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loquacius posted:Seriously, this thread is a fascinating study into how a lot of people apparently use the word "tech" as a placeholder for "everything about modern culture I don't like" Fun won't die either. Just saying don't get your hopes up.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:16
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loquacius posted:This isn't tech either, this is a weird bike yeah and Soylent is just weird food and not tech either. what the hell! e: lmao i just say your edit, you are dumb if you can't see the inextricable link between the two even if you get semantical about Merriam-Webster's Dictionary codified book of words.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:17
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:You know tech is short for technology which basically includes everything? Oh, so the everything bubble is about to pop. Thank god, I loving hate everything hipsters and now maybe those people will instantly vanish e: Xaris posted:yeah and Soylent is just weird food and not tech either. I actually edited this exact thing into that post, I guess what I'm saying is "this but unironically"
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Dec 17, 2015 22:17
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Moridin920 posted:they're insufferable either way, but now they won't be making millions for it anymore maybe cool, a bike you can't wear a backpack while riding or carry anything with you that's not in your pockets. also you have to run the whole way. and somehow strap yourself into a harness instead of just jumping on
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Dec 17, 2015 22:18
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Vorik posted:imagine the sort of person who walks into a place like this unironically
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Dec 17, 2015 22:18
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i collect old & rare cereals pm me if u got the 1987 count chocula
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Dec 17, 2015 22:19
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Mozi posted:cool, a bike you can't wear a backpack while riding or carry anything with you that's not in your pockets. also you have to run the whole way. and somehow strap yourself into a harness instead of just jumping on Also your neck is conveniently trapped between metal bars 6 feet off the found if you fall over
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Dec 17, 2015 22:20
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Xaris posted:e: lmao i just say your edit, you are dumb if you can't see the inextricable link between the two even if you get semantical about Merriam-Webster's Dictionary codified book of words. Spell it out for me Seriously, if this inextricable link is something other than "I don't like them and they are new" or maybe "Aspergers" I straight-up don't know what it is
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Dec 17, 2015 22:22
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loquacius posted:Spell it out for me It's just out of touch goons, i'm surprised we haven't seen a skinny jeans joke yet. Those drat hipsters and all that.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:23
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I keep rare cereals in my skinny jeans at the raves i go to while staring at my phone .. nobody can stop me, hell, peopel think its cool
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Dec 17, 2015 22:25
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Maybe if enough people lose their jobs Starbucks will stop selling pumpkin spice lattes, crossing my fingers for this wonderful bubble-pop
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Dec 17, 2015 22:26
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How the gently caress do you develop a medical product without a single peer-reviewed paper backing the technology?
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Dec 17, 2015 22:28
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loquacius posted:Spell it out for me they would not and could not exist without it, and are directly marketed and catered to "overworked" tech people with more money than sense as the hot new fad they need in their life for whom taking 15 minutes a day to make a meal is too much. "open sourced food" "hack your diet" etc are all phrases used in marketing it. and given way too much venture capital based on that prediction of "disrupting the lunch industry!" type bullshit. same thing like poo poo like z-boards or whatever. it's just a weird skateboard! just because a "startup" doesn't involve an app or computer doesn't mean it isn't inextricably linked and part of the specific bubble it encompasses
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Dec 17, 2015 22:29
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McDowell posted:How the gently caress do you develop a medical product without a single peer-reviewed paper backing the technology? that's called disrupting
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Dec 17, 2015 22:29
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lmao the "tech bubble" some bad investments will die eventually, they always do, we have been through this before, but the good and actually valuable will continue on nerds
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Dec 17, 2015 22:30
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Dec 17, 2015 22:32
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Xaris posted:they would not and could not exist without it, and are directly marketed and catered to "overworked" tech people with more money than sense as the hot new fad they need in their life for whom taking 15 minutes a day to make a meal is too much. and given way too much venture capital based on that prediction of "disrupting the lunch industry!" type bullshit. same thing like poo poo like z-boards or whatever. it's just a weird skateboard! so, they are selling to people with Aspergers, which is "the tech industry" to you, because again, "modern thing I don't like" and if all tech ceases to exist, those Aspergers people, when they get their new jobs as whatever else, will be magically cured of their Aspergers, wake up, say "what have I been doing with my life" and immediately start eating normal food now and forever amen, rather than continuing to buy it because it's cheap and they are now poorer and still have Aspergers Seriously guys you can't blame the tech industry as a single entity for overpriced tapas and craft beer AND Soylent, these are two completely different demographics
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Dec 17, 2015 22:32
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Moridin920 posted:I mean who designs a bicycle that removes the one thing that makes the bicycle the efficient machine it is and does this instead: what the gently caress am I even looking at, this is like a vision of an alternate future where bicycles are the sentient masters of this earth and they invented humans as a means of transportation that really works their glutes
