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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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> Not surprised he lasted so long at Google. Is it hard to 'last' at google? I have never gotten that impression.

The median tenure of a Google employee is 1.1 years.

Like someone pointed, majority of them are new employees. Most of my friends left around the 4 year mark when they hit the compensation cliff.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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>almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men. Aside from the fact that you pretty much took the bait with /pol/ there, you should take a look at their irl meetups and compare them to average reddit meetups. You would be wildly surprised by how non-white the average 4chan meetups are.

I didn't 'take the bait', what you're doing is gaslighting. It's not that I'm a 'snowflake' or 'I don't understand chan humor', what they're doing is actually fucked up and dangerous even if they justify it as 'trolling' or 'irony' that should be ignored. There is nothing normal about that boards pre-occupation with calling for racial extermination. I don't give a damn if they're posting that 'ironically', there is n…

Never called you a snowflake, but your whole framing of the situation reads exactly like what a journo would write while lacking any semblance of understanding of the source material beyond just the surface level.

>what you're doing is gaslighting

How does me saying that the 4chan isn't as white-dominated as you say it is (with a hard proof, given that you can literally take a look at pictures from irl meetups from both 4chan and reddit, and then compare yourself) count as gaslighting?

>There is nothing normal about that boards pre-occupation with calling for racial extermination.

Will it make you feel better, if I told you that you can go and see those threads in many directions, including Indian-poster threads getting into extermination-tier shitfights with Paki and Israeli posters, as well as threads where Italians and Polacks call for mutual genocide? And let's not forget the asian continent shitfight threads, where there is an eternal argument between Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean posters trying to prove to each other who should've genocided whom at which point in history, with occasional oil being poured into the dumpster fire by Vietnamese and Indonesian posters.

The board isn't pre-occupied with racial extermination. It is pre-occupied with edgy content that you cannot find elsewhere. Given that knowledge, it is understandable why most of it ends up being just wild trash. But there are definitely occasional gems in the rough that can be found there that cannot be found elsewhere.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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>almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men. Aside from the fact that you pretty much took the bait with /pol/ there, you should take a look at their irl meetups and compare them to average reddit meetups. You would be wildly surprised by how non-white the average 4chan meetups are.

I didn't 'take the bait', what you're doing is gaslighting. It's not that I'm a 'snowflake' or 'I don't understand chan humor', what they're doing is actually fucked up and dangerous even if they justify it as 'trolling' or 'irony' that should be ignored. There is nothing normal about that boards pre-occupation with calling for racial extermination. I don't give a damn if they're posting that 'ironically', there is n…

Do you understand the concept of a "containment board"? Because that's basically what 4chan is. Everyone there is aware that "3 letter" agencies are monitoring. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Containment%...

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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>almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men. Aside from the fact that you pretty much took the bait with /pol/ there, you should take a look at their irl meetups and compare them to average reddit meetups. You would be wildly surprised by how non-white the average 4chan meetups are.

I didn't 'take the bait', what you're doing is gaslighting. It's not that I'm a 'snowflake' or 'I don't understand chan humor', what they're doing is actually fucked up and dangerous even if they justify it as 'trolling' or 'irony' that should be ignored. There is nothing normal about that boards pre-occupation with calling for racial extermination. I don't give a damn if they're posting that 'ironically', there is n…

Not recognizing it as trolling and intentional agitation makes it more dangerous. You are taking the bait as the Christchurch shooter intended;

One of the goals of his bloodshed, he wrote, was to “agitate the political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to overextend their own hand and experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a result.” He said he wanted to “incite violence, retaliation and further divide.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/world/asia/new-zealand-gu...

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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you'd think this would be common knowledge given 4chan is literally an open website, but I always hear these mythologised recountings of it like it's some kind of mysterious inaccessible cult. It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

> It's just reddit for people who hate reddit. Isn't that hackernews

> > It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

It's just reddit for people who hate

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Also it doesn't really match with reality, since they'd usually get refresh grants and have a rolling four year window at all times. The article sounds like the reporter heard a soundbyte about google's typical four year vesting period, and then did zero actual research into what that means.

I don't know--I've heard a lot of people here noting the "4 year cliff" at most tech companies, not just Google. Not all companies give refreshes, and of those that do, it's usually not enough to make up for the initial grant going away. I left my last job pretty much on the day of my 4 year anniversary because I'd otherwise be taking a 25% comp hit in year 5. It's definitely a thing.

Pardon my ignorance but what is the "4 year cliff" exactly?

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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I didn't 'take the bait', what you're doing is gaslighting. It's not that I'm a 'snowflake' or 'I don't understand chan humor', what they're doing is actually fucked up and dangerous even if they justify it as 'trolling' or 'irony' that should be ignored. There is nothing normal about that boards pre-occupation with calling for racial extermination. I don't give a damn if they're posting that 'ironically', there is n…

Never called you a snowflake, but your whole framing of the situation reads exactly like what a journo would write while lacking any semblance of understanding of the source material beyond just the surface level. >what you're doing is gaslighting How does me saying that the 4chan isn't as white-dominated as you say it is (with a hard proof, given that you can literally take a look at pictures from irl meetups from b…

> But there are definitely occasional gems in the rough that can be found there that cannot be found elsewhere.

Can you give an example of a gem? I've only seen the racist trash side (that's certainly what's on the board as of right now).

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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In order list of threads from browsing /pol/ for people who want to know how 'diverse' it is without visiting: - Anti-vax - Anti-gay parents - Goose - Ben Shapiro praise thread with a dash of anti-semitism and a whole lot of "i hope all ni**rs die" - Praising George Floyd mural vandalism - Anti-transgender - Praising white nationalism/white ethnostate - Praising 'national rape day' - Anti-Islam - Anti-race mixing - I…

>almost surely disproportionately posted by young white men. Aside from the fact that you pretty much took the bait with /pol/ there, you should take a look at their irl meetups and compare them to average reddit meetups. You would be wildly surprised by how non-white the average 4chan meetups are.

What exactly was the bait in a front page filled with hate?

And why would I judge an online community based on the offline actions of a very small sub population?

Should I be impressed that non-white people also go there to spew hatred unrelated to white nationalism?

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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HBO's Silicon Valley even lampooned how easy it is to stick around, with "Big Head" and others hanging out on the roof all day. "Rest and Vest" is a thing.

I spent four months at Google collecting double pay and stocks and had no responsibilities. They literally paid me to vacation (e.g. I went to visit Google Japan while chilling), rest and to enjoy life without work. I didn't like any of the other teams at Google which I was eligible for so I left for Apple.

Could you clarify what you mean by "double pay"? Do you mean you 2x the hours you would normally have worked or something else I'm missing?

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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"British people have shitty food can't get laid" is kinda different from "all k*kes and ni**rs need to legit be exterminated", isn't it? They tell jokes about white ethnicities, but don't speak unironically, constantly, and at length about why whites should be racially exterminated like they do towards non-Whites, Jews, Muslims.

You aren't going to hear "British people have shitty food and can't get laid" because it's not really insulting. That other stuff? That got you mad. You've got multiple threads running about how terrible it is - and there's a good chance you don't even identify as one of those groups. But let's assume for a moment that 4chan really is concentrated evil. You do realize you are basically advertising for them right now?

That was exactly my point, the jokes against whites there are nothing compared to the vitriol and calls for mass murder posted against non-Whites.

Does one have to be non-White to be opposed to the mass murder of non-Whites? Shouldn't every non-racist psychopath White person be offended by the idea of mass murdering non-Whites?

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