by smeeagain2 | 2026-01-12 19:02:02+00:00
> I'm confused

Clearly. Let me help you, if that is actually possible.

> someone who freely admits they have been broke & unemployed for 15 years feels they are qualified to provide "advice", make critical judgement calls about others, [...]

It's called a "discussion forum." People share their viewpoints freely. (I note that you and your crowd didn't hesitate to jump in with your two cents.) There are no "qualifications" required here; completely unlike the job market for example, there's no special piece of paper from a prestigious institution required before joining up to any given forum and posting one's opinions on the subject at hand.

Welcome to the Internet. You must be new around here.

When a comment is based on decades of experience--especially when that comment is contrary to whatever nonsense the masses of commoners believe, shared freely by a wise man who keeps himself carefully secluded from the riffraff--it's usually worth listening to.

The point is: despite being "broke and unemployed" (which your type falsely believes is some kind of terrible, horrible, no good state to be in), AT LEAST I'M NOT A SLAVE LIKE YOU, son. That would be far worse.

Far from being "miserable" as one person claimed, I'm doing pretty well despite the circumstances. I'm well fed, living in a nice house with significant acreage in a quiet and peaceful area of the country, where pollution and crime are low. No muggings going on here or people shitting on the sidewalk. I get a full night's sleep every night. I'm always healthy and never sick. I don't spend hours commuting or wasting my life away behind a shitty desk in a shitty office somewhere. I do pretty much what I want, when I want. All this is of course completely unlike you, a powerless slave to some employer's dictates, probably living in a shithole city somewhere. Sounds more like the miserable one is you.

Anyone who has escaped from the rat race knows exactly who and what you are. You're the proverbial rat. You're always chasing that carrot at the end of a stick, which is perpetually just out of reach; always running on that hamster wheel but never getting anywhere. By design. And now the IT sector is wrecked and you're probably unemployed, or fearing to God that you will be soon, and your nails are bitten down to the quick as you panic about what to do now. What a sad and wasted life it is, always living in fear, and lashing out at others who try to point out the reality of your situation.

I am a free man. You hate me simply because I remind you every single day by my very existence that your "way of life" SUCKS ASS. That's the bottom line. I don't even have to open my mouth to speak; you don't hate me, you hate the very concept of me.

You cretins try everything in your power to drag me down and shut me up whenever you can. You downvote my posts and flag them, and you hurl petty insults at me--because THAT IS THE ONLY POWER YOU HAVE IN THE WORLD. It allows you to temporarily feel better about your pathetic lot in life, in which you are really completely powerless and at the mercy of your owners.

I meet your type in real life too sometimes, but oddly enough, you never have anything to say to me there. Presumably you just quietly fume in the corner, useless without that downvote or flag button to lean on. I never have to deal with any of the losers IRL that I frequently encounter online and especially on Reddit/HN (but I repeat myself.)

You do not in fact have any kind of power to shut me up, even with all your pathetic downvotes and flags. My comments still remain in the HN database where they will exist forever, despite your sincere wishes, to be judged by others until eternity. If HN servers fail, that's OK. I have my own offline backup copy of all of this that I will be sure to disseminate far and wide. Whose comments do you think will still be appreciated and respected in a hundred years, and who will vanish into obscurity with the other clueless slaves around him? In the end, I get the last word.

I'm starting a business and I know it will be a success. (Sorry, not sorry if this bold statement seems like "arrogance" to you, the insecure little man with zero self-esteem.) Don't you have another couple hundred employment applications to fill out right now, and a bunch of leetcode to practice? The clock is ticking, son, better get on it.

Go lick your new master's shoes and pray he will hire you to be his servant. Your big expensive mortgage and needy wife with fancy tastes are a strong incentive to take whatever crumbs you're offered--and he knows it, which is the #1 reason why (putting all your egotistical bullshit aside) he would much rather deal with you than me. Free spirits need not apply.

Meanwhile I'm on Season 9 of Shark Tank and loving it. (That feeling when you're binge watching a great show and still have many, many more seasons left.) I also spend a lot of time on Anna's Archive just downloading interesting books and reading them. I can even afford to hang with the hoi polloi on HN now and again, though it is truly a waste of time trying to drag people like you kicking and screaming to freedom, which you wholeheartedly reject and fear.

Finally, since I am "posting too fast" for HN's Cyrix 486 server to keep up with (as a result of all the "bad karma" I've just earned from telling you slaves the truth about yourself), here's my response to your other equally idiotic comment, in a two-for-one package just for you at no extra charge:

> programming since you were 8 and created a HN account 16 days ago... seems legit

I'd say "look me up on Slashdot" but you're probably too young to have ever heard of that site.

Thank you, drive through.