Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Free as in Freedom” doesn’t mean “Free as in Beer”.

  There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a paid service using FOSS software if that’s the route they want to take. Using FOSS doesn’t mean you have to rely on donations only.

  There’s a pervasive, damaging, and limiting misunderstanding about the word “Free” that has always been a problem in the Open Source world. This notion that things that are Open Source should be “No Cost” just because the source code is readily available and anyone could technically spin their own fork of it if they had the ability to do so.

  But NO WHERE does it actually say that FREE means “Free as in Beer”.

  If you don’t like it and don’t want to sign up, more power to you. That’s your freedom of choice. And to be honest, an instance asking for a fee probably wouldn’t be very successful.

  But pretending that there is something either shady or legally or morally wrong with asking for a fee for using FOSS software is harmful to the very notion of FOSS and the upvote ratio you’re getting is a shameful example of how pervasive the whole “But GIMP/INKSCAPE/BLENDER is supposed to be free!” whining has become from users who have no clue what the FREE ifnFREE and OPEN SOURCE actually mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thumbs up to people dying.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sooner or later, the U.S. is going to have to face the reality that the only thing they should be seeing in a photo like that is a really good spot to have planted an improvised explosive device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Canadian I look on in absolute horror like a deer spotting the hunter in the woods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the good-ol’ lizard brain and it isn’t going away.

  It’s the part of the brain that controls emotions, moods, fear, fight-or-flight, etc… The Limbic Cortex

  The sole purpose of critical thinking skills and knowledge of things like history, civics, etc… (whether that comes from education, experience or just good old fashioned intellectual curiosity) is to give the rest of our brain the context necessary to override that lizard brain. (In my opinion).

  Too many people just don’t care enough about the world around them to bother with that and are content to just let their lizard brain run things. It’s these people that are susceptible to group-think, and it’s these people (ironically) who think that they are ones who are thinking for themselves when in reality it’s quite the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The truest line ever uttered in film…

  “A person can be smart. But people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it.” – Kay from MiB

  We’ve all been hardwired with groupthink. We had to be. When a member of your tribe comes running by in a panic, you don’t have time to stop and think what the hell is he running from?, you just start running along with him. It’s the difference between living to hunt another day or getting killed by a bigger predator than you are.

  The more people that are running. The more important it is (to our brain) to just start legging it. No one wants to be the straggler at the back that gets picked off. For that reason, group-think and herd-mentality skews incredibly towards the simplistic. In terms of evolution, there’s no time to worry about the why…you just trust that if everyone else is running, you probably should be too.

  A single person…and individual that has critical thinking skills and the ability to look at the wider context, can overcome that instint. They can stop and say “hmmm…maybe I should look and see if this really is something that is going to harm me.” They can reason themselves out of group-think.

  But without that context. Without that critical thinking, you have almost no choice but to rely on the fact that if someone is telling you to run, they must know more than you…so get it in gear.

  Whether that person is telling you to run from a predator, or to hate immigrants, it’s all due to the same inherent mentality in humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. But performative acts like this play to their base. And their base is almost exclusively people who haven’t read the very book they profess to follow.

  Most athielsts (myself included) have read more of the bible than any of these people ever have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been the calculated plan for far longer than I can remember.

  Conservative politics relies on stupid uneducated voters incapable of critical thinking.

  The voters that, with a lack of actual knowledge of their own through either experience, formal education or even just good old fashioned intellectual curiosity about the world around them, will happily cede their opinion to the first authority figure who tells them what they are already presdisposed to believe and confirm their biases.

  It’s the entire reason there has been a coordinated attack on the liberal arts and college education under the guise of “financial constraints” and the push in the last few decades towards trade schools.

  Conservative politics requires stupid who are content to learn how to be a tradesman, without any of that inconventient history or critical thinking getting in the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You will never convince me that shit like this is more than just performative play-acting for the sake of their base.

  They aren’t actually fucking praying. They don’t actually believe any of this shit. It’s a tool used to keep the support of their base of white christian nationalists.

  That’s why we see them doing shit like this now than every before.

  In a world where more liberal minded Christians are balking at how “unchristian” these idiots are turning out to be, they have to make these shows louder and more obvious…and make damn sure there’s a camera around, so that they can play even harder to the more extreme supporters.

