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It means "a male working in tech who I don't like"

The first part is important to signal that you aren't just trying to find people to work with, but that you also want to join up in a culture war, and a culture war requires promoting ideas to hate instead of letting them fade away.

Imagine how it would look if they wrote "no pushovers or girly-girls, please"

There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.

Counterpoint comic: https://xkcd.com/224/

We also have virus botnets

Right-handed privilege.

But still, the thumbs are probably the least "handed" element of the body. I mix right and left thumb use based on whatever I need to be doing with my other hand.

The people who respond to sales tactics are the sort of people who buy lattes every day, fo rhte same reason.

Buying new saves on the transaction costs of the resale through a dealer and the risk of buying private used.

Buying non-luxury cars is NOT expensive. Throwing away a working car is expensive.

If you're good enough to act on Broadway, you're good enough to be a salesperson.

What does private companies' compensation plans have to do with the government or Republicans?

Equifax is waiving the fee since the recent incident.

I wish I could have 72 hours to review the front of all my snail mail electronically

https://www.google.com/search?q=postal+mail+virtual

The post office would still get money/postage,

The post office can't take money from a customer and then fail to provide the service because someone else told them to. That would be fraid.

The headline doesn't mention "dollars" at all.

What in tobacco makes tobacco so bad, compared to all the other plants and animals people chew on?

Vaping is illegal, but cigarettes are legal? Vaping is illegal, but also taxed?

Those wealthy people can spend some of their wealth to hire reputable maangers, or donate their wealth to communal funds so they aren't a target.

Hunger for wealth and control makes one a target.

Not to disparage your suffering at all, but jail isn't always so much better.

you broke a written rule and you spend some time for it.

Not true. Jail is for people accused of breaking rules, not convicted. And arrests are severely biased against certain subpopulations.

The judge gives you rules and you follow them and you get out.

which generally involve sitting in jail because you can't afford bail, with a nontrivial chance of losing your job due to absence, then losing your home due to poverty.

Don't argue which injustice is worse. Fight the injustice.

https://brooklynbailfund.org/

Defense of self and family is not murder.

Scams and survival of he fittest are the state of nature. It's a miracle the legal system is able to resist it even a little.

Interesting that your aunt cared for their mother for 30 years, drawing a small compensation rate, and your mother just took an interest in grandmother's care decades later when her inheritance started to dwindle.

But really, what's wrong with that?

Why is someone entitled to control accumulated wealth after they lose their faculty?

Most parents live for their children. If a parent doesn't want to give wealth to their children, that's fine; the parent can give wealth to their grandchildren in trust, or anyone on the world they choose.

Your body is often sneezing because it has been hijacked by a virus that triggers the sneeze in order to spread infection.

Sneezes were evolved before the invention of the handkerchief and tissue.

People should be able to control all of them, at least for timespans of a few seconds.

"Gesundheit" means "health". Sneezing is an indicator of health risk.

It's a tradition, not a superstition.

Do you value grammar over spelling?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grammer

This is one of the problems with GDP/econometrics in general: It tries to measure value but actually measures prices.

If I lower my prices (maybe as a charitable act, or due to competition), I haven't decreased my value, but econometrics thinks I did. If you and I pay each other to waste fuel, pollution and time to drive to each other's homes to do the laundry, that's consider "better" than if we stayed home and did our own, according to econometrics.

Anything administrative paid to a third-party vendor is administrative cost but not payroll. For example, the EPIC software license fee is admin but not payroll.

That's LOGO, not LISP.

The program at top is a LOGO interpreter, written in LISP.

Using text to quiz colors is folly

https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

I trust that you'll have similar gratitude for any doctor who kills you on their way to surgery, or any web developer who does the same on their way to build a revolutionary new Uber for Widgets