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25 years is pretty long in IT history. I'd say it lasted. But well, everything is political nowaday, and people apparently can't get political without creatin

25 years is pretty long in IT history. I'd say it lasted. But well, everything is political nowaday, and people apparently can't get political without creating drama. See: the last basecamp outrage.

nanna 5y ago
Aristotle defined man as bios politikos, a political animal, quite a long time ago...
- BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  Yes, but if you are among mature adults, you can discuss opposite politic views without one of your friends leaving the dinner table and slamming the door. Which apparently internet people have a hard time to handle. I have parties at home with feminists and machists, cryto speculators and communists, vegan meditators and frat guys bbq body builders, atheist hedonists and muslim minimalists, yet they manage to have fun together. When I read such title I can't help but thinking "what are they, 5 years old?".
  - nanna 5y ago
    Like the GP of this thread you might want to reread the actual post rather than skim the title. (see my other comment). Your parties sound like a blast!
    - BiteCode_dev 5y ago
      > Your parties sound like a blast! They are, but they take a month to prepare for. > Like the GP of this thread you might want to reread the actual post rather than skim the title. (see my other comment). In retrospect, yeah.
goodpoint 5y ago
> everything is political nowaday I think you mean "polarized". And polarization is happening only in some societies, mostly in the anglosphere. In many other places society was much more polarized 50 or 60 years ago.
- BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  I see what you mean, but people used to be angry about women not having the right to vote or the vietnam war. Getting outraged over grammar issues or bathroom policy is kinda new.
  - scrose 5y ago
    …People are still outraged over voting rights and endless wars.
  - goodpoint 5y ago
    Again, it depends where. There's plenty of people in the world facing war, slavery, and so on. But if I was to assume that you are talking about the US, both gender and racial discrimination around bathroom policies has been a hot discussion topic on-and-off for more than a hundred years.
tekromancr 5y ago
You do know that the staff left because of a hostile corporate takeover and not any sort of interpersonal political dispute, right?
- BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  Answering to GP.

25 years is pretty long in IT history. I'd say it lasted. But well, everything is political nowaday, and people apparently can't get political without creating drama. See: the last basecamp outrage.

nanna 5y ago

Aristotle defined man as bios politikos, a political animal, quite a long time ago...

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Yes, but if you are among mature adults, you can discuss opposite politic views without one of your friends leaving the dinner table and slamming the door. Which apparently internet people have a hard time to handle. I have parties at home with feminists and machists, cryto speculators and communists, vegan meditators and frat guys bbq body builders, atheist hedonists and muslim minimalists, yet they manage to have fun together. When I read such title I can't help but thinking "what are they, 5 years old?".
- nanna 5y ago
  Like the GP of this thread you might want to reread the actual post rather than skim the title. (see my other comment). Your parties sound like a blast!
  - BiteCode_dev 5y ago
    > Your parties sound like a blast! They are, but they take a month to prepare for. > Like the GP of this thread you might want to reread the actual post rather than skim the title. (see my other comment). In retrospect, yeah.

goodpoint 5y ago

> everything is political nowaday I think you mean "polarized". And polarization is happening only in some societies, mostly in the anglosphere. In many other places society was much more polarized 50 or 60 years ago.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
I see what you mean, but people used to be angry about women not having the right to vote or the vietnam war. Getting outraged over grammar issues or bathroom policy is kinda new.
- scrose 5y ago
  …People are still outraged over voting rights and endless wars.
- goodpoint 5y ago
  Again, it depends where. There's plenty of people in the world facing war, slavery, and so on. But if I was to assume that you are talking about the US, both gender and racial discrimination around bathroom policies has been a hot discussion topic on-and-off for more than a hundred years.

tekromancr 5y ago

You do know that the staff left because of a hostile corporate takeover and not any sort of interpersonal political dispute, right?

BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Answering to GP.