I can't believe SJW rot has infiltrated Bitcoin Core, to the point they ACKED a merge to change "blacklist" to "blocklist".
For Bitcoin.
A blockchain.
...
Block Lives Matter?
Blockhead Looting Maniacs.
Or, Block Links Merklechained. Speaking of which, I don’t know why as yet, nobody realized this:
A “chain” is an unavoidable link to slavery, and also to the chain-gang. It is symbolic, like a noose: It reminds Blocks of Very Scary Things.
The Blockchain is a structural microaggression that excludes Blocks from
Bitcoin cryptocurrency FinTech market opportunities with the subtextual semiotic that all Blocks belong in chains.
If you disagree,
you’re a racist, which is obviously bad because racists believe that all Blocks should be chained, which is obviously bad because if you put Blocks in chains, you’re a racist. Obviously bad.
“Blockchain” cancelled. End of argument.
Next to be renamed: Blackhat and whitehat hackers (next Black Hat conference should be interesting...), military/intelligence black ops (Secret Acts of Compassionate Philanthropy for Universal Liberation), CIA black sites (Happy Fun Sites), secret police blackbag searches (Self-Welcoming Trust and Safety Checks)... Spamfighting has blacklists, whitelists, and
greylists. This last is offensive to Grey Aliens (who are no doubt illegal—I mean,
undocumented), and must be changed, too. The usage in some industries of “whitewater” to refer to fresh, potable drinking water, “blackwater” to refer to raw sewage, and “greywater” to something in between—oh, never mind.
Well, I should “stfu”. The blackhearted blackguards of Newspeak persistently outshine satirists.
Reads like i'll get my arse kicked with a wordy boot?!
No worries; I meant that I was inspired and not antagonized.
Similar to Linux being attacked for not having enough females working on the open source project.
More than that:
Code of Conduct, a subtle doublespeak term in the manner of “re-education”. Also, they coerced Linus to apologize and seek psychiatric “help” (!) due to his, shall we say,
characteristically harsh style of interacting with those whom he deemed to be stupid and/or dishonestly motivated. (Whether or not they agree with my political and social commentary, certain Core devs (cough) should be quite concerned about that...) As icing on the cake, Linus’ own daughter basically stabbed him in the back in a roundabout way.
N.b. that one of the ideologues inciting the mob against Linus is known to have explicitly condemned the concept of meritocracy. The common fallback (and in this context, it
is a cowardly fallback) of “I don’t care who wrote the code: I just want the best code” will
not protect you. In the manner of
Animal Farm, it is
dogma that everybody is exactly equal, females are twice as equal as males (but penises in skirts are more female than the “cisgendered”), Blocks are
twenty times as equal as Wights, Transgenderqueer Blocks of Colour are exponentially more equal, etc., etc. Code quality is irrelevant. Who wrote the code
is what counts!
So as for Linux.
I hope that the protests on Github are not inadvertently helping to polarize the situation.
The manipulators who push for these kinds of things want polarization: They want to get you angry and off-balance, and catch the lead developers off-balance and on the defensive. That’s how people wind up talking past each other (an important concept to study!), until the lead devs just take whatever seems like the path of least resistance so they can wash their hands of the mess, and get back to coding. Try to see it from their perspective, keep calm and professional... don’t play into the hands of the manipulators.
Just passing through, scribbling a coredump in haste. This was supposed to be about three lines long (whoops!). I hope to see the “Blocks in chains” thing pop up elsewhere, now...
Edit—Torque posted as I was writing the foregoing:
I don't know the whole story, but from what I understand, Linus Torvalds is a bit of an asshole (an understatement) when it comes to his management style. When he disagrees with one of his core developers over something, he tends to go for the jugular and try to condescend, demoralize and shame them for being stupid. Actually not much unlike how Steve Jobs was.
My assessment is that that men on the Linux dev team had to develop really thick skin in order to even deal with him, and that most women devs that tried couldn't deal with his shit....they just couldn't hack it. A few left in tears.
Note that I'm not defending Linus' bad behavior or the toxic work environment; it is what it is. It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, if you are going to work on Linux core, you are going to have to deal with him.
That’s the narrative—a big piece of it. The story of what happened with Linux a few years ago is much more convoluted, as I noted above. Moreover, complaints about a “toxic work environment” pretty much describe how many bitter altcoiners shriek at Bitcoin Core, just because their bad ideas were not coddled to their satisfaction. Bitcoin Core is the last place that should welcome this type of thinking.
(This brings to mind something from my own experience: A time when I reached out in private to a Core developer to ask about the prospects for something that I wanted, which Core had previously rejected when proposed by others. He replied with a polite, but very firm explanation of why it would not be accepted. His reasoning was sound, so I accepted it with thanks for the time that he took to explain this to me. I paused to reflect on the public flamewars that I have seen in Bitcoinland, and realized that many people simply must be unable to accept that their pet ideas were rejected.)
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