I don’t use it often, I will admit. But as a night shift worker, it has definitely saved me a lot of struggle.

This last month I’ve gotten quite a bit of use out of voicemails, between apartment hunting and some big purchases for my workplace

Weaponized procrastination, I like it

The fuck is a 9/16 is 3/8 bigger or smaller

Well is 6/16 bigger or smaller than 9/16? They’re just fractions is all

From a quick glance, my only issue with this is that it keeps telling me to be introspective and if I’m introspective enough I have to actually acknowledge my gender identity and that sounds awful.

On a more serious note, I skimmed this link and it does seem to be a relatively good “guide” on transitioning. Transitioning is a very individual thing, it’s gonna be vastly different for each and everyone. I noticed lots of general advice about “knowing yourself” and “using support groups around you” and whatnot, which is basically exactly the advice I’ve given and heard a lot. You’re gonna need to figure out who you are, what you want, and why. You don’t ever need to tell anyone the why. In fact, if someone asks for the why, be suspicious of them. But you should know why you are the way you are just for the sake of maintaining your ability to grow.

Like the other person said, beta software is expected to go through pretty large design changes. It’s not a matter of “forcing it on the user” it’s a matter of “my software isn’t ready yet, I’m not certain what my vision is, and if you’re not willing to put up with me figuring out what I want out of this software then wait for it to release and I’ll keep it stable from there”

Ran into a similar but slightly different debate the other day, about self-defeatism. Had to explain that non-violent showings of force (protests, words, legislation etc) do work for both sides.

This has always been a strange thing for me. All of my peers starting getting spam calls around middle/high school, but I never did. To this day, I hardly get any spam calls. And when I say hardly, I mean like… I genuinely think the total number of spam calls I’ve gotten since turning 18 is less than 50 at most.

So, I leave my voicemail on. Because I know that damn near every time I get a voicemail, I know why I got it. I know that person/company and they’re calling me because I asked them to

Out of curiosity, do you get many spam calls?

No human has ever used it

TIL I’m not human. I wonder what path life has taken you that you’ve never been thankful for a voicemail. Granted, I’m annoyed by them more often, but I’ve definitely had a few good voicemails

I don’t see Linux phones being viable for the average person for a long time

Which is really so sad isn’t it? The whole thing is so modular it would really just take one dev team a few months to at least get the ball rolling if they had the investment but… It’s just not instantly profitable enough for anyone to bother putting the initial money in

Fridge: You’re not gonna like my answer lol

Maybe you’re just making a lot of money (as would be expected in you’re an American living in Albania)?

No no, the cost of living is nothing. A quick google search shows the average cost of living is only around $945 a month!!

Please, just don’t go figure out what their average pay is. I promise that doesn’t factor into this equation, and it’s totally more than half of their cost of living lol

Why hang onto that stuff and let it go stale

As an over privileged stoner, agreed. I always offer up my weed because I know mfers don’t have as much access as I do, and it’s gonna go to waste on me anyway

Once you’re in a relationship it doesn’t really matter much. These terms exist in a similar way to “goth” or “preppy” in that they basically just describe a vibe/aesthetic. They’re mainly only used when describing one’s “type”

It’s been a minute since I set up my steam deck, is it not possible to get into desktop mode without signing into a steam account?

Since there is no realistic way to accurately and objectively determine what is or is not propaganda

Can you realistically accurately and objectively determine that the source of the claim was a tankie?

So it makes more sense to make wild claims about the person behind the message than it does to classify a piece of information based off of its linguistic characteristics?

Also, identifying propaganda isn’t difficult, I had to do it for classes in school several times. Here’s a helpful reminder on how to do so.

Choose the most efficient phrase from these options:

1. “This is propaganda which supports authoritarian communism”
2. “This is tankie propaganda”
3. “This is propaganda”

Notice how the message still gets across with that third one? It still tells you “these are lies or exaggerations that have misled you” without needlessly classing the source with a catch-all term that obfuscates their position as human beings with the right to live?

“Tankie” is a generalist term, the same as “leftist” and whatnot. The goal of terms like these is to put people into camps that are divided and label them as anything other than “human” because it’s a lot easier to say “100 dead tankies” than it is to say “100 dead humans”

My point is that terms like this detract from communication because they obfuscate the meaning behind what is being said. Using these terms, even if it is to fight against propaganda, makes it easier to continue using other terms that are similar in nature. This encourages people to use less people-centric language, which dehumanizes those around them and makes them easier targets. Best to just avoid using them at all IMO

I remember googling “which countries are still communist” back around 2018ish and Russia being at the top of many lists. It’s just another ripple effect from propaganda that hasn’t died out yet.

That being said, fighting propaganda is much easier with gentler words instead of name-calling in my experience

Oh man I made the mistake of saying the word Russia and now I must be evil. You’re right, they’re not technically communist and after double checking yeah they don’t claim it anymore either. Last time I really cared about Russia’s internals was quite a while ago, and despite few changes to their economic system they definitely used to at least claim to be communist. Or that was my understanding at the time.

The point still stands, a handful of countries claim to be communist. A handful of countries are communist. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is up to you to decide