ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
21hr ago
Yes, actually; if they get taken seriously maybe more [women] will show up to compete, which has downstream positive social effects in the long term.
That's a load-bearing "maybe" you have there. The same/similar arguments have been made about all sorts of things with poor female representation like STEM and video games. Tons of money and effort have been poured into these outreach efforts (and a lot of outright discrimination against men too) with nothing much to show for it.
Wake me up when an outreach program for more female coal miners gets some serious attention from the mainstream media.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
I was born in the USA, my parents were, and so were all my grandparents (my grandpa grew up speaking both English and French, but he was born in Massachusetts). For great-grandparents I'm not sure, I know at least one was born in Quebec and at least two were born in the USA. So at least 9? FWIW, I also largely agree with Teddy.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Just because I'm curious about your worldview, how would you rate my "American-ness"? I have a Scots-Irish Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa (and their son) who immigrated to the US in the 1820s or so. But on my mom's side, I have a ton of French Canadian blood that mostly immigrated to the US about 100 years ago.
Bonus points, my Great-Great-Great-Great-Great aunt was one of Joseph Smith's wives, but somehow I managed to not have any polygamists in my direct lineage despite them all being early converts.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
I dislike Islam as much as the next Christian, but Islam doesn't exclusively spread by conquest. For example its spread to Indonesia (the largest Islamic country in the world) was largely done through trade and evangelism.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
It's like they have a competent team who builds stuff, and then hands it off to the enshittification team who fails (for instance) eliminate the remaining XP-era dialog boxes and fucks around with misfeatures and generally bogging things down.
My favorite is that with the newer settings you can only have a single instance of settings open at a time. From my old help desk and sysadmin days, it was a very regular occurrence for me to have both network settings and printers opened at the same time.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
It's not that I've never had issues with Linux that would have been solved by using Windows, but all those issues stem from people making software for Windows rather than Linux, not some inherent issue of Linux itself.
I love Linux, but hard disagree here. FlatPak (or snaps or apparmor or whatever) have fixed the worst of these issues, but Linux made it needlessly hard for non-technical users to install software that wasn't part of your distro's repositories for years. There's even a video of Linus talking to a conference full of distro maintainers about how obnoxious an issue it is.
On Windows, for better or for worse, you can usually just download an executable and run it.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
C#/.NET is rock solid, that's about the only one I'd give them credit for.
Why is that necessary to avoid?
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