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   pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 21:07:52 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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   @lonelyowl @Darbzilla @DutchBoomerMan @Fever @Formerly_Trucks @Nicezilla @Sui
   
   > it's not only about politics but about whatever, this is how human psychology works.
   
   I am aware; I am old. ( https://freespeechextremist.com/notice/AIB2yWD51ohVAc7ekK ) You're missing that it is the same psychological mechanism but the situation is completely different.
   
   There are more people here that can discuss Python in a reasonable way than people that can discuss any of these wars in a reasonable way. There are also far fewer people that will want to talk about Python, because far fewer people know enough to even care, let alone care enough to form an opinion that they wish to express, but close enough to 100% of the people on here have an opinion about Israel. If I talk about Python with someone, sometimes they will say boring shit, sometimes they will not, but they won't say something that I have seen about a million times in screenshots from Twitter. And I might disagree, but what they say about Python will almost never actually depress me. Foreign governments are not paying for massive Python agitprop campaigns. On top of that, someone's opinion on Python might actually matter: you can write a program in Python, or if we both know Python then we can communicate using it (e.g., responding to a question with example code), but nobody's opinion on Palestine matters. If I say I don't care about Python, there's a good chance that the person trying to ramble at me about Python stops, but there is a near-zero probability that someone babbling at me about their opinion on Israel or Palestine stops when I tell them I don't care about that, and I have years of empirical evidence on that. If I tell someone to shut the fuck up about Python because I don't care, their friends do not jump into the thread accusing me of being a Java programmer.
   
   So, sure, people get attached to their shibboleths. It is not without reason that arguments about text editors are called "holy wars". This is not the same, though: if you say that 1% of the people on fedi have an opinion about Python (generous) and a 5% chance that they will get mad at a stranger for expressing the opposite opinion, and that 99% of the people on fedi have an opinion about Israel versus Palestine and a 1% chance that they will get mad at a stranger for expressing the opposite opinion (generous), you'll still get about twenty times as many messages about Israel. While we're on the back of the envelope, we could apply Sturgeon's Law ("90% of anything is crap"), and say that of those message, 10% are good. So, for each interesting message you get about Python, you get 9 shitty missives about Python, 19.8 interesting messages about Israel, and 178.2 retarded internet slap-fight messages about Israel. 1/(9+198)~0.0048, so you're happy to see about 0.5% of the replies you get.
   
   So, you make a robot that replies to people and tells them to fuck off. I don't have time to sift through 198 messages about Israel, so I won't.
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