I extrapolated that observation from a variety of articles over the last several years about the internal culture and hiring practices of Facebook and other tech companies. I don't see how making such an observation justifies your confrontational attitude.

I don't think that's a fair or accurate portrait of what I've said, and I think you're being a serious dick about this issue without much cause. You want to take it down a notch and talk to me like a person, or you want to keep acting like a 13-year-old fresh off of /b/?

This is a good point, and a worthwhile distinction. This doesn't have to be a big conspiracy, it's the sort of thing that can just happen as the result of a small, like-minded organization having total control over a very large system. No malice required, just letting our biases guide our hand without good controls…

If opinionated news isn't actually news, it's still opinion, and FB is still filtering it out, so I'm confused about what point you're making.

No, but they might be underrepresented in Facebook's corporate hierarchy, and if the Gizmodo article is true, then they're at least somewhat underrepresented by Facebook.

I'm not shocked, but I do think it's worth worrying at least a little about Facebook filtering political opinions out of the conversation, considering how much internet real estate FB controls.

Originally read it as "the boat with the moat" before I realized first that that's stupid, boats can't have moats, second that actually every boat has a moat technically.

I'm pretty sure worms are already diet, since they come out of the earth

I'm sick and tired of these Latin boat names coming up here, taking jobs from proud American boat names, docking illegally in our ports!

Hah, they ate so many worms, I assume.

WE'RE FIXING IT WITH DUMB BOAT NAMES

You're just mad that she'd rather hang out in our tubular junkyard clubhouse, learning to roller blade and breakdancing with the only black kid in this whole picture!

http://www.amazon.com/Avoid…

"You're welcome"

Dear Rest of the Internet,

So you just want history to be a total bum-out, huh?

Chad Radwell sounds like a douchey rich kid from a parody of 90s slob vs snob movies.

I propose that for the next ten years, whenever there's any sort of insurrection/revolution/uprising anywhere in the world, we should attribute it directly to the Boaty McBoatface scandal.

As a Spaz, I feel kind of left out in all this.

Oh yeah, Dear White People. I liked that one.