Sorry, if you sell your project to a data collection firm you have already lost the plot anyways. These companies care only about one thing, and it’s not “making a quality app”.

There are two types of gamers:

Some see an open world sandbox and say “Wow, I can do anything!” and pick their own goals.

The other type says “WHAT it’s pointless!” and wants some kind of arrow pointing at the next objective.

YOU might think they are well defined terms, but there are people claiming with a straight face that “race X can’t be racist, because racism needs power structures” or all this other exceptionalism. They use every definition but the one in the dictionary.

“white men can’t experience racism and sexism”

A big problem here is that not everyone has a common definition for racism and sexism. Some definitions take existing power structures and historical context, and others don’t. A discussion about this topic should be started with what specifically each participant believes these terms mean. Otherwise you have two people talking about “sexism” but they are just talking past each other because they lack a shared understanding of the term as it is used.

If you were to say “black people are bad” then the rebuttal typically becomes “due to established power structures, white men can’t be oppressed, therefore I can say what I want about them”.

I think it’s hard to have a reasoned discussion where you say “all men do X” because for every X, there’s probably a bunch of exceptions. There is a great amount of variance in male behavior.

It’s original sin, just by gender. I think people underestimate the harm in painting all men with the same brush. Once the conversation morphs from “I hate this thing some males do” and changes into “I HATE MEN” you can’t have a productive conversation.

I think it’s because grok ships the most bugs, so they have to ship the most patches.

Matt Walsh is one of the most smarmy fucks around. I swear, some people listen to him because he has a nice haircut and smile.

I only wish he was older, like Trump, so we wouldn’t expect to have him on the earth for another two decades.

Trying to rewind the USA back to when we were all smoking cigarettes and drinking whisky is insane.

The problem is 100% Kent. Linus and the rest of the main contributors have a certain way they like to run and operate. Kent has again and again shown that he doesn’t like working that way and keeps sneaking stuff into patchsets.

You can be a 500% genius, but if you’re working as a team member (which anyone doing a sizeable contribution to the kernel is), then you have to learn how to play in the sandbox.

I can’t see any possible future where BCacheFS stays in the kernel. Kent is starting a fight he cannot win. If he doesn’t want to play nice, then his FS will have to be maintained as a kernel patch, which will forever be a limiting factor in its adoption. It’s too bad he doesn’t just swallow his pride and play by the rules.

btrfs is no perfect piece of software either, so it’s good to know there are alternatives out there.

We’re starting to see the type of delusion that led to the demise of the USSR. They’d commonly put quotas in place that were impossible to meet, then someone would fluff the numbers to make it look like it really happened, then the next year they’d raise the quota even further.

A great quote about this is from the series “Chernobyl”.

“Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid.”

We are invoking an awful lot of debt today.

I find it funny that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” folks are starting to ignore the facts in favor of their feeling. America is not short on hypocrisy.

I’m confused – if he knew Trump was going to be so mad, why didn’t he just release better numbers? That’s how it used to work in the USSR and plenty of people were able to keep their government jobs.

It’s still out there and going amazing!!! Despite the lack of mainstream media coverage, blockchain and smart contacts couldn’t be doing better.

On an unrelated topic, does anyone want to buy some NFTs? I can give you a really good deal. No take-backs, though.

hispanics

Uh oh! Don’t tell the reds that.

Per capita is always the way to go, otherwise the only cities considered free of crime would be the nearly deserted ones in the Midwest with 100-500 people.

I clicked through and had to go to a second linked article(!) for the top 5. The #1 is “Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas”, which is pretty much a blue city now.

This doesn’t really support your claim that “they are all red”. Also, we call a “blueish spot surrounded by red” a blue city.

From what I am learning about in this thread is there isn’t really the idea of a “red city”, so when people talk shit about “blue cities” they are just talking about city life in general. There does not appear to be any very large cities filled with Republicans.

So next time someone trots out the “life in blue cities is hell…” sounds like I can just bring up Miami

Miami has its share of violent crime, doesn’t it?

It seems like a lot of the time they are like “boy, crime is higher”… but if you live in a city that’s just a fact of life. It’s pretty obvious that there will be less crime out in the sticks. I wouldn’t really attribute this to any “blue” policies.

I hear this argument over and over again: “Why should I bother recycling? China is poisoning the planet.” It’s like reverse-whataboutism. I find it really lazy and a pointless attitude. The argument generalizes to: “Why do anything good when bad exists in the world?”

Cleanliness is its own reward. I can tell you if I lived in stink-town where 100% of everyone else’s house was a festering mess, I would keep mine clean.

Being ecologically friendly is its own reward.

If your neighbor’s house and lawn is cluttered with garbage and rotting food, do you also let your house gather the same?

Or do you wish they did a better job and kept your house clean all the same?

What if you had 95 neighbors all full of garbage and rotted food? Is there any number that would make you do the same?