Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
Recalling the time I was turning down interview requests from Juul, where tech and tobacco industries harmonized
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse Um, I've been into privacy for at least past decade. General tech felt like tobacco industry for a long time, or at least huge pockets of tech industry felt like that.
I know because I've left a lot of money on the table.
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse I know. I want out. I now mention how far I am from retirement (1 year, 2 months, 7 days) so often that I am starting to worry about retirony: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retirony
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse What was that old joke again about telling people you're a piano player in a whorehouse, so you can pretend to be somewhat respectable...
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse I tell people I'm in software, and then immediately clarify that it's not the evil kind (although lately, I can't be 100% on that).
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@fasterandworse What was that old joke again about telling people you're a piano player in a whorehouse, so you can pretend to be somewhat respectable...
@Tubemeister @fasterandworse Ooh a little cabaret?
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse I would argue it's almost worse...at least tobacco products come with a warning label
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@fasterandworse I would argue it's almost worse...at least tobacco products come with a warning label
@juliehuz if I had to choose I’d probably take tobacco money first. At least everyone knows where they stand.
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@juliehuz if I had to choose I’d probably take tobacco money first. At least everyone knows where they stand.
@fasterandworse and while their products are horrible in many ways, they cannot effectively be used to undermine our democracy
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@fasterandworse and while their products are horrible in many ways, they cannot effectively be used to undermine our democracy
@juliehuz @fasterandworse back in 1980s as a teen my best paying Saturday job was selling cigarettes at the supermarket kiosk (it was run by a separate company and paid more than supermarket work, but you had to be good at maths and trustworthy as there weren't even barcode scanners on the till).
Probably helped finish off as many people as an illegal drugs dealer (and I smoked for many years myself).
It was a fast paced environment, but seen as one of the plum jobs a teenager could get in the era (but would be completely illegal today at age 16/17!)
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse Spot on!
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse I hope when someone says "I work in AI..." People hear something like "I'm a vivisectionist".
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse I've been apologizing for our industry for years now. TBH, it looks more like the oil industry: really bad for the planet, not only humans, and trying to make sure it stays that way.
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse Except I used to enjoy the tobacco industry's products!
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse @fasterandworse the tobacco comparison lands harder than people want to admit. tobacco knew and kept selling. tech knows and keeps shipping. the difference is tobacco took decades to get called out — we're watching it happen in real time and still can't stop it.
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse The tech industry has to suffer me and pay for the privilege.
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse even theoretical computer science is financed by the war ministry of usa nowadays
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse except people actually enjoy smoking before they get cancer
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@fasterandworse and while their products are horrible in many ways, they cannot effectively be used to undermine our democracy
You think capitalist countries are democracies?!
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Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
@fasterandworse
My day job started okay but has pivoted to building the Torment Nexus out of asbestos and TEL and I haven't yet found a better job.
