I cannot stress to you how INSANE it is to be a new parent in NYC in 2023.

Waiting lists for daycare of 6+ months or more (you do the math from conception to birth)

When you get in, it's $30K per year (after tax income of course).

Need care after 6pm? You're on your own! https://t.co/egudGS0Jep

— Brian P. Mangan (@brianpmangan) June 1, 2023

For $30K you could hire a nanny if you provided housing. How is day care a good value at that point? Those prices are indeed insane.

The Dunning-Kruger effect has views on labor statistics. https://t.co/KifIs8ytBr

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 3, 2023

LOL. Both can most definitely be and often are true. That guy has major issues. Like having no brain, for starters.

A QJE paper finds the labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high social interaction grew by ~12 percentage points as a share of US labor. Math-intensive less social jobs—fell by 3.3 percentage points: https://t.co/ltwC6U3zr5

— Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D (@KwekuOA) June 5, 2023

True. I am in a highly technical role and not in sales support or sales engineering, yet I have meetings with non-technical client teams 2-3 times a week.

Many people who are in my field cannot be put in front of clients due to their poor social skills and lack of ability to explain technical ideas and concepts to those in less-technical roles. One of the reasons companies have to hire 2-3 (or more) people to replace me when I depart is that I can be schmoozing with clients one day, putting them at ease, and setting up BGP failover the next.

In my field that is very fucking rare. I know it, those above me know it, and clients know it. That’s why I get p-p-paid.

This woman sounds like a puritan piece of shit even if I agree with many of her points.

This reminds me of how many women and men believe they are divine beings, a gift to the universe, while actually being whiny little pricks. She seems like the epitome of a whiny little prick really. Women like this have extremely high self opinions though offering nothing other than lots of lip filler and not-very-clever snark while being woefully dumb. And they are also never good at sex, either, so there is nothing at all compensatorily redeeming about them.

Every man over 35 who has dated more than three people has run across one like this, and then run the other way posthaste due to their extreme toxicity.

And here I speak from bitter experience.

Apart even from how poorly applications work now, the internet has been sanitized, standardized and monetized so that it’s as boring as the beige box buildings we’re constructing everywhere nowadays. Meanwhile, dipshit clowns tell me this is for “security” and “for my own good.”

I know most people actually believe this, the propaganda victims that they are. They do not possess their own minds. They sold them cheaply to others long ago. But I refuse to do so.

What the hell does this have to do with Christmas? https://t.co/gUxL6pMC3X pic.twitter.com/LjFlZ9UEeF

— Leslieoo7  (@Leslieoo7) June 4, 2023

The US has a very sick culture.

I feel like PETA could come up with a better argument than this https://t.co/tr5TrCFX1Y

— Noah "Rabbit = Good Friend" Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) June 3, 2023

Oh, I’d most definitely eat a T. Rex. Not all of it, probably. At least not all at once. But I’d definitely do some snackin’.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Shit y’all, it’s nice being back on 1Gbs symmetrical fiber again:

And only $55 a month too.

It’s weird when people say, “Medical science has gotten so good, obese people live nearly as long as the non-obese!” Well so fucking what. I care about quality of life too, and I don’t understand why more people don’t. And the QOL of the obese — especially as they get older — is pretty crummy.

Meanwhile, I’m nearly as fit as I was at 23 and can do things a lot of people half my age cannot do. And like McDonald’s, I’m lovin’ it.

I like doing the impossible because the merely improbable just became too damn easy.