Yep, being anti-intellectual is the basic requirement. Only then it is possible to be anti-vaxx - because these people cannot grasp the concept of how vaccines work…
a) in the human body: So many people wrongly believe that vaccines are supposed to make you 100% immune from infection, and when the Covid vaccines failed to achieve this impossibility, they considered them worthless. They didn’t understand how lowering virus count and drastically improving your odds of survival were still huge wins for the Covid vaccine.
b) in society: People don’t seem to intuitively grasp the dynamics of how a certain degree of vaccination can stop a disease, and that it all comes down to statistics. If you don’t understand science, you don’t even get that there’s a threshold percentage required for herd immunity. So those anti-vaxx idiots don’t understand how vaccines protect other people by helping to achieve this threshold. They literally hurt everyone around them.
So yeah. Anti-intellectualism is the fundamental building block for all of this, and that’s why the Trump regime attacks education and universities. The less educated people are, the easier they fall for their bullshit.
Samesies.
I used to be a programming monkey. It was absolutely fine, I enjoyed it and other people got the flak if things weren’t done on time or there were other problems. My code was never the problem - each day, I spent at least four hours working for the company and up to four hours on my own projects, on the company dime.
Seems like I got too… confident in meetings. Made suggestions. People took too much notice.
Now I’m some kind of lead architect which pays really well, but there’s no more time for myself, there’s much more pressure, I can’t code nearly as much as I want to and the fun is gone.