• noride@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I’d say he’s a milquetoast narcissist at best, his boilerplate deflectons were totally hinged the whole time.

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      running through the sales playbook big time over a post with no readers

      and now the original blog post, which had almost no readers, is front page on HN as I write this, and (in between the sociopath apologetics) even the horrible nerds are noticing he’s bizarre on privacy, GDPR and AI obsession …

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          I think a lot of folks, in my experience especially those who didn’t grow up with the Internet, don’t see online interactions as “real” as offline. I think it explains a lot of the harassing behavior we see online.

          For the peanut gallery, if someone asks you to stop communicating with you but you persist, it’s harassment regardless of the venue.

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            I’d like to think so, but I think you’re being unduly generous here and actually they’re just entitled shitheads