The developer is not being named as a police report was not filed. So we also do not know the apps.
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techies are usually pampered reactionaries so this fits
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.)
I just don't understand, and I never will. How are they hurting you? Why are you so obsessed? Queer people just want to exist. I spent years of my youth praying that god would kill me in my sleep. And men like this would have this be the norm for children who just want to be loved. Any young queers reading this, please love yourself and know there are people who will love you unconditionally. Sometimes it takes a bit of effort and waiting to find them, but they will hold you tight. Just hang on. As an older queer, I can assure you your chosen family is waiting for you! And they need you just as much as you need them!
I would hate to be his child.
What a coward, only spouting death-threat rhetoric on point-to-point lines and not in public. Presumably he understands that his opinions are vile, and understands that the public would thrash him until he can no longer hold those opinions, but doesn't understand that this means that his attitude needs to be adjusted.
Grass-touching sim is what they should do next.
The mask is off for silicon valley
Here, though, was someone who had a name and an active social media presence, whose LinkedIn resume was expansive, whose listed address is a multimillion-dollar home near Golden Gate Park. On Facebook he carped about San Francisco politics and pride-posted about his daughter.
There's just enough information here that it'd be fun to try and guess who it is
I can never resist tracking down crazy people because sometimes it's just a goldmine of weirdness. I saw someone on Reddit who was censoring her dog's genitals, and when people made fun of her she accused them all of being pedophiles. It turns out she's Robert Mercer's granddaughter and probably works at Cambridge Analytica's successor, which is apparently either the easiest $120k paycheck ever or a $160k living hell full of long hours and crunch (unclear which).
This is one of my favorite things, as well. Hopefully someone can find him. Do you have a link to the Mercer's Reddit account, that sounds hilarious.
If you want a weird internet rabbithole to go down, look up the guy who is running for president in Alaska and check out his social media.
They deleted their account, but it was here: /u/confessionsftheburbs. I think if you moderate a subreddit you could look through the Pushshift database to see what they posted. Someone on SubredditDrama (where this first popped up) has an open offer to do that for anything fun that was deleted, but I don't remember their name.
I know I screenshotted all the crazy stuff but I have no idea which month they were from, sadly. I checked the past couple months and May. The Internet Archive has a post saved of her from May where she says her husband (boyfriend at the time; they needed Robert Mercer's approval to get married) earns $500k/year. She talks a lot about expensive gemstones and rings, how taxes are unfair, utterly unhinged antisemitic antivax conspiracy theories that equate to "we need to kill the Marxists before they exterminate White people", and of course dogs with censored giblets. I have no idea what her husband does, but he's a white supremacist with lots of Blue Lives Matter insignia that she met on Hinged.
Robert Mercer is apparently big on computer science in the family, and she was strongly encouraged to study it. She often tells people to consider a CS degree to earn more money and start businesses like her husband. She says that, but she mentioned a job that was so easy she barely had to do anything and I wonder if that was the $120k/year position at the rebranded Cambridge Analytica. It's a little annoying to tell people "just get into software engineering!" when your grandfather paid $40k for your house and gave you a cushioned job at the family business. Ugh
I only learned it was her because she said she just donated money to a Gofundme, and I was kind of curious whose name was on the donation.