  If they were to quietly go about their business with no “performative acts of faith”, more people would recognize them as the monsters they are.

  But with shit like this, 81 year old grandparents the country over can look at them and say “I don’t understand what they’re doing, but they MUST be the good guys because look how christian they are…”

  If anyone thinks America is getting out of this without resorting to firing squads and hanging these fuckers upside down in town squares, they’re naive as fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transracial doesn’t exist because “Race” in the context that they want to use it doesn’t exist.

  Genetically there’s only one “race”; that’s the human race. If they want to identify as a different culture, it’s purely a cosmetic cultural thing, not biological or genetic. Whereas as being Transgender is biological. Therefore, you can safely tell people like Rachel Dolezal to fuck off and go back to fifth period science class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not acceptable. In fact I can’t think of a single one except burnt that is still actively kicking around.

  Who told you it was acceptable, if you don’t mind me asking. And if it was your english teacher, please ask them how they managed to get here from all the way back in Shakespeare’s time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Past 30, age is less about biology and more sociology.

  I’m a 49 year old male. But I’m divorced, no kids. Still living a bachelor life quite happily while most guys close to my age are married with the kids and coaching soccer on weekends in a minivan. As a result, my friend group almost exclusively skews younger because those are the people who are in the same stage of life as I am (regardless of biological age).

  The same works for relationships. Past a certain point it doesn’t matter how old you are, as long as your sociological age is compatible. (Ie. Your way of life)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize if this sounds flippant, but it’s FICTION.

  Literally ANYTHING works if its written well enough…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are corporate IT policies the way they are?

  I thought about this the other day when asking my IT department why they won’t let me carry a USB stick between home and work to be able to work from home and instead lock down the USB access and instruct me to use Google Drive instead…

  I decided that most corporations only cosplay their IT security inasmuch as it only matters up to and not beyond the point of economic convenience.

  If any of these companies truly cared about security, they would at the very least be using a hardened fork of Chrome with Google Services stripped out. They’d be self-hosting their own servers connected only via a VPN or some sort.

  But that shit takes money and staff to maintain it. So they’ll give everything to third parties to manage instead and then send out pop-quiz emails about phishing every couple of weeks followed by sternly worded emails when a person fails it.

  (Sorry…off my anti-depressants until pay day, so I have a lot of micro rants that have built up…haha)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person know markdown?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.

  Non-professional: “My computer is making a weird buzzing noise”

  Professional: “What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person know markdown?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold

  I wouldn’t guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the “normie” world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they’re not just pressing the icon in the gui.

  Hell, most of them look at me like I’m a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For the most part, yes. By design. Conveying something in a movie is more challenging in that it has less time to do it than a book has less time to do it. So it HAS to be, to some degree, more blunt and on-the-nose than a book can take its time being.

  You can write five pages of internal description discussing what your main character thinks about the world around them. But you can’t show that in a movie and so you have to figure out how to get the gist of it across in a few lines of dialogue and some emoting.

  It’s why show don’t tell is a rule. You have to simplify a movie in comparison to a book or else your audience will be sitting through a ten hour film.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss the prevalence of manual transmissions. Every one of my old first beater cars were manuals. But it seems that they’ve been phased out for the most part and it sucks. Driving Automatics isn’t really driving (I’ll die on that hill).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100% agree. I was just pointing out that the whole situation is not as black and white as people on both sides want it to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that’s sarcasm? But yes, I legitimately feel that our system, where the only person who has any “theoretical” power to make unilateral decisions without parliament is some old guy who is content to just stay out of it, is better.

  Imagine an America where they could tell Trump. “Okay, you’re king. Here…we’ll even put you on our money. Now go live overseas and fuck off”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because, and not to sound flippant, that’s just the easiest and most natural way to do it without a lot of extra paperwork.

  See technically, a "president* is meant as a drop in replacement for a monarch. A republic doesn’t get rid if its king, they just replace one who was born into it with one they chose and one they pretend to have a bit more control over.

  Canada’s equivalent to Trump isn’t Carney, technically it’s King Charles. And the U.S equivalent to Prime Minister would be who’ve leads the majority party in congress.

  Could we go through the constitutional rigamarole to change that? Sure. But why bother when he’s content to stay out of things.

  Essentially, a parliamentary democracy means that our “Trump” is a deadbeat dad who lives in another country.

