I've bought a handful of software and technology books from O'Reilly and had mixed experiences.
One of them - The Art of SEO, feels like a treasure trove of wisdom and experience. Another that I won't name, but is about a popular programming language, feels more or less like like a print copy of the online documentation that's available for free, with very little value-add.
Shop with care, and if you're going to write, write with purpose and real value.
The definition of a bigot is someone who is intolerant to differing views. That being the case, perhaps this accusation is better leveled at the people relentlessly driving right-wing opinion off of every major platform.
Far too many people today, many of whom I suspect have a recent inclination to harboring particular political views at all, are missing the entire point of politics - that it's a debate.
It's the great debate, the one that we set up entire electoral systems to have, and built entire buildings in which it would be held.
Today, a dangerous number of people are outright enraged by having their dogmatic political beliefs challenged, and they'll go to great lengths to ensure that you can't share yours.
It's a mess. Years ago, attempts at political conversation were more often than not met with indifference and you had to find like-minded people interested in having them. We used to bemoan that too few people were engaged in politics. Who knew that it would be this much of a mess once they were.
Agree. There's just nothing even remotely interesting or real being said on Reddit anymore. I'd honestly rather do anything else. I'd rather stare at a wall with my own thoughts than spend time on Reddit.
Here's an exercise - check out /r/unpopularopinion today. Full of perfectly boring normal opinions like "MTV should go back to showing music videos". All of the content just seems completely fake. There's not an unpopular opinion in sight.
Now go the Wayback Machine and take a look at that same sub from say, three to five years ago (which feels like a short time to me these days). Plenty of deeply unpopular, controversial, thought-provoking opinions. You don't have to like them, but they were real.
One of them - The Art of SEO, feels like a treasure trove of wisdom and experience. Another that I won't name, but is about a popular programming language, feels more or less like like a print copy of the online documentation that's available for free, with very little value-add.
Shop with care, and if you're going to write, write with purpose and real value.