I should also mention that this attitude is not just a liberal vs conservative thing. I've lived in Austin and Houston and Dallas (all three are about as liberal as any other major city in the country) and swearing in a formal setting is frowned upon in all three.

I don't find this to be too much to ask. Every other platform has to do this. The only reason you have a bunch of ridiculously wealthy anti-social people rampaging across the world "disrupting" whatever they see fit is because we decided the rules arbitrarily should't apply to them because of some wide eyed and ridiculous utopian bullshit how "the internet is for free love and knowledge mannnn, and it should be like, freeee brooo". I'm not even slightly sympathetic to that argument and I don't think the Internet has proven to be valuable enough either culturally or productivity wise to justify even the slightest loosening of the rules that apply elsewhere. The whole thing starts to look like a rent seeking scam that was used to destroy a lot of higher quality information resources and businesses if you squint at it for even a second.

A lot of UFO people (maybe enthusiasts would be a more apt term) are more skeptical of aliens and spaceship stuff than "normies" cause they tend to have experience getting burned. Just comes with the territory I guess.

Try to post a perfectly legitimate photo of something weird looking on a UFO forum and they will forensically tear it apart in a way that would put a lot of more professional outlets to shame.

I've been hearing the whole "the government wants you to believe in aliens thing" since the 90s but it goes back way further. Of course the other thing that comes along with that is believing that a lot of the "true believer" types are shills on account of their obvious and often pretty suspicious connections. The most recent one I can remember is that guy with some sort of military connections and very shady funding that went on Joe Rogan talking about starting a company to study and release technology from a crashed spaceship. The intended audience of that sort of thing is not UFO enthusiasts, it's gullable normal people that just happen to accidentally dip their toes into the subject for a split second.

All in all, my opinion is that the whole thing has been a pretty sloppy display of our governments disinformation and psyop capabilities to the extent that it makes me a little bit worried for our safety. Hopefully the people that got assigned to run the UFO stories were the B team.

They are saying that relationships between men are different from relationships between women or between men and women, and that they don't necessarily rely on things like emotional intimacy to the same extent, or perhaps that the emotional intimacy experienced doesn't have to be in the form of a very caring heart to heart conversation about feelings.

To be honest, they have a good point in some ways. I think it's true that male friendships are different from women's and it would be basically biologically and culturally impossible to get men to share their feelings as often and in as much detail as women (nor would that necessarily be desirable). But I think there is definitely something to be said for lack of connection between men, and that the original article is correctly identifying a number of very real problems. It's just the whole cliche "men need to cry it out with their bros more" thing that is misguided and not believable to plenty of mature and not frustrated / Andrew Tate watching guys.

I also suspect the whole Andrew Tate thing is really a phenomenon of pre-pubescent and pubescent boys and that it is not nearly as big a problem among, say, people in their 20s. I'd really like to see the statistics on who is watching because I suspect the demographics are like plenty of other "edgy" teenager type shows and that it precipitously drops off once people pass through puberty. My suspicions are mostly driven by the fact I've never heard a man in real life ever mention the guy once and I'm only 28 years old. Certainly, if he had some more broad appeal to men in general, I would have at least heard of it and maybe watched it at least once? I've certainly heard of Joe Rogan for instance, who certainly has a more broad appeal to men more generally.

Young men have always been into a lotta uncouth and kinda shitty stuff like that and I'm not sure they aren't going to grow out of it just like we did with our own "manly man" bullshit back in the day.

If Solows paradox is true and not the result of bad measurement, then one might expect that it could be workable without sacrificing much productivity. Certainly abandoning the cloud would be possible if the regulatory environment allowed for rapid development of alternative non-cloud solutions, as I really don't think the cloud improved productivity (besides for software developers in certain cases) and is more of a rent seeking mechanism (hot take on hacker news I'm sure, but look at any big corpo IT dept outside the tech industry and I think you will see tons of instances where modern tech like the cloud is causing more problems than it's worth productivity-wise).

Computers in general I am much less sure of and lean towards mismeasurement hypothesis. I suspect any "return to 1950" project would render a company economically less competitive (except in certain high end items) and so the EU would really need to lean on Linux hard and invest massively in domestic hardware (not a small task as the US is finding out) in order to escape the clutches of the US and/or China.

I don't think they have the political will to do it, but I would love it if they tried and proved naysayers wrong.

It's easy to think there are a ton of bullshit jobs if you are in a startup that isn't being regulated and is growing and intends to compete with large entrenched companies. Especially working on mostly greenfield projectsm The minute the startup becomes entrenched themselves, I think you end up seeing why the big dogs had so many so called bullshit jobs in the first place and that maybe it wasn't stupid after all.

I think running lean and mean is easier said than done and we would see more of it if it were actually a case of jobs just being invented out of thin air for no reason.

Certainly, a lot of jobs FEEL like bullshit, but that is more of a function of alienation from the actual work output due to positioning in an organization and lack of ownership, rather than actual uselessness.