@mhoye change the xkcd cartoon from govt agents beating...

@mhoye change the xkcd cartoon from govt agents beating someone with a wrench to an abusive husband beating someone with a wrench, and maybe these sheltered nerds will believe it.

https://xkcd.com/538/

Panel 1:
(A crypto nerd's imagination)
A: this laptop's encrypted. Let's build a million-dollar cluster to crack it.
B: no good! It's 4096-bit RSA!
A: blast! Our evil plan is filled!

Panel 2:
(What would actually happen)
A: His laptop's encrypted. Drug him and hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us the password.
B: got it.

Like 22 May at 13:29 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io

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mhoye

@heathborders

There's a missing third panel to that called "what happens all the time", that says "I'm going to hit her with a wrench for no reason and then look through her computer because I can."

The guy opposite him is wearing a police officer's hat and says "That's fine."

22 May at 13:32 | Open on mastodon.social

merzbow and chill

@heathborders @mhoye

how many of these sheltered nerds see themselves as the ones wielding the wrench in that scenario though

(genuine question; the tech sphere is one of the worst enablers of modern misogyny, I'd be 0% surprised if it translated to higher rates of DV among tech workers)

22 May at 14:30 | Open on queer.party

Heath Borders

@emptyfortress @mhoye

> One of the worst enablers of modern misogyny

Can you expand on that?

In my reading, cops have the worst DV correlation

22 May at 14:33 | Open on hachyderm.io

mhoye

@heathborders @emptyfortress If "enablers" means "providing free tech support for" I definitely believe this.

22 May at 14:47 | Open on mastodon.social

Theodore Painsworth

@heathborders @mhoye

If those sheltered nerds actually read xkcd regularly they likely wouldn't be defending the kind of shit they are though. Randall is the exact antithesis to the tech bro culture.

22 May at 14:59 | Open on beige.party

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