Re:Kenyan recycles plastic waste into bricks stronger than c...
by hombre_fatal on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:41AM
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> What is it about this one that brings out HN's inner environmentalist?
This is the oldest internet comment phenomena in the world, so why do you only notice it here and not every other time?
People always have the nature to attack and knock down, and stories of an individual building something on their own is a far more accessible punching bag than anything else you mentioned. We get to roleplay as critics, scientists, environmentalists, bureaucrats, and we love it.
pg's "middlebrow dismissal" was coined from watching HNers attack the guy building something in his garage.
This is the oldest internet comment phenomena in the world, so why do you only notice it here and not every other time?
People always have the nature to attack and knock down, and stories of an individual building something on their own is a far more accessible punching bag than anything else you mentioned. We get to roleplay as critics, scientists, environmentalists, bureaucrats, and we love it.
pg's "middlebrow dismissal" was coined from watching HNers attack the guy building something in his garage.