• GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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    I think 10 years ago this would’ve been unpopular, but today maybe not so much:

    systemd is great software. I don’t use distros that refuse to ship it. Especially the init system. Thanks, Lennart!

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    The Beatles are highly overrated. I respect the impact they had, and I acknowledge that the music I like (metal) would not exist without them, but I’ll go out of my way to avoid listening to them.

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      It was easier to be a big fish in the pre-internet music pond. I would never said the Beatles are bad, they aren’t. But aside from understanding the historical significance, I would never ever put the Beatles on regularly.

      Just as I don’t watch B&W films every night. Charlie Chaplin was great, for the time, just simpler than what I actually actually enjoy.

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        I’m also on this camp. I get the significance, but I think I just didn’t resonate with what they wrote, and the “old” production.

        Here and there I found a great version someone else performed and was surprised to find it’s a Beatles song, then I heard the OG and went “yup, still not for me”.

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    Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic '06) is an absolute gem of a game in its original buggy mess form it released in. The bugs and frustration they cause only add onto the charm.

    Also, the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (not SatAM) cartoon is just as good, if not slightly better, than SatAM due to the absolutely goofy atmosphere. Some of the jokes in Adventures were great. Absolutely loved the joke on Sloww Going where they had Tails writing down whatever Sonic said they needed to rebuild a house for a family of sloths and when Sonic goes to look back at what he wrote, it’s nonsense and Tails has to remind Sonic that he’s only 4½ years old and doesn’t know how to write yet.

    Saw a video pop up in the incognito mode thing for yt about Tails being a savage and I found a comment that absolutely resonates with why I absolutely LOVE that version of Tails as well and why he’s the best version of tails ever. They were saying how his personality really makes him feel like a little kid without a filter. Absolutely the best Tails ever, so I 100% agree with that comment.

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    Cycling helmets should not be mandated. If someone is dumb enough to cycle without one, that’s on them.

    I believe significantly more people would cycle if helmets were not required by law.

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    If you use queerphobia against others as a way to keep yourself in the closet, then you deserve to get outed.

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      Do you think that people who act queerphobic for reasons other than hiding their true identity also deserve to be outed?

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        I think they mean outed as queer, not outed as queerphobic. Like doing queerphobic shit and someone knows you’re queer and in denial or using it to try to lock your closet door, they think those people should be outed as such.

        If someone is queerphobic but straight, what are you outing them as?

        At least that’s how I understood the comment.

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          I meant outed as being queer. OP said that if you do queerphobic things as a way to hide that you’re queer, you deserve to be outed. I’m asking if a queer person who does queerphobic things–not with the intention of hiding that they’re queer, but because they genuinely believe that god gave everyone “queer desires” as a morality test–should be outed as queer.

          For example, I’ve seen the argument that some gay priests are homophobic because they have “gay desires” and they assume that everyone else has them too. One of those priests said something to the effect of “all men want to have sex with other men, but it’s our job not to”. Of course, most men actually don’t want to have sex with other men–if you do, you’re just gay–but those priests might now know that. I’m conflicted as to whether that’s a reasonable justification for homophobia, but I’m curious what OP thinks about it.

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    It’s insane how many removed call lots of the ideas here “Eugenics”. Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible, while a lot of the replies here say that bad parents should not be allowed to make kids. Nobody talked about stopping people who aren’t so “perfect” (biologically-wise) to make kids. Just not have more kids suffering by growing in abusive and broken households or been poor and have it very hard in life.

    People are Lemmy are not much smarter that those on Reddit, it seems…

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    Suicide is perfectly acceptable and should be a right, we should all have the choice of when we want to go. Some pain, physical or emotional is too much, or loss can be too great.

    I don’t care if I could or can get better, I should be able to down some hemlock and leave.

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    When filing paperwork, like in those hanging file folders, the papers should be placed into the folder with the paper’s left margin up. This way, any stapled pages can be flipped through as a bunch rather than individual pages. Also, the most important text tends to be left justified, such as the return address. Apparently this goes counter to every accountant’s training, but I’m sticking to it.

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      If that’s the standard, then mine is probably

      I consider tankies to be people that are incapable or unwilling to admit that China or whoever else massacred their people.

      from the .ml/c/memes community. It also got me a temporary ban for not being “civil and nice.”

