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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 3 days ago (13 children)

I don't have the headspace to sneer it properly at this moment, but this article fucking goes places might even be worthy of its own techtakes post

Shawn Schneider — a 22-year-old who dropped out of his Christian high school, briefly attended community college, dropped out again, and earlier this year founded a marketing platform for generative AI — tells me college is outdated. Skipping it, for him, is as efficient as it is ideological. "It signals DEI," he says. "It signals, basically, woke and compromised institutions. At least in the circles I run in, the sentiment is like they should die."

Schneider says the women from his high school in Idaho were "so much better at doing what the teacher asks, and that was just not what I was good at or what the other masculine guys I knew were good at." He's married with two children, a girl and a boy, which has made him realize that schools should be separated by gender to "make men more manly, and women more feminine."

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 14 hours ago (6 children)
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 1 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Nothing in the article suggests he is a programmer, or that being a programmer is inherently fascist.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You're both incorrect. I am the least fascist programmer and I'm here to tell you programming is inherently fascist.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

They say that you can't destroy the master's house with the master's tools, but what about hammers?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

Yea, what if the master owns a wrecking ball, a bulldozer, a heavy duty excavator and a bunch of dynamite?

Yes, this is a metaphor for C programming, how did you know?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Funny thing, the sawzall vanished right before his catalytic converter went missing

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