. The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter

. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy

. You don’t need to shower everyday

. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans

. Monty Python is very overrated

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    Ok, I don’t like making generalizations, but let’s play the game:

    • Dynamically typed programming languages are for babies.

    • Having depression is not being sad. Having anxiety is not being nervous. Mental health exists and it’s very complex.

    • We should start trating unhealthy use of social media as an actual addiction, and the platforms should be held accountable for the damage they have and still are causing.

    • Sometimes older people have actual knowledge and wisdom that is only gained by experiencing life, and younger people shuld learn to shut the fuck up some times and stop pretending they were born knowing everything.

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    People on Lemmy aren’t “normal” people and shouldn’t use their personal views as the norm.

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    • No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
    • Static typing sucks.
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    You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.

    And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.

    And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.

    Basically most people shouldn’t have pickup trucks.

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      I would go further. Most cars don’t belong in places where people live. They injure and kill people on the regular, the noise pollution causes mental and physical health problems, the light pollution disrupts sleep, the particulate pollution causes cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as damaging ecosystems, driving adds to obesity and issues related to a sedentary lifestyle, the physical space they take leads to sprawl and ecosystem destruction, and the sprawl also bankrupts cities and towns. As well, driving in traffic just plain sucks as an activity, and makes people angry and miserable.

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        Love how the bed of the truck is basically the same size (if not smaller) as well so really you can’t use the excuse of needing the bigger truck for hauling stuff.

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      The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I can’t remember where exactly.

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        There were also reduced fuel economy requirements for trucks and off-road vehicles, which contributed to the rise of SUVs.

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        It was on Volkswagen Transporter pick ups in the 1960s, in response to German taxes on imported US chicken.

        Actually, full sized pick ups are not liable to light truck tariffs, but they have no market outside of the US.

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      Id love a pickup…but it would be impractical, expensive to buy and run, the back space is basically useless cause even if you do put a cover on, the locks are crap. So I won’t be getting a pick up truck. Plus, where I live, it would go missing.

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        I‘d love to move to India again. I just don’t know how I could get a job there. I don’t have any fancy degrees.

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      Instead of trucks, this should be based on vehicle dimensions. All vehicles around the size of modern pickup trucks.

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      Its even worse in SEA. Some countries like Nam have these small dick pick-up driving shitheads but what they don’t have is America’s huge roads and streets.

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    • Mental illness or/and a disability aren’t excuses for shitty/abusive behavior.
    • No, having certain skintones doesn’t magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.
    • Boiled eggs > fried eggs.
    • If people need it to survive, then it should be free.
    • Littering should be punishable with jail time.
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    12 hour time is an inferior standard, and we should be on 24 hour time so developers don’t ever default to 12 hour time. Way too many instances of mission critical things getting swapped on am/pm by mistake. That is never a problem with 24h time.

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        Really? That’s really surprising to me. I’m from Denmark where we use 24h time a lot so I’m used to it, but except for edge cases it’s easy to switch between them. Using Fahrenheit however is a struggle. I have to convert it every time, I have no idea about the temperature until I see it in celsius really. I guess it comes down to me having been exposed to both clock formats but only really on temperature unit.

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          My guess is I’d do better if every clock I owned was on 24-hour time. That’s how I did the Celsius switch, every device (except my car, which I haven’t been able to figure out how to change) I set to Celsius.

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            I live in a household that is divided between Celsius (me) and Fahrenheit (wife). I wish I could switch every device, but I have to pick my battles. So I expose myself as much as possible and recite the following

            30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cool 0 is ice

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              Fortunately my wife is both gracious and adventurous in this regard, and is cool with having most of our stuff on Celsius. I switched before we were married, and she’s slowly learning by virtue of everything being on Celsius except her phone.

              Edit: Also, this may be helpful, I came up with a heuristic early on to approximate Fahrenheit values to help me learn.

              I memorized every 10 (and eventually every 5) and then approached from the nearest memorized point using 2°F per 1°C instead of 1.8.

              For example, if something said 22°C, I’d start at 20°C=68°F and work my way up, adding 4, to get to 72°F. Since the actual value is 71.6°F, that’s close enough.

              If you forget a 10 or a 5 it’s easy to recalculate them if you know another, because it’s 9°F per 5°C. So if 20 is 68, and 30 is 86, then 25 is 77.

              (Obviously you could also do the full conversion but that takes me more time.)

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          Celsius makes more sense for everything but normal to hot temps. 100 being about as hot as is tolerable. 75 being perfect 50 being tolerable cold.

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            How does that make sense, it’s just arbitrary numbers. I can give you arbitrary numbers for celsius too: 30 being hot but tolerable, 20 being perfect, 10 being cold but tolerable.

