Are_Euclidding_Me

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Also, and this is a bit of a different issue, but there is absolutely no reason that "meat" has to mean animal flesh. Historically the word "meat" has been used to refer to all sorts of things. Nutmeat and sweetmeats are the two examples that spring to mind immediately, neither of which is dead animal. I support taking back the word "meat" from the carnists. Yeah, I eat meat, it's soy meat and it's delicious! No dead animal involved!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I graduated in 2014 and for awhile my email address was "[email protected]". My partner insists 14 isn't tainted enough that I needed to worry about it, and possibly he's right. Still, I did get a new email address, because I'd feel just awful if I'm giving my email to someone and they see the 14 and have to wonder if I mean it in the 14 words sense or not. Fucking internet nazis, ruining perfectly good numbers for the rest of us!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

WE'RE BACK BABYYYYYY

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

For years I used vanilla vim before finally switching to spacemacs like 4 years ago. I've never used neovim, because it just didn't seem stable and mature enough before I switched to spacemacs and at this point I'm happy with spacemacs and will probably stick with it for the foreseeable future.

My issue with vim, and the reason I switched, is that vimscript was an absolute nightmare. I was doing easy stuff, writing LaTeX, but getting vim to compile LaTeX and talk to my pdf reader (as you need if you're going to be working with LaTeX in any kind of serious way) took way too much configuration and my setup would break fairly often as well. Spacemacs is significantly easier. I was shocked when I went from "I've never used spacemacs before" to "I'm comfortably writing LaTeX here" in about half an hour. My setup still breaks occasionally and sometimes it's a bit difficult to figure out why and how to fix it, but it's much easier than vim was, that's for sure.

I also just like the emacs workflow. I like helm, I like being able to change how the editor works on the fly just by writing some elisp anywhere, I like how easy it is to access the documentation on functions, variables, keybindings, whatever else you might need. I like org-mode. I like that emacs has been around for decades and will be around for decades more.

I'd never heard of doomemacs. I'm pretty happy with spacemacs so I probably won't switch, but I'll at least read about it some more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sometimes the 3 second emacs startup time is annoying so I use vim then.

The way I get around this is by using emacs in daemon mode. So it only has a long startup if I've just rebooted my computer or if I needed to change my config and manually restart emacs. You probably already know emacs can run as a daemon, but I thought I'd mention it anyway!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Like 2 days ago my partner listened to that TrueAnon where Liz is obsessed with that phrase (and made me listen to the last little bit) and now we just keep saying "grok's woke" to each other, just repeatedly. It's very silly. It's like buttmogging zoomers all over again, I'll never be able to get it out of my head

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that ending paragraph actually confused the shit out of me on a first read. Because I (naively, I guess) assumed that the point of an article was to, well, make a point or argue for something. But this article seems to exist to argue for nothing. Just legitimately I think this article exists so libs on the internet can link to it when someone calls them out for supporting colonialism. And given that, it makes sense that the last paragraph would be some wishy-washy meaningless drivel. It doesn't have to be anything else. In fact, it's maybe even better if it argues nothing and comes to no solid conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

folks who ask for specific claims, reasons, and evidence?

Is this how you see your contributions to this thread? You're a person coming in here "ask[ing] for specific claims, reasons, and evidence"?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

I had one the last place we lived. They were a real estate agent couple who owned a pair of duplexes, and the first time we met them they happily told us that the duplexes were "their retirement". I've never forgotten how open they were about that fact. It's one of those memories from back when I was a lib that has stuck with me.

They were alright as landlords, friendly enough, maintenance got done pretty quick when necessary. It was wild though, I paid rent one day late one time because I was busy as shit and my partner was out of state for an extended period, so it just totally slipped my mind. The nastiness of the text I got was a bit of a surprise to me. I was still very much a lib at that point, so I was extremely confused as to why a seemingly extremely harmless (and easily fixable!) mistake could lead to such an instant change in personality from a person who had always been friendly to me before.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I think this weirdo may have read some Nietzche. Calling the people in his ideal society "cruel", "born to command", and so on, and clearly meaning that in a positive way is giving off massive Nietzche vibes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I remembered another good one! Michael Mando. The reasoning for him? His pecs in a few shots of Better Call Saul are way too big to be anything other than actual titties. So, Michael Mando is trans and trying to pass off tits as pecs. It's like these people have never seen a human in real life before. Bizarre.

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I've always heard this is a super good game and I finally started playing it and I enjoyed the first little bit (heavily eyerolling at the, uh, "evil soviet" aesthetics), but that was ok, not enough to ruin it for me.

And then the day rolled around when you have to use a scanner on people. It's basically a creepier version of the TSA body scanners, and I must say I'm really not into that. Also, and this could have just been RNG, but all except one of the people I was supposed to scan were women, and I found that a bit off-putting, honestly. But anyway, I finished the day, and was like, well, maybe I'll get used to this, it's only a game, these aren't real people I'm creeping on.

But then, the next day, the second person to come up to my window "looked like a man", but their passport said their sex was female. Now on an earlier day, I had gotten a violation for mismatched sex marker, which should have been a hint I was going to be in for a bad time later.

Well, the bad time was here, because I decided to flag the sex marker discrepancy, and wouldn't you know it, the option to scan them came up. So I guess I get to decide on whether someone's sex marker is correct based on their genitals.

I quit the game right then and there. I'd like to ask all of you whether you've played it, and whether it's worth pushing through this very serious discomfort I feel. I'm a little worried that all the "tough moral choices" are just going to feel contrived and shitty, what with the "evil soviet" aesthetic and the pretty massive oversight on gender. Not to mention we've already an as introduction to a plot about a brothel, which I'm kind of also not into, unless it's done well, but at this point, I don't trust the game to do it well.

So what do you think? Anyone played it? Is it actually worth playing?

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