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by fatneckbeard 1133 days ago
HN prob full of people who make their living off smartphones

reminds me of Oil / coil industry people who dont want to talk abt climate change

never easy to come to terms with your life work has to change or stop.

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Sorry, never made living from smart phones. Still don't think it's a good idea to ban them for kids.

Instead of actually making the world a fun place to live in, someone calls for renaming git master branch to main, sorry, to ban phones. It's just posing.

Never easy to come to terms with your life's work is actually making lives of other people miserable by exploiting them for a rich guy's third yacht. And that you should just say no.

That is a bit far fetched and a lot of trolling no?
Which part is far-fetched? O&G did their best to muddy the waters on the climate "debate" for decades. If you watched the Social Dilemma, executives of social media companies often limit the way their children use smartphones for their own health and safety.
completely agree on actions of O&G.

But comparing the overall actions of climate-negationist billion dollar corporations with the individual comments of developers working in the smartphone industry is a bit far fetched in my view…

The developers they chose to talk to are generally higher up on the tree and have an inner view of the motivations of the companies (corporations) they work for.
drug dealers always say: never get high on your own supply