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[–] 365 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Since joining the tech company in 2025, Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective paramours. One woman, he says, called him the devil; another asked how he lives with himself. “Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me,” he says.

Take a fucking hint Gary...

Gary has resorted to saying he works in AI. “Even that gets some pretty bad responses sometimes,” he says. His Hinge profile doesn’t mention his employer. And sometimes he makes up stories out of thin air to justify working for Palantir—like that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill.

Jesus fucking christ, Gary...at this point you're just a bad person. Reevaluate your life decisions.

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  • [–] 224 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    "People didn't like when I told them I work for Snitch Inc., so I started telling them I work for Global Warming Accelerator Corp instead. That still didn't work, so I just lied about my parents dying. Why won't they like meeeeeee?!"

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago

    Without reading the article I would add that most women aren't into the whole "save the planet by breeding with genius alpha tech bro's" fantasy. It might even be turn off.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    News flash to the press, its not the electric cars, the rockets, the concept of a social media platform, etc that makes these dudes undesirable. It is that they are genuinely shitty people that use the proceeds of those products to do shitty things.

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  • [–] 200 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    That thumbnail is gold lmao

    I just hope it's not AI

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  • [–] 140 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    ILLUSTRATION: SHIRLEY CHONG

    I think this is her website: https://www.cheekychong.com/

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    [–] 52 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Tech bro 👎

    Tech anarchist 👍

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Right? I'm a swe, happily partnered up, and the times I was single, easily partnered up. The problem isn't being a tech bro, the problem is being a fuckin wet noodle of a person. I've got the same hobbyist servers, the same half-finished coding projects I'll never get done, the same 40k models, the same flab. I just also stand for good things and act on those beliefs, and live every day demonstrating that if you're fash or fash-adjacent, you're not safe here, and if you're anti-those things then I'm great.

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  • [–] 135 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    And sometimes he makes up stories out of thin air to justify working for Palantir—like that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill.

    I will lie to get laid. WHY DONT WOMEN LIKE ME?!

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    [–] [S] 148 points 3 days ago (21 children)

    Recently, Gary’s buddies requested he not mention Palantir on their nights out together so as to not tank the whole group’s chances of getting laid.

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    [–] 88 points 3 days ago (10 children)

    OK, framing it as just a tech company is kind of burying the lead. Yeah, a lot of them suck, but this is the nastiest evil one around.

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    Ok, was surprised about that, so decided to look this up.

    It turns out this is correct, the expression does tend to use "lede" though "lead" is also occasionally used. You could call that occasional usage just people making a mistake, except for one thing... "Lede" is just an archaic English form of the word "lead" and they both mean "to guide". So "burying the lead" is exactly the same statement as burying the lede", but with an archaic word replaced with the same modern word. So my question is, is that wrong?

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  • [–] 41 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    Tesla and Palantir. I doubt anyone cares if you work for some no name enterprise company like Initech.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    It's Initrode now.

    And, yeah, when I tell people I work in tech the response is either "cool" or questions about what we do and how we do it, from the more geeky people. But I also don't work for a company that "shortens the kill chain" or "connects the supply chain to the kill chain"

    EDIT : I want to be very clear that "Connecting the Supply Chain to the Kill Chain" is the real actual title of one of their advertising docs on their official website linked above.

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  • [–] 60 points 3 days ago

    When the name of your employer exposes you as a first order asshole...

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  • [–] 44 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Skippable headline vs unskippable artwork

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    [–] 20 points 2 days ago (9 children)

    Dang I was going to be a tech bro so I could be rich but if these hoes are choosing morals over money then maybe I will just get a part time job somewhere instead.

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    [–] 38 points 3 days ago (38 children)

    I think i'm a different kind of tech bro. The foss/Linux kind of tech bro. Am I fucked?

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  • [–] 27 points 3 days ago

    Nah, being a man who's into tech is a necessary but not sufficient condition to being a "tech bro". That term has a whole bunch more baggage and I think very few people on the threadiverse qualify.

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