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theredfox -3 points ago +4 / -7

I'm a software engineer and usually very pro-free market. But I still wildly disagree with revoking net neutrality. It gives a LOT of power to extort Americans in a market with an extremely, almost impossible to cross barrier of entry, only a few providers (and only one in many places), who are absolutely awful companies. And just because nothing has happened YET doesn't mean it wont. Microtransactions didn't hit video games overnight. We had a decade or more of good games before they started sneaking them in. Now they're everywhere.

Its amazing to me that you guys who just got censored off of a big tech platform, and rant about big tech censorship, are entirely fine trusting the same companies that own MSNBC, CNN, Vice, ect with unprecedented control of your access to the internet. You think its bad right now where they're kicking us off hosting websites? Just wait until someone decides to just start putting places like this behind a ridiculous pay wall. If they give you the chance to access it at all.

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theredfox 2 points ago +2 / -0

I was thinking the same thing. Just flood r/politics in a wall of pro-trump memes and news that would make the glory days of 4chan raids proud.

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theredfox 1 point ago +1 / -0

Would the mods here be at all interested in expanding to other boards as well? I want to cut Reddit completely out of my life but it's what I browse at work since its more SFW than my facebook feed or 4chan. I browse here a lot but I also like gaming and other such and would love to see this site expand all the more.

Please keep up the great work! I absolutely love that we have a place out of their control. I'm so sick of what they're doing to us.

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theredfox 2 points ago +2 / -0

Very nice collection!

Here's some pics of mine. Hoping to do another "family photo" during the Holidays here.

https://imgur.com/a/S2rO5V6

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theredfox 5 points ago +5 / -0

They live to be angry and offended. They NEED us there because if they have nothing to be offended and virtue signal about they have to go back to being lonely, miserable, insufferable people.

Literally their entire social interactions are jerking eachother off for virtue signalling. We take that food away and the entire eco-system collapses.

I honestly 100% believe that when Trump leaves office (Not this Trump, Trump Jr in 2032) we'll see a sizeable spike in suicides.

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theredfox 10 points ago +11 / -1

Eh, being a software engineer (specifically a web developer) who's good friends with several mechanics I think you wildly underestimate the work something like this takes and the skill it takes. It's a lot lot lot more than just writing code. Yes, anyone can be a coder from self teaching online. But not everyone can be a software engineer. You have to understand front-end/back-end communication, server side communication, scaling, complex algorithms, and general principles of software engineering and web development like how to structure a database.

Also, I'd love to know what normal developer is making 250k a year. I actually make a fair bit less than my mechanic buddy who works at a Honda Factory. I get what you're saying, and no web development doesn't make someone some kind of god or special. But I also think you wildly underestimate how much skill and knowledge goes into making something like this. Again I'm a web developer working with the DoD and I don't think I could do something like this in a year.