It's been almost a year since I quit Reddit outside of basically one isolated subreddit because I couldn't take the horrible community anymore. Well today I accidentally clicked on the logo bringing me to the home page, and this was literally the first post
Yes, that's blackface. Next time you see acronyms like SJW (Social Justice Warrior) as some sort of pejorative, keep in mind this is where it's coming from. Racist, misogynistic, homophobic, bigots with cognitive dissonance so enveloping that they should be used as a case-study for anti-matter. It's the same kind of community that permeates tech culture and the Internet at large as is an embarrassment to even be apart of the field. Here, let me Google "slashdot women" and click I'm Feeling Lucky and take a look at the comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/10/26/2137245/solving-the-mystery-of-declining-female-cs-enrollment
Oh cool, it's people complaining that investigating why women are an abysmal percentage of CS grads, and even fewer in software engineering is an affront on men, and is basically a collection of men telling each other how women think. As opposed to, you know, science, empirical studies, statistics and anything other than arbitrary defensive opinions of people so terrible at their jobs that they're threatened by the prospect of anyone else getting hired ever.
It's a sad point whenever someone passes the Poe line of not being possible to parody because the absurdist position is already too typical to distinguish from parody.
Yes, that's blackface. Next time you see acronyms like SJW (Social Justice Warrior) as some sort of pejorative, keep in mind this is where it's coming from. Racist, misogynistic, homophobic, bigots with cognitive dissonance so enveloping that they should be used as a case-study for anti-matter. It's the same kind of community that permeates tech culture and the Internet at large as is an embarrassment to even be apart of the field. Here, let me Google "slashdot women" and click I'm Feeling Lucky and take a look at the comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/10/26/2137245/solving-the-mystery-of-declining-female-cs-enrollment
Oh cool, it's people complaining that investigating why women are an abysmal percentage of CS grads, and even fewer in software engineering is an affront on men, and is basically a collection of men telling each other how women think. As opposed to, you know, science, empirical studies, statistics and anything other than arbitrary defensive opinions of people so terrible at their jobs that they're threatened by the prospect of anyone else getting hired ever.
It's a sad point whenever someone passes the Poe line of not being possible to parody because the absurdist position is already too typical to distinguish from parody.
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*crickets*
I'm just trying to save your sanity.
Those jobs were also created by technology (this is pedantry for pedantry's sake).
While I agree that the internet brings out the worst in people, I don't agree with the idea that the internet itself isn't part of the problem in this. Say Johnny veers towards the deeper end of racism. If he didn't have access to the internet, the people in his viccinity would probably keep him more or less in lign (unless, of course, his whole family shared his views). With the internet, he can easily find groups of like minded people, allowing his racism to fester and become more extreme.
I think a lot of this discussion about the internet boils down to a fundamental view on society. Do you believe in democracy, or oligarchy? Personally, I'm more inclined towards the latter. People as a group, and some as individuals, are violent idiots. The internet has great potential, but that doesn't stop it from being used mainly for porn and hate.
I'm saying it's much more complicated than merely "some jobs get replaced." By that notion, culture kills jobs because some trends go out of style. If we were to get inductive about it,
1. Technology increases over time
2. Killing jobs increases unemployment
3. Ergo, unemployment must increase over time
But unemployment doesn't not overall trend higher over time. It fluctuates but otherwise remains roughly stagnant. Any effect of technology is negligible to the overall trend.
Yeah the internet is a shithole. But on the other hand, it led me to know you guys. รง
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So yeah, pretty much a shithole.