LH0ezVT
@LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 3 days ago:
Please note: I chose the word “normal” for lack of a better word, and in its most technical sense only. I do not want to imply any moral judgement.
But in that sense of the word, yes, shrugging when the news show pictures of dead innocents is “normal”. Just like not too long ago it was normal to not treat black people like human beings, or a bit before that, to burn people who disagree with your religious dogma at the stake. In another part of the world, it was normal to sacrifice a poor sod every now and then to make sure the harvests are successful. And don’t get me started on the history of wars. All of this is “normal” as in, it was perceived to be just how things are by the majority.
Actually, I believe that only by understanding that normal and morally right do not necessarily have anything in common, one can understand how bad the “normal” is, and demand change. “Can’t you see this is bad and we need to do something” does not work because no, it is normal to do nothing. Creating a new normal is pretty damn hard, creating a morally better one is even harder.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 4 days ago:
Don’t forget the second part of what I said:
or are being told that being decent people is bad, weak, and probably woke.
Never underestimate propaganda and peer pressure. If everyone around you acts like it is not a big thing, you won’t either.
My pet theory is that almost all stable societies need some kind of enforced normal-ness. Whether it’s being catholic and paying taxes to the king, being a cheeseburger-eating, bud light drinking, tuck-driving redneck or even being a tree-hugging wannabe-leftist academic with a bike and a mullet. Monkeys like being around people telling them they are normal. Society organises to provide a sense of “normal”. It is extremely hard to break through this, and it essentially only works if a large party of the people form a new normal.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 5 days ago:
Most people are sad about this? Most decent people are sad about it. Many people are not decent people, or are being told that being decent people is bad, weak, and probably woke.
- Comment on Anon has a paranormal experience 1 week ago:
Well, assuming this a guy and he heard a man’s voice, i don’t think it is going to be heterosexual…
On the other hand, I’m straight, but if I had the chance to bang a ghost, I wouldn’t miss my chance because of those details. You might be talking to Jesus, but I’m fucking your great-great-grandpa!
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 weeks ago:
I guess it depends on how much you can abuse or ignore it. Debian works just fine if you put it in a locker for 3 years and then try to update. With gentoo, if you didn’t update for a week, you might as well reinstall :)
Arch is somehow in the middle, I had an arch VM that never had any problems except that certificate issue despite not getting many updates.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 weeks ago:
Perfectly fine if it does what it should. That is imo the essence of this post: Better is the enemy of good. I wouldn’t buy a new one (again), this one was a bit of an exception (customer return, with a little scratch), since used touch laptops with good performance were quite rare.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 weeks ago:
Nah, L390 Yoga. I wanted touch because i thought I’d use it, but it ended up in a docking station most of the time anyway. Upgraded RAM and SSD, battery still hold “a few hours” despite being 7+ years old.
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 weeks ago:
“I’m in this picture and it’s quite OK here.”
My car is a 20 year old shitbox, my bike gets new brake pads and a bit of random lubricant on the chain once a year and other “maintenance” only when parts fall off, and my stereo is a mix of hand me downs from my dad’s college days and some eBay home theatre stuff that got sold because it didn’t support the newest HDMI bullshit.
Oh, and of course it is a Thinkpad, thanks for asking.
Just the other day, a friend of mine running Arch tried to install something, which resulted in him having to do a full system update, including fixing several “that should not happen” s. Meanwhile, every few years I spend an evening update to the newest stable, and never had bigger issues than the color of some icon being unfamiliar.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 2 weeks ago:
Is it? It’s your boss’ duty to provide you with work and they cannot dock your pay (outside of special circumstances) if they don’t have work for you, but they can absolutely pay you to sit around and drink coffee in case work comes around.
- Comment on What caused this? 2 weeks ago:
I fear we are doing the opposite. Worst of both worlds.
How did that old joke go?
“Quebec could have gotten French food, American tech and British culture, but instead they chose French tech, American culture and British food”
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 2 weeks ago:
Might be potentially gay?! Idk, a man having romantic sex with another man is pretty much the definition of gay, if you ask me. Doesn’t get much gayer.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 3 weeks ago:
Fine, I’ll bite the bait.
because it works perfectly fine if you’re not a helpless moron, that’s why.
Counter-point: lots of people are helpless morons at some point in their life. I certainly was. I was lucky enough to have family and friends and skills that were in demand at the time. Others are less fortunate. Fuck’em, I got mine, I guess?
lots of people start their careers through temp job training programs and become permanent hires.
