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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by cmcaleer on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @12:19PM (#40917881)
This is such an incredibly bizarre victimhood mindset that I feel like I must be misunderstanding it. Degrading a utility for everyone else is fine because of some perceived wrong by society done to your in group?

If you piss in the punch bowl at a party attended by your in group and perceived out group, you’re going to be justifiably hated by both.

And probably not get invited to more parties.

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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by s1artibartfast on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @12:39PM (#40918091)
It is a strange form of entitlement, not unlike incels.

Somehow people get in their mind that they are owed X, then spiral into bitterness and jealousy when they dont get it, and then lash out arbitrarily.

The part that I dont get is where the sense of entitlement comes from? Imagine such a deep sense of entitlement to free wifi on a boat that you feel the need to take revenge on innocents.

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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by dinkumthinkum on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:08PM (#40923123)
A more charitable view is that there are some people that grew up with BBS and then the Internet and it was just a very different place with a culture for which nerds could sort of call home and now it is decidedly not that thing and it can be kind of sad for some people.
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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by s1artibartfast on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:15PM (#40923153)
Sad is pretty different than angry and bitter, but I think I get what you are laying down.
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