@RustyCrab@Pawlicker@condret they are getting super fixated on the supposed "tech is neutral" viewpoint of the Kagi founder and then saying they are going to go back to Google/Microsoft. Even if you despise Eich's stance from years ago, that is irrelevant now except for signaling (which is what they are doing) or as a personal moral choice. Many of these people are undoubtedly supporting politicians that actively blocked gay marriage at that same time, a greater morally consequential action than making a donation. Microsoft/Google have their own past behavior to be reckoned with. Current Microsoft/Google have moral consequences. If you do the math maybe you don't stick with Kagi but you don't go back to MS/Goog either. DDG incorporates Bing results which is functionally the same thing they are complaining about with Kagi/Brave.
@Pawlicker@condret yeah what exactly is the proper response for that "get fucked troon"? He just stated they were focused on product quality and using every index they could and brave is a good addition.
I HOPE he knows that if he backs down on this it will be blood in the water and they'll start trying to dismantle everything else. I'm sure they'll go after their standing with stripe at some point too.
@Pawlicker@RustyCrab@condret I would not accept the moral indignation of someone who chooses to work for microsoft. I won't think they are a bad person for working there but I won't accept them trying to take the moral high ground when comparing companies.
@Moon@Pawlicker@condret yeah but when it comes down to it they always, ALWAYS side with megacorps though because they can't hurt them. Small businesses are the ones they froth at the mouth over because they have a legitimate chance to destroy them and it makes their pp hard.
@RustyCrab@Moon@condret As someone who knows too much about the group I screencapped (they left it public lol), there are actually Google and MS employees (namely from the shithub buyout) who use the group to seethe about people they don't like.
I'm sure this group is one of the reasons why I cannot get a job in big tech ever, but it's not like I want to. I'd rather have fun writing a game for a platform nobody cares about or federated autism nowadays over getting bought out and killed by GloboHomoTech Corp Inc.
@Pawlicker@Awoo@RustyCrab@condret wal-mart won't hire you if they think you're just working there until you can find a better job. I went through the same thing when I was much younger and the hiring manager broke protocol and just told me that outright.
@Awoo@Moon@RustyCrab@condret My real blackpill was when boomers gave me the whole song and dance about being presentable and blah blah and sending me to useless job centers that could not get me a tech job unless it was "data entry" while these pieces of crap were getting handed jobs left and right.
Do you want to know how much it "radicalized" me as an unemployable 20 year old? It made me realize there's no point in trying to work my way up the fake and gay "get a job dude just do this cert shit" when these troons get jobs doing nothing but probably resetting the server once in a while.
@Awoo@Moon@RustyCrab@condret actually fuck that I couldn't get a WAL-MART JOB because of those stupid quizzes while these pieces of shit were getting Google jobs by having a pulse. Do you know how demoralizing it is, when you can't get a wal-mart job, and it's clear your parents literally do not have any serious plans for your future other than babbling about some bullshit they read about online? While these people are out there getting Google jobs? I don't think words can express just how I felt or why I chose to drop out and sit in DIscord calls.
And then those Discord calls turned to shit and "nerd crack" became popular. I can't even talk to the people I used to 6 years ago, because they no longer exist as I remember them and neither do the communities. They chose VR gooning and looking for enablers online. image.png
@Pawlicker@Awoo@RustyCrab@condret fwiw I know a bunch of lgbt people with skills that have had an absolutely terrible time finding a tech job, it's fucking awful right now.
@RustyCrab@Awoo@Moon@condret Which is why I'm unemployable. I'm not good enough for the small businesses, and not trooned enough for the big ones.
My only tech job was the year from hell powered by adderall at the server plant from hell, and it was great given it might have fucked my hearing up. I was spending the last month or two applying at places and being ghosted. I keep telling myself I'll learn programming but what I really mean is deal with clingy parents who won't admit I'm not 15 anymore once a month throwing my belongings all over my house and sitting zoned out on adderall withdrawl.
I hope the boomers who can't wait to die off or think it's not their problem have to live a last 10 years of their own creation. 2a4uinpamjo91.gif
@Pawlicker@Awoo@Moon@condret my last boss, who was a former big tech manager, had a lot to say about places like google and Microsoft. There's a microscopically small group of people who are working on the heavy hitters that make all their money and everyone else is effectively a dead weight codemonkey whose work phases between states of mattering a little and not mattering at all.
That kind of environment is what allows 80% of their work force to be dead weight diversity hires and they still come out fine. Small businesses cannot afford to do that.
@Pawlicker@Awoo@RustyCrab@Moon@condret With how many nerds are doomed to neet life of video games and broken dreams, I wonder how many of them would turn to cybercrime against the boomers that have built the system they don't let them participate in.
@sneeden@Awoo@Pawlicker@RustyCrab@Moon@condret Case in point, he tried resubmitting his resume from the name of a transwomyn, and got as many responses in the first day as he got in years before. I wonder why no one exploits it: claim you're transitioning, hop on diversity quota, then claim you're detransitioning. Worst thing that could happen, aside from temporary social death, is you going to square one.