raisins

Texture. No.

grapefruit

Doesn’t cook well.

lychee

Racism. Only racism.

Sometimes it happens on a scale of months, youre proven right on a quarter, then on half, and you beg them to take any precaution against that last 25%.

Then that’s just a tool for the biggest asshole in the room to use.

And telling them to please be more than that does not go over well.

Grace hopper died in 1992 well into her 80s.

Edit: Ada Lovelace (maiden name Augusta Ada Byron. Yeah that was her dad, no they never met, but that’s the time period) wrote the first computer code with a quill pen. Computers were largely considered ‘women’s work’ until I think like the late 50s; most of turing’s team at bletchley park were women. Up until the 1980s it was probably wise, if you wanted the deep lore on computers, to ask somebody’s grandma.

Most people even on the left are just tribal, doing things for group membership and not really understanding or caring about underlying ethics. Most people haven’t read a single book of theory¹, and if they have they didn’t understand it.

They might be doing vaguely the right thing,but they’re probably doing it because that’s where they made friends. It’s not a bad reason, it’s just not really that radical. They don’t care about truth much more than the average howling christofascist orc does; they mostly judge information on group acceptance like everybody else, and just fell into a less awful group.

¹or equivalent

I have not found this to be generally true.