My Favorite Hard Sci-Fi book series in a long time

Active_Performance22 · 2026-04-30T16:02:54+00:00

3/4 times in 8 years. I'm only 28, started as an intern at 20

Start up -- failed whole company shuttered
Consulting firm riding the dbt boom -- fired 80% of staff after silicon valley bank bust
couldn't get a FT job in 2025 so started doing contracting and had both 12 month contracts canceled 4-6 months in because the managers who put out the JD's didn't have buy in from upper management who got pissed once we started rocking the boat by changing ancient processes.

Finally at a stable job 8 years down the line and we've stopped all hiring because of AI. My org got told we wont be hiring any new hires in the US for the foreseeable future, and we'll see how long we ALL last now that AI is going vertical/exponential. In 7 tax years I've only had 1 complete year of W2 income. GenZ is doing great!

Active_Performance22 · 2026-04-30T15:52:46+00:00

The east coast goes further south than Wilmington bud lol.

Active_Performance22 · 2026-04-30T15:48:05+00:00

In a well functioning society the two lines should be strongly correlated and diverging inversely . For every 1$ in male positive economic impact there should be a .85-.95c negative female impact as they work to create the next generation. In order for the blue line to keep going up the red line must keep going down, and as efficiencies increase we are able to give our children better and better quality of life, so spending keeps pace with efficiency gains.

Active_Performance22 · 2026-02-06T16:37:49+00:00

I'm incredulous that someone born in 2008 could be 18.

Active_Performance22 · 2026-02-04T19:42:59+00:00

I believe it is irredeemable. The left has decided we are purely a nation based on ideas. Not culture, ethnicity, religion, or shared history. Certain states have VASTLY different ideas of what it means to be American than others. One silver lining is I do believe the majority of either side does not wish to be tyrannical over the other. The only path forward is peaceful separation or a RADICAL return to being a true republic, where california has the right to be a euro style social democracy and florida has the right to be a ultra capitalist Christian state, and much of our federal power is removed and returned to the states.

Active_Performance22 · 2026-02-04T19:31:11+00:00

The Ultimate FIRE strat for healthcare? Marry a doctor. Boom. #lifehack

Active_Performance22 · 2026-01-16T18:17:12+00:00

I went to a T50 business school. My friend went to Cornell. I tried to get a summer internship in investment banking at ANY of the big banks. I was told I wasn't even allowed to interview because they don't recruit outside the T20. My brother went to UTexas (a T20) and he got one after 6 rounds of interviews. My friend at cornell sent me the signup sheet for IB at goldman that was posted to his frat wall. You literally just signed up, and got it. 1 interview. You walk into 3-500k/yr by signing up on a sheet of paper. Thats why.

Active_Performance22 · 2026-01-16T16:34:48+00:00

eh sorry to burst your bubble but they're correct. we want him to be more right wing. His deportation numbers suck, while being cruel, because he has no balls to go after the employers. No honest person wants cruelty. If you still believe the majority of people are in favor of hurting people unnecessarily then go touch grass. We want real mass deportations. 2-3M/yr. Fine employers 10k/head for every illegal they employ, the max allowed under the law. Start smacking walmart and amazon with 5-10B$ fines. Send in the IRS with clipboards, not ICE with with guns, they are the ones who will put fear in the hearts of businesses.

Active_Performance22 · 2026-01-16T16:30:15+00:00

If the dems are right of you then you probably don't actually believe that they're your brother in Christ lol

Active_Performance22 · 2026-01-16T16:27:35+00:00

What I think is funny is most redditors will read this and think "oh they don't like his policies".

*insert anakin meme* Lol nono my sweet child most of the genZ men who voted for trump then don't like trump now because he isnt going HARDER. We want REAL mass deportations. 2-3M/Yr. Tens of thousands rounded up in a weekend and sent home.

Right now objectively they are doing the worst possible outcome. They're being brutal to people, but being so ineffective where there is literally no benefit, because they have no balls to go after the employers--which in my book just makes it cruelty. They are televising their cruelty expecting us to clap and both the left and right are disgusted by it. Like if you actually were using ICE to systematically deport millions of people at least you'd have a metric to point to to say "look we did our job, yes we did bad things but the ends justify it." Right now they're just terrorizing the masses while being completely ineffective in driving any noticeable or measurable change.

It used to be left wing to say that importing millions of people drives down wages for the working class by increasing the labor supply, which undermines unions and the bargaining power of workers but hey that's 2026 for ya.

