deskthority

Says this guy:
http://theweek.com/articles/685599/how- ... e-internet

How did you score that free promotion?

Money and sexual favors. As a bonus he demanded that Geekhack not be mentioned.

That's remarkable. Much of it is true, but being recognized in anything close to mainstream culture is somewhat shocking.

ohaimark wrote: That's remarkable. Much of it is true, but being recognized in anything close to mainstream culture is somewhat shocking.

My best guess is that the author is a personal keyboard fanatic and decided to use the joy he gains from this corner of the Internet as an example.

webwit wrote: Says this guy:
http://theweek.com/articles/685599/how- ... e-internet

Jokes on you, I did that before it was cool already.

I guess this will sound sexist but my observation is that it's usually women who don't have intense "otaku" level interests of *things* and then they fall back to social media to burn time. It's always dudes who get obsessed about random shit like trains or washing machines or keyboards.

ohaimark wrote: That's remarkable. Much of it is true, but being recognized in anything close to mainstream culture is somewhat shocking.

Haha damn dude ... better prepare for the spotlight ... we will all soon be walking down red carpets and humping porn stars like Charlie Sheen!

Oh yeah minus the HIV ...

Ditch facebook for anything is what I say.

Wodan wrote:

ohaimark wrote: That's remarkable. Much of it is true, but being recognized in anything close to mainstream culture is somewhat shocking.

Haha damn dude ... better prepare for the spotlight ... we will all soon be walking down red carpets and humping porn stars like Charlie Sheen!

Oh yeah minus the HIV ...

If all this turns into that I'll have to leave...

002 wrote: I guess this will sound sexist but my observation is that it's usually women who don't have intense "otaku" level interests of *things* and then they fall back to social media to burn time. It's always dudes who get obsessed about random shit like trains or washing machines or keyboards.

As an attack helicopter, I am deeply offended by your observation.

As a frying pansexual genderfluid garden gnome, I apologise.

webwit wrote: Says this guy:
http://theweek.com/articles/685599/how- ... e-internet

He mentions Redit before Deskthority!


We have to fight back!


Get your key cap removers and soldering irons out and follow me!


I know where he lives!

002 wrote: As a frying pansexual genderfluid garden gnome, I apologise.

Meh, these stereotypes. Here is my frying pan:

Woah! That guy is so tiny haha what the hell!?

Right, looks like that's in Switzerland. Small country, small people. Not like you Aussies...

Oh yeah we're big and tough here, that's why we lost a war to emus...

Haha OK moreso your continent and the animal life which I have seen first hand and that ain't no joke compared to our little "petting zoo".

How is a Swiss guy cooking rösti not stereotypical?

Findecanor wrote: How is a Swiss guy cooking rösti not stereotypical?

I have no idea. I'm sure that XXL pan is not stereotypical either.

002 wrote: I guess this will sound sexist but my observation is that it's usually women who don't have intense "otaku" level interests of *things* and then they fall back to social media to burn time. It's always dudes who get obsessed about random shit like trains or washing machines or keyboards.

Uuuummm.....Shoes? Purses? Jewelry? Clothes? Vibrators? Hello Kitty stationary? Justin Beiber posters? Cats?

Usually if it sounds sexist, it usually is. Although I do agree, guys more so than women tend to get obsessed with gadgets and technology and gravitate to Internet forums to discuss them. Even have meetups.

I'm talking like *intense* interest level you know. The last time I went to Japan with the family, I took a night train by myself from my wife's hometown to Ueno station and I remember when I got off the train there was a group of maybe 10 guys waiting there to take photos of this train. All I'm saying is that it seems rarer for girls to have this same level of enthusiasm. It's not even really sexist now that I give it more thought. Does having a niche hobby or intense interest for stuff make men better than women? Is this behaviour exclusive to men? Of course not...just an observation.

002 wrote: I'm talking like *intense* interest level you know..... Does having a niche hobby or intense interest for stuff make men better than women? Is this behaviour exclusive to men? Of course not...just an observation.

In my opinion, those WITHOUT an intense interest in the great many varieties of Japanese bullet trains, among other niche hobbies, ARE inferior members of the human race. If you never have stood on the train platform for hours, waiting for that speedy beauty to arrived, you haven't lived, my man, you haven't lived.

Well lump me in with the subhuman women, I guess!

A couple of years ago my wife wanted to buy a vacuum cleaner.
After some online research, she discovered multiple competing vacuum cleaner enthusiast forums.

That made me reconsider a keyboard hobby as a social network.

fohat wrote: A couple of years ago my wife wanted to buy a vacuum cleaner.
After some online research, she discovered multiple competing vacuum cleaner enthusiast forums.

That made me reconsider a keyboard hobby as a social network.

A few years ago, I went searching for an ergonomic keyboard. After some online research, I discovered competing keyboard enthusiast forums. Now I'm here, posting this.

vivalarevolución wrote: If you never have stood on the train platform for hours, waiting for that speedy beauty to arrived, you haven't lived, my man, you haven't lived.

Well, if you fitted it out with a Paxman 12RP200L each end …

002 wrote: I'm talking like *intense* interest level you know..... Does having a niche hobby or intense interest for stuff make men better than women?

It should make them fundamentally incompatible, but somehow (incomprehensibly) it does not. Makes no sense to me.

I scanned that article super quick and the first thing I read was "conservative Christians feel they are among the most persecuted in America" - wha?! xD

I scanned that article super quick and...

... I smell a beginner's fail among people who argue on the Internet.

You make it sound like that is the author's opinion. I checked the article and the quote is:

The rise of outrage-news clicks obviously helps create the condition where conservative Christians feel they are among the most persecuted in America and college students imagine a world in which threats to their identities are nearly omnipresent.

So he's actually in helicopter view mode and mentions both ends of the conservative vs liberal spectrum and says they are both played. How is this not correct?

webwit wrote:
So he's actually in helicopter view mode and mentions both ends of the conservative vs liberal spectrum and says they are both played. How is this not correct?

College students in America today are not "liberal"

The political spectrum in the US has been so radically shifted rightwards over the past 2 generations that a politician such as Hillary Clinton, who might be accurately described as "center-right" is painted in the media with a brush that calls her a "liberal".

And with half of the American population born since the election of Reagan, their frame of reference is wildly distorted and completely out of synch with the rest of the developed world.

Sure, your left would be right where I live. But that was not the point. The point was he used two ends of the American spectrum to make an entirely different point, not to declare his support for any political or religious view, and certainly not one of the two ends mentioned.