FlickOfTheBean

You tear yourself apart!

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should!

I can't help but project an old version of myself on you. I can't imagine defending 4chan unless I was actively using it a lot... It did used to be basically my only internet community, so I understand being particularly fond of the cesspool.

However, I don't actually understand your reactions here. Why are you defending it when it seems like 4chan itself wouldn't even go this far except maaaybe as a limp wristed attempt at an excuse when something truly horrific happens because of them? I genuinely don't think I understand

Like, to currently vilify it is easy, just take a screenshot of pol. I remember looking pre2016 and seeing HYPERPARTISANSHIP all caps everywhere. It's an anonymous forum with people discussing plans to make life shittier for various groups, essentially at all times.... And before pol it was b (my era was back when pol was a boring place, I don't know the current state of any board, but I know some of the history and what motivates some normies of my niche who fuck with it)

I just don't understand the downplaying of it, normal people participate in shit ways on 4chan specifically because of the anonymity. The anonymity is why it's such a cesspool in the first place. It's toxic keyboard warrior syndrome to the extreme.

This ignores that 4chan is widely known as the cesspool of the internet and attracts those types. It's like going on Hexbear and being surprised at the communists. People gather where their banners are. Shit attracts shit. This reduction is apt.

Sure it kind of does some good ish things sometimes, but more often than not, it's just an internet mob internet mobbing. That's essentially all it is: chaos waves constantly crashing back in on itself. Any good that comes from it is incidental at best.

Also, defending 4chan on the wider Internet is a little odd, 4chan itself revels in its shit reputation....

How did they get mixed? I see 1 in arabic and 2 and 3 in Hindu. Is there a good place to start reading or watching about this in your opinion? If not, I'm just gonna YouTube the history of numbers and see where I land

1. you don't have to understand it, you just shouldn't be a legislative genocidal asshole about it (not that that's what you're doing, but that's what republicans seem to do to anything they think isn't their slim sliver of a definition of "normal")

2. if you're talking about furries, to my layman's understanding of the subculture, that's not how the vast majority of furries relate to themselves. From what I've seen, it's not that they are the animal itself, they are the aspects of the animal, and those things are just little icons that they're like boosting because they resonate with it. That said, there are at least a few people who DO feel that way, but I'm pretty sure they have a special category name (ferals? I think that's what they're called but I could be wrong, this is some deep lore I picked up years ago). If they do have that special name and I'm not just making that part up, then that implies that most furries do not feel that way about themselves.

But, acknowledging the existence of people like that at all does validate your question in my mind. I don't really understand that extreme either. My only point is that most furries are what you would likely consider "normal", they just have a particular hobby. It's no more nefarious or odd than being into gender bending cosplay. You're just taking something (yourself rather than an anime/video game character) and twisting it into something artistically different (a fursona instead of a cosplay outfit).

....no I did not intend to write that much defending furries but here we are lmao

The way I (layman) read it, they seemed to be saying that it would be phased out by newer companies finding different alternatives, not that everyone is phasing it out as we speak.

Does this seem more realistic? Or just completely non-factual?

Ah I get that, like the frustration of a sociological paper pointing out a societal issue but offering no steps on how to solve it due to fixes being out of scope (utterly infuriating lol).

I still think the criticism is valid, but I do think I agree in that the criticism could be more constructive... But I still think laying the foundation of the argument, so to speak, is still constructive even though it may not go as far as one may need for it to cross the threshold back into polite...

I am still convinced this is a knee jerk feeling issue more than anything truly being amiss, but I have been wrong before. What do you think?

I agree it probably is a definitions thing, I'm very pedantic sometimes and it feels like my definition of constructive is much more optimistic/wider/encompassing than yours. That doesn't mean that my definition is right or that your position is wrong though, that's just what I think is going on here.

The first step to correction is understanding there is a problem in the first place. This is quite constructive, it may just not feel like it is because it's framed combatively.

You're doing it wrong is the phrase that lets teachers teach at one of the most basic levels.

The public is essentially a self teaching teacher, so this is just the process of public correction happening. It may look/feel like public shaming, and it may be if they're going too far, but that is the mechanism that I think is playing out here.

Does that framing make it any more palatable to you or does it still seem unnecessarily disrespectful?

History is written by the victors, and that is what a win looks like... Not saying it's deserved, just why that happened that way.

Yeah, that makes total sense.

Most software engineers also have to actively maintain and add features to their finished project, and those aspects change a lot about how the problem can be approached.

I failed to take into account why might I have not been effected by tech debt despite occasionally creating it before commenting. Will have to make sure that filter gets a bit stronger lol