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Just that it's the internet. So it's more like parking your ferrari with open doors in Somalia.
by fwn 11y ago
Just that it's the internet. So it's more like parking your ferrari with open doors in Somalia.
- rayiner 11y agoSure. But if someone hacks you or robs you, the media should place blame on the person who was actually malicious, not the one who was merely negligent Also, I love that the Internet = Somalia.
- fwn 11y agoOh, sure. I'm with you on that! I did not want to say the media shouldn't blame the attacker..
- balabaster 11y agoThis whole thread puts the image of Somalia being like something out of Mad Max... I've never been there, but I bet it's not like that at all.
- pluma 11y agoSomalia being a post-apocalyptic wasteland qualifies as a mesofact[0], I guess. Whether it actually ever was quite that bad I don't even know. I think the idea is mostly fed via movie tropes. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173845
- fwn 11y agoIn my argument I used Somalia as a metaphor to transport an idea of a certain type of hostile enviroment. I don't see how - in this context - a debate on somalias current affairs can be seen as something other than derailing.