the paradox of tolerance is […] Purely academic

Yes? That’s kinda the point of a thought experiment ? Do you think the trolley problem is less than “purely academic”? Or that Schrodinger actually put a cat in a box?

First, you should probably lessen with the therapy speak. This is a personal thing but the commodification of therapy is actually a huge problem that we should talk about. But I digress.

Second, maybe clarify this up a little bit? Are these people your roommates? Your upstairs neighbor? Downstairs? Next door? I genuinely don’t know who you’re talking about.

But (I’m assuming these are your up or downstairs neighbors?) I had a buddy who was in a similar situation where even the microwave beeping would cause the upstairs neighbor to thump on the floor. He just had to complain to the apartment complex a bunch (basically every time it happened, as it happened) and eventually they got it sorted. The upstairs neighbor stopped being annoying and moved out shortly after.

In an apartment you will hear your neighbors and it’s unrealistic to expect them to be perfectly silent all the time.

It was a 7 leaf clover ;)

But yeah this one makes me sob uncontrollably

I went to one in Chicago and had some of the best wings I’ve ever had in my life, still to this day.

Went to another one in my home town a few years later, and had terrible, obviously frozen wings.

Never went back again. Not sure if that answers your question.

someone who promotes a product while hiding the fact that they’ve been paid

Streamers generally say “this is a sponsored stream”

So by your own definition streamers are generally not shills?

My buddy is a little streamer (gets maybe a few dozen viewers) and he got early access to it as well. Although he doesn’t add any fake hype, he’s just a very good hype man.

You have to help yourself before you can help someone else. Yes, being intentionally uninformed is bad, but reading/listening to nothing but doom and gloom will do nothing for anyone. Plus, by and large, you probably can’t do a whole lot about those situations you mentioned.

Become more engaged in local politics, watch/attend your town hall meetings, get to know your neighbors, give a dollar to the beggar on the street, volunteer in your community, go out in nature.

Modern activism demands that everyone is knowledgeable and actively fighting everything wrong in the entire world all of the time. And that’s just not sustainable. Take a step back, catch your breath, and trust that others will keep up the yelling until you get back.

the core issue that nobody is mentioning is that men are ultimately not the people who suffer the consequences

No, thats a major hurdle to get this stuff approved. Birth control all comes with downsides, there’s no “perfect conception” except absence.

With female birth control, the negatives of birth control can far outweigh the negatives of pregnancy. But men have (essentially) no negative medical issues with pregnancy, so a birth control for men would also have to have next to no long or short term issues.

An alternative to Vasalgel did a couple of trials in January 2024 and they said the trail would be 2 years long to cover the entire lifespan of the drug.

I was trying to figure out why Vasalgel hasn’t started human trials but I can’t seem to find any actual reasons.

The new tires are because the cars in both Furiosa and Fury Road are all real cars! Even immortant Joes Gigahorse and the War Rig!

I like to try and find the roll cages while I watch the movies. And yeah I could see how that could break your immersion but for me, knowing that these are real cars doing largely practical things is really cool.

I am assuming the person I responded to was pointing out the “forever” part of “forever chemicals” because they aren’t actually going to stick around forever. But they do stick around for a while, up to 1000 years from a quick Google search.

Its kind of like how people call fossil fuels “non-renewable” even though the earth is constantly making more. Its just on such a long timescale that for all intents and purposes it’s “forever”

Ubuntu Server supports Windows Active Directory. I haven’t used it for anything but authentication (and authentication works flawlessly) and some basic directory/share permissions but theoretically it should support group policy too.

It’d be cool if there was a mainstream FOSS alternative though (there might be, I’ve done literally 0 research), but this works okay-ish in the meantime.

But for management of the actual production servers at work I use a combination of ManageEngine (super great and reasonably priced) and Microsoft’s Entra (doesn’t work well, don’t do it)

“forever” in the same way fossil fuels are “not renewable”

I actually just switched my tablet from a galaxy tab S8+ to an iPad pro. I use it for work a ton too so it needed to be able to keep up with me, and the iPad is enormously better in basically every way (except side loading which I don’t do anyways) than the Galaxy tab.

Plus its not even like the Galaxy tab was cheaper. It was like $200 less than my iPad and my iPad has cellular which is incredibly nice.

Its not nearly as Dinky as it looks in this picture. Its almost the entire width of the device. I got to play with it a bit and its actually super stable, its obviously not 100% rigid and personally I wouldnt use it like that because its a bit awkward. But its a really cool device.

Here’s the store page with some more pics of it.

To be fair, this camera was put in the water in the 1970s…

Ubuntu Server baby. That shit is absolutely rock solid, I’ve literally never had an update break stuff in the decade+ I’ve been managing it.

I actually love the cross platform PowerShell stuff for two reasons. One it’s really nice to be able to have something that works on my windows environment and the Linux one, and 2 because PowerShell is enormously better than bash.

but at least people who can’t even navigate their basic file explorer that they are expected to use scary terminal commands.

This! I work in IT, in fact, I’m the director of both the IT and software teams at my company and I am constantly teaching my new techs and reminding my existing techs that they need to remember just how little the “average” person knows about computers, and how much more that is than what they’d actually care to learn.

99% of people don’t care about computers, or how to make things “more efficient”, or anything else. They just care about the easiest way to do something. And like it or not, the easiest way for the vast majority of people is through a GUI.

There is even an XKCD about this

And that’s even before you get to the security problems! I am constantly trying to prevent users from going to FreeNuclearCodes.com or sending passwords and social security numbers to i7716tvq_88@gmail.com (actual email address I had to block last week)

Sonos is about the only smart home thing I like. It makes setting up a whole home sound system with discrete zones significantly easier than trying to wire it all up.