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> and the quicker disease can spread. People who haven't been on HN for a while tend to think HN keeps getting worse etc. and that's rarely the case, but I do
by areoform 1y ago
> and the quicker disease can spread.
People who haven't been on HN for a while tend to think HN keeps getting worse etc. and that's rarely the case, but I do think something has changed in the site's core audience.
HN has attracted its share of luddites. People who aren't interested in building a better future. But are very interested in tearing it down.
When did HN become a place where dreams of a better future were met with proclamations of disease?
- Avicebron 1y ago> When did HN become a place where dreams of a better future were met with proclamations of disease? As there as been a general broadening of discussion as to exactly what "a better future" means and I suppose more specifically to whom.
- supportengineer 1y agoMarch 2020, approximately
- tom_ 1y agoYou can make the case for whatever case you are trying to make, without pushing back on this quite specific extremely correct point. When people meet. disease spreads. If it doesn't spread when they breathe on one another, it will spread when they touch. If it doesn't spread when they touch, it will spread when they fuck. If it doesn't spread when they fuck - phew, crikey, this disease is useless indeed, and natural selection will see it off quickly. Meanwhile our protagonists now have flu, norovirus and crabs.
- bryanrasmussen 1y agoif you'll look at my profile you will discover that evidently it happened 5 years before you joined.