You're complaining that you can't shit on other people. I'm complaining that people don't shit on themselves.
> So why is it any surprise that every startup company has precisely the same back-patting culture?
They are different because presumably coworkers are people you at least personally know in passing, and are not anonymous usernames.
We should be gracious to strangers but more critical to those whom we do know.
Valid, level-headed criticism isn’t “shitting on someone”.
My wife does call me her favorite hypocrite :)
My statement was certainly an oversimplified assessment.
> Valid, level-headed criticism
This is a good clarification to make, thank you. Ultimately this is what I'm longing for more of in the world. "shitting on" either yourself or someone else isn't helpful.
The problem with this stupid website is I (or no one else) couldn’t even properly reply to you due to censorship.
I intended to write a sample of what actually “shitting on you” would actually be, but I knew the autistic mods would ban me just the same as if I was actually doing so because they lack the prefrontal cortex material responsible for comprehension.
So engaging with you, or really in any valuable conversation on HN, is an exercise in bad faith, everyone must always wrap themselves in a thick layer of bullshit to appease the gods above or else face sanction.
You know you're welcome to make your own community, right? You're not actually being censored, you're just in a venue that doesn't support communicating how you'd like.
> I knew the autistic mods would ban me just the same as if I was actually doing so because they lack the prefrontal cortex material responsible for comprehension
You've succeeded in your goal of posting a sample of what actually shitting on someone looks like. Hint: it doesn't look good on you.
> So engaging with you, or really in any valuable conversation on HN, is an exercise in bad faith, everyone must always wrap themselves in a thick layer of bullshit to appease the gods above or else face sanction.
Engaging with society requires wrapping everything in a think layer of bullshit. Being able to show some restraint is what keeps things civil, because there's a wide range of social norms. Get a therapist and learn how to cope with it.
Again, you could also find or create another venue. You're not entitled to a platform.
People like you love to say shit like “well just go make you own platform”
Cloudfare will ban you, AWS will ban you, the investors that are poor fronts for private equity will ban you, it’s controlled. You won’t be able to take payments in your little rebel SaaS because Visa will Kneecap you.
You pretend that there’s some kind of free, open exchange of ideas where some free market determines what is popular and thus allowed for social discourse. Instead there’s the allowed discourse of the elite, which you freely participate in with glee, and worst of all you pretend you’re free.
So please keep simping like a good little serf. It does all of us good when we conform to what your institutional therapist thinks is “good” lol