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Since joining the tech company in 2025, Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective paramours. One woman, he says, called him the devil; another asked how he lives with himself. “Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me,” he says.
Take a fucking hint Gary…
Gary has resorted to saying he works in AI. “Even that gets some pretty bad responses sometimes,” he says. His Hinge profile doesn’t mention his employer. And sometimes he makes up stories out of thin air to justify working for Palantir—like that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill.
Jesus fucking christ, Gary…at this point you’re just a bad person. Reevaluate your life decisions.
“People didn’t like when I told them I work for Snitch Inc., so I started telling them I work for Global Warming Accelerator Corp instead. That still didn’t work, so I just lied about my parents dying. Why won’t they like meeeeeee?!”
The total lack of introspection and self-reflection is staggering
Isn’t that one of Marc Andreeson’s key traits according to himself?
Yup, in fact, he’s extremely proud of it.
It’s clearly not Gary. It’s those dastardly women and their basic human rights.
No, with just this information I think the point when we can say he crossed the line into “bad person” was when he applied for a job with Palantir.
No. It’s everyone else that’s wrong.
Remember when people actually had values? Way too many people are willing to work at these places.
It took Garry several painful years to learn that the stove is hot. This is not a man for which cause and effect are natural consequences.
That thumbnail is gold lmao
I just hope it’s not AI
ILLUSTRATION: SHIRLEY CHONG
I think this is her website: https://www.cheekychong.com/
Do you need good but kind of bad drawings?
She’s awesome
❤️
That thumbnail is giving me Animorphs vibes.
Purely because Animorphs came up and this video came out today, imma just share this link here: https://youtu.be/foNwqXyEG1w
It’s the fourth and final video in a series retrospecting the Animorphs series, and why it’s so much deeper and richer in themes than most of us probably remember as kids.
Growing up is realising K.A. Applegate ended Animorphs in the only way she could. Those kids were never going to find peace.
Recently, Gary’s buddies requested he not mention Palantir on their nights out together so as to not tank the whole group’s chances of getting laid.
Time to stop inviting Gary
And sometimes he makes up stories out of thin air to justify working for Palantir—like that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill.
I will lie to get laid. WHY DONT WOMEN LIKE ME?!
This douche is like a real life Barney Stinson with a victim complex.
I’d respect this douche a lot more if he just hired a sex worker and moved on.
Reading this, I’m just like “Dude, ahem, sorry, Douchebag! Just accept it. You’re not a good person.” And he won’t be as long as he continue to work at Palantir (and afterwards too, unless he gave all his money to the people he’s harmed and then worked tirelessly to do right by them…but we all know he’s just another dude who is willing to lie to get laid).
Honestly if I worked in a big evil tech company, I’d just never date again and just accept it’s Fleshlights and/or sex workers for the rest of my life. There’s alot less shame in that than whatever the fuck this pathetic shit is.
Brutal, but you’re sure as shit not wrong.
In a lot of places the fact that sex work is borderline or strictly illegal complicates this.
Sex toys it is then for the evil techbro douchebags, may they die all sad and lonely, but hey, at least with occasionally drained ballsacks. Honestly, it’s better than they deserve considering their crimes against humanity.
OK, framing it as just a tech company is kind of burying the lead. Yeah, a lot of them suck, but this is the nastiest evil one around.
burying the lead
*lede
Ok, was surprised about that, so decided to look this up.
It turns out this is correct, the expression does tend to use “lede” though “lead” is also occasionally used. You could call that occasional usage just people making a mistake, except for one thing… “Lede” is just an archaic English form of the word “lead” and they both mean “to guide”. So “burying the lead” is exactly the same statement as burying the lede", but with an archaic word replaced with the same modern word. So my question is, is that wrong?
Tesla and Palantir. I doubt anyone cares if you work for some no name enterprise company like Initech.
It’s Initrode now.
And, yeah, when I tell people I work in tech the response is either “cool” or questions about what we do and how we do it, from the more geeky people. But I also don’t work for a company that “shortens the kill chain” or “connects the supply chain to the kill chain”
EDIT : I want to be very clear that “Connecting the Supply Chain to the Kill Chain” is the real actual title of one of their advertising docs on their official website linked above.
Palantir’s such a psychotically cringey company. Acting like flying a MacBook from a desk in Miami is some warrior shit. God I hate them so much. What’s worse is they actually do help kill people but never have to come face to face with it.
On top of that their cringe is infecting other tech companies. Like the term “forward deployed engineer”. Because you know, implying that you’re at war with your customers is definitely healthy and appropriate.
Forward deployed wouldn’t imply that to me, but it is a valid inference.
To me it just sounds like fieldwork.
