Nobody knows you’re wearing stiletto boots in an online meeting.

I’d need to be paid a non negligible amount to try and wring some speck of usefulness out of this thing.

Of all the ways one would harvest a botnet for propaganda, asking the victims nicely is surely the most cynical yet.

I wonder how much they’ll charge for it.

That’s a 1 month old thread my man :P

Not sure what you mean. The thread was created August 16, my comment was made August 21, and now here you are replying on September 24. Some fediverse hiccup maybe.

So anyways I don’t have anything a cursory search wouldn’t turn up.

Mate. No offense I swear and I’m convinced this isn’t what this is, but your post feels like these fake “organic” posts made by marketing firms pretending to be actual human beings plugging their products in “totally normal and not staged” ways.

Ah, good question sir. I’d go for stinky as this seems to me the default butt state, as one goes through the hours of an active day rich in butt crack sweat. On the other hand, a sticky butt sounds absolutely unbearable. Think of the hair! No way. I don’t care if it makes my buns smell like cinnamon.

The real punch line is the time you wasted along the way.

This is a nice graph for debunking the idea that biology offers a sort of refuge for the proponents of a strict binary sexual framework. Let it be known that once in a while some people born with penises are XX while some people born with vulvas are XY, and that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Maleness and femaleness might be fact as poles of a spectrum (might be more complicated); what they are NOT is an either/or mutually exclusive phenomenon. The distribution of the population on that supposed spectrum probably look like an inverted bell curve, with most persons closer to either end… but to be honest I suspect the curve is not as pronounced as we are led to think.

Personally speaking I’m forty something and by now I’m convinced I’m not 100% pure male stuff. I don’t give a shit if it’s biological or social. I feel it in a myriad of ways. I’m comfortable enough in the way I’m treated and perceived though so I let sleeping dogs lie and ride the male label. I’m hairy, I have a dick, I don’t want trouble. So this is totally unscientific, but I swear sometimes I recognize this same ambiguous essence in someone else; there’s a faint feeling of kinship. I’m willing to bet the silent majority has plenty of folks who wouldn’t have minded being a wee bit further from the poles if others didn’t make such a fucking fuss about it.

Wow. Literally describes Jean-Marc Léger. Went from polls guy to full on pundit exactly like this.

I would add that “electoral maths” is something some medias spend way too much time obsessing about. It goes “meta” on the voting intentions, ultimately encouraging tribalism by eclipsing the actual propositions. Furthermore it’s all based on polls which are increasingly unreliable since the end of the landline era.

It’s not a take though, it’s a thing. The tendency to fall into irrational beliefs has been called “Dysrationalia” in psychology and is linked to higher education and intelligence. An example would be the tendency of Nobel prize winners to espouse crazy theories later in life, which is humourously referred to as the Nobel Disease.

Hard disagree. Tools can absolutely be blamed or otherwise regulated on account of their affordances. You’re very close to the “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument.

I struggle with the framing of generative AI as an a11y tool as well. I understand that it may serve this purpose, but it’s much more than that. Generative AI deserves scrutiny for being such a powerful disinformation tool, for driving massive power consumption and for perpetuating harmful biases.

Also I don’t see what you’re trying to achieve preemptively calling anyone who disagrees a reactionary… Look, you’ve been posting a lot of hot takes daily for a while now and I feel like maybe you’d profit from reading and reflecting on things, take time to dig into stuff? Right now you’re just asserting one thing after another as fact with little to support any of it.

“Lesser evil” is an idiom and as such should not be taken literally. It essentially means that between immoral options, the least immoral one should be chosen.

In a democracy, a voter will often have to choose between candidates while none of the candidates espouse the exact same positions as the voter. The voter is essentially faced with a multiple criteria decision. I’m against the idea of not voting on account of there not being a candidate filling all the criteria. Voting remains a fundamental way of influencing our governments. You can get involved in other ways as well if you wish to do more.

It’s important to note that opting into the Apple ecosystem locks you out of any form of agency on your hardware. They’ve moved hard against repairability and they maintain a stranglehold on spare parts.

For that reason I prefer my personal desktop computer to be a PC I can open, maintain or upgrade myself in terms of hardware. The operating system is my choice as well.

I understand not everybody has the means or interest to tinker with their machine, but I still think Apple’s business practices regarding hardware is wasteful and polluting.

Runs away from doomscrolling

Lands on this beauty: https://longdogechallenge.com/

All my favorite cookware are fucking heavy, so on that front I don’t have much advice. One thing I can say though is to experiment with lowering your cooking temperature. I know sometimes we can be in a hurry and we crank it up, but often we could have gotten the same result with a lower setting and a tiny bit more patience. This can make a huge difference with how hard the residue gets stuck. Finally, the nonstick film unfortunately gets worn out after a while and at that point everything will stick non stop. At that point there’s not much to be done but replacing the pan sadly.

That’s just a quote from the woman speaking about her experience. I’ve personally heard often about childbirth as potentially causing incredibly intense pain.

Teaching changing minds, influencing… it needs plenty of repeating and sleeping on things. To be fair, when all else fails applying pressure has its place as well. Nevertheless small victories are still victories.

The ability of Ladybird’s team to face scrutiny of all kinds is important for them to eventually gain traction in the browser market. But I’m still hopeful, and we need more options.

Kernel/Syscalls/jail.cpp includes the gender neutral “they” as well. Good on them for merging that PR.