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Well, @arstechnica@mastodon.social et cetera, "everyone" doesn't get to fart around with #investments and such. It is my general contention that "investment" and all such activities can't possibly be
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#PeterThiel is an #entrepreneur. That's all that I care to know about him for the moment. Chara knows a bit more about this fellow and all the information is grotesque of course, but I wanted to watch
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https://youtu.be/UKA4wU9a9pE If you want to stomach fifteen minutes of him and Jordan B. Peterson having a confab, there you go. You'll find that (like Musk) Thiel seems a bit like he knows he's on th
I'm Alyx, and I'm a science nerd and horsegirl in the # plural system known as the Pnictogen Wing (host, @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social) where I'm like the "science officer", although I prefer the title "principal investigator". I'm into amateur # science , especially # chemistry , though I'm working on programming and other things.
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I'm Alyx, and I'm a science nerd and horsegirl in the # plural system known as the Pnictogen Wing (host, @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social) where I'm like the "science officer", although I prefer the title "principal investigator". I'm into amateur # science , especially # chemistry , though I'm working on programming and other things.
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Jan 28, 2026
Here's a precious bit. Thiel obviously feels insecure about his bad education because he starts doing that THING which all insecure #tech types do with disciplines they don't understand: they develop a serious case of "sour grapes" like in the Æsop fable. Having gone into the fakey vocational-training field of #ComputerScience, Thiel starts babbling about real sciences as if they were fake:
> Um but uh it it basically the only STEM field that was a really going to be a really successful field for people to go into was computer science which was kind of this marginal almost fake field—
Oh dearie me! #PeterThiel is trying to put the back-asswards and dysfunctional nature of "computer science" and "software engineering" into the past tense, like everything fine now in computing...even as everything is flying to pieces.
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