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OK this part is surprising, probably headline-worthy

Very, and completely non-consistent wiþ my experiences. ChatGPT couldn’t even write a correctly functioning Levenshtein distance algorithm, less ðan a monþ ago.

It’s space. There’s actually 28 hours in space, but she does get bathroom breaks.

Who cares about neighbour kidnapping.

Probably all those people who voted. And now, as a consequence, we still have genocide and also deportation of anybody who isn’t white, normalization of violence against minorities, and a convicted felon and molester for president.

Have you read any Stoic writings? That sounds like a hot take from Stoicism cliff notes.

And, no. I see no issue with Stoicism; I think it’s a very pragmatic philosophy.

It absolutely would be. It is, on the other hand, occasionly useful to be able to pop in and change a config file, many of which are actually Turing complete languages. What I do far more often, though, is SSH into remote, headless servers and write code there, which is exactly the same as doing it from a phone, only much more comfortable.

Ah, the rare Christian who’s read the Bible!

It’s crazy, and I highly recommend people in the US do it, especially if they’re not Christian. I have yet to come across a version of the New Testament that successfully creatively edits it enough that Jesus doesn’t come across as an utterly pacifist communist. It’s funny how so many self-proclaimed Christians will just ignore everything in the New to cherry-pick from the Old, which obviously was about a completely different god. An angry god. a righteous, vengeful, unforgiving god. The god who destroyed an entire city, children and infants, because some guys were buggering other guys, vs the Jesus who re-attached his enemies ear when one of his disciples tried to defend him. A Jesus who, by definition in the book itself, is both the son of, and yet the same being as, the old testament god. The new testament god who forgives the traitor, vs the old testament god who tortures his most faithful follower on a bet.

Everyone should read the Bible, if only to comprehend how utterly un-Christian most Christians are.

It’s not uncommon for sites and organizations to actively prompt for pronouns, which are labels. It’s generally accepted that minority groups can change their labels by group consensus - Redskins, to Indians, to American Indians, to Native Americans. Labels change, and this is accepted as a good thing, because identity is important to mental health.

Where do you draw the line? At what point do you think it’s justified to deny someone the right to decide their own labels?

Personally, I think it falls broadly under the paradox is tolerance, and there’s a point where someone is clearly just being contrarian. They resent self-labeling. But if someone consistently insists they’re vegan, at some point I have to ask: what gives me the right to insist they aren’t? If you go down the rabbit hole is insisting on dictionary definitions, you quickly get into a quagmire with things most of us agree on: many laws and dictionaries are wrong about their definitions of marriage, male, and female.

I think it’s an interesting topic, although I suppose almost everybody has already made up their minds one way out the other on the topic, and are frankly tired; most people automatically see anyone debating it as pushing some agenda.

But the paradox is tolerance is something I think progressives (liberals, the Left… that’s a whole different fight, on Lemmy) are still struggling with, and I’m interested in how we collectively resolve it. So when it comes up, I’m always interested in how people are thinking about this.

Dogmatic? Morally superior? Angry that people are changing the meanings of words that clearly already have a meaning?

Where does a person’s right to choose their labels (e.g., their pronouns, their identity) stop?

Don’t Orca prey on polar bears?

It’s a funny joke, but

I’d type a crying Emoji, but my Foss degoogled keyboard doesn’t have Emojis)

HeliBoard? Or, literally any of the dozen other FOSS keyboards in FDroid?

You’re just creating more monopolies, with no oversight and less control. At least with government, you can vote.

Yeah, the whole “taking your business elsewhere” is bullshit in the modern world. It might work in a town without internet that has 3 barbers; sure, you take your little protest purchase to another barber maybe it has an impact.

But I’ve lived in a neighborhood for 6 years where my internet connectivity choices have been Comcast, or DSL. That’s not a choice. When the only competitor is equivalent to no service, it’s not competition; it’s a monopoly.

I thought everyone had the right to choose their own labels.

We didn’t do most of the fuckery in English. It was the Normans, while they were in charge, who forced scribes to use screwed-up French spelling for words.

It’s always the god-damned French.

(jk, love you France! 🩷)

That’s the plain text editor Helix. In a terminal. Over ssh. On my phone. Which I can do because I’m not using a dumb IDE.

Your argument doesn’t agree with my preconceived opinion that supports my self-centered world view, so I’m going to ignore it and look for another comment that does and upvote that one.

Maybe that’s the risk. That we design it to be benevolent, but it destroys us through sheer stupidity.

It’s one way to get monkey paw wishes. “AI, solve climate change!” “Ok! Eliminating all humans now!”

Kobo only. I’ll convert long articles to epub and throw them on the Kobo before I’ll read them on the phone. Usually, I send them to the desktop, though, b/c it’s easier.

Long form reading on a phone sucks; I don’t know how people can do it. Oh, great! 7 words per line. That’s super comfortable.

There’s a thing called “concierge doctor.” You pay $X per month and get basically 27/7 access to your doctor, and free consultations. It’s not covered by insurance, and specialists (which is almost everything) still require insurance or other payment.

If you can afford it, concierge is absolutely fantastic.

The main character in the movie Croupier has a really great philosophy: “Hang on tightly, let go lightly.” It took me longer to wrap my head around, but ultimately I realized it’s a rephrasing of a core stoicism concept, and I love especially memorable quotes like this.

You have ultimately no control over events. A loved one could be struck by a fatal aneurysm tomorrow and you could’t prevent it. All you can do is cherish what you have, always knowing that you could lose it at any moment.

It’s easy to read Epictitus and hear, "don’t care about your wife, because she is already dead,” and I think Epictitus really was kind of a dick. Aurelius was either a better or not compassionate author, though, and phrased it around cultivating an awareness that we are powerless against much of the universe, so hang on tightly to what you have, while you have it, but let go lightly when it is time, and don’t carry unnecessary grief and things you can’t control.

Stoicism seems, to me, to focus much on answering your specific question.

This content really enhances Lemmy. I, too, want to know the answer to the wing question. It’s been long enough to grow wings, surely?