Pit bulls, XL Bullys, Akitas… these dog breeds are not fully domesticated.

Always unnerving when you are out walking your dog and you pass the owner of some hellhound saying, “Don’t worry, Toby is friendly!” While the dog is salivating and pulling at the leash to come and maim you lol.

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I think you can have a reasonable expectation that companies won’t store your personal data without permission while you are still alive. However asking future historians to omit or not investigate your existence seems unreasonable.

That’s Paley’s Teleological argument from the 18th century. It’s a classic but back then you have to remember clocks were more impressive.

The modern day spin on it is the “fine tuning” argument. Basically: the chances of life existing at all with our earth and the solar system being in a goldilocks zone seems too perfect to be a coincidence. You can probably explain it with selection bias but it’s a better argument nonetheless.

I share your frustrations. Talking about politics on the internet is usually a waste of time because the people who are most keen on discussing it tend to have extreme points of view. WRT lemmy I only subscribe to non-politics subs and then switch to All if I ever have a rare hankering to discuss it.

Lemmy is pretty good in terms of moderation in my opinion provided you are not talking politics.

I don’t think these people actually want to leave reddit. They are only interested in farming karma by complaining about it,

Dumb idea I’m afraid. Although to be honest I did once give someone a paid internship because they had a line in their CV that read, “Hobbies: Daft Punk”.

They did fine in their technical assessment too I guess.

Not weird enough to be Pynchon but it was a good comment nonetheless

I think we’ve both got different perspectives on this that aren’t going to change so let’s agree to disagree.

I’d argue that attempts to force people to change their beliefs too quickly has led to a conservative reactionary backlash in recent years.

Recent surveys are showing an increase in people, in particular young people, harbouring intolerant views vs even 10 years ago. I think that suggests that the maximalist progressive rhetoric on social media is turning people away from progressive causes.

Creating a more tolerant society is a frustratingly slow process where the general public gradually become acclimatised to new ways of thinking. Forcing it creates a backlash because people need to feel like they arrived at their ideas themselves. There used to be an acknowledgement that it was a mutual process which is missing from the debate today.

Queer people were oppressed by the social norm of not judging people for their political beliefs?

They worked fine in the 90s/00s. Social media and smart phones has just come in and created hyper-polarization since then. Human beings aren’t designed to be able to handle getting news so quickly from such a wide variety of (dubious) sources.

People cast their vote for a variety of complicated reasons, often against their own interests. Someone might be stupid because they voted for a bad ticket but I don’t think they are necessarily immoral.

These old norms like not judging others for their politics used to function fine before social media propagated and the culture wars flared up. I’d be hesitant to throw the old norms away, even in our current circumstances, because after they go there’s no guarantee you’ll ever get them back.

Not from the US but when I see my country’s flag I don’t really feel anything. In theory I’ve got two flags, both the Scottish one and the Union Jack but they both elicit the same lack of reaction. Countries are just social and geographical facts. Getting angry or elated at the sight of a flag is a bit like having an emotional reaction to the moon; I suppose it’s possible in some circumstances but most of the time it’s just there and you shrug.

There are a few tools like lima that let you play around with Ubuntu from macOS if you are still curious. Also an official one from Canonical (company behind Ubuntu linux) whose name I forget now that does a similar thing. Essentially you get a user friendly linux VM to play around with.

Edit: Canonical VM is called Multipass

There’s Asahi linux for M1 but the dev that runs it is a bit of a nutter. Also apple software just works best with its hardware (until the planned obsolesence of your hardware happens and suddenly nothing works).

Wouldn’t recommend linux on a mac unless it’s an old model (like ~2012)

Part of why linux has been a successful long term project is by making decisions conservatively. Other projects like cURL do the same. Incremental improvements over time.

It seems like there is a culture clash with the rust devs who are pushing for changes faster than the long term project maintainers are comfortable with.

It has worked successfully for linux for decades and other FOSS projects like Python have successfully followed the same model.

I think it’s the equity vs equality thing that is most problematic. Giving people a bigger slice of the pie for being themselves undermines typical economic incentives and breeds resentment. In my opinion everyone should be given the same opportunities but they need to demonstrate themselves as the most capable candidate to get a job/promotion or whatever for the system to work.