So it’s eating its ancestor?

Man, I hope they’ll make some smaller sets too. These are really cool display pieces, but I don’t have the room or willingness to spend that kind of money.

It did an attempt in latin. Well, atleast that’s how I imagine all latin to be.

It goes to the question “geek?” Which then can be answered as “hobbyist” or “yes”, but the half circle makes it weird. That’s how I read it, but if you choose hobbyist you indeed get into an argument of “WHAT AM I?”

Edit: oh, the yes and no are UNDER the question if you’ve used Linux. The No on the left comes from another branch. Pfff, just woke up, now I even see you said exactly that. I need coffee…

Welp, unpopular opinion time.

Honest question: all of it? Like including all the history and its influences on our modern society? Every opera, classical music and piece of art? Will we be forbidden to listen to its influences?

Tom Holland (who is a secular historian, not that actor guy) writes:

“Familiarity with the biblical narrative of the crucifixion has dulled our sense of just how completely novel a deity Christ was … [Christianity] is the principal reason why, by and large, most of us who live in post-Christian societies still take for granted that it is nobler to suffer than to inflict suffering. It is why we generally assume that every human life is of equal value. In my morals and ethics, I have learned to accept that I am not Greek or Roman at all, but thoroughly and proudly Christian.”

And again, he is not actually a christian believer, but his thesis is that all of our western society is drenched in christian values, and it would have looked absolutely different without it.

Even Richard Dawkins calls himself a “cultural christian”. Would you destroy that culture too? Our whole western society is built upon it. To destroy religion is to destroy way more than you might realize.

Do some religious people do bigoted things? Yes! Would I like that to be different? Yes! But “destroying religion” is throwing away the baby with the bathwater. The time of the new atheists movement has been over for a while. The sentiment of religion= bad is getting old and frankly, outdated. In the academic world they’ve moved on: more and more academics see atleast some value in religion, even if they don’t necessarily uphold a faith themselves.

Not trying to sway you to believe in anything religious. I don’t care. But not seeing any value in religion is… a depressing take on this world and it’s beauty.

Grayson and the Slappers

I will never not read “AI” as “Al”(with an L) . Makes it more goofy, so less scary.

Destruction of freedom? What freedom? They already are slaves of the big corporate elite machine lizards!

/s

That is one hell of a gaslight.

I think it’s because our brain can’t really focus on both content and spelling at the same time. You can only really check either the message or the spelling at one time when you are the author.

When you check the message/content of your post, you look at every sentence and ask yourself: does it convey my point? Did I choose the right words?

When you check spelling, you should check word by word without looking at the meaning(unless spelling depends on it). Since you know what’s coming next in your story, you’re probably just rushing through the sentences. You’ll miss stuff because you don’t read every word. It is the classic “the the” problem where the same word is shown twice in a sentence, but you miss it because you only fastread it.

Also, spell check last. If you spellcheck first and then do some rewriting, the new stuff will have a high chance of spelling errors.

The idea is that Heathcliff is an unnecessary addition to the comic, and that they still work without him.

I just stuck a few ubiquity access points all around the house. Works great, office-grade stuff.

Yeah, I thought about discarding the whole explanation beneath it. But then I remembered that the first time I saw the sea lion comic I was kind of confused about what sealioning was and had similair questions.

If interpreted wrong, the sealion comic seems like a fight against questions and evidence. I interpreted it like that the first time I saw that comic. Now I know better though 😜.

100% agree. I hope Cosmic DE can remedy some of those learning curves, but that is a tough ask from a desktop environment .

I mean heck, it took me several months to fully get accustomed to OS X Tiger when I switched from Win XP back in the day.

Answers that say “paste this in your terminal” should not be used by people that don’t know what they are doing. Even if 99% of those solutions work, we should not learn non-it people to make a habit of pasting random shit in their terminal.

So actually there are almost no answers for Linux for non IT people.

Sealioning is not about the content of the discussion. It is about a discussionstyle.

Don’t get the two mixed. If you’re trolling: good job! Have some meaningless internetpoints from me!

If you genuinly don’t know what the problem with sealioning is, I suggest you read up on it some more:

“Rhetorically, sealioning fuses persistent questioning—often about basic information, information easily found elsewhere, or unrelated or tangential points—with a loudly-insisted-upon commitment to reasonable debate. It disguises itself as a sincere attempt to learn and communicate. Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target’s patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. While the questions of the “sea lion” may seem innocent, they’re intended maliciously and have harmful consequences. — Amy Johnson, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (May 2019)”

I can see why only seeing that comic makes you come to questions like you asked (“what if it were black people?”) But these questions are questions about content rather then the form of sealioning. Of course it is not wrong to ask for sources in a debate. Or to ask questions. It is however, harmful to impose bad-faith, or even ignore boundaries that are given by the other party (hence the sealion being in bed with its debater in the comic, which is entirely inappropriate of the sealion.)

Or another definition:

*“Internet trolls sometimes engage in what is called ‘sealioning’. They demand that you keep arguing with them for as long they want you to, even long after you realize that further discussion is pointless. If you announce that you want to stop, they accuse you of being closed-minded or opposed to reason. The practice is obnoxious. Reason should not be silenced, but it needs to take a vacation sometimes. — Walter Sinnot-Armstront, Think Again: How to Reason and Argue (June 2018).” *

You forgot /s right?

Right?

Easy, you just loudly proclaim: “I COME TO REASON!”

I don’t know about you, but my Outlook on survival while being an Explorer would definitely rise. I’d say I would Excell at the task at hand if I’d be pushed to the Edge like that, mark my Word!

I like to think that this graph is just a rough representation, not an absolutely accurate drawing.

Partly /s