honestly kind of floored at the prevelence and virulence of incel panic, biggest collective journo meltdown since summer before the election
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Long ago I was an engineer intern for a state highway department. Everyone drove on their roads but those engineers lived there. Is that what you're getting at or is my understanding being attacked by an antiquated metaphor?
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I'm not sure it's the same thing. Network engineers or web devs are not necessarily "from the internet" in the relevant sense, for example.
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yea I am referring to people whose primary socialization/acculturation experience was on the dregs of the net rather than offline
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for us none of what's emerging into mainstream discourse is at all new or strange, it's mundane, what we grew up on
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what's novel is watching all the people for whom it is totally alien suddenly have to scramble and try to cope with it
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And they've still never heard of Usenet.
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Heh, I took to introducing myself with "I'm from the internet" a long time ago - for a while I was saying "from the dark web" :P
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Whether it's true or not I shall be delighted to have a friend "from the dark web." It helps to balance out the number I have from Toledo.
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