sorry i usually don't like to do these type of posts but I'm just utterly disgusted by how the cs community is actively defending this or trying to somehow justify it 2 of my close childhood friends were sadly victims of cs gambling starting at a young age. one of them took his own life after being faced with dept related legalities. I get that for most (especially small ccs) a gamba sponsor is life changing money but if you defend this kind of stuff or promote it while knowing well a huge part of the audience is very young and susceptible to it, you are just straight up a disgusting person idgaf if the "starving" mapper/content creator needs money, there are always other ways that don't end up costing young peoples livelihoods or even lives I'm sorry but the argument "its user content so its fine" does not mean shit either valve has put clear rules that state any kind of adverts in user created content are not allowed. each workshop submission has to be manually checked by staff yet they actively "let it slide" the workshop is infested with submissions like these to a point where people will bot them so they stay up in the trending tab... but oh just simply look away or find one that does not do that... but in reality any 16yo will just open the workshop or simply google "top cs maps" and be directly exposed to this scummy unregulated and predatory shit valve is a very strange company that does one thing good but will miserably fail at the other. they really need to do better and so does the community

Train shows the winnings of a pragmatic partner

ageism in tech hiring is so dumb. idc if you're a 40 y/o IC as long as you can ship

male-only reproduction just happened. scientists in china created living mice from two fathers. no mother involved 1/

Calendly is a sales company. The CEO is a salesperson, and 90% of their team are salespeople. They've been around for 12 years and haven't built any of the thousands of features that people ask for. @calcom is the opposite: a product company. We're 90% engineers. We've built every little thing everyone wishes Calendly had. That’s it… that’s the tweet.

GERMANY: EU regulators think it is too dangerous to simply break a bottle across the bow of a new ship, instead they insist on the use of this contraption. This is why the EU is failing. This is Economy Minister Habeck flailing.

The martyrdom playbook is manic. An engine of depression, anxiety, metabolic dysfunction, and disease. It breeds impaired judgment, immune system collapse, and emotional chaos. People crave status, respect, and visibility so deeply that they will contort themselves into whatever shape culture demands. Even if it takes them to the edge of insanity, wrecks their bodies, and drives them to the brink of collapse. People feel trapped and tortured in the current social obligation to maintain 100+ hr/wk and be terminally online, all while pretending as if all is well. Everyone else seems to be ok? No, they're not. This mania is no different from a 19th-century surgeon boasting about high patient volume. Piling bodies onto an assembly line while dismissing hygiene and sterilization as a waste of time. The discovery of germ theory, leading to simple interventions like handwashing and sterilization, nearly doubled life expectancy and supercharged human productivity. It turns out that hand washing isn't a waste of time but on par with history's greats. The irony here is the martyrdom archetype is meticulously designing ultra efficient technology, paying down technical debt, eliminating bugs and upgrading constantly, yet ignore their own biological systems of intelligence. They snub sleep, exercise, and nutrition which downgrades their intelligence, judgment, emotional stability, and the body's basic processes to fight sickness, and repair and build itself. We perfect technology as we destroy ourselves. The martyrdom archetype is not just in the world of technology but has infected every corner of culture. The weird thing, who even wants this? When I talk to others and they let their guard down to be honest, they want it to stop. It's unsustainable. They feel miserable. They rejoice in even minutes of reprieve. A few days without it and they see the complete insanity of it all. You can be ambitious AF and also prioritize health. These two things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, your greatest competitive advantage may be prioritizing your own biological and cognitive function because it allows for clear headedness and endurance. This era will soon be seen as primitive and absurd. A time when we foolishly and recklessly spent down the most precious gift of all: our conscious existence. We are building superintelligence. We'd be wise to build our own individual and collective intelligence with equal vigor. Honoring our existence with the solemnity it deserves.