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I always thought the confounding factor was that coffee keeps you productive. Meaning, drinking coffee gives you (superior) employment, which means you get decent health care. You also might gain some meaning in life from your job. You will also probably get some extra human interaction with coworkers as well.

Going to work and being a part of a large organization that works on cool products definitely “energizes” me. I have friends at work that I enjoy seeing daily. I would have a hard time keeping my job without caffeine. I could easily see all the ancillary life benefits of being caffeine addicted being the primary reason why coffee seems to be good for health in all these studies.

“Tech”, as in social media company, isn’t cool. It’s mostly CRUD at scale, and the core product is a social ill.

Fighter jets and super cars are cool, but they aren’t considered “tech” for some reason.

The former pays way more than the latter. But yeah, it’s not “cool” or even really respected outside of software engineering circles (who know the salary range). Doctors and lawyers command more cool factor and respect, even if they’re earning less than FAANG employees.

“Meaningful defense work” is not orthogonal to violating the 4th amendment. I don’t think I’ve heard Snowden argue that the NSA’s work is not meaningful. He mainly objected because it was unconstitutional.

Based and Ted-pilled

Grandparents? How about Obama (or most mainstream Dems) from ~2006

>against gay marriage

>against illegal immigration, supported erecting physical barriers

>pro wars in Middle East

You surely do not need to go back two generations to get shrieked out of a room. Just dip back ~10 - 15 years into mainstream Democrat positioning.

Not at all. Silicon Valley tech companies crushed all dissenting opinions online to a comical level. The only place you’re allowed to have a dissenting opinion is in real life