going to networking events as a leftist is extremely disorienting because half the time you have normal nerd convos & the other half of the time you slowly realize you’re talking to some guy who is trying to build Skynet for landlords.
To be clear, I’ve never had anybody try to both, and I’ve never heard of anybody else having that happen either. On the whole I think people from a given industry don’t cruise outside their level (worker/boss) within their sector.
Yeaaaah… I loath almost every (work related) conversation at my new job bc each time I find out about more really sleezy stuff being done to rip people off and deny medical care…
I don't go to networking events partly because I'm an introvert and partly for exactly this reason. I've got my hands full trying to discourage my bosses from taking up AI tools as it is.
This is me being a leftist in the intelligence and political spheres. I just wanna do counter intelligence on klan members and chan losers who shoot up grocery stores because a meme told them to hate people. Not build a bomb for Raytheon.
School version of this is someone saying "I heard your students are radical and kind of intimidating" and I'm trying not to tell them they're referring to furries who communally voice act the Sexy Colonel Sanders game for fun
