This Is What Happens When Millions of People Suddenly Get the Internet

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Surprisingly, this is an excellent article. Buzzfeed has a reputation for clickbait crap like "Six disgusting things your cat does at night" but this is a well-researched, thoughtful work of journalism on a serious topic. The page also loaded like lightning and has perfect layout for mobile. Hmm...maybe time for me to re-evaluate my prejudice.

Open-minded comments like this are why HN is my sanctuary in the general terrible attitude of the internet nowadays.

Yes, I think much of HN culture is way better than on the rest of the Internet.

But the HN community still struggles to admit their own short commings.

I once started a rather big flame-war here just by telling my opinion about religion and if you say something about how most people here are rich (globally seen) white males and the community opinion reflects that, people go crazy too.

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