#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
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@pho4cexa normalizing vegetarian food and developing compelling alternatives to meat is a good cause, especially considering the significant environmental impact of meat production. I give you permission to feel unambiguously good about your job.
@aeva wow, um face value i didn't expect that's where this poll was headed. i browsed through some of your other responses to replies to this poll and you are just out there blasting much-needed hope and positivity into the inferno. you're awesome and thank you
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@aeva I make a website that helps the company sell their tool for making websites. I guess the hidden adjective is "more website-y"? I find the whole situation to be morally neutral.
@angelikatyborska do you use their tool to make their website?
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#poll for all you beautiful hard working professional computer touchers out there:
"my day job has me making the world a ____ place"
(be honest, don't just repeat what your CEO says)
@aeva As a system administrator in a university (in a CS department) I feel my day job is probably somewhere around neutral. I would like to think I am making the world ever so slightly better by keeping the lights on and helping researchers and graduate students learn new things but I'm not sure I can be that optimistic about the typical output of academia.
I mostly settle for 'at least my work isn't clearly making the world worse'.
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@aanee well, moving chairs around on the deck is good exercise at least right
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@aeva As a system administrator in a university (in a CS department) I feel my day job is probably somewhere around neutral. I would like to think I am making the world ever so slightly better by keeping the lights on and helping researchers and graduate students learn new things but I'm not sure I can be that optimistic about the typical output of academia.
I mostly settle for 'at least my work isn't clearly making the world worse'.
@cks yeah CS department makes it tricky to say
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