@astraleureka

@regehr around 15 here but yeah

@regehr this was required reading in our CS ethics class

lisp programmers be like "wanna take a ride in my mapcar?"

people like to get scared of us because we're 'still mad about things from decades ago' and we have to be like "yes, correct, none of those things were ever resolved, they were just swept over in hopes that they'd go away"

@redoak the way this usually comes up in our experience is not directly, it comes up in like "your focus on individual actions like masking is wrong because you can't solve systemic problems that way", and then the same person goes on to say we should just solve the covid pandemic by shooting landlords.

@astraleureka it is now

@mads coyote

@joe_no_body assy chaps

@trysdyn yes but that's an entirely different kettle of corn

also: there aren't assed chaps

our most prescriptivist opinion is that "assless chaps" is redundant because if they had an ass theyd be pants

@FinalGirl oh my god im so sorry

@Jazzcraft in short, we try and do the education where we can, but theres a point at which we have to conclude "oh, youre just some weird bigot"

@Jazzcraft correct. one channel operator on a large furry irc channel.

@Jazzcraft nah the kinda guy who posts that, gets defensive about it, and applies kickbans on us isn't community, that's a blackshirt right there

anyway if you can't stand us because of what we're saying about you, idk that this is a problem with us

@Jazzcraft sure but some choad who's misgendering us and saying shit like "Seems like anything some idiot makes up MUST be recognized. Enough is enough" is not going to care

@capital @eri "it's dehumanizing" skill issue to you, learn to humanize objects

@philpem furnet oper, our surprise is somewhere near 0