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kshade

@ kshade @lemmy.world

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  • Winning

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  • Yes. I knew (or at least thought I knew) what my problems were but needed help with figuring out what to do about them. Finally started seeing someone to help me with that and they did.

    About it feeling fake: It's their job to help, but I did feel the same at first and told them so. That helped them understand me better.

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  • Bad faith is applying the same bad rhetoric/logic to two groups and act like it's perfectly fine and reasonable in one instance but really awful in the other. Especially if one group is literally a subset of the other. It's not a "gotcha", it's an attempt to make you realize what you're doing. Prejudice is bad, no exceptions.

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  • Why not say that instead of using needlessly divisive blanket statements?

    On the other hand, calling out random assholes is a good way to get punched in the face, especially as a man. People aren't grossly misbehaving because they accidentally forgot their manners at home that evening.

  • Maybe it's just a human thing.

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  • we can even acknowledge that a lot of men have raped people without knowing it

    I wouldn’t go as far as to call them rapists because that was not their intention

    I see what you're getting at, but I really wouldn't use that word in any context where there might have been, for example, any power dynamic or some form of coercion. I believe that keeping it reserved for situations where violence or significant coercion are involved is better for everyone, especially the victims.

    Doesn't mean using mild coercion/emotional blackmail/pestering/shaming/... is okay behaviour, not at all, it's just that saying no/leaving won't usually do much beyond change the relationship between the people involved. Talking about that is fine, good and needed, using "rape" to describe it will probably shut down any conversation before it can even begin, though.

    I'd also argue that that sort of behaviour is something both men and women engage in, maybe in different ways but, well, the expectation on men is to always be sexually available, so it sometimes becomes an issue when they are not. Mutual respect and understanding really are the most important things in a relationship, both participants are fully realized human beings, not just "the girlfriend/wife" or "the boyfriend/husband". But people seem to forget that sometimes and I don't know what can be done about that.

  • Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought

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  • I'm surprised that they are surprised by this as well. What did they expect, and why? How much of this is written to imply LLMs - their business - are more advanced/capable than they actually are?

  • Maybe it's just a human thing.

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  • People hate on fictional characters all the time though.

  • Maybe it's just a human thing.

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  • There is a lot of overlap, TERFs usually have a problem with trans women because they deeply mistrust men. The "R" is there for a reason.

  • Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees

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  • Yep, it is straight-up malware. Just like most mail clients on Android and especially iOS. At least there they have the (terrible) excuse of doing it to save power by having their server push new mail notifications through the OS' infrastructure instead of having the app wake the device up all the time.

  • Good guy clippy

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  • Etcher seems stable! But it's also a well over 100 MB download for a disk image writer. Rufus does more in less than 1% of the download size and also has a GUI.

  • LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey

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  • They probably don't share my concern. I hope they are right.

  • Orwelluan

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  • If you like Arch you might like Void, it has roughly similar ideals and a very fast package manager. No AUR equivalent though.

  • Orwelluan

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  • Hexbear user spotted (or at least that’s what my first impression is with the weird image)

    Heck no, that's just an ancient meme to indicate it's just banter/harmless trolling, not an attempt at serious discourse.

  • Orwelluan

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  • Windows isn’t controversial since everyone has adopted it. No one is making you use it but keep in mind you are a very small minority.

  • Orwelluan

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  • I'm about 2 decades in too, really not here to argue since everything has already been said multiple times. I do see systemd in a somewhat similar light as Pulseaudio. Yes, some good ideas there and it's a useful tool, but it wasn't the be-all end-all solution.

  • What's the deal with male loneliness?

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  • We still have mass phenomenons and bringing 100 people together is plenty. What's probably missing is local community.

  • LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey

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  • That's fair, I agree. I just find it a bit concerning that random people who try to make money off of affiliate links are encouraged to join this class action lawsuit about a client-side browser addon. I totally understand why people who have had sponsorship agreements with them would sue, but that's purely between the two businesses. If this results in a ruling that has nothing to do with the lack of transparency then that might ultimately be a bad thing.

  • Orwellian

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  • I use Void btw

  • LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey

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  • Hope this case won't be used against consumers in the future. If I want to use/make an extension that scrubs all affiliate links and cookies that should be legal, same with an extension that replaces all affiliate links/cookies with ones from someone I want to support. Advertisers and their partners have no rights to anything being stored/done on my devices.

    Not defending what Paypal was doing, but the real issue for me is that they had no intention of actually finding the best codes/discounts, not what they did with affiliate links.

  • Xi Jinping says no one can stop China’s ‘reunification’ with Taiwan

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  • It's a fair argument, I wouldn't call South or North Korea forcefully annexing the other reunification either though. One state would be annihilated, both in terms of its institutions and its culture. There's no unity in that, it's conquest.

    But maybe my view of the word is colored by German history. I don't know, it's just that calling what would be a horrible, grueling war "reunification" doesn't seem right, like an attempt at white-washing what would actually happen. Reminds me a bit too much of Putin's claims about Ukraine.

  • Xi Jinping says no one can stop China’s ‘reunification’ with Taiwan

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  • The re- prefix does have implications that go beyond any two states becoming one. Germany's case is a bit different anyway because it was external forces splitting the country.