Great. Everyone needs to work at being a nicer and better person, Linus perhaps a bit more than most. But equally important is everyone on the other side work

Great. Everyone needs to work at being a nicer and better person, Linus perhaps a bit more than most. But equally important is everyone on the other side working to avoid being consumed by emotion, and learn to control their emotions better, when people and things in the world end up being mean or distressing. This doesn't happen so much with Linus anymore because everyone knows about him and the people most likely to go on tilt when Linus goes on tilt have adapted and avoid communicating with him. That would be a universal solution if you could get a list of all the potentially harsh communicators out there, but doesn't work at all when you don't have such a list, and anyway it would severely constrain your interactions with the world because a fairly large number of people are like that. People will gain a lot more from, in addition to calmly pointing out how the hostility they're encountering is unwarranted, learning to self-reflect and switch mental states to avoid getting into self-destructive patterns of thought just because someone else or something else is being harsh or mean. Various kinds of meditation-like practice seem to be a good way to pursue improvement for people on both sides of the problem. It's not any easier for Linus to always be nice than it is for someone who takes personally one of his outbursts to not take it personally.