fascinating

There's this phenomenon that takes place whenever you get too far away from hardware or biology where the primary parts of what people are reasoning about become words, and then the people who ONLY deal with words start to creep in and take over

It's sort of the opposite of how if you start to describe things using math suddenly you let in the mathematicians who can do all sorts of weird shit with the equations, but at least there are rules in math and sometimes they come back with actually useful stuff.

CS, especially as you get closer to stuff like microcontrollers and things that actually interface with the real world, is an engineering discipline that does not involve heteronormativity, it just involves making the little electrons do a thing.

But because there are so many abstractions and abstractions of abstractions you get conversations about imperialist code or sexist math, which is basically analogous to accusing carpentry of being subversive. It's wood!

You know how a lot of buildings don't have a 13th floor because it's "bad luck"?

That's basically the best-case scenario for engineering playing along with religious/superstitious belief in the power of certain concepts.

Other variations are like the Orthodox-Jewish compliant elevator that stop at every floor, or various western countries lack of biotech innovation due to religious prejudices.

It doesn't really matter what's true if enough people insist loudly enough.

The theologists are remarkably good at being convincing and getting people to insist even if their reasoning is actually just unconnected to anything in reality.