He apologized to SJWs. Now the SJWs can point at it and say "See, we were right!".
Idiot. Never apologize to SJWs.
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#62He apologized to SJWs. Now the SJWs can point at it and say "See, we were right!". Idiot. Never apologize to SJWs.
A man who is an ambassador for mental health charities should not belittle people with mental health problems - especially not in the incredibly glib way he did it.
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#63It's not surprising he'd want to turn his back on social media after the (justifiable) kicking he took over this: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/14/stephen-fry-s...
That was well after he quit Twitter over another unrelated bashing he got
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#64I have gone through a similar phase. Got rid of social media, switched back to a feature phone, am reading real books, listening to music on physical media, using cash where possible and whatever else. The Internet has gone from a place with a high barrier of entry (and the interesting characters that self selected for that barrier), to an all encompassing entity with a load of moralisers, businesses and governments…
I don't really agree. I think we can make the web so much more. The main problem is trying to cut through the endless amount of drudge and bullshit.
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#65I have gone through a similar phase. Got rid of social media, switched back to a feature phone, am reading real books, listening to music on physical media, using cash where possible and whatever else. The Internet has gone from a place with a high barrier of entry (and the interesting characters that self selected for that barrier), to an all encompassing entity with a load of moralisers, businesses and governments…
Many of us depend on it to pay the bills, though. On the internet, to build stuff for other people to use the internet more and generate more internet related jobs...
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#66He apologized to SJWs. Now the SJWs can point at it and say "See, we were right!". Idiot. Never apologize to SJWs.
Please try to keep pointless vague slurs like SJW constrained to Reddit et al where they belong.
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#67The good folks of tumblr have a succinct counter-argument to suggestions like this. It is, and I quote: "durr hburr technology is bad fire is scary and thomas edison was a witch"
In this case is more like: "I gave it a shot, but no, thanks".
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I usually think the same for vast majority of stuff on HN, i.e. most articles could be cut down to one or two paragraphs with little value lost, but... There are generally two reasons why I read - to extract information and for the experience of reading. Stephen Fry's blog is one of the rare cases where I just enjoy the writing and the information value doesn't really matter.
> I usually think the same for vast majority of stuff on HN, i.e. most articles could be cut down to one or two paragraphs with little value lost, Maybe life too. Instead of going through this whole redundant process of living through it, we could just be given some 10 word summary, like e.g.: "There was some fun, some sadness, a few regrets, a couple profound experiences, a lot of boredom, quite some pain, mostly ok…
Or as Woody Allen said, "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
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#69Rants away (though I agree with some points), it's a nice summary of Internet history.
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#70I have gone through a similar phase. Got rid of social media, switched back to a feature phone, am reading real books, listening to music on physical media, using cash where possible and whatever else. The Internet has gone from a place with a high barrier of entry (and the interesting characters that self selected for that barrier), to an all encompassing entity with a load of moralisers, businesses and governments…
a load of moralisers...let the masses have their addictions fulfilled, while technology enthusiasts move on and enjoy real life.
Physician, heal thyself!