Forget who said it, but: “Kill your darlings.”
Photography, painting, writing, jokes. You produce a lot, you cut most of it, you gain practice along the way.
This being said, there are people with inate genius who produce 90% gold.
The people who gave up because they couldn’t solve their issues aren’t posting either.
Yep. Very common.
A lot of people use their pc like a console or media server. Ie. use it to watch/play stuff from their bed or couch.
I sounds like you don’t actually dislike wayland, but fanboys and toxicity. TBH the linux community is full of that kind of crap.
Imagine if we were all as weird about toasters, having arguments about how toaster brand X was so much better than toaster brand Y.
But luckily people don’t give much of a shit about toasters, as long as they work.
Who was clearly inspired by Metropolis:
http://sorayama.jp/hajimesorayama/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/HS_paint_132.jpg
More David Lynch Dune than Denis Villeneuve Dune.
Here’s a relevant article about Portugal:
The article’s far more nuanced, but if you’re going to ask a simple yes/no question, then yes heroin should be legalised. Done well, and if you adress the true causes of addiction, this is likely to result in the best societal outcome.
It is addictive, although not as much as opioids
Here’s the thing. There’s that famous study of Vietnam vets who used heroin. Turns out that 95% quit cold turkey and never relapsed. In Vietnam, their life was shit, so they used heroin to cope. Back in the US, their lives weren’t that shit, so they simply stopped using.
Alcohol? If an alcoholic quits cold turkey, there’s a high chance they’ll drop dead.
This is partly why there’s that 2010 study that ranked alcohol as being more dangerous than heroin.
It does.
Democrats want Biden to win the election. Haley being nominated makes that harder.
If they don’t want her to be nominated, they’re not going to help her get nominated, are they?
5 second google:
A POLITICO analysis shows the former South Carolina governor is winning swaths of moderate voters who’d pick Joe Biden if Donald Trump wins the GOP nomination.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/09/haley-electability-trump-biden-polls-00130926
GOP’s Haley attracts non-Republicans … also regularly attracts swing voters who backed President Biden in 2020 … Leaning into her appeal to the political middle on the trail, Haley highlights surveys that show her leading Biden by double digits — 17 percentage points in one recent Wall Street Journal survey
43 percent of Haley backers in the state said they would vote for Biden if Trump is the GOP nominee …
Democrats acknowledge Haley could pose more of a threat to Biden than Trump, so they are tying her to the former president on virtually every issue … Democrats privately acknowledge that she would likely represent a worrisome opponent for Biden, citing polling that shows the former governor as the best-positioned candidate to unseat the sitting president in the general election.
Nikki Haley would likely win against Biden.
She’s (relatively) young, she’s a woman, she was born to immigrant parents, she’s taken a tough stance on Russia, she’s not obviously nuts.
If anything, the democratic establishment wants Trump to be the candidate. It’ll make a Biden re-election easier.
In theory, if everyone has become selfless, there is no need for a man with a stick to create the rules or ensure compliance. No one will want to use a stick to push through rules which are to their advantage. People will simply cooperate with each other or help each other willingly where necessary.
Think of a group of friends or adult family, where people help each other and cooperate willingly, because they love each other. Hopefully you don’t need to threaten your partner to do their share of the household tasks. You do it because you want your relationship to succeed and want to support each other.
The USSR tried to create this new man with a stick, propaganda and indoctrination during the dictatorship of the proletariat phase. They never achieved fully realized communism, where everyone willing works to the best of their ability and helps their commune succeed and the commune of communes that is a truly communist society succeed.
Smaller anarchist communes and experiments will try to do this organically. Everyone chooses to try to do their best and help the rest of the commune. It sounds pie in the sky, but it’s not unlike what volunteer groups do. People believe in a common cause, and freely volunteer their time, because they believe in their shared goal, and enjoy working together.
I feel this is relevant:
…proponents of communism have postulated that within the new society of pure communism and the social conditions therein, a New Man and New Woman would develop with qualities reflecting surrounding circumstances of post-scarcity and unprecedented scientific developmen … Among the major traits of a new Soviet man was selfless collectivism. The selfless new man was willing to sacrifice his life for good causes …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man#Selflessness
Of course, arguably the soviet project failed to this new man, so much so that ‘homo Sovieticus’ is now a pejorative:
Homo Sovieticus (cod Latin for ‘Soviet Man’) is a pejorative term coined to describe the average conformist individual in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. Popularized by Soviet writer Aleksandr Zinovyev, it gained negative connotations and represented the perceived outcome of Soviet policies. … Homo Sovieticus (cod Latin for ‘Soviet Man’) is a pejorative term coined to describe the average conformist individual in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. … Characteristics of Homo Sovieticus included indifference to work results, lack of initiative, indifference to common property, chauvinism, obedience to government, and a tendency to drink heavily. … traits like indifference, theft, lack of initiative, and submission to authority … Some argued that the disappointment of intellectuals in the Soviet project had negative consequences, contributing to elitism and an anti-populist stance.
People clearly do care, that’s why they manufacture drama. It helps drive engagement and views.
Of course, it’s hard not to look down on people who develop parasocial relationships with youtube personalities.
But some people are very lonely. So if anything we should be critical of the youtuber who knowingly cultivate unhealthy fanbases and profit off their misery.
I’m on kbin, but have enjoyed the discussions I’ve had or read on beehaw. I’ve mostly lurked.
You’re clearly trying to get social media right, and I respect that. Obviously it would be a loss for the fediverse if you left, however you are volunteers, it is your community. You owe the fediverse nothing. You should put the safety of your own users first.
If you do leave the fediverse for good, please let us know. I would consider joining beehaw or another forum/community to join/follow some of the discussions I’ve seen on beehaw. Especially discussions on sensitive topics that are harder to have in other parts of the fediverse.
The one thing I will say, is that leaving the fediverse will make you less known/accessible to people who need a safe online community. Of course, I suspect it’ll also keep out some of the people who cause more moderation and safety concerns. So it’s quite a dilemna.
Wow. Very generous.
If possible, I’d be interested in Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock. Sounds like it’d scratch an itch I have.
(and Death and Taxes, but only if no one else wants it.)
Can’t message you, right now. Getting a 403 error.
Thanks for doing this even if I don’t get anything. Happy holidays!
The problem with linux, and I say this out of experience, is that even if it works on 99% of games and 99% of hardware that’s not much comfort if you’re part of the 1%.
Sometimes you’re just shit out of luck. At which point linux is just the worst and you genuinely are better off using windows. That’s invariably not linux’s fault. It’s the manufacturer or developer’s fault.
TBH I’m going to try linux again some day, but I’m going to make sure I have compatible hardware. This is the way.
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