Has it occurred to you that some of us just *don't like dealing with people?"
A near-lifetime of BBSing and IRCing and what not I'm far more comfortable behind a keyboard than in a realtime conversation.
Introversion isn't just for millennials anymore
If you like being on hold for 2 hours
Although lately I've been burned multiple times by inaccurate online information saying a place was open when it wasn't, so I've started to call ahead instead.
cries in left_pad
It's kind of astonishing how many people leaned on that library just to add fucking spaces to strings
Me: I need spec -- not just trust code Manager: You always make unnecessary demands, I'm replacing you AI: I would be happy to help you, if you could provide spec? Manager: god fuckin dammit
I honestly sometimes think to go into business myself just so I can write contracts that say "you will give us a fucking spec" and just keep billing while they fuck around not providing a spec
Yeah because they started to get fucked over
Sometimes you can't help but acknowledge the cleverness of evil.
Funny, this sounds an awful lot like people who complain about the fediverse
Hot take, but I dare say 4chan was the source of as much of what's good in internet culture as it was for much of what's the worst in internet culture.
Rickroll, Caturday, the modern meme format, reaction gifs, "TLDR", Anonymous (well, the good versions of it), spoderman, Rule 34, trollface, rageface, quite a bit of pet abuse justice, ... they may have even successfully set back AI chatbots nearly a full decade with their gaming of Microsoft's Tay chatbot... quite a lot of modern Internet slang such as win, fail, an hero, based, copypasta, creepypasta, "god tier", lulz, moar, sauce...
The thing about anarchy is that it brings out both the best and the worst.
Also:
Go ahead and do the thing, I don't care.
does the thing
HOW DARE YOU DO THE THING, WHAT AN ASSHOLE
Doesn't want to kernel dev anymore because of drama
Legit goes and starts a shit ton of kernel dev drama
No diss, but Kwanzaa was invented in the 1960s. It's not like a directly african tribally descended thing, though inspired by some (mostly Swahili and Zulu), it's something made for black american pride and reflection.
in the future the trope is going to be "I'm going back in time to k--- Tr--p" and everyone has to stop them because it would mean the great global awakening would never happen