Does anyone else find it just a little disturbing how hard a certain subset of the population is leaning into this? Like they've finally found a group of people that they're allowed to hate. And let's be clear here, they're personifying this tech. Nobody bothers to hate a word processor or a 3D printer.

> Nobody bothers to hate a word processor or a 3D printer

Growing up recall plenty of kids having intense hatred of the games console they didn't own.

Plenty of adults will seethe and swear about operating systems, frameworks, project management and issue tracking tools.

Everyone hated Clippy, at the time.

They're not people. You're allowed to hate spyware, spamware, MS Word and PC LOAD LETTER. You absolutely should hate technology that makes your life worse.

>Nobody bothers to hate a word processor or a 3D printer.

I guess you don't remember Clippy.

Have you never seen the scene in Office Space with the rap and the baseball bat and an office printer?

Like, no, hating machinery is as old as Ludd at least. I guarantee Grug back in the cave days was trying to convince his cavemates that "weaving is an abomination and we should just carry everything with our hands"

Part of it is irony / memes / for teh lulz though. But then, a lot of alt-right started off as irony / memes / for teh lulz.

I hate all printers, and they appear to hate me back