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Cake day: January 9th, 2024

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  • Please stop doing web dev, it isn’t real.

    So, let me guess. Web dev isn’t “real” but Linux kernel dev is VERY real?

    I mean, I don’t take issue with what SEEMS like your base case: Capitalism is crap and money is a silly game we all play, but what I’m reading / understanding from your statement is that the millions of people sending E-mail, writing documents, and managing spreasheets using web based applications aren’t doing “real” work as well?

    Not arguing, just desperately struggling to understand where you’re coming from and what you’re trying to say in concrete terms.





  • I don’t love this question.

    I spent a huge chunk of my life putting so much focus into being “nice” that some friends sremovedd about me being “a doormat”.

    Also? The word “nice” has so many soft negative connotations in 2024.

    Subtext: if you’re “nice” you’re fundamentally un-interesting Subtext: if you’re “nice” you’re a push over and ripe to be taken advantage of.

    GOOD person? MORAL person? OK.

    Nice? Asking anyone to attribute this to themselves is a foot gun.



  • I won’t moralize because that never stopped anyone from doing anything, ever :)

    What I will say is, with the vastness of the internet available to me, I would not personally choose to sift through the reams of malice and hate to find the useful grains that no doubt exist, buried.

    Plenty of other permissive fora where even somewhat radical ideas can be expressed but without the embrace of genocide, Neo-Nazism and rape.