Of all the right wing assclowns, rogan is the one that people least need to “keep up with”. He doesn’t create conspiracies or thought. He just regurgitates what others say.

But, more importantly: What do you expect to come out of this? if you aren’t comfortable speaking to your husband about what he is watching, what will you do once you find out?

If you remove the gen z distinction: yeah. People have lost the ability to acknowledge there are other world views than their own.

Sometimes it is a good thing. “Agree to disagree” on a person’s fundamental right to existence is one of the may things that has made the world so fucked up.

But also? People in general spend so much time surrounded by The Algorithm and having every aspect of their media and news consumption catered to them that it makes a massive disconnect. When youtube or even lemmy/reddit always shows you what you want to hear, someone doing the opposite is not only a personal insult: it is an attack on your very reality.

And while it likely impacts gen z and younger millenials more: one of my co-workers is a boomer ass boomer who was mostly hired as a favor to an influential person at one of the companies we are trying to get as a client. And it feels like every other sentence out of his mouth is “you are being intentionally obtuse” because he cannot fathom a world where he is not right and an expert in everything he thinks about.

And you can see it in most threads where people have an actual discussion. People LOVE to say “I think you are being disingenuous” or “you are being argumentative” because it is easier to call someone else a liar than it is to realize they came to a different conclusion.

For the same reason there has never been a mainstream esports show.

Announcers and the vast majority of commentators aren’t there to perform deep analysis. They are there to make sure the audience can follow along. You have a good understanding of whatever sport you are talking about. Not everyone watching does. And a lot of the less knowledgeable viewers are there as part of a party and might not be intently focusing, so repetition helps.

That said, alternate commentary/streams/radio shows are increasingly popular if you want something more focused on you.

For those wondering:

~180 Mile range

Moscow is approximately 200-ish miles from the border with Ukraine.

So possible, but most likely these will be reserved for fuel and ammunition depots.

… did you just admit to molesting your kids?

Like, I was mocking your bigotry and the tendency for chuds to want to control every aspect of their children’s sexuality being code for hiding their own incestuous and abusive thoughts. I never expected anyone to admit to it…

Holy fuck…

Its okay. Just pray REAL hard and those impure thoughts about the mailman might go away.

Your priest might even have a suppository to help you with that.

No. Time and time again, it has been shown that “don’t feed the trolls” is horrible advice. Here is a pretty decent article I found after 15 seconds of googling.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17561768/dont-feed-the-trolls-online-harassment-abuse

And I already addressed this above.

So… I don’t know why you are so hell bent on your post, provided without comment, not having people pushing back against folk arguing in bad faith about “advanced sexual theory”. But… well, I guess I will take your advice regarding one apparent troll.

I don’t mind spending some of my time arguing for the existence of other human beings. I waste MUCH more time doing MUCH stupider things. Like explaining to you why just leaving bigots to preach hate is not a good thing.

And that assumes we have good faith moderators. There is a LONG history of chud mods no actioning the bigots who “don’t break the rules” and leaving up dog whistles and outright misinformation. So give them an opportunity to make it clear just what they are saying.

Because “don’t feed the trolls” is some enlightened centrist nonsense and is one of the many things that has led to the world being so fucked. Because if there are no voices pushing back against hate then… hate wins. And it continually does.

“Just ignore the trolls” works when someone is asking “Why” or “is Brad leaving?”

“just ignore the trolls” doesn’t work when we are talking about the right for people to exist.

Because the bigots will just glom on to what makes them happy. And they’ll inevitably argue they are being “silenced” if they get downvoted (assuming they don’t get support from other chuds). And then naive idiots will see that and just assume they are seeing a “less popular” viewpoint. Especially when half the other comments will be about how reddit is a bastion of leftist thought and social justice warriors (yup…).

So you latch on to the semi-coherent chuds. You pretend they are acting in good faith and are just misguided. And you correct them. And THEN you have some fun when they show their asses.

Because now? Those “Well, both sides need some thought” idiots actually get “both sides” rather than just an echo chamber of hate.

Got it. Only YOU get to decide where your son puts his dick and who gets to have sex with your daughter.

… Is the answer to both of those you?

obviously

But it is still worth making sure there are voices other than “the TV made me gay because Hugh Jackman is friends with a pretty boy” nonsense

Is “advanced sexual theory” the latest version of “critical race theory” where you take a college course that someone told you existed and assume it applies to anything that makes you uncomfortable?

There is nothing “advanced” about the existence of gay people or the idea that you don’t need to grow up and settle down with someone of “the opposite sex”. Hell, having your parents lose their mind and pretend the world is ending the moment you see that Sally has two Moms or even that someone is walking down the street with their friend but “are a bit too close together” is how you get such incredibly stupid people as to feel threatened by a kids book that isn’t constantly drilling down that PENIS GOES INTO VAGINA!!!

And if the mere existence of an alternative will “turn someone gay”? Then… how has the world not devolved into mass gay orgies everywhere that Ryan Reynolds goes? Well… more massive gay orgies.

Also: Can I just point out how massively fucked it is that so many chuds are this obsessed with the sexuality of their children?

Try to avoid regurgitating the fox news talking points. It makes you sound like a bigoted moron.

“Kids” generally don’t need to read a deep psychological investigation of human sexuality. But they can and should have access to stories involving LGBTQ characters and themes. Because learning acceptance for others (and maybe even themselves) from an early age is how you get kids who aren’t stupid chuds who are just waiting for a chance to say what they heard tucker carlson say last night.

