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I feel bad for the guy, and I in no means mean to make light of his situation.

But am I the only one who sees a dollar-store Tom Hiddleston?

The answer I usually come up with is “probably both”.

I’d throw the “porque no los dos” meme up here, but it was deported last week.

Most regular people just use what came with their computer, unfortunately.

So this is a case of a company that made a browser to appeal to techies that didn’t see widespread adoption, is pivoting to a new browser that is focused on the central conceit of a product that most techies decry…

Read the room, Arc. Read the room.

Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?

I used to be a store manager for a telecommunications dealer. This was the old days, the cowboy days before smartphones were even a thing (early 2000s). We were still a pretty small company with 12 locations only in two cities, and we were really just the “testing ground” for the parent company who were developing P.O.S. software FOR telecom dealers. So we were kind of their guinea pigs, but were super successful as well.

Anyway, the owners were early thirties brothers with money to burn, so our “manager’s conference” was a seven day all-inclusive as a group. We would have one morning of meetings to make it a “tax writeoff” and then be drunk for the rest.

First year I managed for them was the Dominican Republic. Our resort was a six-star flanked on each side by a four star. Our 6-star wrist band got us access to the other two as well. I remember little of most nights except our group inventing a drink that ended up becoming popular with complete strangers, and wanting to go to the other resorts after the golf cart service shut down, so just…borrowing…one.

The next year was Cancun. Not as much fun. Not as memorable. But still pretty fun with it’s share of stories.

So i guess in answer to your question. Yes. Absolutely. The two years that I managed for them were the best time I’ve ever had. No company has ever truly recaptured that for me.

If we hadn’t evolved this way, we would have evolved another way

Uhhhh…no…we wouldn’t have. That’s the entire point.

In order for humans to develop things like speech, tool-making, complex sociological relationships, everything that literally makes us human, required a big brain. Big brains require lots of power in terms of caloric density. Which is why becoming meat-eaters was a threshold in our evolution. No meat…no homo sapiens, end of story.

Whatever we would be, (If we would evolve at all) wouldn’t be considered a homo sapien. It would likely be just another branch of an early hominim species that died out shortly after moving down from the trees.

You are correct that evolution is not a “ladder”. You’re trying to educate someone who literally majored in archaeology with a minor in history. The past is quite literally my thing. There were many many early hominim species that began evolving. Why we’re here and they aren’t is because we had the brain power to figure out how to control our environment. And that brain power came from the caloric density or meat.

So no…we wouldn’t have evolved “another way”.

Actually, it’s been widely proven that being carnivores is precisely the reason we evolved to be where we are in the first place.

There was no other diet that had the caloric bang-for-the-buck that allowed the complex requirements of the hominid brain to actually evolve.

Due to a process of ‘encephalization’, humans have a larger brain size than would be expected for their body size. To sustain an expansively large brain, energetic compensation was required during hominin evolution. When examining individual organs, the brain mass surplus (and its energy requirement), is closely balanced by the reduction in size (and energy requirement) of the gastrointestinal tract. This is not surprising, considering the gut is the only organ that can sufficiently vary in size to offset the metabolic cost of a larger brain (Aiello and Wheeler, 1995). This process required a shift from a diet high in bulky plants of low digestibility (requiring voluminous fermentation chambers such as a rumen or cecum, or an extensive colon), to a higher-quality diet where foods are more energy dense and require less digestive processing. In temperate grass and woodland environments, this equates to an animal-derived protein-rich and fat-rich diet (Speth, 1989).

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So sure, keep making up your bullshit about whether or not we need to eat meat. But while you’re doing so, remember to thank a carnivore for evolving us to the point where you have the priviledge to make such a choice.

No its not and I’m tired of trying to explain the concept of moral equivalence to idiots who think that it is.

Its the same difference as would be hunting for food versus hunting for trophy sport. I can be perfectly fine with people hunting a deer in order to make some delicious deer sausage. But be against them hunting that same animal just to cut off its head to show off in their den.

I can be perfectly morally fine with the idea that SOME forms of lower life are acceptable harvests for my own sustenance, but be morally outraged by animals being killed for needless reasons or sadism.

Despite vegans attempts to muddy the issue, context matters.

Its the same reason I would set a trap to kill a mouse that is causing trouble in my house, eating and pooping into my rice bag. But wouldn’t go out of my way to plant traps in a place where those same mice aren’t bothering me.

Its the same reason I’d kill a moth that is keeping me from sleeping at night, but leave it alone if its harmlessly flying around my garage.

Context matters. So quit your faux-outrage bullshit.

I’m not a fan of pigeons. But someone going out of their way to do something this sadistic to a living thing is all kinds of serial-killer-predictor type fucked up.

Even mother nature looked at our present timeline and said “Yeah…fuck it…let’s see how crazy shit can get.”

GIMP for example is nowhere near feature parity with Photoshop

Yeah. That’s exactly my point…maybe I wasn’t clear.

