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CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by IslandRebel »

wuhhh wrote: post #98
IslandRebel wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretending that support for a Linux distro is going to translate directly (or at all) into political lobbying that is going to eclipse large donor groups that will sink hundreds of millions behind a candidate is delusional.

Why should it need to eclipse them? I think you are either ignorant or naive if you can’t see how this could be politically motivated.

It was a turn of phrase. I am just pointing out that it is extremely unlikely.

I don't think any of this is politically motivated (the Linux stuff). I don't see anything on the site that even mentions anything remotely political.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by dofm »

IslandRebel wrote: post #96
dofm wrote: post #71

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> Secondly, constantly berating him for having the wrong opinions and not explaining why those opinions are wrong are more likely to entrench his positions and anyone that is sympathetic to those opinions. People have tried that. DHH is at best a pseudo-intellectual troll.

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I do indeed accuse him of being a pseudo-intellectual troll, and that is the kindest interpretation of things he has actually written, including “As I Remember London”, which is creepy, deliberately misleading, has clear white-nationalist subtext and openly supports a crooked bigoted thug.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by [deleted] »

graemep wrote: post #91
ryan_n wrote: post #78

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Based on his own blog post ( https://web.archive.org/web/20250925050154/https://world.hey... ) I would argue he does come off as racist. There are a lot of non-white british people (just like there are non-white americans), and he basically ignores that entire population. He assumes that you are only british if you are white and that london is worse now because there are less whites there. That has nothing to do with…

> There are a lot of non-white british people (just like there are non-white americans), and he basically ignores that entire population. There are many people who are mostly or wholly culturally British. I am not white and I live in the north of England and the biggest cultural non-fit is that my speech is obviously southern. London does not, on the whole, feel very different culturally, from when I grew up there in…

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Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by soundnote »

> Apparently it is a more pressing matter for them to donate to a collection of scripts and configuration files than to contribute to the projects they’re built upon

The dismissive disingenuousness is tiresome. Omarchy hasn't been a set of dotfiles in a long time, and the money has gone to upstream projects - vaxry got paid to be able to dev Hyprland fulltime for up to five years, outfoxxed who makes Quickshell got hired, they sponsored the developer of mise, and hired a kernel developer.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by IslandRebel »

dofm wrote: post #102
IslandRebel wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I do indeed accuse him of being a pseudo-intellectual troll, and that is the kindest interpretation of things he has actually written, including “As I Remember London”, which is creepy, deliberately misleading, has clear white-nationalist subtext and openly supports a crooked bigoted thug.

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Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by m3h »

kellengreen wrote: post #107

Why purchase a website, just to run it into the ground? I never understood this.

COVID happened. Money was aplenty. Then snapback happened. And there were many firings and cancelled projects.

There were a lot of products and ideas that felt great during ZIRP but stopped making sense post-ZIRP. That's my take.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by dofm »

IslandRebel wrote: post #106
dofm wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do indeed accuse him of being a pseudo-intellectual troll, and that is the kindest interpretation of things he has actually written, including “As I Remember London”, which is creepy, deliberately misleading, has clear white-nationalist subtext and openly supports a crooked bigoted thug.

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Nope, sorry. There are things in that article that are really a long way beyond having been deceived. They cannot and must not be minimised in that way. And nobody who criticises them should feel any blame if he doubles down; he is a wealthy privileged white man who is solely responsible for the things he says.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by IslandRebel »

dofm wrote: post #109
IslandRebel wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Nope, sorry. There are things in that article that are really a long way beyond having been deceived. They cannot and must not be minimised in that way. And nobody who criticises them should feel any blame if he doubles down; he is a wealthy privileged white man who is solely responsible for the things he says.

> There are things in that article that are really a long way beyond having been deceived

I don't believe so. Can you explain exactly how it is impossible he is deceived?

> They cannot and must not be minimised in that way.

Why not? To me what I described is what fits 100%. You just asserting that is the case hasn't explained why I might be incorrect.

You clearly haven't taken what I've explained to you on board at all. I suggest you bother checking out any of how this occurs in any other conspiracy circles, e.g., UFOs or just watching something that promotes conspiracy theories, such as Hunting Hitler (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5248878/). It's the same mechanism, just a different form.

> And nobody who criticises them should feel any blame if he doubles down; he is a wealthy privileged white man who is solely responsible for the things he says.

I am not saying people should feel blame for criticising him. I am saying that should be blamed for brow-beating him.

Are you telling me he cannot be deceived because he is wealthy? Plenty of wealthy and privileged people are/have been deceived.

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