Lol, the poor suckers who ever paid for premium in the first place.
So true! Also, productive screentime has been nice. Instead of doomscrolling or mindlessly zoning out to video essays, I've been programming, doing some 3D modeling for 3D printing, working on some simple games, and reading long form articles from my own curated news feed.
Ublock Origin, NewPipe, and Grayjay, haven't seen a YouTube ad in over a decade. 😌
I mean, yeah...obviously. The amount of CEOs with any technical understanding of what they supposedly manage is just about zero.
And the AI grift is basically on the same level as the Religious grift, supposed spiritual leaders/gurus who convince people that they have some special connection to God/the universe/spiritual realms, etc.
And people eat it up, it's been a thing for literally thousands of years. We are primed to want to belive it, and when it comes with membership in an exclusive club of other "true believers" , that's a winning formula.
Geez, cringe. Absolutely addicted to grinding their life away.
Same, I've paid/donated far more for my FOSS than I ever did for proprietary software.
Insert the super fancy Tux for donating more for the FOSS than you would have paid for the proprietary software 🤴
I remember a guy at a place I worked bragging that he hadn't taken a single sick day in almost 20 years.
I remember thinking, "Great, so whenever you were sick, you just subjected everybody else to it. What a stupid thing to be proud of."
Gaming PC - Nobara (Fedora base with lots of gaming-specifc kernel optimizations baked in.)
Personal laptop - Linux Mint
Business laptop - Linux Mint Debian Edition
Junk/Test laptops - Void
Home lab main hypervisor - XCP-ng (Highly customized Fedora under the hood.)
NAS - TrueNAS (Debian under the hood.)
Virtual servers - Mostly Debian, but a few Alma Linux VMs to get that RHEL experience. Ubuntu Server for my self-hosted gaming servers.
Steam Deck - SteamOS (Valve's immutable spin of Arch.)
- Typically, but not always. Some trans women are biologically intersex. (This also depends on how you define "biologically male" which is not totally straightforward.)
- It matters in some contexts, not in others. Their physician should know, because various hormone treatments cause different effects in people's bodies, and certain health conditions effect biologically male or female people differently too. That's nobody else's business but the patient and their trusted medical providers. As far as their dignity, opportunities, and general acceptance, it doesn't matter. Trans folks deserve the exact same rights, opportunities, and acceptance as anybody else.
- Usually people who bring this up aren't acting in good faith, so I don't engage with them. On the rare occasion where somebody is genuinely curious and wants to learn, I answer them in the same way as I am doing right now.
- Because the word "woman" denotes multiple concepts, like the word "parent". If a child is adopted at birth and is raised by a couple, the child and their community will refer to those people as the child's parents. This is not a false statement, because the word "parent" doesn't only mean the direct biological progenitors of a person. Parent also is a social role, hence the verb form "to parent somebody." This is also why we have the terms, "biological parent" and "adoptive parent" to add additional information when it's necessary.
Trans women are women in the sense that they are filling their society's sociological role that surrounds the expected concept of a woman. That will be different depending on many factors, and will have many different aspects including their pronouns, fashion and clothing, voice, makeup, hair, activities, and so forth.
Just like any other woman, they will chose which social roles they desire to fit into, and which ones they don't, and all of that is completely acceptable.
Curse USB and networking, purge that unclean heresy from your computing! Embrace the third temple!
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Yes, absolutely, science in general is necessary for any kind of desirable civilization. Space exploration contributes a massive amount of knowledge to scientific research and betters the human race.
But it shouldn't be a playground for billionaires to plan space hotels for ultra-wealthy clientele. Public works for the public good, for the betterment of our human race as a whole, not just for the super rich.