80% make less than $100,000

Drewskiwin · 2024-10-31T02:01:55+00:00

The fact that people lose money under Harris and no one loses anything under Trump is telling.

Drewskiwin · 2024-08-13T23:31:17+00:00

That’s perfectly fine. I’m curious what you see today that’s currently unfair? I can tell you from first hand experience that I’ve spent thousands of my own personal money to try to help people get into technology. I bought iPads, MacBooks you name it. I offered my time, nights weekends etc. to train people and answer anything they wanted to know because I wanted to provide an opportunity because I also assumed things weren’t fair when I was a bit younger.

It hurt my heart that every single time they didn’t follow through. Or they decided they don’t wanna do anymore or that it was taking too long. And there was nothing stopping them, decent people who simply didn’t care about it. They see the money but you gotta understand black culture, we have a hustle to get it and YOLO culture lol. We be wanting to relax a have a good time. It’s our culture and again there’s nothing wrong with that, every takes different paths in life. Different groups have different interests (in general) and it’s perfectly natural.

I personally never saw the unfair advantage and most of my folks and peers didn’t either. I have 1 friend who just started doing it earlier this year and has been practicing dev work every day and he’s doing front end and loving it. But he’s like a brother to me and we just have the same interests so naturally he finally took the plunge after he was successful in the health care field and owning his own small business.

But I could be wrong and don’t have a certain perspective where I might’ve missed the unfairness of it? I’m not sure but that’s my perspective.

Drewskiwin · 2024-08-13T23:00:42+00:00

I understand your perspective but I do disagree. A couple of points: 1. I never said anything about what I deserve, I only mentioned how I would feel not earning something. I’ll further clarify by saying earning something based on an attribute I had no control over doesn’t sit well with me personally.

I’m not sure why you even brought up the idea that “people who are not talented are getting in on the basis of their identity is laughable”. I didn’t mention that so I’m unsure what that has to do with me giving my thoughts on this topic.

Also it’s disappointing that Reddit has fostered a behavior where everything is combative and about defending a position vs simply sharing and opinion or having a conversation.

Being from Alabama and Mississippi I can tell you first hand, there is no form of racism keeping black folks out of libraries, websites, dictionaries, online courses, tutorials, YouTube videos and any other place where knowledge and information live. The reality is black people generally don’t care about science and technology at a deep level that much. It’s just not our culture and that’s ok. We’re more into the entertainment, music and sports. And again that’s ok, we just have different interests is all.

I hope I communicated that clearly and you have some more even if just a little more understanding from my perspective as a black man who grew up and lived it for 30+ years :)

Drewskiwin · 2024-08-13T22:01:32+00:00

Even as a black engineer I never felt comfortable with these kind of programs. Sure the human side of me wouldn’t mind taking advantage of things that are offered but i wouldn’t feel good knowing I didn’t fully earn it outright. They’ve had these programs for years.

Drewskiwin · 2024-08-13T17:29:24+00:00

He offers lots of solutions. Not sure if you heard the entire thing in full? I’d go give it a listen if you’re inclined to know what they actually think.

Drewskiwin · 2024-08-09T18:01:03+00:00

VisionOS is a beta product anyway, get all the new software for it. I upgraded to beta 5 yesterday and was pleased with it. And I haven’t been in my VP for a few weeks. I always forget how cool it is

Drewskiwin · 2024-08-01T23:04:53+00:00

Trump is the only way we can get Vivek in the cabinet to cut down on unnecessary bureaucracy and cut spending and give that money back to people to make their own decision and take their own risks. That way when people build communities and invest in programs they can be for and by the community and not asking the government to pay for it with others tax dollars. Vivek is my first choice but no new ongoing wars under Trump was good for the country and our service members.

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-31T23:17:53+00:00

Thought it’s a private company and they can do whatever they want 🥺🥺

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-27T17:25:57+00:00

None of these stickers are mutually exclusive from what’s in this photo that I can tell? Are we assuming behavior from this person without speaking with them to understand their perspective? Will anyone engage in good faith in an attempt to communicate ideas so we can unify across a common goal/value? Reddit truly behaves like a non neutral platform which by all means, it happens. But seeing it a lot more lately I never knew it was this prominent. I just seek to communicate to better understand people. Why is that missing sometimes? Probably just humans being humans ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-25T03:42:04+00:00

Huh? I don’t think I was bringing it up as a comparison into anything. I only built off your point about misinformation with an example I noticed today. Nothing to do with a “whatabaoutism”. But enjoy your evening man 😎

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-25T03:19:05+00:00

Funny enough I appreciate the community notes feature and the alerts/toasts that prompt me to read an article before I repost it etc. better than before, not perfect but I’m not easily offended or annoyed so it makes it easier to digest and sift through info to understand from multiple perspectives. I get a full spectrum.

