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"Watching people discuss BASE on a tech forum feels like watching technology being discussed on a knitting forum."

I'm not so sure: BASE is expensive. Think about the demographic in here: tech workers, probably a lot of them doing reasonably well financially, and probably quite a few are outdoorsy.

Any of these hobbies is expensive when you really get into them: BASE, mountain-biking, motorcycling, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, paragliding, skydiving. Yet you find lots of techies doing all of them because they can actually afford to.

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Except, I wasn't talking about whether or not people could afford to do it (though, BASE is only expensive if you make it expensive - or get arrested), or whether it was likely that some people in the tech industry were jumpers (I know for a fact that many jumpers work in tech).

I was talking about the actual content of the many cringeworthy comments coming from people who were clearly trying to sound informed on a subject they don't understand. Like a knitting circle discussing cryptocurrency.

I see it constantly when anything about flying comes up as well. One or two actual pilots will show up, and 500 people who did an intro lesson or got to take the controls in a friend's plane once, will start trying to share their vast knowledge of the finer points of powered flight.