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What are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No need to name names or sources.

Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a "30,000 year old technology"

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

One that I read on Mastodon:

Every bad thing about commercial software is the programmers' fault. Even if it was something that management decided and the programmer fought against it and lost. They claimed you should rather risk losing your job than accepting an inconvenience for your user. Weird take but okay. Then they started comparing software engineers to soldiers "just following orders" during the holocaust. That's where I blocked them. Cherry on top: they have "if you want to hire me as a software engineer, message me" in their bio. I wonder why nobody wants to hire them...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago

What kind of idiot can't see the difference between "I'm going to implement this stupid feature that no one wants because my boss says I have to" and "I'm going to murder Jews because my boss says I have to"?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think you mean Mike Godwin. Poe's Law is about satire being hard to distinguish actual extremist views.

Edit: I really wanted to add a joke about Ward Cunningham but couldn't find a good way to phrase it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ward Cunningham, creator of Calvin & Hobbes?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bruh.

Everyone knows that was Jim Davis

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

No, that's the creator of Heathcliff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Ops, good catch, I mixed them up.