Bakersfield with my own eyes one day

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9 months

Why does it seem like the more inner work a person does the less likely they are to maintain a relationship

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6 months

Was talking to friends about baby names we like and it turned out that almost every name brought up was a top ~15 baby name of 2023 Is there some sort of baby name hivemind we are all unconsciously tapped into? I've never even met someone with many of these names too

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Young men who work remote will never get the formative experience of listening to their middle aged coworkers complain about their marital issues after 1 beer

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10 months

The default path is criminally underrated If you work hard enough it is less Office Space and more living in Williamsburg surrounded by friends within walking distance with a hybrid 40 hr a week tech job that gives you plenty of free time to enjoy the riches it provides you

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11 months

It's kind of funny that all the advice I got for getting a security clearance from people on the internet was to confess to everything because "the gov just cares about honesty" And every former military person told me to lie about everything you could

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2 years

I don't get why software engineers are often embarrassed to be "just another guy in software engineering". It's obviously a high status and income career in the US It doesn't seem like finance bros in NYC are ashamed about it, even if they are equally generic

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2 years

It honestly boggles my mind that non rich people are willing to drop ~$100 on a single therapy session Just seems like such a bad ROI I feel bad for people culturally coerced into spending their money on this

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2 years

Tech guys either think everyone could be a FAANG level engineer if they practiced enough or they think 30% of the population can't comprehend hypotheticals There is no in between

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6 months

@ConradBastable Little Balthazar is going to be grateful for his unique name

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2 years

Reddit and pop culture really psyopped me into believing that adults just feel like big children faking maturity That's not my experience at all. My inner experience is radically different to what it was just two years ago, let alone compared to myself as a kid

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9 months

I sense that the desire for perfection/(qualia?) that drives people to meditate or do inner work surgery on themselves also leads them to leave relationships that are good but not *perfect* But also the insanely high standards "awakened" people talk about for relationships

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This can be framed as a good thing too because most people probably put up too much with bad relationships. But ultimately the idea of abandoning a good relationship because it doesn't feel "resonant in the moment" terrifies me and seems like such a flighty way to approach life

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10 months

Sometimes ya just get lucky I guess

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7 months

It's hard to view lifting weights as a healthy form of exercise right now, since in NYC the only way I can do it is to descend into a fluorescent lit basement with mirrors on every wall, uncomfortably crowded with people completely disconnected from eachother with headphones

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11 months

It's pretty apparent that the conversation online is heavily influenced/controlled by the government The security clearance subreddit has a rule that you can't recommend that people lie lol

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3 years

Interestingly enough, quitting your job does not fill you with boundless energy to do all the things you want to do

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1 year

The American approach to "escaping the rat race" by hustling to build income streams outside of traditional employment seems a lot more stressful and grindy than the life of your average European worker taking 2 months of vacation a year

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9 months

@seconds_0 Lmao can't believe this isn't bait how does he think this is normal

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6 months

The top 20 names really are shocking No Chris, Matthew or John But there is Leo, Asher, Hudson, Maverick, Kai

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6 months

Some of the names we were saying: Luca, Leo, Luna, Ava, Mateo, Sofia

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1 year

tbh "europoor" is embarrassing cope like, yes, top earners make less in Europe. But I'm not sure how much you can sneer when Europeans live several years longer, have better WLB, have access to quality food and in many respects simply lead better lives

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9 months

And yes I'm projecting because I recognize this archetype in me. When I first started meditating in college I wanted to use it to bypass social issues with the people I was around

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4 months

@mongo_lassi I could never read that many pages in a row without a twitter break

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3 years

There's this girl in a GC with me that consistently makes just the worst arguments all the time She recently got 99% on the LSAT Such a black pill

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2 years

A counter intuitive observation I've had over the past few years is that consistently corporations treat employees/tenants *much* better than small businesses/regular landlords

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11 days

@sheherenow_ Absolutely stunning

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2 years

Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood makes me vaguely uncomfortable because it is overtly anti capitalist and radically left wing but is the #1 destination for young Amazon employees that want to live lives of excess consumption

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3 years

Can someone remind me why there is a level of hate towards Facebook that no other tech company gets?

