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>genuinely smart people completely mess up personal areas of their life by refusing to think

This really reminds me of some guy I used to work with. He would spew random madness like people don't really need to eat because alive is an arbitrary state. I really have no idea how he functioned outside of his CS job.

He was also annoying at work because I would say things like the customer needs this then he would retort with some more madness like "well if you think about it blah blah the customer doesn't really matter." An I would just have to be like "ok thats great just get your feature assignments done on time". through gritted teeth. He did always get his work done.



The pedant is like a man living zeno's paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise.

You'll never get anywhere pedantically deconstructing things with no bounds.


Yeah I always said he is either going to be dead in a dariwin award level situation or destroy the world.

He currently works at Northrop Grumman so not looking good for us.




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