Temp agencies are not there to help you, not even there to make the economy better or society fairer. They are there to fill temporary positions for as little money as possible, period. Sometimes, their and your interests overlap partly. Plus, they help avoid hiring people long-term. Fear of joblessness every few months is a great motivation to work more for less. I’ve seen it plenty of times, and while there are degrees of hell, all of them suck.
i have what they call ‘real life experience’ in these matters
Me too. I was on welfare for half a year and not having to worry about my immediate survival gave me the time I needed to hunt for a half-decent job and convince myself to go to college. Now, a decade later, I have an engineering master degree and get to work on some cool stuff. Without government support, I’d probably have jumped at the first shitty job I got and would be stuck there. What’s your life experience? Pulled yourself up by your bootstraps while walking uphill both ways?
clearly the ‘answer’ to problems like this is to daydream about a socialist/communist utopia and be angry it doesn’t exist and also wish violence upon those who point out to you that it’s never going to exist.
As someone from a not-yet-a-total-shithole country, those things exist over here, and while they are as bad at their job as one expects, at least they are there. A cynic public officer half-heartedly trying to get you to become a tax-paying citizen is leagues better than nothing. It’s not a day dream when it clearly exists outside of dystopian ex-first-world countries like the US. Everyone benefits if people get off the street and/or their couch and do something “useful”. I’m happily paying taxes that support welfare, education and coaching, and I’d much prefer it, both from an ethical and an economical point of view, if the government started properly collecting taxes from billionaires and big companies than go after that mystical welfare freeloader.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 4 weeks ago:
Precisely. Among massive corruption, a decadent ruling elite, and some less than ideal foreign politics, if I remember correctly.
Just because one thing is bad, it doesn’t mean that the other extreme is good. Maoism had massive flaws, but it transformed a practically medieval country ruled by warlords into a single, somewhat industrialised nation. The reforms by Deng and others, including Xi, turned it into a country with a half-decent standard of living and competitive economy. But they introduced other problems, such as massive wealth inequality and environmental issues.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 4 weeks ago:
I think the position of those people is “Maoism was bad, the reforms were good, but they overcorrected”. Imho a perfectly coherent position as well. Quality of life in modern China is surely better than during the Mao era, and not only because if material wealth, but surely this current state is not perfect. Far from it, if you ask me.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
Sweet home Alabama, where the sky is so blue…
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
Full-time is rare. But as far as I know, the stereotypical backpacking locations are still full of unwashed backpackers
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
Clearly the AI thinks you need therapy, financial advice and lectures on how to sell yourself better. Interestingly, I feel like it might be up to something…
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
Hah! You obviously have never heard of SSTV!
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
No need to get all racist, mate
- Comment on Anon can't escape 1 month ago:
We’ve gone soft as a society, I tell you! If science cannot progress without kidnapping a guy from Sentinel Island and giving him psychosis, then that is a sacrifice I am willing to make!
- Comment on Anon can't escape 1 month ago:
I found I am way more likely to experience weird, nightmare-ish bs if I sleep on my back, or when I drank some alcohol. Maybe there are factors that control it for you as well.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 1 month ago:
There is a really interesting experiment there, right? I guess we have all watched or heard of Matrix, wondered what if everything is a simulation, and seen code somewhere. What if you take a guy from some backwater place who has never seen any code, give the poor guy DMT and shine a laser at a wall? Is it a thing we imagine because the brain is wired that way? Or because we are culturally primed to imagine this? A guy who has never driven a car probably won’t have that classic “car with no/broken brakes” dream.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 1 month ago:
Almost got eaten by a bear in my dream tonight, I didn’t even get a near-death experience out of it, just trying to fend off an angry bear with a pole I found. Man :(
- Comment on Anon is a tired bissexual 1 month ago:
Stupid people are out there. Plenty of them. Like it has always been. At this point, I am more than happy if the stupid people identify themselves before I spend thoughts and emotional attachments on them.
- Comment on Anon is a tourist 1 month ago:
All I am saying is, my racist ass would be more concerned with the strange looking man stealing my wallet and phone than somehow magically contaminate me with his dark skin
- Comment on Anon is a tourist 1 month ago:
But then, wouldn’t a balkan person be more concerned with their wallet being stolen? Idk, a strange-looking person being the only one around the valuables while everyone else swims sounds weird.
I mean, luckily, this is all fake anyways, but the fan fiction used to be more believable
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 month ago:
Likewise, LLMs have legit uses, but people can get trapped by the sycophantic hallucination machine
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 month ago:
Got complimented out of the blue about a somewhat beard-shaped stubble that I was growing out by a female friend, and my brother’s girlfriend has practically forbidden him from clean shaving. My dad had a beard when he met my mom. Maybe it’s our genes, but I think there are faces where a beard works and faces where it doesn’t. Same as with hair styles, some guys can have a mullet and still look decent.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 month ago:
But on the other hand, crack is also not good for you. I think a society where crack is banned is probably better than one where it is abundant
- Comment on Anon works in an office 1 month ago:
They used to call this “fire fighter jobs” here. Nothing to do really, unless something is on fire.