I’ve taught mathematics at community colleges for over 20 years and I’m absolutely convinced that not all people can learn algebra or calculus.
It's obviously genetic, says the mathemetician.
I tried once to ask reddit's Anthropologists about what cultural artifacts are affected by genetics e.g. how lactose intolerance can affect a local culture. The question was apparently racist and then taken down.
I once asked an obvious lead in to a racist argument and was called a racist. It must be a conspiracy.
[Generic pontificating on the nature of society from the fount of the infinite wisdom of my anus] (it's multiple comment threads, and the free square on your HN bingo card)
You write web servers that need more boxes and serve less traffic than was standard 10 years ago. Why would anyone listen to you on any topic.
As part of my news digestion, I have it filtered through Hexbear to some degree which is... ok, I guess. HN previously served this role. It is still good for seeing what's hot in tech though usually very web focused which is...meh.
The tech news side of it has gotten fuzzier and less information-dense. These days I'm mostly on HN because of the opportunity for syndicalist agitation. There was a good period of a couple years where me and a handful of others were actually getting people to think seriously about unionizing. That's died off since the pandemic started, but I still check the comments sometimes to see if there's an opportunity. (But the site really has went through a hard right turn this year.)
when will things work the opposite way :sadness-abysmal:
There was also some slow and steady leftward movement from like 2018 through 2020. Reactionary turns are faster but I don't think that means they'll win.
r/cth must have been the Shanghai massacre for online commies (of a certain sort only, really). We've retreated from Reddit and HN in order to regroup and grow in strength up in the mountains of Hexbear.