[happymellon]

It really does.

How should the world change so that your "thoughts and prayers" make meaningful impact? They are meaningless things that religious people tell themselves make an impact, when it's the people handing out food that stops starvation not "thoughts and prayers".

Why the hell should I hire you when you want to learn Python but haven't done anything, when I can find people who can show they understand the fundamentals by making a hobby project or went to night school?

Why should the pretty girls talk to you just because you were safer than a bear in the woods?

It's exactly the same conversation that keeps coming up. They didn't destroy 3rd spaces so you don't have any friends. You don't go to those 3rd spaces that exist, or your being too lazy to create the 3rd space.

[quectophoton]

> Why the hell should I hire you when you want to learn Python but haven't done anything, when I can find people who can show they understand the fundamentals by making a hobby project or went to night school?

Or, paraphrasing a quote whose source I don't remember: "What's important is not what you can do; it's what you can prove."

So even if you're actually a Python expert, it doesn't matter unless you have something to show for it; cue job interviewers ghosting candidates who don't have projects that are public and open source.

[piloto_ciego]

Did you stop reading after the first sentence then dive into a diatribe?

Considering people as only being valuable if they can do something for tou is something you don’t have to do.

You aren’t going to change all of society, but you can change what you do.