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9 months

Also if it is just that flighty novelty seekers are just more likely to be drawn to meditation then that's fine. I'm more worried about the meditation memeplex creating this behavior in people

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10 months

Decide you don't like it at 30? Quit and try something else, but now with the security of a substantial safety net and actual skills to help you succeed

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2 years

Google and OpenAI won't be able to gatekeep these image models forever It's only a matter of time before it's easy to access these models without the violence/sexual content filters Internet is going to get very crazy

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2 years

Does the US even have regional accents anymore for young people Doesn't really seem like a thing outside of the south

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3 years

Tech guys love showing off their lack of social calibration by treating mimetic desire as some mind blowing philosophical concept Whoah people like copying eachother? I had no idea

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2 years

Rural, conservative young men are the Sardaukar of the American empire We wouldn't have an effective military if everyone was raised as a coastal elite

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7 months

@sun_girlxo Just like every man secretly believes he could stop an armed robbery, every man believes he could consume an entire grocery store in under a year

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2 years

Christianity is the most popular religion/inner practice because it actually works for normal people unlike IFS/jhana meditation/shadow work/Gendlin focusing which only work if you are a remote tech worker that has the time and energy to navel gaze all day

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2 years

Guys will be 24 and still refer to themselves as "in their early 20's"

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3 years

So I didn't get a position after a final round interview Recruiter called me on Friday, and said he wanted to talk to me Monday about other opportunities since the team loved me and I was #2 Turns out i get to go through the entire interview process again for another team. Yay

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10 months

Being from Colorado is kind of like being from Europe It's beautiful and a nice place to live but is also deeply unvital. No one has ever heard of a "Coloradoan" accomplishing anything of note

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@AdsoOfBelk ADHDer who just railed 3 fat lines: “I wish I could experience getting high from cocaine like neurotypical people instead of just feeling functional”

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I think the ideal of being your own boss is overly fetishized in American culture I think it is only really a minority of people that would actually prefer having to deal with all the responsibility that comes with it

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1 year

I'm trying to eat more fiber and everyone says to eat a bunch of "veggies" and "fruit" but they all have like 2g of fiber per serving Meanwhile this industrially produced, seed oil infused tortilla has 25g for 110 calories

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7 months

Actually this isn't true because the first time my old remote team met up after a year of year of working together, the middle aged men started talking about this at dinner

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1 year

@joodaloop I like coding but I know I don't like it as much as the people who put in 8 hours at their job and then often spend their evenings hacking on side projects I can't imagine HATING it and trying to do this for a career. Would be exhausting

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2 years

IMO he seems a bit obsessed with posting of lot of photos of him on vacation and eating fancy dinners, so you can question whether this shift is desirable But my point is that it's crazy what money can do to a mf's social status, thus it's silly to act like SWE isn't high status

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@grantbels The last thing atomized westerners need is to nitpick all their relationships to death because they can be happy meditating alone in their studio apartment

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2 years

This Google guy from my school that I don't know friended me on FB and seeing his transformation is quite interesting. In his college photos he looked schlubby, overweight and balding. Now he is jacked, has a hot girlfriend, presumably got hair plugs, wears nice clothes etc

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@valor_zhang Atleast when he has his existential crisis he will have a cozy remote FAANG job where you have to work 20 hours a week

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6 months

Kinda ironic that the longer you spend resisting the American gravity well of atomized suburban life by living in expensive coastal cities, the more atomized you will be when you finally have to move to the midwest suburbs for financial/family reasons and have no friends

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2 years

@arctanno What San Francisco does to a mf

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9 months

@dendricide If your gf is doing serious inner work that's not your gf

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11 months

I love how every week I have to go through the moral dilemma of determining what level of chicken suffering I am willing to pay to prevent when I buy my eggs It would be easier if it was a binary good/bad choice like most food, but the ~5 tiers of morality makes it a struggle

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11 months

@Metathea11 Sure but the delta between the online conversation and what informed people say IRL is striking

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2 years

To be clear I'm not talking about being embarrassed to be in tech because of moral type reasons. Just disagree with the "I can't get a gf because I'm just a boring Google engineer" mentality

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@orb_net Wow that’s kinda wild to say to someone you just met

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10 months

I feel pretty bad when people ask me if I think they should quit their jobs to do a bootcamp/find a dev job It's still possible and I don't want to crush their aspirations but man it's tough out there for junior people right now

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I find it pretty intriguing that people can inhabit this space on Twitter where people are constantly talking about intense, life altering experiences they have had doing meditation, yoga any other woo thing and respond with "yeah I don't buy it/see no value in it"

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Move aside Ghibli fantasy of a kindly baker giving you shelter and a job and enter the dream of living in a corporate high-rise where they actually fix your washing machine and don't sexually harass your girlfriend

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@ascetic_shadow Haha I'm sure there will be more things

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2 years

something a bit sad about all the tech/math guys trying to 'solve' wordle. Can't you just let it be a fun thing to do without finding the ideal strategy

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People idolize the image of a village where the people own and run everything, but many people who own these things are horrible! No major corporation would make someone go into work with covid, but my friend was at a small company where that was the policy

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I have empathy for dancers who lack self confidence because their fears are totally valid If you look bad while dancing people actually will film you and laugh at you on the internet! Like yeah people should still get past that fear but it is a tall order!

