Sometimes I hear of Gen X including right up to 82 or 83

Strong agreement here

VR is like flying cars. It's a stupid idea that sounds cool.

You could actually look it up rather than just call it racist and remain ignorant.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847819306539

look at section 3.3

I disagree. When comments are essentially just a rephrasing of the class/method name or arguments it is not helpful and anything that is not helpful is cluttering up the code and making it harder to quickly see what the code is doing. I'd rather have no comments than comments like that.

A look at the mod log is pretty depressing. Clearly the mods on Lemmy are as bad or worse than on the old site. 95% of what is removed shouldn't have been, it's just constant power tripping or trying to set the narrative.