On: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

[iwontberude]

So many nerds here in Silicon Valley love to fly small aircraft, it’s an autistic comorbidity. You’ll never catch me acting so foolish.

[GlacierFox → iwontberude]

"autistic comorbidity"

Wtf haha. Everything's autism nowadays isn't it.

Perhaps it's just an alignment of having the money to buy a small plane and being interested in planes.

[infecto → iwontberude]

I would argue it has a much closer intersection with wealth.

[schmookeeg → iwontberude]

Your username is painfully not checking out here. :P

[marshray → iwontberude]

When/where I grew up (the United States), private planes were thought of as auto-un-aliving machines for Doctors and Dentists.

Boomers and older generations tended to think of them as part of rural life. E.g. farmers would sometimes put an airstrip on a spare field. There's an episode of Mayberry (The Andy Griffith Show) in which Aunt Bea gets her pilots license.