Caltrops - Lively: Google Creates Something Terrible

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by Mysterio 10/28/2020, 7:01am PDT

I have been reading headlines and some comments on hackernews for about a year.

They may be the worst commentators on the internet.

*Everything* has to start with "Anecdotally," with them. It's a fucking forum. Of course it's your personal experience. (Baseball forums have the same thing, but the tedious posters there bleat "small sample size, but".)

If they don't start their comment on hackernews by telling everyone that it is an anecdote, someone will definitely try to correct them. Writing "anecdotally" on a forum post is the second dumbest thing in the world, beaten only by the miserable webshits that think they are being clever by replying when they don't see it.

The "English-speaking" part of hackernews is also great. You'd think that all comments would have a shared understanding that experiences are from America or English-speaking countries. Since hackernews is an English-speaking website. But no. Not at all. Say something in passing like, "It's cold out today" and you will have five or six webshits go UM ACTUALLY AT THE EQUATOR

I've worked with these sperged out anti-social cretins over the course of my career, it's amazing to me that they all found each other.