Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Gradine]

Too few liberal arts classes in STEM majors (and a lot of these folks dropped out of college anyway).

Yeah these guys aren't STEM people either; they cosplay as "tech bros" but all they really bring to the table is the money and the most obnoxious and out-of-touch public personas you could possibly imagine

 

[Gradine]

I made sure to take a SF Lit class and a film class, in college. I blame them for my failure to become a CEO.

Oh it's not their fault, it's your parents' fault.

Next time tell them to provide you with enough generational wealth to buy your way into a CEO position

 

[prabe]

Yeah these guys aren't STEM people either; they cosplay as "tech bros" but all they really bring to the table is the money and the most obnoxious and out-of-touch public personas you could possibly imagine

It seems plausible that business people are even less interested in literature and other humanities than STEM people are.

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Can someone explain to me the extremely Silicon Valley venture billionaire habit of naming their companies and/or their products after the most evil things from Tolkien they could think of?

Wait, there’s more than one? Is it evil names for evil things? Or banal stuff? “Having trouble keeping an eye on that pesky ex-wife? Try Nazgûl surveillance drones!” Or is it more like “Hit those baseballs even further with Grond, the latest in sporting technology from Melkor co.”?

 

[Saracenus]

I made sure to take a SF Lit class and a film class, in college. I blame them for my failure to become a CEO.

I blame my empathy for my failure to become a CEO.

 

[trappedslider]

I blame tolkien for using cool sounding names...

wait is that even allowed? hides

 

[Pale Violet Light]

My biggest pet peeve with the popularization of the term “STEM” is that lazy humanities graduates now don’t even know the correct stereotypes.

Scientists: kooky and weird, often covered in burns or weird slime, depending on speciality.
Technologists: Either computer nerds or three MBAs in a trenchcoat, nothing in between.
Engineers: beer-swilling knowitalls, the jocks of the STEM world.
Mathematicians: so autistic they make the rest of us look neurotypical. Easily identified by the bubble of equations surrounding them, possibly used as a means of heat dissipation from their overheated craniums.

 

[Reynard]

Wait, there’s more than one? Is it evil names for evil things? Or banal stuff? “Having trouble keeping an eye on that pesky ex-wife? Try Nazgûl surveillance drones!” Or is it more like “Hit those baseballs even further with Grond, the latest in sporting technology from Melkor co.”?

How are Grond and Melkor banal?

 

[Pale Violet Light]

How are Grond and Melkor banal?

The application, not the name. If you’re after the reverse, perhaps Sackville-Baggins could be a good name for an arms manufacturer. “Second breakfast” private prisons (the second breakfast is in lieu of lunch and dinner)?

 

[Thomas Shey]

I thought I'd just mention to those that responded with sympathetic emoji's to my post that I've been having a-fibs every year or two for 20 years now. Since its not apparently associated with any other heart issues (I'm apparently a bit of a medical zebra in this regard), its always vaguely worrisome (because, well...) and annoying, but neither painful nor, honestly, even that especially risky in my case. Its just stressful.

But I appreciated all the reactions.