This, for real. I'm autistic but I've learned to mask it by showing normies what they expect to see and it makes things so much easier. Remember, reception matters more than intention.
nycki
joined 1 year ago
I remember in college we took a course on economic efficiency and the short takeaway is "the free market is extremely efficient, but only when the competing parties start with equal resources. the more inequal the starting position, the less efficient the market becomes." and to my mind that suggests that we should enforce some sort of "rubber-banding" effect so that a company needs to keep competing or else it will "drift" back to the mean over time. Something like aggressive taxes on the uber-rich and comprehensive welfare for the poor, y'know? Capitalism but with safety guards would be pretty cool.
We've got a linguistic prescriptivist here! Everyone come and look at the guy who's sick of stuff shifting over time in response to community sentiment!
this is written like a lily-livered wimp who is anti-woke and won't admit it
You get to choose your intention. You don't get to choose how it's received. You were downvoted because people perceived you as negative, even if it's not what you intended. Unless you have a better explanation?
What do you mean you didn't say anything special? You called attention to something obvious. People normally only do that when they want to complain, i.e. "it's monday" or "the bus is late" etc. If you want to call attention to something obvious but in a positive light, you have to say that explicitly, i.e. "it's cool that there's a lot of transgender people in the hacking community" or "nice, it's raining!". Neutral is negative by default, unfortunately.
Literally just an android phone, but it comes pre-rooted and one of the system apps is a scripting language, similar to how the TI-83 comes with TI-BASIC. It's bullshit that we're carrying these powerful super-computers everywhere but with less user empowerment then a mid-tier calculator.
(yes, I know you can root your phone and install termux and python but I want that to be the default)
Does anyone know what text editor that is in the screenshot? Looks like vscode but less bloaty? I'm interested.
I think the "migration" process needs more work. If you want to hop homeservers, you're going to lose your whole post history and all your followers. That's what keeps people stuck, more than the sign-up process itself.