In the IT world, there has always been jokes about holy wars between things like vi and emacs.
Given the assholes in this maladministration have now politicized fonts, I’m not so sure those kinds of things will remain jokes for very much longer. I see people lining up along political lines over things like Rust, FFS.
Apparently things like fonts can be “woke”, along with something like a computer language (Rust).
To be fair, the rust organization goes out of their way to take political stances. No other meaningful programming language is managed by an organization as politically active as rust’s. These fonts have absolutely 0 connection to politics though.
That’s fair, I guess they do. They don’t do themselves a lot of favors in that regard.
However, it seems a whole lot of people that rail against Rust seem to purposefully not tease apart the technical merits vs. the political aspects of Rust. Of course, Rust proponents seem to purposefully antagonize others with insisting on rewriting everything just because. The licensing concerns are real ones, of course.
While there are plenty of other factors that got us here, one of the most prominent from my perspective is that the current slate of old people refuse to admit the world is moving on without them and are really resentful about it. So they are trying to drag everything into the past in an attempt to freeze time obstruct any change. If they weren’t causing so much pain they’d be laughably pathetic
Ironically, Lil’ Marco Rubio is younger than Antony Blinken, so…shrug? I’m thinking it’s less about chronological age and more about…something else.
I’ve seen “JD” “Vance” and the likes of Charlie Kirk - both who are/were rather young - especially when it comes to politics - express some very regressive views - until this new round of throwbacks showed up, in fact, the generation I most associate with saying these kinds of things (out loud) was the Greatest Generation! - the generation that seemed to have a lot of racism simmering just below the surface and still chapped about the 60s.
I have to say that I’m rather apprehensive about what might be brewing in the coming years…I realize the Fourth Turning theory is considered debunked, but I still worry…
There is still plenty but I’m not specifically talking about leadership. Just my experience with the older set of people in general. And most of the Greatest Gen are dead. Trump and Biden are Silents
My point about the Greatest Generation is that the kinds of things I would hear them saying (when they thought they were in a “safe space” anyway) back when I was much younger is stuff I never heard much of since, except to be mocked by people in my generation (Gen X) and by the boomers…until I started hearing some of the edgelords from much younger generations now saying it. And getting an audience for it.
It’s almost like an echo…it’s…actually kind of terrifying if I really think about it. I thought that kind of thing was mostly over/kinda fringe. It seems like some kinda zombie virus that is now spreading among the younger population. Even someone as atrocious as Rush had to dog whistle this stuff…the younger versions of him are just saying it out loud.
In the IT world, there has always been jokes about holy wars between things like vi and emacs.
Given the assholes in this maladministration have now politicized fonts, I’m not so sure those kinds of things will remain jokes for very much longer. I see people lining up along political lines over things like Rust, FFS.
Apparently things like fonts can be “woke”, along with something like a computer language (Rust).
To be fair, the rust organization goes out of their way to take political stances. No other meaningful programming language is managed by an organization as politically active as rust’s. These fonts have absolutely 0 connection to politics though.
That’s fair, I guess they do. They don’t do themselves a lot of favors in that regard.
However, it seems a whole lot of people that rail against Rust seem to purposefully not tease apart the technical merits vs. the political aspects of Rust. Of course, Rust proponents seem to purposefully antagonize others with insisting on rewriting everything just because. The licensing concerns are real ones, of course.
The connection is there if your political ideology is one of hate and violence.
While there are plenty of other factors that got us here, one of the most prominent from my perspective is that the current slate of old people refuse to admit the world is moving on without them and are really resentful about it. So they are trying to drag everything into the past in an attempt to freeze time obstruct any change. If they weren’t causing so much pain they’d be laughably pathetic
Ironically, Lil’ Marco Rubio is younger than Antony Blinken, so…shrug? I’m thinking it’s less about chronological age and more about…something else.
I’ve seen “JD” “Vance” and the likes of Charlie Kirk - both who are/were rather young - especially when it comes to politics - express some very regressive views - until this new round of throwbacks showed up, in fact, the generation I most associate with saying these kinds of things (out loud) was the Greatest Generation! - the generation that seemed to have a lot of racism simmering just below the surface and still chapped about the 60s.
I have to say that I’m rather apprehensive about what might be brewing in the coming years…I realize the Fourth Turning theory is considered debunked, but I still worry…
There is still plenty but I’m not specifically talking about leadership. Just my experience with the older set of people in general. And most of the Greatest Gen are dead. Trump and Biden are Silents
My point about the Greatest Generation is that the kinds of things I would hear them saying (when they thought they were in a “safe space” anyway) back when I was much younger is stuff I never heard much of since, except to be mocked by people in my generation (Gen X) and by the boomers…until I started hearing some of the edgelords from much younger generations now saying it. And getting an audience for it.
It’s almost like an echo…it’s…actually kind of terrifying if I really think about it. I thought that kind of thing was mostly over/kinda fringe. It seems like some kinda zombie virus that is now spreading among the younger population. Even someone as atrocious as Rush had to dog whistle this stuff…the younger versions of him are just saying it out loud.
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