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Then you're blind.

by Sinidir 4y ago

Then you're blind.

Brian_K_White 4y ago
- pbourke 4y ago
  I see someone taking a rhetorical device literally. The point the person that you responded to was making, obviously, is that the cost of living - and in particular of housing - is high and rising in many areas with strong tech job markets.
  - rexpop 4y ago
    Do you think Sheriffs carry rhetorical guns, or do you not realize that they enforce evictions?
    - Brian_K_White 4y ago
      I think the set of possible things is not limited to these two things you have arbitrarily presented for some reason. For instance, one of the infite things which are neither of those things, is that there are no evictions or sherrifs or guns that play any part in a software developer's housing arrangements, because they simply moved long before it gets to that point. There are people who get themselves into that position, but they are surely not the kind of smart lawyer coders who make valid arguments on HN right? If you're here, trying to argue something at all, then one presumes you think you're generally on top of things and not an idiot, right? Well, then does a smart rational person just sit there in a place they can't afford for the weeks or months it takes before serriffs come, and do so at gunpoint? You do realize they don't just start with that right? That there are many letters and notices, and mere pieces of paper over the course of several weeks to months before LE comes, and even when they do they don't actually point guns at you unless you barricade yourself in and resist or something. You can't invoke a STUPID hyperbolic image like that and at the same time lay any claim to have any sort of valid point to argue, considering this whole thread is about taking high paid developer jobs which they don't give out to idiots. But they do give them out to people who seem to think everyone else are idiots that don't know self serving hyperbole when they see it, and are such huge fragile babies they can not under any circumstances tolerate having this pointed out.
  - Brian_K_White 4y ago
    I described the gunpoint as imagery right in the first comment. "such image". Imagery is not literal, it's image. A ridiculous image that is not justified, because as you point out yourself by using the words rhetorical and literal, sherrifs and guns play no part in their reaaon for choosing to work in a particular field or location. It's just a stupid attempt to make their choice into some kind of palpable emergency they are helpless to affect. It's ridiculous and deserves ridicule. But what's curious is why anyone would try so hard to defend it?
    - rexpop 4y ago
      If you're actually curious, you won't insult the only person who can satiate your curiosity. But, you're not "curious" in good faith. You're a verbally abusive ideologue.
      - Brian_K_White 4y ago
        I said it's curious not I'm curious. I observed something. I didn't request something.

Then you're blind.

Brian_K_White 4y ago

pbourke 4y ago
I see someone taking a rhetorical device literally. The point the person that you responded to was making, obviously, is that the cost of living - and in particular of housing - is high and rising in many areas with strong tech job markets.
- rexpop 4y ago
  Do you think Sheriffs carry rhetorical guns, or do you not realize that they enforce evictions?
  - Brian_K_White 4y ago
    I think the set of possible things is not limited to these two things you have arbitrarily presented for some reason. For instance, one of the infite things which are neither of those things, is that there are no evictions or sherrifs or guns that play any part in a software developer's housing arrangements, because they simply moved long before it gets to that point. There are people who get themselves into that position, but they are surely not the kind of smart lawyer coders who make valid arguments on HN right? If you're here, trying to argue something at all, then one presumes you think you're generally on top of things and not an idiot, right? Well, then does a smart rational person just sit there in a place they can't afford for the weeks or months it takes before serriffs come, and do so at gunpoint? You do realize they don't just start with that right? That there are many letters and notices, and mere pieces of paper over the course of several weeks to months before LE comes, and even when they do they don't actually point guns at you unless you barricade yourself in and resist or something. You can't invoke a STUPID hyperbolic image like that and at the same time lay any claim to have any sort of valid point to argue, considering this whole thread is about taking high paid developer jobs which they don't give out to idiots. But they do give them out to people who seem to think everyone else are idiots that don't know self serving hyperbole when they see it, and are such huge fragile babies they can not under any circumstances tolerate having this pointed out.
- Brian_K_White 4y ago
  I described the gunpoint as imagery right in the first comment. "such image". Imagery is not literal, it's image. A ridiculous image that is not justified, because as you point out yourself by using the words rhetorical and literal, sherrifs and guns play no part in their reaaon for choosing to work in a particular field or location. It's just a stupid attempt to make their choice into some kind of palpable emergency they are helpless to affect. It's ridiculous and deserves ridicule. But what's curious is why anyone would try so hard to defend it?
  - rexpop 4y ago
    If you're actually curious, you won't insult the only person who can satiate your curiosity. But, you're not "curious" in good faith. You're a verbally abusive ideologue.
    - Brian_K_White 4y ago
      I said it's curious not I'm curious. I observed something. I didn't request something.