Kind of an anti-intellectual meme, honestly. After like 9th grade reading level, one can learn that it’s not about finding the meaning in the text. It’s about finding a meaning and supporting it.

It doesn’t really matter that much what the author meant. What matters what’s actually in the text.

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that’s not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read

I’m pretty sure conservatives axiomatically have a problem with women. That’s part of conservatism.