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Re:In Memoriam: Tim Peters 1952–2026 by corroclaro on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:43PM (#50459888)
I sometimes wonder if people-who-think-of-solving-problems-not-creating-them-defensively should secede from the rest of the Internet.

They can keep the tools & remix new ones with LLMs. The rest of us can hang out in some tiny corner talking civilly.

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Re:In Memoriam: Tim Peters 1952–2026 by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:37AM (#50463788)
Post-George Floyd up until Donald Trump was elected, which is when this happened, was peak of this performative bullshit. Like renaming master to main or changing the the name of blacklists and whitelists would end racism, when all this language policing did was make people quietly resentful and was one factor in the backlash that followed.
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Re:In Memoriam: Tim Peters 1952–2026 by vintermann on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:09AM (#50466597)
And when Donald Trump was elected, a lot of the engine of that performative BS switched sides without missing a beat, and we went from corporate pinkwashing to corporate stinkwashing.
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