If I were dictator, I’d immediately shut down Facebook as it has no real positive use. It’s destructive societally, socially, individually and collectively. It can’t be reformed so it must be destroyed.

And by immediately shut it down, I mean I’d send hundreds of agents to show up at data centers and offices, herd the people out the doors, bar the buildings, destroy the servers, and be done with it all tout de suite.

I don’t need to be a fuckin scientist to know that beef is more nutritious than plant-based substitute.

I was vegetarian for 10 yrs. I was anemic & skinny fat even though I worked out every day. Supplements didn’t help.

Red meat cured anemia, incr muscle mass & overall health https://t.co/AwSx1skwFR

— Jamie (@badjamjam) April 25, 2019

Exactly. There is abso-fucking-lutely no way I wold’ve been able to gain 10 pounds of muscle and double my strength in a little over six months on a vegetarian diet.

I would’ve made next to no progress at all because a vegetarian diet is hardly good enough for sitting on your ass, much less busting it every day on the weights. Supplements don’t really work and eating phytophilically means you are missing out on the best source of nutrients out there.

It’s cute to watch the 28 year old container people reinvent tech we had working perfectly well 25 years ago, but that they just didn’t understand how to use or find “old.” Their reinvention is never better, but it is often vastly more complex and more failure-prone.

Some parts of it are admittedly useful, though, like autoscaling. That’s the the only good tech I’ve seen come out of the container obsession. The rest is pretty poor.

Does anyone else feel that they basically lucked into a high paying career because their interests randomly aligned with scarcity and a rapidly growing field, and that it's nowhere near as hard, or as societally valuable as what teachers, medical professionals and care-givers do?

— Colm MacCárthaigh (@colmmacc) April 24, 2019

Absolutely. I happened to be interested in computers and that led me to a career in IT. I don’t think what I do is even as valuable as what a janitor does, but I was in the right place at the right time with the right set of skills. That’s all.

If I’d stayed in journalism, my original career choice, my life would’ve been much different — and worse. I didn’t switch through any real wisdom or because I knew journalism would basically die (this was in the 1990s), but because I liked goofing around with computers better.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I do provide value and I am very good at my job and improving all the time. I just think what a janitor or a teacher does is more valuable though compensated far less.

Thank the heavens my dad was obsessed with computers. That really changed everything for me.