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10 months

Whenever I meditate my brain just starts rendering 3D models of maps from different shooter games I played a lot in middle school They are just burned into my brain like an image in a CRT

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@TylerAlterman I think a common reaction to this would be, "go out where??" I don't think many men feel like they have a regular environment they go to where they would feel comfortable flirting with women. Can't do work, gyms, the street, grocery stores, who meets in bars anymore etc

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Devastated to hear that Andrew Huberman has a history of abusive behavior to women At least the biohacking community still has Bryan Johnson to look up to

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3 years

Everyone always complains about how school in the US doesn't let kids be creative but the forced creativity activities were the fucking worst In highschool I wanted to learn math and science, not do weird contrived projects about books and countries

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7 months

It's actually a testament to the benefits of lifting weights that it is worth doing despite this inhuman environment!

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11 months

I'm not sure if it's just *the algorithm* but posts about vibe camp seem a lot less positive this year. Feel like I heard nothing but amazing things last year. Just an observation from the outside - hope people had a great time

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Not to mention the effect on the social fabric that comes with everyone being their own boss It can be annoying if everyone is trying to promote and sell their thing I might be particularly sensitive to this as I grew up cringing at seeing my dad grow his MLM business

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6 months

"I've changed and manipulated time so that every moment of perception is a new day. My 1,000,000th day starts at noon"

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You can just declare *this* moment anew. And it's a skill to learn how to do that! Stuckness/ thrashing loops on itself, until dropped It's ~equal parts physiological & meaning making. The next day is natural , but you can also imbue that renewal into any moment with ritual

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The US is great for driving the world's innovation but there have been some substantial tradeoffs in livability I'm glad both exist

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@kasratweets "Having money isn't everything, not having it is" - Kanye

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1 year

The thing I understand least in the world is how many people I see talking about how the vibe in Berlin and its club scene is so "expressive, playful, open" And then all the pictures I see are just of people wearing the same edgy black outfit

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3 years

Tech Twitter almost memed me into making a professional account to tweet about coding for the networking benefit I'm sorry but I would rather be unemployed than be one of those guys who makes and retweets crappy "Javascript tips" content

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2 years

I love how you don't get paid for almost a month when starting a new job

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I’m resisting making a baitier post about this but it’s insane that every wedding I’m going to this year is going to cost over $50k I know inflation sucks but there is just no way that’s just what it costs now. Millennials need to stop

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Putting in two weeks today I've never quit an actual job before kinda nervous

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3 years

Hell yeah landed my first interview! Front end engineer at a ML startup My life decisions these past 2 years are finally being validated by The Market

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3 years

Still blows my mind that one of the main figures in React and inventor of Redux was making a $130k salary in 2020 I guess React doesn't exactly generate revenue for Facebook, but still just seems so underpaid

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@broregarde I would have thought that this meant that I wasn't being influenced by what other people were naming this kids since I had no idea

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3 years

Is it worth it to test your IQ? Why or why not? (I've never really considered it)

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My gf recently started working at a fintech company in manhattan and had to work during her nieces birthday party during Easter weekend She is turning into a Hallmark movie protagonist and I gotta step up and be the love interest that shows her what really matters in life

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2 years

Didn't announce earlier because I haven't wanted to post on Twitter much, but I started a remote dev job last week! Solid culture and my direct manager/tech lead has a lot of experience. Should be a great learning experience

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1 year

Got an offer I was excited about, but they just told me the salary and it's a bit of a lowball I am in process with a bigger well known co. Should I name drop them in negotiations? How else can I leverage other interviews I have to raise offer?

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2 years

Something about Seattle just feels so off Maybe it is just the seasonal blues and I'm projecting but the spirit of the city just feels so dead to me I actually had less of a social life in Houston but I felt more alive. I feel like a goddamn mole person in Seattle

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I think learning meditation as a practice of "concentration" set me back hundreds of hours Instructions like "once you can keep your attention on the breath for 10 breaths you are ready for the next practice/stage" just create the wrong mindset in the meditator

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2 years

I'm having trouble putting into words the feeling that comes from the neighborhood with the highest density of "kill tech workers" graffiti also being the neighborhood that caters the most to the whims of those tech workers

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2 years

Working through forgiving myself for some things and realizing it's a lot easier to envision an all-loving God completely forgiving you than it is to internally generate metta/forgiveness towards yourself I'm not a Christian but damn it's a powerful concept

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2 years

@peachblvd @isabelhagen_ Third (3) times the charm!

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3 years

Sometimes it pains me that I am discarding my chemical engineering background to be yet another developer But at the end of the day I just want to maximize my chances of earning a high income, with good WLB

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I wonder to what extent there is a divide in TPOT between people who when meeting up irl want to discuss TPOT concepts in depth and with clarity vs people who just want to use the shared idea space and orientation as fertile ground for a more wide ranging, normie coded convo

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I know some people don't like the idea of adults influencing kids career decisions but I wish to God someone sat me down and explained to me why the tech industry was going to keep eating the world and that the demand & compensation for software engineers would outpace everything

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So many software engineers in TPOT but is there a single tech people manager? Is the job that unattractive?

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