So yeah. My sympathies for the library who was just trying to not get fire bombed. But… fuck that noise. The acknowledgement that not everyone in the world is cishet does not instantly turn a story about a bunny rabbit into an “adult” book.

Its almost like people can do more than one thing.

Exactly

If you have a beacon? Even an insanely directional connection to a GPS satelite is still going to bounce off clouds and the like.

And a beacon that triggers the moment it crashes? The expected crash location is not The Hardy Boyz Compound. It is Iraq or Russia or China. Every minute we can buy to “dispose of” any of the juicy bits matters.

Equity is good. It encourages people to give a shit as to whether a product is launched or not and so forth.

The issue is more that we have this convoluted scheme to let people cash out their shares throughout their time with the company because it makes 'total compensation" higher

Personally? I would have almost no issues if it were just put into an escrow account and treated more like a retirement/severance package. Working at InterTrode? Those shares are untouchable. Leave InterTrode? YOLO.

Should I still isolate myself after a positive test?

Yes. You can still infect others and others can still have long covid reactions or complications.

Is it ok to do my own shopping (with a mask) or should I call someone?

No, because that is not isolation. The vast majority of supermarkets these days do parking lot pick up or even home delivery

Do I still wait for a negative test or simply to be free of symptoms?

According to the CDC, you can end isolation after a negative test. I would strongly encourage after TWO negative tests because the home testers are far from perfect. The last time I had covid I tested after my symptoms were “mostly gone” and once I had a negative morning test I then did an evening test to confirm.

But, above all: Even if you refuse to acknowledge that covid is serious, you can go a long way by treating it like the flu. If you are sick, don’t go out in public. Don’t cough on people or sneeze on people. And if you are at all concerned you are sick, wear a mask indoors to avoid spreading it to others.

There are strong indications that Valve’s Deckard is imminent. Whether that is a standalone VR device or a “console” like steam machine with a heavy emphasis on VR is up for debate.

But it should result in a much stronger focus on non-proprietary VR libraries that are OS agnostic. I doubt it will make for a massive market share increase, but it will hopefully make working with ti more palatable for the various free engines. Because NOBODY wants to spend their free time interfacing with facebook. But OpenXR (or something actually good?)? We’ll see.

Most UBI solutions (which I very much support and voted for Yang in the primaries for…) tend to be built around the idea of providing cost of living for “free” but encouraging people to still suck capitalism good if they want more money on top of that. Which is “good” because it is how you get those rock star developers focused on major products.

But that more or less makes the same problem. Sure, there are going to be people who genuinely want for nothing more than three meals a day and spend the rest of their time doing hardcore development. But, even then, they likely are never going to be “challenged”. I’ve worked with some AMAZING developers over the years and have learned a lot from them. And I would hope they learned from me. Because, during a code review, you see how Nancy solved a problem and might try to incorporate that pattern into your own workflow and so forth.

But when you are more or less the sole “ninja” developer on a project and are mostly working with college kids who can remember what the various design patterns are called? You are likely not being challenged in the slightest and you “stagnate”.

And most people who live and breathe “awesome code” are doing so because it lets them do fun stuff on the weekend. Which, until we live in a post scarcity society, needs money/resources.

Hell, if I haven’t already pissed off more than enough people with this, I’ll add on that I have never met what I would consider a “good” software engineer who doesn’t “work for the weekend” as it were. Because if all you want to do with your entire life is code? You never stop iterating. You always want to make the code better and I need to regularly “check in” with you to make you push code to a repository or remove the WIP from your MR. Whereas the people who want to finish their job so they can go climbing or take a trip to the beach with their family or just blow money on hookers and blow? They are able to realize when something is “good enough for production” and they get a LOT more done.

I am a strong supporter of open source tech. Specifically the proper FOSS flavor.

It is NEVER going to be a valid alternative when there is a massive multi-million (if not billion) dollar alternative with an affordable license. Because it takes time to develop these feature sets and time is money. Even someone working in their spare time can’t put in a full day of work… and are likely burned out FROM a full day of work.

And that ignores the tendency for GPL-like licenses that are straight up cancer as far as companies and products are concerned. I respect the ideology but… that is WHY companies are less likely to pull a Valve and dump massive amounts of money into supporting open source projects. Like, every time someone pushes a cool piece of software with a GPL-like license I just think “Cool, you are actively making sure your feature set never improves anything”

The best we can hope for is the model used by Ubuntu and the like. An open source project backed by a corporation that sells support. And… the open source community almost instantly turns on that and decides they are evil and starts going out of their way to shit on it at every step of the way.

As for the overall idea of “do we even own anything in this world of subscriptions?”. That, much like with the “I bought the disc so I own this game” mindset is very much a fallacy. Because you can get a life time license to version 1.2315151651616 of FooSoft. hell, you can even get 1.x of FooSoft. That… doesn’t matter because the moment a CVE is found in FooSoft or its dependencies you need a new version. Which is WHY we tend toward these subscription models because we know we need the updated version.

Like, as a good example: Basically ANY new hardware or software suite needs support for Red Hat, and to a lesser extent Ubuntu, if they are planning on selling their products. Because any company worth its salt is picking a distro with a support model. Which basically means RHEL and whatever the paid Ubuntu is. Because even ignoring any tech support aspects, a support contract is a guaranteed timeline for fixing vulnerabilities.