Penetrode*
Even Tesla on paper builds cars. Yeah Elon is a Nazi, but it isn’t the panopticon company that’s also providing warcrimes software
In the industry Tesla is known for being incredibly hostile towards women who work there. But yeah I doubt most people outside tech would know that, though they probably wouldn’t be surprised.
When the name of your employer exposes you as a first order asshole…
Tech bro 👎
Tech anarchist 👍
Right? I’m a swe, happily partnered up, and the times I was single, easily partnered up. The problem isn’t being a tech bro, the problem is being a fuckin wet noodle of a person. I’ve got the same hobbyist servers, the same half-finished coding projects I’ll never get done, the same 40k models, the same flab. I just also stand for good things and act on those beliefs, and live every day demonstrating that if you’re fash or fash-adjacent, you’re not safe here, and if you’re anti-those things then I’m great.
swe
Swede? Smokes Weed Everyday?
In this context it means “Software Engineer”
Single White Email
Skippable headline vs unskippable artwork
Animorph wins again!
I think i’m a different kind of tech bro. The foss/Linux kind of tech bro. Am I fucked?
youre allowed to call yourself a hacker instead of tech bro then
What constitutes being a hacker?
Do you wear a hoodie and work in dark room?
Hoodie, no. Dark room, yes.
Sadly then you’re relegated to the “simple nerd” designator…please go stand in the corner, you’re blocking the line.
Oh.
Grab a hoodie buddy.
I dislike hoodies.
This has to be one of the worst takes I’ve ever seen on Lemmy
You could try a hooded cape and or robe. I think that might technically be allowed.
two keyboards
At the same time.
running
tr -dc ‘01’ < /dev/urandom | fold -w $(tput cols)
or any related variation of pibing /dev/urandom funny places
Nah, being a man who’s into tech is a necessary but not sufficient condition to being a “tech bro”. That term has a whole bunch more baggage and I think very few people on the threadiverse qualify.
You might get lucky if you wear knee socks.
Will goth latinas be turned on by that?
Can’t speak for general tastes, but I’m sure there’s a few directly into that.
I must find them.
Good fortune and fair winds! 🫡
Thanks.
Only if you use Arch, make sure to mention you do.
Does CachyOS count?
Hmmm we might need to poll goth latinas. I use CachyOS btw, so I’d like to know.
They got goth latinas in Australia?
I’m Canadian, I just like Pylova more than local instances :)
Good point actually, made me curious. 1.6% of Canadians identify as Latina vs 0.5% of Australia. Pretty exotic if you can find one who is also goth.
Nah that’s the only good kind of tech bro, foss is the backbone of everything great about technology :3
Just gotta find a woman who pays for Google One and save her $ every month by hosting her files.
Bonus: she’s locked into your ecosystem (don’t do this)
Yep, and if you’re a real techbro, you start off by making the offering great. But then, you gradually enshittify it. Popups start coming up that ask her to consent to things she doesn’t really want forever, on unconscionable terms, but at first there is a ‘Yes’ or ‘Not now’ option. Behind the scenes, there are terms saying you can change the terms any time you like, and her only option is to leave within 14 days, and it is her responsibility to monitor the terms and stop using it if she doesn’t agree. You start silently changing the terms to allow you to opt her in by default to consent to things she doesn’t want. She opts out, so you change the terms again so she has no choice. All the while the service gets worse - but what’s she going to do, she’s locked in.
And that sort of thing is why working for companies known for doing the equivalent of the above but to the public is not going to get a good reaction.
It’s fair game after getting legally married, though.
Dang I was going to be a tech bro so I could be rich but if these hoes are choosing morals over money then maybe I will just get a part time job somewhere instead.
If you think of them as ‘hoes’ it probably won’t make any difference, but good luck!
The second sentence in the subtitle states “It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder”. That sentence set the precedent for my comment.
The term is all semantics. I’m fine calling them women, men, trans, sexual partners, furries, one night stand, friends with benefits or whatever term fits best. You and I were just being sarcastic.
It’s all good, friend. We’re just shooting the shit here. :)
:)
Maybe they don’t think of all women as hoes but instead specifically want to attract women of the hoe variety?
There’s a pretty foolproof method of doing that. :)
Nah, the hoes will still show because money attracts spenders. These tech bros have the personality of cardboard probably, and they’re delusional like Thiel and trying to find the Antichrist or “everything is a network”
Bro name one thing not a network then
There will always be ones who are there for rich ones.
Without reading the article I would add that most women aren’t into the whole “save the planet by breeding with genius alpha tech bro’s” fantasy. It might even be turn off.
News flash to the press, its not the electric cars, the rockets, the concept of a social media platform, etc that makes these dudes undesirable. It is that they are genuinely shitty people that use the proceeds of those products to do shitty things.
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Lol
We all suffer under capitalism.
