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Cake day: September 28th, 2023

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  • I have no idea how you and your other up voters read what I wrote and thought “semantics”.

    Arguments are “I am right, you are wrong.”

    Conversations are “I feel I am right, and you feel you are right. Let’s try to understand each other and figure out where the disconnect is and how we can meet on common ground to come to an outcome we are both happy with.”

    There are nuances. Arguments have an undertone of superiority. Conversations have an undertone of trying to understand the other person’s perspective and realizing that if somebody has the same perspective as you then you wouldn’t be in the situation to begin with.

    Now, I want to make it perfectly clear that there are some things where there is no room for conversation - things where facts are being disputed.

    This post is an argument since I am too lazy to engage in conversation.







  • It’s almost like if you create a system based on wealth you will get doctors that churn through patients as quickly as possible and don’t actually try and spend the time to diagnose issues. Even if they find the issue you are at the mercy of health insurance to lower the bill from 2 years of income down to 6 months.

    This whole system is a scam, and there are literally no incentives to actually cure people since healthy people generate no income for the healthcare industry.









  • Not a hot take at all. Asking someone to go from a GUI heavy operating system to a command line heavy one and be just as productive is lunacy. Like all major changes it is important to ween off the old thing.

    My biggest hurdle with the switch has been permission related issues, and you can’t deal with those cleanly with a UI, and every help thread under the sun throws out a bunch of command line commands giving a solution without explaining why those changes are needed. It may seem like Unix 101 to experienced Linux users, but it is really cryptic to newcomers coming from operating systems that are…cough more lenient with their permissions.

    There is also a mentality that UIs are much more idiot proof than command line. UIs are written by people who actually know the OS so we can’t accidentally delete our home folder because of a typo. It is a very legitimate concern.