And yet somehow managed to be the sanest person in this conversation.

I'll get over it.

How I know somebody on the internet is completely off their rocker: "False Flags."

Disagreeing with somebody doesn't make their content flamebait. It could be you're just wrong.

Even if all of this is true (it isn't; but skipping over that), her social media, financial, and email accounts have been hacked, and explicit photos revealed from that were sent to her were sent to her friends and family.

Can you maybe see how a. that sort of thing doesn't happen to men in the industry, and b. how very wrong it is to do stuff like this because of rumors of VIDEO GAME ETHICS VIOLATIONS?

Don't justify this crap. It's disgusting.

Yes, but the frame of reference matters. The point is that, amongst the gaming population, women are a sizeable demographic. The makeup of the population at-large might explain that preponderance, but it doesn't mean the numbers are immaterial.

Specs are nice, but what does the thing WEIGH? One of the major advantages to chromebooks etc. is that they're light enough for you to carry around without feeling like you're strapped to a gold brick.

browse at 2+, and threads look like a coherent discussion of the issues broached in TFA.

Only if you agree with the overall tone of the thread. Moderation re-enforces the party line, and the choice of articles and/or post content are catered to generate interaction. Unpopular threads get pushed down pretty fast and hard, or (worse) are barely moderated at all.

You know, in a way, Facebook is the best thing to happen to web communities in years - the threads are incomprehensible and move so fast but the audience is so large that it's basically flypaper for wingnuts.

Then again, comment blockers and Ghostery make this largely a non-issue for me anyway.

You guys realize that slashdot is just as clickbait-y and unreasonable and targeted as Jezebel, right? The headlines here are designed to drive comments and pageviews equally as hard by leaning on the same sorts of buttons, you just don't realize it as often because the buttons they push reenforce your own viewpoints and biases.

I'm predicting a run on vacuum sealers.

2 reasons:

1. because they aren't designed to be easy for YOU, they're designed to be easy for HR to put in a database.

and relatedly,

2. because applying for jobs online can't be too easy because otherwise the signal-to-noise ratio suffers.

...Are you fucking kidding me? If there's a shark, /. just jumped it.

Long may it reign.

Yeah, that's WAY more efficient than establishing the relationship in advance and just Fedexing the document back and forth once it requires a signature.

Forgive a potentially stupid question, but how is this going to work with snow on the ground?