I think your average geek used to be like, somewhat academic and erudite and into arcane knowledge and had some level of good faith of wanting to engage in discussion

Now it’s all frauds and absolutely braindead elon stans and crypto dipshits and conservative freaks and people who enjoy and defend watching big tech destroy everything.

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    4 days ago

    Your view of tech bros is largely from YouTube. On the ground it’s still a ton of really smart people with real engineering degrees working really hard. Brogrammers are much more common, but they are still widely regarded as a scourge.