  I’ll happily keep that buffer in place versus whatever the fuck the U.S had gotten themselves into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Republics give you Trump…

  What I mean is this:

  A Prime Minister is not a president. They are simply the leader of whichever party has he most seats in parliament and its therefore the “face” of the government in many days.

  Most importantly this means that there is no such thing as “executive orders” because there us no “executive” branch, per we. Meaning even if we (Canada) had fucked up and elected Trump-lite, Pollieve, his ability to do the same shit Trump or doing would be severely limited in that everything goes through parliamentary vote without exception (for the most part).

  A ruling party has something called the Emergencies Act, as that can, to a limited degree, allow them to enact a few things without parliamentary vote, but its use is generally highly controversial and is still very controlled by judicial review.

  Long story short (too late, I know) is that the tsunami of bullshit that Orange Hitler is doing is because he’s using executive orders enact things and then fighting congress in court when they push back rather than getting congressional approval BEFORE enacting it.

  Something that is far more limited in a governmental system where that much power HASN’T been given to one person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh believe me. I would be too. We’d buy ourselves a hell of a lot of time. I’m just pointing out that the solution is never black and white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite the replies, the real answer is that it’s not as simple as “stopping drilling”.

  The fossil fuel industry isn’t just oil and fuel…it’s quite literally everything.

  • The vulkanized rubber in the tires of your electric vehicle…yep…petroleum based.

  • The hard plastic that forms the interior panels, and the side walls, the steering wheel and literally everything else made of plastic on the planet? You guessed it…petroleum based.

  • The lubricants that keep the chains chaining, the gears gearing, the whirligigs whirling and the moving parts moving…once again…petroleum based.

  • Much of the cosmetics industry, as well as chapsticks, lotions, sunscreens, etc… Yep…all have at least some petroleum based ingredients.

  Are you starting to get it?

  Hippies can complain all they want, and I ABSOLUTELY agree that we need to be moving away from the petroleum industry faster. But it’s not a matter of switching to electric cars because EVERY part of modern life is from the roads we drive on to the keyboard I’m typing this one, is in some way or another making use of a petroleum based product.

  We have a long hard road before that’s not the case anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, there really is no such thing as a “Sovereign Citizen” except in their own brain.

  They believe that there is some hidden loophole that only “smart” people understand that allows them to reap the benefits of being a part of a society without having to be subject to any of its rules; and that that cheat code is accessed via some combination of paperwork that the government keeps hidden from the public.

  Essentially, to them, the social contract (ie. citizens voluntary give up certain rights like the right to speed through red lights, the right to murder, etc… and subject themselves to laws of the state in exchange for that state providing them with roads, infrastructure, stability, prosperity and the right certain inalienable freedoms) is just for suckers who don’t know the correct forms to fill out.

  It’s absolute mind-numbing stupidity of the highest order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason that two boring white dudes can star in two different movies in the same year about the White House being taken over by terrorists

  Because similar isn’t the same. As long as they can argue that specifics are different enough, that’s all that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when is that allowed!? /s

  I’m fine with that. My bigger question was simply why am I seeing it in sports news instead of entertainment news all of a sudden? It’s not a sport. it’s a variety show sponsored by the makers of steroids.

• Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100% agreed. Such a fun show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people develop feelings for someone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people develop feelings for someone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, “like”, “love”, and “in love” are not separate emotions. They’re the same emotion resonating at different frequencies, for lack of a better metaphor.

  “Like” and “Love” are largely hormonal as far as I can tell.

  • You get along with someone and you want to hang out together, the chemicals in your brain say “hey…this person gets me and I’m happy being around them. I LIKE them.”

  • You get along with someone, and you want to hang out together, and you’re sexually attracted to them. The chemicals and hormones say “Hey…I really really want to be alone with the person and tell them everything and share my intimate self with them. I LOVE them.”

  “IN LOVE” is the one that takes work. Because “IN LOVE” happens long after you’ve started in that relationship. You know their goods. You know their bads. You know what makes them tick and what annoys them. You know what they do that annoys you, and yet you STILL have gotten so addicted to having them as a part of your life that you wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s like the old saying “Yes, we fight. But there’s noone else I would rather fight with.”

  They are all one and the same emotion, and where it lands with any one particular person depends on the individual circumstances.