Well a famous podcaster hasn't said a racist thing in the last month or two, so I'll give him that
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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I work with a few people who are fucking assholes to deal with but when it comes to the tech they work on they know their stuff.
All the time. When people start talking about how the FDA and legislators are all captured by industry lobbyists. YES! And the regulations they wrote don't actually help protect people. YES! So we should skip vaccines and drink raw milk. NOoooooooooo!
So close but the answer I was looking for was abandon FPP elections so we can have a multi-party system that actually represents us and maybe has a chance at overturning citizens United and all that stuff. I don't know, I'm not a poly scientist, I'm just pretty sure pasteurization isn't the root cause here.
I found most people in the right situation on the right topic can be knowledgeable or insightful even if they are sorta assholes in general. I mean there are other people I know who are so often knowledgeable and useful that your like woa. Even this person does not know what to do in the rare case they don't or can't add something useful.
I mean, having done a bit of science research, and now being in tech, I'd say I routinely learn from good points and insights from some of my colleagues in their domains of expertise whilst they are otherwise selfish assholes, so... Yeah...