Haven't you ever been on a night flight where you had to ask someone to turn down their Samsung phablet from the brightness of indoor landing light? That's roughly the level of inconsideration that is routine on flights, so this passage isn't so extreme as to fall under Poe's law and falls in a gray zone of ambiguity. If they had said Bodysnatcher at full volume for 20 minutes and no one complained, then it would've been absolutely certain to be satire without a doubt. I kind of like the idea of it remaining ambiguous, almost as much as I enjoy appearing to lie while telling people the truth.
This goes hand-in-hand with the idea of using "boring" technology. If it's mission critical, I'd rather be using something battle-tested than the brand-new hot tech. There's re tooling, more documentation and likely more search-able solutions to whatever problems you may run into.
Funnily enough I didn't even use any third party apps at the time (just the old web client) but that whole fiasco was enough for me to finally curb my addiction. I also noticed the quality of comments seeming very bad whenever I go to something on Reddit (once every few months at this point). I don't think the quality has actually gotten much worse recently though; I think it was just so normal to me when I was using it. I think it has been a pretty slow decline over the last decade or so, to the point where it is now.
It's barely limping along. URLs with underscores get broken (with an extra backslash) when posted from certain apps but only for old.reddit users. There's some kind of inline images that just says "image" that you have to click on to see. There are some kind of emojis or something that only show up as digits between colons. People talk about profile pictures that I don't see. Sometimes the zooming keeps zooming back out when you're trying to zoom in, and if you follow a link and go back, it will automatically scroll you somewhere else on the page besides where you left off.
Looks like he's done some interesting stuff, but: Some of his views I can't stand: No gun control; No freedom from religion; Contradictory views like "Government must not adopt policies that are offensive to any religion" - how does that work where two all options are offensive to some religion?
Yeah I submitted that site before I poked around and looked at his political and religious views.
I try to respect everyone's opinion regarding those matters, but it's really hard when there are people who deal in absolutes and can't respect other peoples' opinions.
Unfortunately, mixing politics and religion is a poor choice. I don't think God chooses sides between republicans and democrats, or whatever parties happen to be common in your country or time that you exist.
Sadly mixing politics and religion is highly effective because it turns voting for a particular side into a "religious war" in which very little thought is applied as to if the candidate is actually reflective of your values. (See Trump, Republicans, and evangelicals)
