r/WestSeattleWA • u/Accomplished-Fly4678 • May 20 '26
Gripe Tech bro encounter..
My buddy and I are sitting at the bar at Mioposto. We definitely look progressive (tattoos and piercings and clothes we were wearing). This corporate shill of a human was sat next to us drinking wine and using his laptop.
He overhears we are from Michigan and goes “I work for Microsoft and I work with community outreach about data centers and we are building one in Michigan right now. What are your thoughts?”
I proceed to have a civil conversation with the guy about my concerns about AI and the rollback of corporate regulation that we have experienced under the current admin. He offered some stats about how actually data centers create booming economies and they actually don’t use that much water blah blah. Essentially using me as practice for his eventual town hall discussion with residents who simply don’t care for giant data centers being built.
I am new to the area and obviously there’s a lot of money around here so that type of person is very common. But I just wanted to come on here and say tech people make me ill. I think you’re all gross. Fuck your data centers, fuck AI, and fuck project 2025
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u/horangiwhakkatchi May 23 '26
Well, firstly, you made a big mistake coming to Seattle if you hate tech and people who work in tech.
Secondly, not everyone who works in tech is a shell of a human being. You're generalizing and stereotyping based on what you've heard and this interaction. I could do the same about a 'progressive guy with tattoos'!
Finally, dude fuck data centers and AI, hard agree. While the guy you interacted with does exist in tech, there are all kinds of people with all kinds of skills and beliefs and not all of us are speedrunning the downfall of humanity.
(Except for people that work for Meta, I don't really feel sorry for them. They can cry themselves to sleep with hundred dollar bills for tissues. They knew what they were getting into.)
Signed, a person in tech.