[fmeyer]

BOFH, BileBlog, The Daily WTF;

No wonder we all turned cynical.

[_ZeD_]

it's the opposite. we are cynical, so we build that stuff

[bitwize]

Artifacts of the toxic "contempt culture" historically endemic to hacker culture.

https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/

[woooooo]

"Contempt culture" is one way to put it, definitely had some toxic elements, but it was also actual hacker culture. The nice-ification of tech has come with corporatization and has its own downsides.

[Aeolun]

You can only deal with stupid (or ‘differently aligned competencies’) for so long before it starts to irk you, and you start assuming that anyone that calls—and anything they want—is stupid