damn_registrars's Journal: $freaks++

This hasn't happened in a while...

Relationship Change
sent by Slashdot Message System on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:05AM

JesseMcDonald (536341) has made you their foe.

My best guess is it has something to do with the front page article on Universal Basic Income where I dared to point out that this site has become a conservative echo chamber. Based on their slashdot page it appears that "Jesse" is a bit of a libertarian...

What can you expect?

[BarbaraHudson]

The silicon valley mentality, with its toxic culture, has contaminated most of the industry. Now it's all about "I got mine Jack" or hustling to find the next project that is likely to either go IPO or get bought out. It's funny how they criticize everyone else for being special entitled snowflakes while they're acting like special entitled snowflakes - no self awareness.

I'd say "oh, the humanity" but that's not what humans used to aspire to be. The "good old days" weren't because they were better, but the

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[damn_registrars]

Yeah, greed has been made sexy again. The people who hype it the most often are blinded to how much it would hurt them, as well.

As is said in the famous John Rogers quote: [wikiquote.org]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

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[fustakrakich]

The "good old days" weren't because they were better, but the people were.

Just curious, what time frame are you referencing?

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[BarbaraHudson]

My guess is that you'd get a different answer depending on who you asked. For me, that would be before puberty, and all the problems it brought with it, but I'm a special snowflake, or just a flake, again depending on who you ask :)