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For the first one, yeah there's a lot of missinformation going around and a very heavily politicized debate. On the one had Israel response is disproportionate and inhumane, on the other hand if you go back further enough they were attacked first (the day after being formed, so no chance of that attack being retaliation for something). At the end of the day I think both sides are at fault and supporting either is morally wrong, and claiming that you need to support one of them is a false dichotomy.

I've had similar arguments, people who hate pitbulls for some reason fail to see the stupidity in their argument. Last time I had this discussion the person was using an argument that would also be applicable to eliminating blacks in the USA, i.e. statistically pitbulls are disproportionately dangerous (low population vs high number of incidents). And refused to acknowledge that correlation does not imply causation, so the only possible explanation for that disparity was pitbulls are dangerous, not that assholes who mistreat their dogs and use them to fight prefer pitbulls (despite me showing studies concluding that race is not a good predictor for violence).

On this one I have to disagree, you think it's more useful because it's what you're used to. For me that have never used it it's a weird scale that has no bearing on anything. I've heard the argument of human comfort, but I'm comfortable from 59 to 77, and my wife prefers 73 to 86. I consider it cold below 50 and hot above 86. I have only gotten to 0 once in my life, but got temperatures above 100 every summer. If it was indeed a scale for human comfort 0 would be what most people consider comfortable, i.e. 21C or 70F, or the temperature where you can start to freeze to death (which I'm not sure but I think it's around 5C or 41F), not an arbitrary low temperature that most of the world never gets to.

Replying to someone claiming NFTs are a scam:

One small but important correction. NFTs are not a scam, it's an amazing technology that has the potential to revolutionize lots of stuff, that became popular when people used it for stupid shit.

Saying NFT is a scam because people have used it to scam others is like saying phones are a scam because people call others over the phone to scam them.

NFTs are essentially a decentralized token. This means that they can be used to represent anything you might want to represent with a token, e.g. ownership of a physical object such as a car or a house; ownership of a digital asset, such as a website or game; some predetermined amount of something, similar to a stock or bonds; etc. The fact that some people used it to mean ownership of random pictures and people thought buying random pictures on the internet for a ridiculous amount of money was a good idea tells you more about people than about the technology.

what does the community think of it?

Everyone has their own opinion, personally I think they're a great idea and have lots of great applications. But just like rolling vs non-rolling release it's a personal and application dependant choice.

Do the downsides outweigh the benefits or vice versa?

Again, depends, for my personal computer I wouldn't use it because I think it could get complicated to get specific things to work, but for closed hardware like the Deck or even a fairly stable desktop used as a gaming system it's perfect.

Could this help Linux reach more mainstream audiences?

It could, it can also hamper it because people might start to try solutions that only work until next boot and not understanding why, or having problems getting some special hardware to work (more than it would be a mutable distro). But there is a great counter to this which is that once it's running it will be very difficult to break by user error.

At the end of the day I think it's a cool technology but that people should know what they're getting into, just like when choosing rolling vs non-rolling distro, it's not about what's better, but what suits your needs best.

And you're not alone, in fact I would guess you're part of the majority. But we tend to live in bubbles surrounded by tech savvy people so we forget about it sometimes. And the problem with not knowing something is possible is not realizing its limitations, someone who's eaten hot dogs every day of their life has no idea what a burguer is, is one intrinsically better than the other? Nope, but they're different, and different people might like different things.

In any case, just like the other comment, if you have any questions feel free to ask, there's a thriving community of people who use Linux and some of us were like you so we know where you're coming from.

I wonder how much of it is people's taste changing. As in people who didn't eat good food before starting to realize there's more to food than fast food so their opinion of McDonald's changing over time.

I ask this because in South America and Europe McDonald's has always been consistently the same taste since I can remember. There were a couple of random specific locations where the food was subpar, but in general it's been the same, a Big Mac is a Big Mac since I started going to McDonald's over 30 years ago and in every city I've eaten it (never been to the US though).

Over a billion people have gone from not having plumbing to having indoor toilets, heating/cooling systems and access to modern health care in the space of 50 years.

I'll reply to this with a quote from C. K. Lewis:

Of course slavery is the worst thing that ever happened. Every time it has happened – black people in America, Jews in Egypt, every time a whole race of people has been enslaved, it’s a horrible thing.

But maybe every incredible human achievement in history was done with slaves. Every single thing where you go, ‘How did they build those pyramids?’ They just threw human death and suffering at them until they were finished…There is no end to what you can do when you don’t give a f*ck about particular people

Hence why I compared it to he economic miracle of Nazi Germany.

It's perfectly normal, especially when you're still so green. I've distro hopped lots for my first 4 years, started with Ubuntu, and tried a bunch of stuff until settling for Arch back in 2008. Since then I've tried one or another distro for some amount of time or specific purpose, e.g. servers running Debian, work machines running Ubuntu, and there was a 2 year gap where I used Gentoo as my main system (but despite things that I loved there, I just didn't had the patience). Just the other day I was talking about Bazzite with someone here on Lemmy, and they made such a good defense for it that I might install it on a VM for testing, I've also been wanting to give NixOS a serious try any day. All of which is to say, yes man, trying different stuff is normal, even if you're perfectly happy with what you have you won't know if there's anything better for you unless you try it, I used to think I was happy on Windows.

I'm not opposed to there being good stuff in China, but the economic miracle of China was built on top of slave labor and repression. It's easy to get an economic miracle if you're willing to sacrifice part of your population, which is why I have the Germany example since that's exactly what was done there.

Overall China is getting better, and in a couple of generations they might be a relatively nice place to live, but don't fool yourself into thinking that people there today are as free as people living in a democratic nation.

The pictures are different, so it's hard to evaluate them the same. Objectively the bowtie makes it all too crowded around his face. On a more subjective note, it might be because of the lighting, but the necktie looks like a distinguished gentleman, whereas the bowtie is giving me serial killer vibes.

I mean, if by those metrics alone you mean to tell that it's a great country, 1940's Germany must really appeal to you. After all they did an economic miracle no one thought possible and the standard of living of their citizens increased dramatically. Who cares that they murdered millions of people, those were not REAL citizens, right?....

While I also strongly recommend Dead Cells like others, I think it's best if you first play Rogue Legacy. Let's put it this way, if Rogue Legacy is like a good cup of coffee, dead cells is cocaine, or maybe crack.

I should have read this before I wasted my time writing the main response. I don't know who's more delusional the person who thinks Europeans are jealous of a country where most couldn't be paid enough to move or the person who thinks any of the critique I mentioned is objective (not even sure what non objective critique you've heard).

Counter hypothesis: OP and the person he's replying to here are in fact agents trying to create a rift between the US and the rest of the world by making us believe that the population there is actually this narcissistically stupid.