1/ The difference between comedy and media. Comedians break a subject into pieces and then reconstruct it in a way in which the creation looks ridiculous. Same structure, but a mishmash of pieces. Media takes one piece of a subject which looks ridiculous by itself (out of context) and uses that as the header of the story to draw you in. Ridiculous header, but the rest of the subject is uninteresting.
@msflechette Do people actually tweet their opinions about random snippets of conversations they heard in a bar?
So many software people on Refactorcamp. @vgr must be like a Jordan Peterson figure of the web development world.
@vgr Selling anything probably means you have busted your ass to get to that point. Job is more likely to be just 40 hours. So... time?
@johnfuller do you really want to have street cred in that? I think it’s better for everyone if you are open to the theories but you ask the questions that you genuinely need answers to in order to get yourself oriented / caught up. This forces the theorist to relate back to the wider world.
How do you react to a friend who is into conspiracy theories?
I just go into Larp mode and roll with it. Only problem is that I forget to do my research, so I have limited street cred.
Does anyone know of a good weekly summary of things which you should know so that you don't get suspected of being an imposter?
Prediction
Dennis Rodman is outed as being the true Satoshi Nakamoto. Rodman immediately flees to N. Korea.
Potcoin becomes the official currency of N. Korea under Rodman (Nakamoto) and it MOONS along with the N. Korean economy.
N Korea is forced to suspend its nuclear program because Kim Jong Un gets high and loses the nuke codes.
Kim Jong Un dreads out his hair and goes into self-exile in Bali as a crypto billionaire.
Reunification.
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