Post #2150309

2025-09-04 03:28 UTC

@TheFrenchGhosty wow...what an incredibly privileged and toxic statement. I do thank the people I interact with. I always say hi to the shop workers and thank them when they help me. I might be crazy in your eyes, but when I pass an intersection where a construction worker stops digging to let me cross, I thank him. It's called being a decent human being and not assuming that "You're getting money so I can treat you like shit". What kind of a sad world do you want to live in?

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@uoou@mas.to 2025-09-04 03:31

@alecaddd @TheFrenchGhosty You're interacting with shop-workers inter-personally so of course you'll say thanks. That is not the equivalent of what you're demanding. The equivalent would be getting in contact with the manufacturers of all the consumer goods you purchase and thanking them for making them. Do you do that?

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@TheFrenchGhosty@libretooth.gr 2025-09-04 03:33

@alecaddd Your argument boils down to virtue signaling. You're a "Director of Product Engineering" at Mozilla (I didn't know that before). Your argument would actually be worth something if you were working for free (and not for 100 000+ a year - and I'm being generous considering you're literally corporate). I did/do software as volunteer and got thanks. Here's the reality rich guy, a thank is almost worthless to me (and most of those people you mentioned) because it doesn't pay the bills.

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@uoou@mas.to 2025-09-04 03:34

@alecaddd @TheFrenchGhosty To be clear, if I encounter the dev of something I really enjoy using or anything I use where the dev is a *volunteer*, then I'll thank them. But going out of my way to thank the devs who - as paid work - make the majority of software which gets worse and heavier constantly, no, that's insane.

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