Equating lead poisoning to marijuana use. Top comment on the thread.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Who could have foreseen that a hobby attracting primarily antisocial well-off white men would be inundated with chuds

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Definitely some of that, but also the venture capital recuperation of a subversive counterculture. The phrase "hacker" evolved from practical jokers, to people with a knack to solve problems in novel ways, to internet looters, to the plumbers of the national security panopticon. It doesn't help that the culture took shape at M.I.T. It might not be Harvard, but it is a den of privilege and it's straight down the road.

    • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Speaking from personal experience; most people who call themselves hackers belong there.