Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 day ago:
Lol, yeah, THAT strategy would keep it at 99 cents.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 days ago:
Right now my company calls it “Investing in IST”
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 1 week ago:
… Did they both involve sending weapons to Israel?
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 1 week ago:
If you want to take this one step further, it’s the the inevitable result of identity politics in general.
Once you decide to generalize away per-issue stances just to paint them “left or right”, “red or blue”, “my team your team” then it becomes trivial to make an argument that both sides are the same, or conversely that both sides are polar opposites. Whatever suits you.
Republicans and Democrats both shovelled weapons to Israel. They are thus, as a whole, identical. Indistinguishable. Republicans are erasing reproductive Rights. Democrats are trying to guarantee them. They are thus, as a whole, complete polar opposites.
Generalizing from the specific is a convenient mechanism, but error prone, and it leads to absolute trash discourse… Which in turn leads to a failure of consensus for specific demands to make during a protest.
“No Kings” isn’t realistically actionable.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 2 weeks ago:
My PhD supervisor insisted it was “Law-tex”
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 3 weeks ago:
I have completely agreed to the terms of 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Can confirm, I’m instinctively drawn to servers in my geographic proximity despite that being a completely opaque property of the internet like a moth to a flame
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I see it ALL the time, across MANY domains.
Language, music, golf, programming, driving, competitive gaming, etc etc.
It’s not necessarily a bad thing; it’s WAY more effort to push for improvement. Once you’ve gotten to the point where your skills are serving your needs, is that what you want to invest your finite energy into? Maybe not. God knows I’m not actively trying to improve on every skill I have. Very few. Most of my things (music, games, sport) are just to have fun. If you’re having fun you’re probably not really improving, and that’s ok.
But when people lament that they’ve hit a wall on a skill, in my experience it’s this effect, MUCH more than any other.
I think if OP reflected on their already MASSIVE achievement of becoming functional in another language, they’d likely conclude that their skills rapidly increased up until the point that they had a functional level of the skill, and then hit a plateau once they subconsciously began expending less active effort on improvement.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think when people are learning some new skill, eventually they reach a proficiency where they stop actively working on improving. Instead, they’ll transition from “improving the skill” to “applying the skill”.
Practice does not make “perfect”. Practice makes permanent.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 5 weeks ago:
Based on this I can only imagine they must have full throated support of the green line which would reduce intra-city traffic to allow for greater available capacity for provincial traffic.
- Comment on Ahem, well well 5 weeks ago:
I’m so far beyond the point of caring how people look at me, and so far past the point of wanting to talk to anyone.
What you’ve just described would be considered total victory.
- Comment on Ahem, well well 5 weeks ago:
My strategy for overcoming this is to congratulate myself out loud so they know not to answer until I’m done.
- Comment on PROGRESS 1 month ago:
Poinignant illustration of a flux capacitor
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Directly from my ass, it’s my assumption that the primary maintainers just don’t have an incentivize the cost of supporting older devices and the disparate hardware configurations.
Like, planned obscellesance or not, smartphone churn is going to happen anyways. People lose them, smash them, fall into a pool with them, decide they NEED the newer camera soldered into them, etc…
It’s not like there are old phones in a closet somewhere propping up business critical infrastructure like with computers.
The cost vs utility of maintaining forward features and security patches for a massive catalog of hardware configurations just isn’t there.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 month ago:
They’re either trying to get your goat, or it’s genuine. Either way, it’s not making the world any better by bestowing upon yourself the title of judge and enforcer. You’re either taking bait or you’re a fucking cop. “Ok” is all you gotta say.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 month ago:
I’m uncomfortable with the idea that the only reason that being trans is valid is because of biological factors.
If we could construct a human that came into existence without being Female at some gestational point, you gonna tell them they can’t be trans? If someone has a thyroid problem such that they their body CAN’T handle a sex hormone, you gonna tell them they can’t be trans?
I feel like we’re looking for a 9-D chess play when a 1-D play is sufficient: you say you’re trans, you’re trans.
- Comment on ‘Fake, baseless’: Israel denies Iran’s claim of downing two F-35 jets, capturing woman pilot 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t have believed it until the “fake media” comment and now I 100% do
- Comment on What in the... 1 month ago:
Glory is eternal
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 months ago:
This is right, where every other comment in this thread is wrong.
Don’t take the bait.
Even just a flat OK is better than taking the bait. Honestly, silence is better.
Do you care? Then you are poor and mad.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In this and other similar contexts, when “it” isn’t really referring to anything specific, you can kind of consider it to be “The General State of Existence”.
It’s raining.
It’s cold.
It is what it is.
Make the best of it.
It’s Thursday.
It’s Friday.
Friday.
Gotta get down on Friday.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 months ago:
Another consideration might be how far your “town” is from a more major center.
A town with a population of 1000 might not feel that rural if it’s 10 miles down the road from a city of a million.
If the next closest center > 5,000pop is 250 miles away… Perhaps a different story.
I’ve hear it said that in Europe 100km is considered a long distance and in North America 100 years is considered a long time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Fantastic 2 minute video clearly debunking lie detector here
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 2 months ago:
You would be shocked by the homogeneousness of even employers who are hiring STEM. Tribalism is real. They just chalk up the je ne sais qois to “fit”… But you take a step back and suddenly…
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 2 months ago:
You have 1 week.
- Comment on Cheers lads an lassies 2 months ago:
The one who got his ass beat by the battlestar Galactica robot at bi-mon-sci-fi-con?
I wanna say… “Steve?”
- Comment on Shine a laser on the moon 2 months ago:
The average cubic meter of space has about 6 protons worth of mass in it.
- Comment on Call your doctor today 2 months ago:
You forgot about DRE
- Comment on Pope Joan 2 months ago:
People play real fast and loose with these terms.
My advice is to do what you’re doing here, which is learn… But to remember to meet people where they’re at.
By these definitions, with sex relating to biological things, you might be tempted to tell someone they can’t just “decide” their sex, by this definition. Don’t do it.
Not saying you would, but resist the urge to get into a semantic argument. Just ask the specific people what they mean by these words when they say them, and roll with it. Prioritize understanding over being understood.
This advice goes for anything, but this is a particularly spicy meatball.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 3 months ago:
You can be upset about 2 things: where things are, and where things are going.
It’s become very fashionable to ignore a trajectory. “Build 3 more prisons in El Salvador”.
The issue isn’t that at this moment I can opt-out. The issue is that the infrastructure inevitably demands usage.
If you’re not upset you’re a collaborator.
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 3 months ago:
Forget the “bloat”. Windows has an advertisements engine. I’m not talking about some stupid OEM bullshit bundled thing… I’m saying the operating system itself.
My OS (that I fucking paid for, no less) shouldn’t be piping me advertisements and it sure as shit shouldn’t be harvesting screenshots to train an AI model.