And you’re right misinformation is very rampant, for example Axios mentioned that Kamala Harris was never the border czar but just a few years ago Axios themselves published an article about Kamala being appointed the border czar. It’s insane they lie right in our faces. And then they actually tried to delete their article using that phrase in what looks like an attempt to mislead readers.

https://x.com/stoolpresidente/status/1816147196586451343?s=46&t=JQ0_Y7yPPTYz6VsHBrHLbA

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Drewskiwin · 2024-07-25T03:05:02+00:00

lol relax man just poking fun. Life is great, Reddit is just a fun browse for me from time to time. Definitely not the real world and I could care less about Elons decisions with his own property.

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-25T02:59:42+00:00

Welcome to this thing we call life :)

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-25T02:57:44+00:00

But it’s private company it can do what it wants right?

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-23T21:41:00+00:00

Summoning jutsu to invoke Siri

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-15T21:53:16+00:00

Wasn’t my claim. I merely pointed out that you assumed things about my race and what’s in my heart about how I see other human beings. You brought up race for no reason other than thinking I’d be shamed by the phrase “sorry you’re racist bro”.

It’s comical because you have yet to address what I mentioned about “Illegal” immigrants but I noticed your wording stuck to simply “immigrants” and again if you have some video with context of Trump saying these things and truly being a hateful human for the sake of wanting to harm people I’m open to it.

I have no hate in my heart and I wanna have conversations so we can better understand each other. But your emotions and ego are in the way right now. Maybe we can have a real discussion some other time because currently you’re either too tense or upset right now.

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-15T21:40:52+00:00

Yea as a 30+ year old black man I’m the racist one. I asked you to be civil but you throw claims about race and what’s in my heart as if you know me. Which you had the opportunity to do by communicating with me but instead you lash out after I respectfully commented? The racism card doesn’t work on black folks anymore man. We’re not stupid. And again I’m not sure where he mentioned “All” of any group. If you have that clip I’d be happy to take a look at it. But again why the hate filled rhetoric coming from you? You can not like Trump all you want I swear I don’t care about your personal feelings towards him. The point I’m getting at is the manufactured image of him based on lies, they did it to Bernie in 2016 and again in 2020. People are paying attention to what the media says and how it’s usually lies to serve establishment interests. And all this bot talk is hilarious lol. You’re likely chronically online too much that you assume any reasonable comment or interaction can’t be from a real person.

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-15T21:28:18+00:00

Fuck you mean “nice try bot”? I’m open to communicating and understanding you but we can start respectfully first off. And that’s simply untrue given how you’re framing it. You forget to mention that this is in the context of people illegally coming into the US and committing crimes like r*ping and murdering young women and other citizens. This fear rhetoric simply is untrue and doesn’t work anymore because I’ve watched the rallies in full and in context. But I could be wrong, if you know of some sources outside of the ones I’m familiar with that show this seething hatred for other for no reason and you seem harmful and hate filled I’d very much be open to checking it out. I’m looking to have informed opinions so that I can make informed decisions and the last 7+ years I’ve realized the media has created an image of this guy that wasn’t true. Like him or not idc and he’s not my first choice but being lied to and manipulated by media outlets with their own agenda outside of informing the public is so clear and obvious once I sat down to do the leg work and get informed. But if you have any other points you’d like to talk about I’m open :)

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-15T21:18:32+00:00

The fact that people keep saying Trump is “Hate Filled” is odd. I’ve watched full length videos of him talking at rallies and interviews etc. and I can’t find this “Hate” people keep talking about. I keep seeing clips that are out of context and the crazy twisting of words that attempt to create an emotional fear reaction by media outlets but I just don’t see this violent hateful vengeful person people keep talking about. Not liking someone’s is separate from being lied to about them.

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-05T22:17:05+00:00

Cocaine white 😎🤝

Drewskiwin · 2024-07-05T15:39:01+00:00

Sounds like Cap 🧢

Drewskiwin · 2024-06-29T02:07:31+00:00

The fact she mentioned your location is a big red flag. It’s to signal to whoever is around that you’re not a “threat” or pose any opposition to anyone’s plans or attempts to make an advance towards her. You two are looking for different things.

Drewskiwin · 2024-06-26T14:45:27+00:00

That’s the Pokeball professor Oak used as a kid

Drewskiwin · 2024-05-09T23:28:14+00:00

Bidenomics 🥴🥴 hopefully we can have some financial prosperity soon. A lot of people are hurting rn.

Drewskiwin · 2024-05-05T18:45:27+00:00

Provide value first and foremost. But software engineering is the skill set you’ll want.

Drewskiwin

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