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Dec 17, 2015 22:33
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loquacius posted:Spell it out for me Uh they are techie hipsters coming up with outrageous apps or products to market to other techie hipsters and getting millions and millions of dollars in VC money. Products that aren't strictly tech but are still related to the tech boom still count. That bike wouldn't exist without idiot techie hipsters in SF marketing it to other idiot techie hipsters.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:33
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loquacius posted:so, they are selling to people with Aspergers, which is "the tech industry" to you, because again, "modern thing I don't like" I think rapidly funded and developed products of a new nature that currently doesn't have a direct competitor due to the relative newness instead of scarcity or a cartel in place is considered tech for purely market related reasons instead of the classical definition.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:34
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oh noooo millions of dollars lol millions ain't poo poo and it ain't hard to find. there are tons of small VC firms that will give <$10M investments
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Dec 17, 2015 22:36
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Beef Turret posted:I hope those tech startup geeks die on the streets, personally speaking as a tech startup geek what is taking so long, I was supposed to die on the streets like a week ago, what is even the point of preordering
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Dec 17, 2015 22:36
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Moridin920 posted:they're insufferable either way, but now they won't be making millions for it anymore maybe This is some Dr. Seuss bullshit.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:37
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i hope imgur is hosed. then gbs will be all text.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:37
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loquacius posted:Oh, so the everything bubble is about to pop. Thank god, I loving hate everything hipsters and now maybe those people will instantly vanish
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Dec 17, 2015 22:38
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Rambling Robot posted:i hope imgur is hosed. RIP WaffleImages.
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Moridin920 posted:Uh they are techie hipsters coming up with outrageous apps or products to market to other techie hipsters and getting millions and millions of dollars in VC money. Explain to me what "techie" means in this sentence because you are outright stating that "related to technology" isn't what it means and it has to mean something You appear to be using it as an intensifier for "hipster" and as far as I can tell everyone else is too except the ones who are using it as code for "spergs who have money" Booblord Zagats posted:I think rapidly funded and developed products of a new nature that currently doesn't have a direct competitor due to the relative newness instead of scarcity or a cartel in place is considered tech for purely market related reasons instead of the classical definition. That's not "tech" though, that's "startup culture" There's overlap there but there are startups in every industry and being a startup doesn't automatically make your weird bicycle company a tech company
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Dec 17, 2015 22:38
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loquacius posted:Explain to me what "techie" means in this sentence because you are outright stating that "related to technology" isn't what it means and it has to mean something I agree with you, but I think the word has been subverted in to a different meaning in terms of marketing and investing due to media outlets ranging from the Wall St Journal to Wired to US Weekly throwing it around without context
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Dec 17, 2015 22:40
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MiracleWhale posted:what the gently caress am I even looking at, this is like a vision of an alternate future where bicycles are the sentient masters of this earth and they invented humans as a means of transportation that really works their glutes You're looking at what happens when nobody has the guts to say "you're a moron." See also: the Star Wars prequels.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:41
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ashgromnies posted:oh noooo millions of dollars I like how you talk like some big boss, but you're not. I'm the big boss.
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Booblord Zagats posted:I agree with you, but I think the word has been subverted in to a different meaning in terms of marketing and investing due to media outlets ranging from the Wall St Journal to Wired to US Weekly throwing it around without context It definitely has, hence my thesis in this thread: "people see the word 'tech' and think 'that hipster thing I don't like'"
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Dec 17, 2015 22:42
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loquacius posted:Spell it out for me Soylent's core market is pretty much tech people with too much money and not enough time and/or life skills to cook for themselves. Every ridiculous little overpriced food place in SF, like "The Melt" where you can buy a basic grilled cheese sandwich for $4.95, exists because of the same idea. It's all based off the tech bubble phenomenon of too many overworked dorks with too much money in one area
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ashgromnies posted:oh noooo millions of dollars Cool. Next time you have an idea try and see if they'll fund it for you and report back
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loquacius posted:It definitely has, hence my thesis in this thread: "people see the word 'tech' and think 'that hipster thing I don't like'" Yeah, pretty much exactly like "SJW" has taken over for "Contrarian idiot who won't shut the gently caress up no matter how wrong facts show them to be"
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Dec 17, 2015 22:45
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Rambling Robot posted:i hope imgur is hosed. nooooo, I consult my bookmarked gibbis threads every time I forget how to poop
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Aralan posted:Are you calling loquacius an SJW
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Aralan posted:Are you calling loquacius an SJW No, Ioquacius owns, I'm using an actual example and not being a catty goon also, he's pretty fuckin far from an SJW
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