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One monopoly continues to single-handedly shit on personal computing for the whole species.
More like Reddit-talking know-it-alls have no more credibility because it turns out 80% of the "conspiracy theories" from the past few decades have turned out to be true and then some." Deal with it, pretty much, glowies.
Re:TikTok’s Ugly ‘NPC in Real Life’ Trend on Saturday September 24, 2022 @01:55PM (#32965047)
PSA it's not actually cool to seek out safety in numbers. If all of your opinions heavily factor in "what is it safe to think in public," then you are an NPC. You are less cool than people who aren't born to follow.
>And... before you say, perhaps your salary ranges were bad, they weren't.

Oh ok.

No, and now he gets paid by CNN to spread more lies.
Re:How did I get so unhappy working in tech? on Monday April 11, 2022 @02:37AM (#30985405)
Yeah and it doesn't. In practice, it just enables managers to become even more useless by blaming devs for their poor project management.
Should have called it "mandatory" then.
Yeah great time for you to air your grievances about the bill of rights. Thanks.
Re:Are daily standups hurting your team? on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:40PM (#29097046)
I basically stopped working in software because of managers thinking their processes (i.e. their nagging) are more important than code.

Most of the benefits we supposedly get out of agile could be accomplished by a non-dumbass technical lead looking at git histories for 10 minutes a day. I suspect this is how real world software teams get things done behind their so called managers' backs.

Re:Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:11AM (#29038610)
This is not what begs the question means.
I'm also a big fan of the weather widget they tried to force on everyone's start bar. I'm also a big fan of how "one drive" is now critical functionality, and windows needs to persistently notify me if I'm not logged into it. I'm also a big fan of how it's 2021, and their bloated OS still takes like ten minutes to truly boot up all the way.
How about this: There is no doubt in my mind -- none -- that you know exactly what I'm talking about.

And all anyone really needs to know, in order to suspect dishonesty and censorship from you, is an awareness of your shadowbanning tactics.

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It's ok though. There are other culturally influential websites where people/groups can market their ideas, cults, viewpoints, albums, etc. And some of them don't shadowban. Some of them do something a little different instead.

It all works out. Have a nice day!

Don't insult my intelligence. Discourse here is confined to the limits of acceptability according to the neoliberal mainstream. This is abundantly obvious to literally everybody. Of course the liberal mainstream endeavors to enforce that.

I won't be treated like a moron by a moron.

>There's a mod who curates comments based on what's politically expedient according to leftist valley dweebs
I think it's funny that your edit is necessary.
Re:Wikipedia has Cancer (Wikipedia costs growth over time) on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:37PM (#26499210)
I still don’t comprehend wtf they’re spending all that money on. It’s a crowd-sourced text website. I stopped donating because they do literally nothing at all to curtail activist editors.
Re:YouTube Shadow Banned Us WTF Happened? on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @09:03AM (#26315393)
Why? They’re a completely entrenched monopoly whom the government lets pretend to be some kind of intelligence agency.
Re:A vast web of vengeance on Saturday January 30, 2021 @08:48PM (#25974968)
Archive link for those of us who don't understand why we have to make an account to read a news article that's being aggregated:

https://archive.is/oQIOd

(I would tend to conclude that they don't want it aggregated to begin with.)

Re:Firefly Reboot Coming to Disney+ on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:55PM (#25433596)
"Let's just ruin everything pertaining to space by turning into hipster camp." -- Disney

They can't even leave the one alone that was already hipster camp.

Because anyone interested enough in this topic to do any cursory research -- as opposed to just being an insufferable fedora on the internet -- will realize it's not limited to just one company.
>Everyone just be whores! Break the fetters of traditionalism and become sexually liberated!

>No not like that!

-- Neoliberalism

Consensus should be determined by science, not the other way around. Otherwise, what is the point of science?

edit: "Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills." t. redditadmin.txt