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        I used math tricks at first. But honestly, just switching even one clock like your watch or phone makes it pretty easy over time.

        1pm is easy to remember as it’s 13, a prime number

        7x2 = 14(00)

        3x5= 15(00)

        4x4 =16(00)

        5pm is 17, also a prime.

        6x3 = 18(00)

        7pm is also a prime, 19(00).

        20, 21, 22, 23, and 00 also have math tricks, but you can also just remember that after 8pm, you have less than four hours till midnight :)

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            Yeah, I knew about that trick, but for me, it was easier to just break down 16 into its smaller components. Or remember that 19 was a prime, which belonged to 7. After a bit of time (heh), it all just started to meld for me. Nothing like immersion-based learning!

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    There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you’re expecting a child.

    Religion needs to be taken out of the government completely

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      There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you’re expecting a child.

      I like this in theory. But I know in practice some idiots will always manage to get their hands on the curriculum.

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        Me too but it’d turn into eugenics so quickly.

        I was fucking baffled walking out of the hospital with my baby. No training, no proof of education, no tests. Walking out with the nurse in tow asking them "yeah are you sure i don’t need to like sign something?

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      I agree with sentiment, but as stated that’s just eugenics with extra steps. By controlling the cost, availability and/or accessibility of the course, you control who can have children. Also how are you going to enforce this policy, forced abortions?

      Better imo to make childrearing a part of the school curriculum with a highly encouraged refresher course later on. That achieves the same end without risking peoples liberties.

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      In the UK we almost have this in something called NCT (National Childbirth Tr. … ust).

      It’s not compulsory and most only do it for their first but you’re kinda so shit scared that most tend to do it.

      The knowledge is good but getting a close network of 5 other couples having a baby within a month of each other is invaluable…for the mums, the dad’s are shit at keeping in touch typically lol

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      I sometimes tell my kids about things I was taught, and survival habits I picked up in the “dad qualification program”. I based the idea of the program on a brief description of air force officer survival training in the book The Hatchet, and a generous dose of imagination. The kids have never questioned it.

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      I disagree about religion. It should be subordinated to the government. That should stop them from promoting reactionary rethoric. (Assuming the government is half decent in the first place. Otherwise there’s not much difference.)

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      This seemingly simple thing enrages me on a daily basis.

      How difficult can it fucking be to write some damn code to omit “the” from sorting if it is the first word of a title? JFC

      If “the” appears first, then “ignore” must surely be a thing, right??

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      Agree, as a further measure It should be criminal to name stuff with “the” to begin with.

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      We should organize libraries not by name, or even the Dewey decimal system, but simply by title length. Fiction, non fiction, jounrla articles, doesn’t matter. It’s all just in one stupid long list, shortest title to longest title.

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    • Laptops should be thick and durable with good keyboards (like old Thinkpads)
    • MacOS isn’t as bad as people here say, its still a Unix-based OS and that alone makes it superior to Windows
    • Arch Linux is severely overrated
    • Debian Linux is extremely underrated
    • Alpine Linux is great on low end laptops
    • Fedora Linux is the best distro for newcomers
    • Rust belongs in the Linux kernel
    • GPL > MIT/BSD
    • Tiling > stacked
    • AI sucks
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    If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don’t really own it.

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    I disagree vehemently with one of these and I thought it might make a fun little mystery, but on second thought I’ll just state up front it’s the Monty Python one.

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      See I agree whole heartedly with one of these and though it might be a fun little mystery I’ll just state it up front. It’s the Monty Python one.

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      The movies are so overhyped and overrated at this point. But Monty Python’s Flying Circus is not, it’s fantastic.

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    Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.

    The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time

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      Data is plural of datum, which also corresponds to the English word date. When Gregorian calender was introduced in Europe, for decades dates were the only things written in Indian style numerals.

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        datus/data means “given”, as in the metaphysical sense of the word, since the word started being used for statistics in a period where measurements were considered an objective observation of material reality, which was in fact considered “given” and not interpreted.

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      The word Data was originally a plural word

      and because of that its not “data is beautiful” it’s “data are beautiful”

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        A set of multiple things is a plural, friend. A set of dishes, a set of clothes, a set of knives, a set of tools. THESE tools, THESE clothes, THESE knives, THESE data.

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      “Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.”

      How? I didn’t even say it was bad just not as good as people say it is. It’s ok but it can only be random for so long. Once you’ve seen one episode you’ve seen them all. Monty Python is no different to those old asdfmovie videos.

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        Once you’ve seen one [Monty Python] episode you’ve seen them all.

        Sir, these are not Big Bang theory episodes.