Absolutely! Especially over time, it makes it extremely difficult to build up niche communities that Reddit still has a stranglehold on.
Instead, those people just don’t join anything.
(Note that even mentioning blocking .world gets downvotes)
I have had the entire instance blocked for years now. Every once in a while I think “hmm, should I unblock it?”
Nope.
I actually keep going back and thinking “seriously? 28??”
That song came out in 2000, and was recorded between July 1999 and March 2000 (according to Wikipedia). Eminem was born in 1972.
So technically he was probably 27 1/2 when he wrote it, and Britney Spears would have been 18.
Christina Aguilera, too. He called her a bitch and accused her of giving blowjobs to older men because she said out loud who he was legally married to. He was nearly 28, she was 18. Imagine being 27 and insulting high schoolers on your albums, then thinking you’re tough because children love it. That’s Eminem.
He’s always been embarrassing, he’s just been protected by Dr. Dre.
The incredible thing to me about this is the original blog post is explaining decades-old startup bro “wisdom” like it’s brand new.
Plenty of ink has been spilled to describe how AI is a challenge for junior developers, especially those trying to land a job. Now that I’ve seen junior people work with AI for a bit, I have a more hopeful take: Impact is less bounded by how many years of accumulated knowledge in frameworks and libraries you’ve gathered.
I’m seeing engineers who are comparatively new fly past people who are probably better coders and have been around much longer. Hunger beats tenure.
Then the things he recommends that junior engineers do all sound like they’re right out of a 2012 startup handbook.
Pick a radical idea: Come up with a few ideas that would, if successful, dramatically improve the chances that your organization achieves those goals. Be ambitious!
Build it over a weekend: I have seen small groups and solo engineers fly past the usual process of writing product requirements documents (PRDs), getting buy-in, and lobbying for time with designers or product managers by building a working prototype.
Yeah, hashtag disrupt, right guys? You just gotta be hungry, bro. Move fast and break things was Facebook’s motto.
History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes!
He’s always been overrated and kind of pathetic.
He was “feuding” with Britney Spears in 2000… When he was 28 and she was 19.
He was pushing 30 when he wrote
These fuckin’ brats can’t sing and Britney’s garbage
What’s this bitch, r*tarded? Give me back my sixteen dollars!
All I see is sissies in magazines smilin’ (Hee-hee!)
Whatever happened to wilin’ out and bein’ violent?
Whatever happened to catchin’ a good old-fashioned passionate ass-whoopin’
And gettin’ your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?
New Kids on the Block suck a lot of dick
Boy, girl groups make me sick
And I can’t wait 'til I catch all you f*ggots in public
I’ma love it (Hahaha)
11-year-olds definitely loved it.
The superficiality, vanity and fundamental misunderstandings of the human condition of the West strike again, lol
This isn’t limited to the “west.”
You’re kind of describing one of the main facets of Buddhism, the human tendency to “reach” for things they don’t have.
Decidedly not a western concept.
seems like a weird thing to claim after
Which seems quite confrontational.