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- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 weeks ago:
I hope you’re right.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 weeks ago:
My brother in law is using his engineering degree to work for various arms companies, including DARPA. His wife justifies it by saying “He only makes things for good countries like the US”.
A few years ago, he, his wife, my wife, another sister in law and his kids were in a car, and he was talking about why it’s justifiable to drone-strike school buses. He said “Well, there were some really bad people on those buses.” I ask “What makes them bad?”, and he says “You know, they make bombs, that sort of thing.”
I turned to him and said “YOU make bombs. By your rationale, this car with your entire family is every bit as much a justifiable target as those school buses.”
The entire car went silent, and later, my wife thanked me for not going any further.
He’s the most morally-bankrupt person I’ve ever met, and I hate being in the same room as him. His wife isn’t much better, and is the epitome of the portion of the working class that’s been tricked into thinking they’re better than that. She’ll handwave away the fact that in her career, she’s been directly responsible for firing thousands of people “for the good of the company”.
- Comment on Feynman rules 5 weeks ago:
Yep, I’ve got my copy of Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman too, and the bar part was so gross, and the fact that people tell their story like that and don’t have the shame to either leave it out or make it sound less predatory speaks volumes about who they are.
As for his part in the Manhattan Project, it seems as if he got his karmic return in the end. I just wish he’d lived long enough to see him speak in person. He died a few months before I was born.
- Comment on Feynman rules 5 weeks ago:
He’s easily my favorite physicist, but he was a bit of a problematic person when it comes to his treatment of women.
- Comment on Big Plans For ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Volume 5, But Viewership Drops 50% and Ratings Plummet 6 months ago:
As soon as I realized it was just a music video, I skipped it.
I got rid of Netflix a while ago, so I torrented the new season, but I’m only halfway through and it hasn’t been memorable at all.
- Comment on Renewed and Cancelled TV Shows 2025 7 months ago:
I’m just glad to see that Common Side Effects got renewed.