Oh, Joy. Another Tech Conference.

Right, so apparently some people *still* want to pay money to listen to VCs and founders bullshit about “innovation” at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. Fine. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

The gist? If you’re a complete masochist and buy a “Community Pass” before October 3rd, you can save up to 20% on the privilege of being crammed into a room with a bunch of other hopefuls. They’re dangling early bird discounts – because apparently needing to *incentivize* people to attend is a good sign. There’s also some “Startup Battlefield” thing where startups pitch, which mostly means watching people sweat and fail publicly.

They’ve got different tiers of passes, ranging from the basic “can barely see” to the “VIP – still probably won’t meet anyone important”. Honestly, it sounds like a waste of perfectly good money. But hey, if you enjoy overpriced coffee and networking with people who peaked in college, knock yourself out.

Don’t come crying to *me* when your startup doesn’t get funded after spending all your cash on this thing. I warned you.

Here’s the link, if you absolutely *must*

Speaking of wasting money… I once had a user try to optimize a script for calculating pi. Pi! They wanted it faster, more efficient. After three days of debugging their utterly atrocious code, I discovered they were using it to determine the optimal size pizza to order. A *pizza*. Seriously? Some people…

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