The problem is that no one specific FOSS tool has feature parity. To get the same abilities as Photoshop, you have to use a workflow that is a combination of GIMP, Inkscape, Krita and Scribus instead of having it in the one package, which is why Adobe is the industry standard.

Anybody who says Inkscape is a replacement for Illustrator simply does not use it in any serious professional capacity. It doesn’t even have any means of adding paragraph spacing!

That’s sort of where I see the issue as well. What proprietary software does is takes the features of a bunch of different pieces of kit and puts them together into one package.

There isn’t one particular thing that Propietary software does the FOSS software can’t. The problem is that you need multiple different software solutions to do it.

So while Illustrator offers Paragraph Spacing (for example) Inkscape doesn’t, you get that in Scribus. But Scribus lacks the more advanced pathing vector tools, which Inkscape offers. Meanwhile neither of them have strong photo editing abilities, which GIMP brings to the table, but GIMP can’t really do painting well, which KRITA brings to the table…and so on and so on.

Every open source alternative does something as good as their proprietary alternaties. But not everything. You have to use a combination in order to match the capability of one adobe product, and that’s just not feasible in a professional environment.

If you wan’t to use FOSS I get it, I want to. But when it comes to professionnal workflow you sometimes have to put your ego on the side. When I tried to ditch the Adobe Suite, the Free(dom) alternatives didn’t worked for me or the proprietary alternatives were simply better.

Then, I would argue, the alternative isn’t to sign petitions to make the corporate guys make their proprietary stuff available on FOSS operating systems. The alternative is to contribute to the FOSS alternatives in order to make them as good as the proprietary.

I’m not saying that you in particular haven’t contributed (either financially or developmentally). I don’t know you, so this isn’t particularly directed at you.

But in general, the “FOSS isn’t as good as proprietary stuff” crowd has overwhelmingly never actually tried to fund or contribute to the development of the software itself and their complaints amount to “Why isn’t my free thing as good as the thing they make me pay for?”

In which case the answer is “of course it isn’t…you’re telling me the software developed on the evenings and weekends by enthusiasts doing it in the spare time for NO money isn’t as polished as a fully funded business software!? NO WAY!!! I’M SHOOKETH!!!”

The alternative to the (perceived) quality disparity between FOSS and Proprietary isn’t to go begging at the Corporations doorstep; it’s to make the FOSS alternatives good enough to take the throne of “industry standard” away from the corporations.

It’s not impossible…hell, Blender is the poster child for pretty much doing exactly that. It’s not the “industry standard”, but it’s accepted in the industry in ways that GIMP and Inkscape still aren’t. And the reason is because it’s good enough to be there.

Can all newspapers, when writing about Rogan, now use the term “Noted r-word, Joe Rogan…”

100% think it’s a lost cause. I don’t think it’s going away. I don’t personally think it’s ableist and never did.

I don’t think it’s ever going fully away. But it is still important to call it out when we see it.

Is it bad that my immediate thought was “Is the penguin okay?”

Depends on what you’re using it for.

Writer, Presentation, etc… yeah. works great. No problems at all.

Calc/Excel…sure…will work for pretty basic stuff. But as soon as you get a relatively complex spreadsheet, interoperability goes out the window.

For example, I have a few spreadsheets that I work on at home (where I use Linux) and at work (where I use windows). I can’t work on it in one without screwing up the formatting, forumlae, and advanced filtering in the other, and vice versa. I’m forced to use OnlyOffice in order to be able to do so.

The worst type of person is the person who is so allergic to being “wrong” that they’ll constantly double down with new bullshit to try to convince people why it wasn’t a mistake in the first place. It’s fucking exhausting.

In reality, “Democracy” as invented by the Greeks was never intended to be held by the uneducated. Ever citizen got a vote, but frankly not everyone was a citizen.

The rights of a citizen came with certain expectations, and that included knowledge of the Ars Liberalis, or “Liberal Arts”, which…far from today’s demonized meaning created in order to attack higher learning, literally translated in the greek world as “the exercise of freedom”.

In other words, citizenship and voting rights obligated a person to be knowledgeable of things like Logic, History, Rhetoric, etc… You TRAINED to partake in the affairs of state just like you would prepare for any other task that requires skill and THAT was what granted you the priviledge of citizenship. (Well…that an being part of the wealthy class…)

Modern “Democracy” is predicated on the opposite; not just citizens that are ill-informed, but citizens that are so intellectually incurious that they can’t be bothered to exercise their right properly.

The reason is simple. They refused to help him out by sending their eggs.

There’s no such thing as a “non-harmful” pedofile.

Either you’re actively molesting children (yes…even teens), or you’re consuming the CP that is the result of OTHER people abusing children by forcing them to participate and worse.

You don’t get to say “its not repulsive to consume the product as long as youre not a creator of it”. Consuming the end result is still participating in it.

I can’t believe that even has to be pointed out.