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thecel
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I spiked my cortisol by competing in a hackathon that I ended up losing.
A trans girl won 2nd place by herself—all the other prize-winners were teams—and she placed 2nd with a project that’s nowhere near as impressive nor ambitious as the other prize-winning projects.
The rest of the winners developed products/apps/platforms/systems/tools/etc. that solve real-world problems, make social impacts, and make use of bleeding-edge technologies and AI. And most of them are somewhat unique/original. They deserved to win.
What did the trans girl do? She plotted the Mandelbrot set in Rust.
She sticks out like a sore thumb in the pool of winning teams—compared to the others, her project is total ass.
The world will bend over backwards to make sure you succeed if you’re a racial minority (except Asians) and/or LGBTQIA+. The more minority labels apply to you (and the more that these things about you are visible to others (the winner girl is visibly and audibly trans)), the bigger a boost you get in life.
STEM (CS especially) in 2023:
Clown world, truly is.
@femcelthot @Octillionaire
A trans girl won 2nd place by herself—all the other prize-winners were teams—and she placed 2nd with a project that’s nowhere near as impressive nor ambitious as the other prize-winning projects.
The rest of the winners developed products/apps/platforms/systems/tools/etc. that solve real-world problems, make social impacts, and make use of bleeding-edge technologies and AI. And most of them are somewhat unique/original. They deserved to win.
What did the trans girl do? She plotted the Mandelbrot set in Rust.
She sticks out like a sore thumb in the pool of winning teams—compared to the others, her project is total ass.
The world will bend over backwards to make sure you succeed if you’re a racial minority (except Asians) and/or LGBTQIA+. The more minority labels apply to you (and the more that these things about you are visible to others (the winner girl is visibly and audibly trans)), the bigger a boost you get in life.
STEM (CS especially) in 2023:
- Transgenders and nonbinary : giant advantage. Scholarships and job offers galore.
- Women: significant boost. Getting hired is much easier than for men.
- Men: hard mode. Difficult to make it in STEM/tech.
- Asian Men in CS: extremely disadvantaged due to the utter oversaturation of this demographic in the industry.
Clown world, truly is.
@femcelthot @Octillionaire
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