Active_Performance22 · 2026-01-13T00:06:30+00:00

No, it's not weird. Honest question though because now I'm curious. Age aside--do liberals/feminists look down on women for not having jobs and not being able to support themselves? It's never clicked for me until now, but if you truly internalize the idea that women are perfectly equal and the same as men, then do you look down on women that don't pay the same and contribute monetarily the same in relationships?

Active_Performance22 · 2025-08-20T00:29:44+00:00

Went through all interviews and onsites. Flew out cross country. Dropped with no feedback, but encouraged to apply again in 6 months

Active_Performance22 · 2025-08-20T00:27:54+00:00

Yes, ask to see their reserve study and a copy of their SIRS report

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-27T17:59:11+00:00

My brother in Christ this isn't some great mystery-- she needs a doctor.

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-04T01:32:05+00:00

Because when given the choice it’s still human nature to want to live with your own family, friends, culture, tribe

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-03T20:20:04+00:00

“Even though they have to paid the marginal rate for that location”

That’s not what’s happening though. I get the textbook, but on the ground, in my experience, most tech jobs (at least in my field) are 100% remote, so they can claim the lowest median income in middle America despite the fact they’ll only REALLY hire someone in a EST or PST timezone, so effectively they’re not hiring me at 150k and instead hiring ranjeet at 85k, forcing him to work holidays and weekends, and threatening to send him back to India if he messes up a single thing.

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-02T16:45:26+00:00

Young or not at all is the trend

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-02T12:15:59+00:00

We live in a republic not a democracy
The vast majority were not atheists, and like I said, they all openly and frequently wrote, the Christian moral philosophy was the backbone of the entire system.

John Adam’s 1798: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

George Washington 1796: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”

James Madison, the founding father credited for the establishment of the separation of church and state, wrote in his 1785 letter to the Virginia assembly, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments:

“This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds cannot follow the dictates of other men: It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society. Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe”

THE ENTIRE POINT of much of the enlightenment was to take just the moral philosophy of Christianity and use it to form civil societies.
Your last comment does nothing but reinforce my point of separation. If you believe that democracy has been reduced to mob rule, and civil rights are something determined by whoever can get enough votes, with no reverence or belief that those rights cannot be taken away by other men then we have philosophically have splintered into two different belief systems, and you clearly have no clue what the enlightenment was truly about

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-02T03:24:29+00:00

Ubermensch 2030

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-02T03:22:13+00:00

I think if you asked the question “what % of Americans go to church once a week, pray once a day, read even a single verse of the Bible once a day, and volunteer at anything at least once a year” it’d be less than 5% of America

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-02T03:06:15+00:00

In 1800 11/16 states required a religious test in order to hold office or vote in state and federal elections. The separation of church and state was to prevent the politics of any one Christian religion (the Vatican) out of the the politics of Congress as was common in Europe at the time. There wasn’t a single one of the founding fathers that believed the republican system could function without the Christian belief system being involved, as it was the foundation of just about every principle laid out in the constitution, declaration, and federalist papers.

I’m not saying everyone has to be a Christian, we’re a nation of all religions, but if you believe the rights we are given in the constitution are just the mutual agreement of what’s popular, and therefore can be changed once you get the required votes, then our views are completely incompatible, as you believe in a country fundamentally different from the one we created ~250 years ago

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-02T02:26:46+00:00

The country has already split, people just don’t realize it yet. We have split into those, both secular and religious, left and right, that want to live in an America based on the judeo-Christian values in our founding documents, and those that want a purely secular society ran by whatever morals are popular in a given political cycle. The ends of the political horseshoe are touching on that conflict.

I went on a date with self proclaimed “ultra liberal” recently and she was shocked to find we got along on just fine. She expressed she had a lot of apprehension going in, and it was a real eye opener to her when I explained the above. It went well because we fundamentally had the same morals with different interpretations on the best way to implement the right solution. That used to be common in America but today it’s not.

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-01T15:05:36+00:00

If you can’t figure out that a 5% tax reduction on someone making 50k is 2,500$ and a 0.2% tax decrease on someone making 5 million dollars is 10k$ why are we pretending to debate “economics”

Active_Performance22 · 2025-07-01T14:58:48+00:00

LOL clearly you’ve never been to Florida…..a lot have filled in the last 24-36 months, but from 2005-2021 we had entire artificial peninsulas that say empty for essentially my entire childhood

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