Posted on 02/03/2019 6:18:28 PM PST by dynachrome
Dozens of jobs were slashed at HuffPost that day, following a round of layoffs at Gannett Media; further jobs were about to be disappeared at BuzzFeed. It was a grim day for the media, and I just wanted to channel my tiny part of the prevailing gloom.
Then the responses started rolling in—some sympathy from fellow journalists and readers, then an irritating gush of near-identical responses: “Learn to code.” “Maybe learn to code?” “BETTER LEARN TO CODE THEN.” “Learn to code you useless bitch.” Alongside these tweets were others: “Stop writing fake news and crap.” “MAGA.” “Your opinions suck and no one wants to read them.” “Lmao journalists are evil wicked cretins. I wish you were all jail [sic] and afraid.”
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Talia is butt-hurt by her lack of marketable skills.
Which is why all the 4chan and r/The_Donald guys we’re using it on all the laid off Leftist journalists.
This is what Hillary told out of work coal miners in Virginia and West Virginia
How about “Get a real job!”
Been in IT since 1980 I’m a network engineer and actually do provisioning but I can write some pretty dam good code when I want to
Nothing good has come out of Brooklyn since the Dodgers left.
“Btw there was some Obama signed bill authorizing for first time spending money for propaganda targeting Americans. It expired end of last year. Suggested online that’s why these cuts are happening.”
I heard the same - and it makes sense, as these outfits don’t otherwise seem to have a source of financing.
“If the reporters don’t like it, they can feel free to go pound sand.”
How about installing fence posts...make them actually do some REAL WORK, for the first time in their lives.
I used to be fluent in FORTRAN.
FORTRAN is now obsolete.
Not fluent enough to work on fixing legacy systems...
I love what I do now.
Too dumb to code, Talia.
Yes. Those same opinion makers had little enough sympathy when Barack Obama was shutting down the coal industry and destroying private healthcare.
I think it’s dogism
Maybe, but I’m going to have a “Learn to code, bitch!” t-shirt made. :)
With the way Trump is bringing back manufacturing jobs, Ms. Talia may find herself toting a lunch bucket to a factory soon. I’m sure all those wimmens studies and capitalism is evil courses will get her a plum job down at the plant.
The author's complaint about the "learn to code" taunt is hilarious and without merit. Here's one example of a leftist Senator congratulating a program that taught miners to write computer programs:
Liberal elitists told unemployed coal miners to go learn to code.
A few fly by night groups set up “code camps” before folding to profit on the desperate and NGO money.
In Appalachia, Coding Bootcamps That Aim To Retrain Coal Miners Increasingly Show Themselves To Be ‘New Collar’ Grifters
https://beltmag.com/appalachia-coding-bootcamps/
Okay, let’s change it to “Learn to make fries.” Coding is far beyond their capabilities anyway.
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