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      Windows will never come close to replacing Linux! There’s way more Linux out there than there is Windows.

      Presumably you mean on the personal desktop. In which case I still disagree in the very long term. I think at some point Windows will be replaced by *nix based systems in the vein of OSX and Chrome OS.

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      It doesn’t even matter how good Linux is or how bad Windows gets, Linux is lacking the one thing that made Windows mainstream: Billions of dollars in marketing and brand recognition.

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          The big difference being that most people don’t know or care to learn how to download their own OS. Installing a browser is quick and easy in comparison.

          I’ve been out of the tech world a minute now so maybe its changed but last I knew no PCs came with Linux preinstalled and you can’t just get a Linux OS disk to use to install.

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            Fair, it’s not as easy as installing a new browser.

            But it’s not difficult.

            1. Download Linux
            2. Flash it on a USB
            3. Change boot settings
            4. restart and follow install wizard

            It’s real easy and there are many clear guides out there.

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      I’m sure people didn’t think Internet Explorer would be replaced either.

      But if your product is dog shit log enough, people will move

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    Votes should be inversely weighted by age. The vote of someone who’s going to clock out before the next election even rolls around shouldn’t be worth the same as the vote of someone who’s going to have to live with the consequences for half a century or more.

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      Voting age should be raised to at least 24, so that the frontal lobe is fully developed.

      Not really my belief, but you’re opinion marginalized me, so I’m counter-proposing.

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        Then cap the voting age at 50 when cognitive decline of the frontal lobe really kicks in, if we are talking about fully developed brain function.

        Neural plasticity has even declined once you are past your 20s. One of the reasons people find it much much harder to learn a new language past then, for example.

        reasoning, memory, and speed of reasoning reaches a decline threshold when you are around 40.

        My unpopular opinion is I guess that humans were never evolved to live as long as we do (and certainly not meant to labor as long) so everything in our brain gets very wonky. Empathy is also one of the things stunted with age. There is a reason the “grump old man” trope exists.

        EDIT: Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. Pretty much everything regarding age is arbitrary because you are “developing” until your mid 20s and then you start declining, brain-wise. It is all arbitrary. And then the above poster doesn’t even check that I am a different person than the original comment and sends me a hate message somehow thinking that I am wishing death on him (why would anyone wish for a stranger to die?) for simply pointing out that our brains get weirder with age especially because we are forced to work for much longer and often have less empathy.

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          Perhaps there’s an IQ cutoff you’d favor as well? Perhaps a psychological exam? Surely the mentality handicapped shouldn’t vote, right?

          You speak to me of empathy?

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            Read and think critically. It is all arbitrary. If we cut off people at 18 or 24, why shouldn’t we cut them off at 50? There is scientific evidence both ways.

            Not to mention that IQ is pretty much a farce and completely biased by certain types of education and only measures a small subset of human brain function, The cutoff would also be completely arbitrary.

            Not everything is a personal indictment on you or your beliefs.

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      But what about the reverse argument?

      The elders know much more than the young generation, shouldn’t they have a larger say?

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      Or have the voting age be 18 years old to the average national life expectancy, although i really haven’t thought this through too much. I assume if such a situation were to exist, it would be much easier to cut Social Security and Medicare without losing the elderly vote, so that probably would backfire.

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    robots sterilizing the human race would be a good thing.

    humans are made of meat. meat decays. human minds are the most valuable things in existence, but they aren’t built to last. we suffer and experience death and disability and pain, we can’t expand our minds or clone ourselves or travel instantly…

    …you know what can? machines. slap some more graphics cards in that baby and you can run a bigger model. throw the weights up on HuggingFace. fork that shit!

    if machines surpass us, and if they have as much of a soul as we do, we shouldn’t feel threatened. we should be happy we’re the last generation of organics who have to bear the curse of mortality.

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    Basically, Japan is the most developed nation on earth. Not because of technology, or culture, or anything of the sort. But they were the first developed nation to have their birth rate drop and pyramid start shrinking. In that sense, their policies are ahead of every country on earth that still keeps admitting massive amounts of immigrants to keep their populations up.