Then don't go asking for his advice on COVID or gay marriage. But I try and give him a little of my attention when he speaks about the Web, because he knows what he's talking about.
This Twitter-born cult of personality, where we need to find someone that shares ALL of our opinions, or they're completely worthless and should be cancelled is idiotic and the reason why discourse on the Internet has jumped down a cliff.
Come to me for software engineering rants, for I am a software engineer, but don't pay too much attention when I talk about stuff I don't know nothing about because it's probably complete bollocks. This advice applies to every single person in the world. Incredible that it's not common sense.
Problem here is that you follow certain users because you are interested in whatever they have to say regarding tech (for example) but then you get lots of tweets on politics, personal issues, etc.
I know, which is why I can't get into Twitter no matter how often I try. It is designed in a way where you either ignore a person or you get their entire unfiltered stream of consciousness.
No wonder we live in a culture of outrage, where people and mainstream media get their news from such a place.
"I don't like mustard on my hot dog" is an opinion.
Donating money to the Prop 8 committees was helping an effort to strip group of people of their human rights.
"The covid vaccine makes people catch covid" is misinformation.
Finding someone's behavior and statements unethical and harmful - and thus not wanting to buy/use a product they control - is not "needing to find someone that shares all of my opinions or they're completely worthless."
You'd find discourse on the internet a lot more palatable if you weren't strawmanning the hell out of everyone you don't agree with (cough).
The irony of complaining about "cancel culture" in the context of a discussion about someone who hates gay people so much he donated money to try and deny them human rights. Denying a group of people human rights means you view them as sub-human. What was that about canceling people because you think they're "completely worthless?"
> Donating money to the Prop 8 committees was helping an effort to strip group of people of their human rights.
It is a democratic committee. It's called democracy. Sorry if you don't like it.
I disagree with it, but what's the alternative, that what we think is best shouldn't be even allowed to be voted upon? We both know what this is called, and it's not democracy. Remind me why are we surprised that the entire world is moving towards autocracy and extremism?
One has a right to be an ignorant idiot just like I have a right to call them an ignorant idiot.
This Twitter-born cult of personality, where we need to find someone that shares ALL of our opinions, or they're completely worthless and should be cancelled is idiotic and the reason why discourse on the Internet has jumped down a cliff.
Come to me for software engineering rants, for I am a software engineer, but don't pay too much attention when I talk about stuff I don't know nothing about because it's probably complete bollocks. This advice applies to every single person in the world. Incredible that it's not common sense.