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Re:From Prison to Programming by ejb999 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:28AM (#32702771)
>>Did this even happen? I cannot find any articles in which miners were told to learn to code.

Then I guess you really didn't look to hard:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/47...

snip:

"During a rally yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to a crowd in Derry, N.H., a town that many miners call home. He acknowledged the economic setbacks and job insecurity that coal miners face these days, and gave them some advice: learn to code."

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Re:From Prison to Programming by lostboomerang on Saturday September 03, 2022 @12:21PM (#32703368)
Just to add a small sample of mainstream media (Wired, NYT, NPR) running similar articles:

https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/10900807581260759...

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Re:From Prison to Programming by paulpauper on Saturday September 03, 2022 @01:09PM (#32703856)
But that came later .I am referring 2017 when this became a meme. Also Biden is not a journalist.
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Re:From Prison to Programming by kodah on Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:54AM (#32703074)
Didn't even know Joe Biden did it, but Hillary Clinton did it too and it's what spawned the "#learn2code" hashtag on Twitter. It just got nastier from there.
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