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What a strange generalization that hasn't been my experience at all working in tech for the last few years lol
the boy was trying to seem edgy. It's totally okay to ignore him.
you both have really fucking annoying post histories so I’m gonna assume rushing into a thread about abuse directed towards LGBTQ folks to defend fucking technofascists of all people isn’t a coincidence and make you both fuck off of this instance
Thanks. Federating was a mistake lol
sometimes it’s a sampler platter of the worst posters I remember from Reddit, though in this case at least there’s no weirdo corporation enabling them
I think of this stuff as a time-saver: when they come in proudly wearing their sign and shouting their stupid shit, it’s a lot easier to know who you’re dealing with
I miss being able to instantly see somebody posted in /destiny or /redscare or /stupidpol so you could see you are replying to some fool.
Sometimes they're kind enough to sign up for an instance equivalent of those
Something like masstagger for Lemmy would be great. I can only hope
Yeah but it doesn't just need the tools, it also needs the bad communities. And I doubt places like that will make the switch (which is good) unless reddit dies as a company (not likely).
Easy there big guy. If you could read you might have noticed Steeve was actually saying that techies are generally chill, and the one guy in particular who harasses hotlines is a weirdo
no but thanks for playing
Honestly that comment boiled down to “Not all ~~men~~ techies” combined with “all my techie friends/acquaintances don’t seem to be assholes”
So really fuck that entirely
(Hopefully mlem/lemmy lets that strikethrough show)
Honestly I don't know what Mister Mouse is on about
(which is to say most techies are indeed pretty chill, but the problem is that they don't see the tech workers who are not chill and hateful and ignore concerns, and it takes work to realize this and act against it, being chill and a being a pampered reactionary are not exclusive. Upvote like and subscribe to have me explain my jokes more!)
it’s very strange to talk politics at work (which is why I almost always avoid it), because in tech “I’m on the left” can mean the speaker is anything from an anarchocommunist to a reactionary who uses leftist framings of ideas to mask and justify conservative goals
and then, occasionally, there’s the fucker who spends all day in his cubicle watching Infowars instead of writing code. every work-related conversation you’ve been forced to have with him has instead become a discussion of whichever racist conspiracy theory is on his mind. he “jokes” about shooting up the office, but HR won’t do anything because the other programmers have decided it’s less trouble if they cover for him. you start taking less predictable routes out of the office because you’re fairly certain he’s going to follow you to your car, since of course you’ve offended him by not nodding along with his racist conspiracy bullshit
9 out of 10 tech workers are chill, but the 10th one is a massive problem enabled by most of the other 9
And everyone is too fucking polite and double way the fuck down on conflict avoidance
(I have this latter experience especially frequently with USAians (at large). It is A Problem.)