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I like to think, somewhere, there are rooms full of patriots who pursued years of education and intense training for a role at a 3 letter agency - believing the

I like to think, somewhere, there are rooms full of patriots who pursued years of education and intense training for a role at a 3 letter agency - believing they would travel the world doing super secret spy craft. Now they spend their days sitting in dark, windowless, rooms in front of a computer screen slinging dank memes on the web.

spats1990 5y ago
Or editing wikipedia, and arguing on talk pages.
- ggm 5y ago
  arguing on HN posts
  - tester756 5y ago
    How's your shift, comrade?
    - ggm 5y ago
      Not bad. Sometimes socialism advances by inches, one argument at a time. But, I have to say the pay is abysmal: we need a union.
reidjs 5y ago
I also believe there are some zealous patriots who joined the military, inspired by dreams of killing our enemies, only to be relegated to posting memes on The Army’s Instagram and TikTok pages to recruit other kids.
MichaelMoser123 5y ago
Imagine Marvin, the paranoid android working at a troll factory; I guess his trolling would even be kind of interesting! Interesting, couldn't they use GPT-3 for the troll factory job? What is stopping them from using real bots, instead of humans?