Here in NYC my daughter’s high school’s LGBQT club gave out these bracelets yesterday. She wore these home on her arm. While walking down 1st Ave in Manhattan a normally dressed white dude shouted at her “You fagg*ts are what’s wrong with America! Can’t wait to put you back in your place.”
My daughter is straight but wearing them in solidarity. And she’s a tough New Yorker who brushed off the dumbasses comments. But these assholes are everywhere and think they’re tough yelling at 13yr olds.
I'm trying to log my introceptive signals so all day I'm like: what is this feeling in my belly. what is it?! is it anxiety? is it pain? is it a foreboding sense of what's to come? what is ittttttttt????? (it's hunger i have eaten nothing)
Look, I get it. Jack wants the freedom to sport that godawful beard and Twitter is genuinely the only place where wannabe billionaire simps won't roast him for having facial hair that somehow screams "white supremacist billy goat".
In a private chat, a friend asked about how to get a Steam gift card to another friend in a far-off country.
And so I got to tell one of my favorite stories, the time Valve had to entirely refactor a part of their business because organized crime was using shooty game digital weapon skins to launder money.
It's just this under-reported, under-attended story that's both a fun and very jarring introduction for most normal folks to how bad actors will use any system they can in any way they want.
@andreasio I get your point, but what I tend to encounter in these moments* isn't enthusiasm in the other person for someone else's potential experience, but rigid black & white thinking that only serves to drive folks away.
*specifically the folks who refuse to see anything from anyone else's perspective but their own supremacist one. not saying this is the majority of linux users, just very often a loud and very active contingent.
@andreasio There are great reasons for it, but the context here is promoting linux as a daily driver for folks that are not prepared and cannot harden it themselves.
Learning CLI definitely changed the game for me all over the place.
All this milkshake discourse is unnecessary, philosopher and social commentator Karl Popper already settled this with his Paradox of Lactose Intolerance.