What hills are you dying on?
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That's a good point. Let me rephrase then: I believe all humans are selfish by nature and so inherently are more easily prone to acting out even if it affects others negatively (intentionally). As in, there's probably a reason why the baby is crying sometimes or there's a reason the baby gets angry. Humans have to be taught to tame their demons because without empathy, everything would be an eye for an eye. By default, I don't think humans have it in them to see right from wrong unless they're taught either directly or indirectly. Something something nature and nurture something something. My 2 cents.
I'd say that mortality for humans is a social trait, because it's something that benefits a small tribe social species. Stealing is "wrong" because it's bad for small group survival, while "sharing" is good because it helps it. My that measure, humans are also inherently good because they engage in pro social behavior on an instinctual level.
The issue I think comes up with other survival traits that end in antisocial behavior. Tribalism is good for survival against other competing small social groups, but terrible when you're trying to expand social cohesion.
Do you also think animals are inherently evil because they act in accordance with their own self oriented survival?
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. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don't need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
It is "Math" and not "Maths"
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. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don't need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
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Pajamas shouldn't leave the house.
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Unique names and unique spellings of names are terrible. There should be a government approved list of names to choose from.
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Religion is the worst thing humanity has made up.
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Waterworld is a fantastic movie.
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Linux > Windows.
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So what is ice cream then?
Butter - cream churned at cellar/fridge temperature.
Icecream - cream churned around zero degrees celsius.
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The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I can’t remember where exactly.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It was on Volkswagen Transporter pick ups in the 1960s, in response to German taxes on imported US chicken.
Actually, full sized pick ups are not liable to light truck tariffs, but they have no market outside of the US.
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What is your problem with static typing
I'm not super fond of dynamic typing either. I like untyped or uni-typed languages like 'everything is an array' (APL) or 'everything is an integer' (Forth, assembly).
I'm of the same opinion as Chuck Moore who once observed, "Strong typing merely creates errors so that they can be detected." In my experience, the amount of complexity added by these systems is staggering. To such a degree that they cause more errors than they prevent. More types, more opportunities to use them incorrectly, after all.
I also prefer the 'build the program while it's running' workflow, which is inhibited by static typing.
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I'd one up that and say there shouldn't be countries. The concept makes no sense. US propaganda always tries to make China and Russia out to be the "enemy" meanwhile when its Trump doing bad things, the world also says its the US causing problems. All of the sudden, what one or two bad people do somehow means the whole country is at fault. If we took out all the bad people and chucked them out, we could all just be people. No nations, no nothing—just people.
Nationalism also works the other way. The wins of the privileged are framed as 'WE'RE winning!!'. Big companies exploit you more and profit? It's spun as The Economy is going well. GDP went up. That sounds good for you, doesn't it?
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Who sets laws and enforces them? But otherwise totally in favour of returning to monke
wrote on last edited by [email protected]There are many, many systems of governance out there and plenty of democratic systems are wildly different from the 'liberal democracy' we're familiar with. Cheran in Mexico is an interesting example, five minute documentary.
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There are knights that may disagree.
Oh... oh dear!
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I'm pretty sure that if someone wanted a pug, seeing one person who did a rescue wouldn't be the tipping point.
And there are people who are trying, through breeding, to reverse the damage done to these poor animals.
So yeah, I think there are ethical ways to own a pug.
Dog breeds go through trends just like anybody else. Your fav valuable has a pug? You might want a pug. Maybe not you, but that’s how trends work. The aristocracy tells you what to like. That’s the whole reason they exist in the first place.
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Ok but literally all of my Latinx friends say that they use the word Latinx, and it was popularized in South America and it is still used there frequently (though as I understand it, -u is becoming the more fashionable gender-neutral ending these days). I actually think
“Latinx” is performative white ally cringemight be what's performative cringe.how do they pronounce it? "latinequis?" I haven't heard -u but I'll take your word for it.
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Must be nice being rich enough to eat what ever you feel like having. Some of us are not so fortunate and have to make do with what is available.
Rice and beans are only for the wealthy I guess.
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Celsius makes more sense for everything but normal to hot temps. 100 being about as hot as is tolerable. 75 being perfect 50 being tolerable cold.
How does that make sense, it's just arbitrary numbers. I can give you arbitrary numbers for celsius too: 30 being hot but tolerable, 20 being perfect, 10 being cold but tolerable.
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My hill: Laws that give “unnecessary” rights to people are still good overall and shouldn't ever, EVER, be reversed. Laws that give “unnecessary” rights keep society stable and have come from past times soaked in blood. If you reverse 60-100 years of these gains, then society will collapse.
Can you give examples of unnecessary rights?
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How are you going to get vitamin B12 while being vegan? As far as I know it's not possible.
By supplementing it. As should people who are not vegan, cause B12 is one of the most common deficiencies.
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saying it doesn't make it true
Right back at you
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how do they pronounce it? "latinequis?" I haven't heard -u but I'll take your word for it.
I didn't think about it, but they pronounce it like in english, /lætˈinɛks/
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all of that can be true without necessitating veganism
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Moral baseline is not a necessity. It's a comparison point. Basically, if you're not vegan, you should be doing something else to end up net-positive (from a utilitarian point of view). I'm not vegan, I'm vegetarian, so I'm in the negatives I guess.
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I'm not super fond of dynamic typing either. I like untyped or uni-typed languages like 'everything is an array' (APL) or 'everything is an integer' (Forth, assembly).
I'm of the same opinion as Chuck Moore who once observed, "Strong typing merely creates errors so that they can be detected." In my experience, the amount of complexity added by these systems is staggering. To such a degree that they cause more errors than they prevent. More types, more opportunities to use them incorrectly, after all.
I also prefer the 'build the program while it's running' workflow, which is inhibited by static typing.
One time I found a C++ library where everything was of a single type, the "untype" essentially. It removed all type safety, in other words, to allow pure binary access to all data. I mean, there's an occasion now and then when one needs that sort of thing, but I found in every case it was just a headache. Now I know there's two people like that, haha.
Well, I don't agree with you, but I respect a hot take about coding when I see one. My own a-little-less-spicy-than-yours take is that OOP is overated.
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Vista was either magic or crap depending on your hardware/software needs. Almost no middle ground. I was supporting about 100 PC's at the time, and it was a nightmare for work, but I enjoyed running it myself.
From a corporate standpoint, skipping it for win7 was a serious win for IT.
On the upside, the latest Samsung UI on android has something pretty close to Vista's old task manager.
It's truly a shame that most of the world got the short end of the stick here.
Also, I literally just updated to the newest version of One UI and I don't really see what you mean by the similarity to Vista's old task manager. If anything, it just made my color matching app icons look ugly. It even installed Gemini without my permission.
On the previous version, they looked like this:
