You’d be surprised
I wouldn't be :) have visited many of them, and worked in a fair couple too
what was shocking (on my first visit there) is how absolutely fucking antiquated US infra is across multiple dimensions. not shocking these days, I now understand so many of the reasons for it
that understanding also makes so much of what comes out of the US (and its weird obsessions with specific non-solutions) make a lot more sense
Self "Chalky" @ Awful dot Systems
shitty comment, I blame the poster
the upside of it listing a pile of author names: one can go look up their published works, and add them to crank trackers if necessary (seems likely)
the ToC is some fantastical fucking nonsense
only needs a quantum chapter somewhere in there for bonus scoring round..
this is one hell of a hat trick
Read on to find out!
do i have to
I guess the supposed appeal is in the implicit dehumanization and racism.
yeah, that's actually how I've always read it. looking at people in lives stretched to the limit of tolerance by the pure drive for survival, and instead of having a fucking lick of empathy and going "wow yeah, all this is kinda shitty, maybe we should change it" they go "oh yeah very clearly this person is incapable of self-directed behaviour and action"
and now of course instead of people handcrafting xml documents by string-cating angle brackets and tags together in bad php files, we have people manually dash-cating yaml together in bad jinja and go template files! progress!
check out this jumpscare suckerpunch mashup
some of the details are so on point I’m almost left pointing and mouthing “art”
nytpitchbot: first we had breadtube, now this ~~wingnut~~ thought leader wants to make people aware of breadsexuals
which part of it was the freebie? whole service looked dead on arrival to me (for the simple reason of physics)