• @200fifty
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    1 year ago

    When I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.

    Me when the mods unfairly ban me from my favorite video game forum circa 2009

    (source: first HN thread)

    • @bitofhopeOP
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      201 year ago

      When I was a kid my mom told me not to drink from the garden hose and that was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up not wanting to be blasted in the face with a pressure washer. A strange authoritarian impulse.

      • @selfA
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        121 year ago

        When I was a kid Power Rangers was totally and completely awesome, but the whole millennial generation grew up to despise dressing in colorful spandex. A strange Rita Repulsan impulse.

        • @selfA
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          71 year ago

          no, it is 💦 on a hot summer day

          • @froztbyte
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            41 year ago

            Coming in this week’s nyt specials: 🏖️🩳 🪈so 💦 it’s 🔥

            • @sc_griffith
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              61 year ago

              NYT Opinion: It’s time to Drink from the Hose of Hard Questions about America’s Kids

              A memory of sipping from a garden hose prompts our columnist to ask: have we been going too soft on millennials?

              By Some Rich White Loser

  • @gerikson
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    1 year ago

    Someday I should go through the 6.5K comments on the threads where the Twitter acquisition was discussed and sum up the sentiment then vs now

    HN has a split view of Xhitter, every thread about it moans about how you have to have an account to view replies, but it’s also the great White anti-woke hope

    also the domain at HN is still twitter.com not x.com, which I feel is dang or PG giving Husk the finger. Fuck they even say “tweets” instead of “posts”

    • @Soyweiser
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      71 year ago

      White anti-woke hope

      Before twitter went down Musk was agreeing with people saying that the left is letting in illegals so they get more left wing votes (illegals can vote or something). So yeah going well.

          • @sc_griffith
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            61 year ago

            conservatives are absolutely convinced that secretly, everyone views outgroups as filthy rats, like they do. there’s a kernel of truth in that a lot more people think that way than will admit it, but conservatives usually aren’t referring to that as an observed tendency. they’re referring to a universal law they’ve made up, that anyone who claims to hold liberal or leftist democratic values is lying

            apologies for overexplaining something you already know. point is I doubt they even considered whether it would actually get people to go to SF. they just wanted to fantasize about Liberals MELTING DOWN upon hearing about the sign (because of course libs secretly think people in El Paso are like rats)