“oh no my parents are going to learn what I’ve been looking at on the internet” is the single greatest motivating factor for developing tech skills the world has ever seen
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Soo true
aug 31, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Nods approvingly in Gen X
aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 4 0 • view
True. My career in tech support is 99% because I learned how to clear cache, cookies, and browsing history to hide boobs dot com from dad.
aug 31, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Even weirder because my parents did not believe in censorship. I just didn't want them to know.
aug 31, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Once again, porn leads the way in tech innovations
aug 31, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Going to miss the days when you could just say you were born on January 1, 1900 if you wanted to play a Flash game that had the word “ass” in it
aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 8 0 • view
And *that* is why comp-sci is dominated by furries and queer folk!
aug 31, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 1 • view
and thus the next generation of technical talent was secured it was looking pretty grim there, but we did it.
aug 31, 2025, 5:17 pm • 19 1 • view
There's also the double whammy of nobody having money anymore, so now we need to pirate things like when we were teenagers
aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 5 0 • view
And big media companies vanishing popular (but not popular enough) movies and TV shows into the aether because they aren't generating enough views so the only way to access them is through piracy.
aug 31, 2025, 5:30 pm • 6 0 • view