Ranting

More and more it seems like I’m seeing opinion columns being posted in the fediverse that are, to be fair, bad takes - but everyone seems to act like it’s representative of the entire publication. Which misses the entire point of opinion columns - they’re about providing different points of view, food for thought, if you will. Show you things outside of your bubble. The inevitable reality is that if you do that, you’re going to have some bad takes. If you don’t have some bad takes every once in a while, your opinion column is bad and you should feel bad.

I want to curate my feed to mostly just contain serious people. Doesn’t matter whether I agree with their views or not - it’s all about how those views are expressed. So many people on social media are just thrilled to have a megaphone and the ability to make noise. I don’t like noise.

More polarization and division comes from flame wars - burned out people lashing out at each other, encouraged by the algorithms and the social media platform design.

It’s the same kind of man who hates Twilight, Taylor Swift, BTS. They hate anything that women like and make it their personality even though no one ever asked for their opinion.

A little maybe, but not much.

Reddit, YouTube, facebook and all of the other social media websites track the urls I copied. Whenever you copy a link, check out, it is not the actual url and/or it contains a track id in the url. I can’t share anything with the people any more, and click their links, because I hate being tracked.

Why is it that when it comes to bathrooms and sports, transphobes seem to think that transgender women are indistinguishable from cisgender men, they think a transgender woman is just a man claiming to be a woman while physically male, completely ignoring transgender women who have physically changed through hormones and/or surgery, making the situation very much not black and white, they see no nuance whatsoever, they believe transgender women are physically indistinguishable from men

Sure, planes can do a flying, but we see birds do the same thing and have sort of done it for centuries with catapults (although with much smaller durations and less comfortable landings).

I feel like the online ridicule and bullying has gone on long enough. If you wanna pick a bone with the guy on his values and sensibilities, that seems perfectly fine. But let’s leave the kink and fetish shaming out of it.

They done hurt every damn feeling I have. Whaddo I do with that?

I don’t think the guy should be ridiculed or kink-shamed for his fetish, which at a surface level seems fairly non-harmful. I think he should be ridiculed and shamed for standing by Kristi Noem.

I love herbsluftwm. I’ve used it for years and years, with zero complaint. I wanted to try wayland and after digging around, I heard sway was gonna give me the closest experience. It does not. I find the hotkeys, frame controls, and decorations to be rudimentary in comparison. There have compounded enough deal breakers in the last 2-3 months of use, that I’m thinking about going back x11 so I can be reunited with my beloved hlwm.

the only time that alimony should be allowed is if:

Protesting with a sign and snarky message doesn’t do much. Everyone agreeing to do one simple (non violent) thing would work much better. It has to be just one thing though. The “don’t buy anything” day is ineffective and confusing.

I had seen people paying for services to write research for them.

I’ve never understood why bathrooms or sports are segregated by gender. Makes absolutely no sense to me and I’ll go to my dying day believing it’s nonsense.

When I first looked up psyllium husk powder as a fiber supplement, people were complaining that it made the water thick and gross. That enticed me to buy it. And when the packaging said to drink immediately after mixing lest it thicken, I instead let it sit for a good 15 minutes until my glass of water had a smoothie-like consistency. Makes me love drinking water again and also sad that I can’t have it with every glass of water or else I get stopped up.

I’m not going to advocate for crypto, more out of ignorance, but maybe it’s possible to make a coin that’s worth 0 USD but can be exchanged like USD.

Have been almost completly vegetarian for the last 4 and a half years and was pretty much a carnivore before that, so I feel this is as unbiased of an opinion as is possible.

I only know about OGLAF. I don’t know why this genre is not popular as much as it should be.

Read a news article, by headline because really I don’t care enough to be bothered reading why. About a mother, who was denied home-at-work and had a child die over some circumstance, was awarded $22 million. Whether she gets it or not, doesn’t matter, what matters is that nobody should ever win that much in any case. Millions have been tossed around so fruitlessly in cases like these.

1) try to copy email from Facebook app to add to email header of email I am writing, but Facebook app refuses to just let me copy the email and instead insists on opening IOS Mail app with new draft

I use it all the time. It is a good partner to challenge me, when I am looking for other points of view. “I believe x due to y. Challenge my point of view”

Perhaps it should be named “unconventional opinions that I still agree with”? Or perhaps “lol lets see what opinion they post now” (to be fair, the WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME? I’M RIGHT is sort of this)?

it runs all apps,works with all hardware even “unsuppoted” ones with rufus.

Several people had recommended that I watch Mythic Quest.

Like I get what the message is and all that, I’ve heard the whole Lux album and have context and all.

I’ve been waiting two weeks for an Excel file I need for a mid-month report. The one person who can generate it is buried, so fair enough. It used to take him an hour. Now, with our carefully monitored AI “efficiency,” it takes about six days.

You open a program for work… and suddenly it doesn’t work.

It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

They seem so popular, dozens of games coming out, and reviews often positive.

You should not cook pasta in water as salty as the ocean, and there is such a thing as too much garlic.

They’re just so corpo, it’s so soulless and i hate it. Square pfp with a golden check said “Trains.” oh, haha so funny and relatable !!