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> > Oh, this is simple. > If you're commenting on something you don't understand, maybe don't start out with this? HN is gonna get pretty damned quiet if tech
by bigiain 4y ago
> > Oh, this is simple.
> If you're commenting on something you don't understand, maybe don't start out with this?
HN is gonna get pretty damned quiet if techbros can’t immediately mansplain their opinions to each other about things they have no clue about. (“But but but, I work for FAANG! I passed their stupid gatekeeping recruitment quizzes! I’m _clearly_ the smartest guy in the room! Now, let me tell you all about epidemiology and airborne virus transmission. What? No, I studied CompSci not any of those boring soft sciences like medicine or biology. Anyway, what we need to do is…”).
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- sgtnoodle 4y agoYesterday in a work meeting, I qualified my thoughts on the present subject as the incoherent ramblings of an insane person. Oddly, that just seemed to make my coworkers take my ideas even more seriously.
- smcin 4y agoExcellent. Tell me, were the walls of that meeting room rubber? Did your audience seem... restrained?
- sgtnoodle 4y agoI was sitting in a room all alone, talking to the voices that sometimes come out of the warm inanimate box that I compulsively stare at while pushing complex, ever changing sequences of buttons on it in a futile attempt to find meaning. Why do you ask?
- smcin 4y agoIf you mean "phone support manager", just say "phone support manager"... :D