jonhendry

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[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I suspect there are people who have complicated theories about the relative whiteness rankings, and thus superiority, of natives of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Car Seats as Contraception

At first I thought this was about how bench seats have just about vanished.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

• came in a deck of cards

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

“On my Substack I am doing non-ideological, data-driven reporting!”

I don’t believe the son of pro-gun propagandist John Lott is capable of doing non-ideological reporting.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

I hate the energy of That Guy that barges into the room and shouts “I solved X!” without researching for 5 minutes what all the people that were actually hard at work solving X came up with, what hurdles they identified, and which paths were already explored.

Reminds me of the time I was at Barnes & Noble and this lady comes in with her little boy (4-6 maybe?) and they head for the children's section. At the entry to the children's section she tells him to go find a book, and they separate. He walks a step to the first display in the center of the entry area, grabs something, and shouts "Momma I found a BOOK."

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

I guess we'll just punish random people for random things.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

The sign of a great CEO is that sense of urgency.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

I'm fairly sure some parts of Australia are still pretty Victorian. Editorial pages, much of the parliament thingy, etc.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

It's clearly Malcolm McDowell

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also mean "the wrong people are having too many children".

Also:

Poor black people with lots of kids, using government assistance: "Don't have kids you can't afford!"

Middle-class white people putting off having kids because they can't afford them: "Don't give us that excuse, start breeding!"

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By the beer standard the most tech-bro-y place I've worked was Swiss Bank Corp / O'Connor in Chicago, a software focused trading shop. In 1994. NeXT machines and Symbolics LISP machines on the private trading floor kind of place, with refrigerators kept stocked with free sodas and beer. Beer was for after 5, except on St Patrick's day, when coolers of beer came out at about noon. Also, Nerf guns on the trading floor.

And yet, at least for the people I know best from there, they didn't turn out to be tech bros. Perhaps there's a generational aspect.

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