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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by devmunchies on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:08PM (#24309965)
> The industrial revolution and all of its consequences may not have been exclusively a disaster for the human race

for those unaware, this is based from the first line from Ted Kaczynski's "Unabomber Manifesto", which starts with "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race".

It's actually an interesting read, that is... as long as you don't feel hostility towards rebelious literature: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...

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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by ShamelessC on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:04AM (#24315799)
Oh, wow. Starts off fairly innocent then comes in with this craziness -

"Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.)"

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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by krapp on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:22AM (#24315883)
That pathological contempt for "the left" is how you know you're dealing with a work of true intellectual gravity.
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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by devmunchies on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:00PM (#24319407)
There's lots of geniuses who are a little crazy or unhinged. e.g. bobby fischer
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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by pvg on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:54AM (#24321458)
He was a raging anti-semite, holocaust denier, etc.
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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by devmunchies on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:05PM (#24324137)
again, "geniuses who are a little crazy or unhinged".
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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by pvg on Sunday August 30, 2020 @03:45PM (#24325382)
Bigotry is just bigotry not a quirky trait of genius, as much as a one-time chess champion is a 'genius'.
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Re:Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern by devmunchies on Saturday August 29, 2020 @03:41PM (#24318864)
yeah, read around that stuff. most important are the bits related to tech.
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