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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The lack of logic is astounding.

These are the same people who think abstinence only education works. Safe to say they're a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Judging by the camera angle, OP may have been today years old when they learned this as well (I learned it well into my 30s, too).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 20 hours ago

Our first was a girl. Second was a boy. Third will be a vasectomy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.

With Windows, there is 1 current version of Windows (11), 1 "almost current" (10), 1 "outdated but you'll maybe see it" (8.x) and only a few "you'll probably only see this in obscure situations" versions. Linux has as many "parent" distros/package management systems (apt, rpm, pacman, etc.). This definitely complicates things, as each distro family does things slightly differently.

And we haven't even touched the window manager/DE choices, of which there are a ton (as opposed to Windows). "Combinatorical explosion" maybe isn't the right phrase, but you get the idea


Debian with i3wm is wildly different from Fedora Plasma.

This is all a good thing though, as Linux users tend to like the choice and flexibility


but it does mean that the "right way" to do something on Linux is very dependent on your particular setup, which isn't the case with Windows.

(I have used Linux for the last 20+ years, and it's definitely my preferred setup, and am lucky enough that I rarely use Windows for work, and never for personal use.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My favorite is Barry Marshall. He thought there was a connection between bacteria and ulcers, which was an unpopular opinion at the time. So he intentionally drank the offending bacteria, got sick as expected, and then people believed him.

More here, including (which I didn't know until now) cardiac catheterization.

I'm sure better sources exist but https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/these-five-doctors-experimented-on-themselves-and-made-big-breakthroughs

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Innovation, perhaps; progress...that's something else.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

I, read this like, William Shatner, in his, role as, captain, Kirk.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

People Without Honor Can’t Be Trusted.

Sounds like something Gowron would say...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why the HUGE, irreconcilable disparity between your front page and the opinion section?

This is always how it goes, as it should. Horrible opinions shouldn't affect the reporting; and horrible reporting shouldn't affect the opinions. Different publication, but https://newsliteracy.wsj.com/news-opinion/

It's best IMHO to think of them as two completely separate entities.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I'm gonna try to guess the most likely LLM response to your post, trained on reddit data:

"This."

How'd I do?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

Pretty sure that's completely acceptable in parts of northern California (source: born and raised in northern California).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Blender has entered he chat (unless things have changed since I used it last).

 

People often complain about San Francisco's public transit


and to be sure, it's not perfect by any means (multiple separate agencies doesn't help). But the historic streetcars are pretty neat!

They're painted with the livery of various historic streetcars from all over the country (and a few international, I think). Best of all, they run alongside the modern fleet


same route, same fare.

 

Noticed a few days ago that Sutro Tower's red blinking lights are now white. Just asked them on their website form, but wondered if anyone else knows the story with this.

Personally, I miss the red ones!

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