I stopped reading or contributing to Hacker News a decade or more ago. The people there aren’t worth it. They’re mostly pseudo-intellectuals in the tradition of Paul Graham - meaning they use big words, without actually knowing anything about the topic.
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lobsters is marginally better, but I’m guessing they’re still trash on rms
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Replying to @chrispickard9 @sarahmei
When you don’t think a serial harasser is immoral, and a dude afraid of plants is dispassionately, precisely logical.
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When you don't think working for a company involved in sex trafficking and the exploitation of women is immoral:
@sarahmei.#CancelSalesforcehttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/lawsuit-claims-salesforce-worked-with-sex-trafficking-site-backpage.html …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Wrong: https://reason.com/2019/08/26/secret-memos-show-the-government-has-been-lying-about-backpage/ … Shutting down backpage was never about trafficking and always about right wing neopuritanism. Shutting down backpage will almost certainly have resulted in women being raped. Please don't support the cops' masturbatory fantasies about it.
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