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I work for an FFRDC (think los alamos). When we talk about science and engineering it is great. When it's other topics. Oof.

I was in a room full of them and they didn't know the author of the communist manifesto. They went from early gen X to gen Z.

I had a barber in the pearl district. Super nice guy that got a data scientists job and was able to propose to his wife. When he left his replacement was the typical portlander redditor; did nothing but talk shit about everyone, including me because I drove an hour to that place because I liked the prior guy so much.

I get my haircut in hood river now.

Portland is an awesome place, but man is the reddit base their fucking dumb and hateful. Like even dumber and more hateful than the average redditor.

Health insurance is league of legends

I literally have to use direct primary care (pay a subscription fee out of pocket to a doctor) on top of my health insurance because there is no PCP that isn't a NP with availability anywhere within 150 miles.

My sister is a doctor in a major city and the average wait time is two years to see a doctor with her insurance plan.

The have and have-nots in healthcare are determined if they can afford concierge medicine or direct primary care.

Nate Silver calling others terminally online is the textbook definition of the pot calling the kettle black.

What especially pisses me off about this take is that I am a test engineer for safety software. I sign documents saying that the software I test is safe to use. If it kills someone and I signed off on it, my ass is going to jail. I am upper middle class at best being single; I could not afford a stay at home wife and kids with my student loans.

If you don't have time to read fucking paperwork that can put you in jail, either your priorities are fucked or the industry you have has fucked priorities. Zero excuse.

This is what I hate about management consultants that eventually become CEO's like this. They lie like we breathe and are rent seeking vampires. They spend more time sabotaging each other than getting shit done.

I dated a girl whose father was very wealthy official in a country that was dealing with ISIS (they emigrated to the US to escape terrorism). Her dad put kidnapping insurance on her.

As inequality rises, these risks will become higher and higher and there will be fewer places to run.

The bourgeoise do not have a sense of self preservation; they will do anything but improve standards of living.

This will come back to bite them.

What if he ordered a bottle of water just to use the restroom?

Yeah same here.

One true crime podcaster mentioned that the most likely people to watch these kind of shows are those that are obsessed with trying to find red flags in others so they won't get murdered.

It's not good for anxiety at all and not good for their dating lives either.

I believe those are called Suburbs

just don't care about being nice anymore

Yeah because scolding the shit out of people to vote for your party with ass ideas helps convince people to vote for you. It's like a child having a temper tantrum because they didn't get their present. They will do ANYTHING but attempt policies that actually help people.

People don't interact with politicians, they interact with their supporters. Acting like an ass convinces no one to vote for you.