Nate Cox

I have a pixel phone being shipped to me now, can’t wait to post one of these too.

Nosey botch indeed.

I’m not an expert on this, but I have listened to people talk who are and claim that you can pretty clearly link cognitive decline with the introduction of technology effectively everywhere.

I’m sure it’s not as clear as “tech bad” but it does seem like screen time and deferring the manual parts of learning to computers is not great for us.

Are any original Gwar members still there?

I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t a dig at Gen Z. For as long as we’ve been testing, which is like 50 years I think, the new generation has outperformed the previous one and that’s a good thing.

Having this generation underperform means that we have failed them and we need to figure out exactly how we fucked up. The evidence is really strong that technology in the classroom is a significant contributor.

Free market totally regulating itself like we’ve always been told.

Did you find one?

“I don’t have anything to hide” is such an insidious little lie. A colloquial fib we feel compelled to utter as a mock defense, like asserting innocence will assuage suspicion.

We all have something to hide. Probably many, many things to hide. Even just in the narrow context of the law, there are hundreds of thousands of laws that apply to any one of us at any given time, and you are almost certainly breaking some of them without even knowing it.

Personal security through privacy is so very, very important. I wish more people could see that.

You can’t pull one over on these kids. They have tons of free time and none of the responsibility of adulthood, they’re gonna bypass whatever the fuck you put in front of them.

I was that kid that refused to be constrained and I’m so fucking proud of this generation for carrying on the legacy.

I don’t agree with passing off their behavior as “cultural”. I am ashamed of men because some of them are reprehensible, and some of them want to ignore how reprehensible those ones are or explain it away.

I choose to embrace feeling deeply ashamed at how we’ve allowed the worst of us to form the general opinion of us and vocalize that routinely.

Fuck their insecurities, if they want to be able to go up to a woman without “getting her drink splashed in their face” maybe they should focus harder on fixing the problem so women can generally feel safe with us.

I didn’t say that I was ashamed of myself, I said I was ashamed of men and the association they cast on me.

You’re kinda enabling that behavior by advocating against vocalizing how shitty it is.

It’s fun being deeply ashamed of your gender because some of us are filth and scum.

These fuckers harm everyone with their actions. Wish we could do something actionable about it.

Also a big dude, also never have to worry about this shit.

Fucking stupid that women get treated so poorly, and so routinely.

Knowing that I gave you a laugh is the highlight of my day. Thanks!

Ugh, lmgtfy was the absolute worst.

Sending a link to that site was the answer to tell me you’re an asshole without telling me you’re an asshole.

Hey cool recommendations. I’ll subscribe, maybe I’ll see something in the feed I can help with.

Unfortunately, the teams that do suck are also the ones who are constantly hiring.

There couldn’t possibly be any form of causation there though. Nope.

I’ll take it a step further and say that most of the people I’ve worked with have been amazing. Really just some very enjoyable people to be around.

Something about the field though seems to really attract the super assholes and they’re so assholish that they color the perception of the whole field.

It’s really unfortunate how a very loud, very obnoxious minority can have such an outsized impact.

“Being mean to people is a good thing because it teaches them to [something]” is an indefensible sentiment.

Yes, nobody is entitled to your answer to a question and you’re fine to just not answer any question you don’t want to. Being a dick about it, though, is actively harmful to both the person you’re being a dick to, and the community you’re participating in.

It’s interesting that people defending being a dickhead so frequently fall back to accusations about intelligence. E.g.:

If you want to keep asking questions unintelligently, though…

For a group of people so very concerned with intelligence, I wonder if anyone has taken the time to explain to you the concept of emotional intelligence.

Would you walk into a religious place of worship, a strip club, a gun range, or Costco without at least knowing how to interact with that space?

I wouldn’t walk into a strip club period, but for all of your other examples I would absolutely go to those places to figure out how to interact with them. Frankly, I do not understand why you wouldn’t. Who is more qualified to explain to you how to interact with them than the people you want to interact with?

You’re accusing me of “white knighting” (hello, painfully 2010s virtue signaling catch phrase) for saying that people shouldn’t be shitty to each other. I’ll counter by accusing you of enabling that negative behavior by making excuses for it.