Sure.
Then you get the occasional fun experience of a maintainer fucking up a package definition or two, and all of a sudden you can't update your system or run a program because there's a tangled mess of dependency conflicts and you get to spend the afternoon force reinstalling system libraries. Love ya' Void :')
Been trying NixOS which is great for avoiding that kind of thing, but it comes with it's own set of annoyances. I really ought to just settle on a more stable distro like Debian lol.
From the MS website:
Recall utilizes Windows Copilot Runtime to help you find anything you’ve seen on your PC. Search using any clues you remember or use the timeline to scroll through your past activity, including apps, documents, and websites.
A "feature" coming to Windows 11. Essentially a keylogger on steroids... Powered by AI of course, because what isn't these days.
True.
I could maybe see an argument being made in favor of having these kinds of security measures for the first month after release to protect sales, since it's usually the period in which most sales are secured; devs do need a sustainable income after all. But that would also necessitate ignoring the potential performance degradation resulting in a poor first experience for players, and many publishers just leave it in for the lifetime of a game, which is a disaster waiting to happen (as seen here).
Overall, I think piracy is mostly a pricing issue above all else. With AAA titles getting increasingly more expensive and being released in broken states, it's not surprising that people don't want to spend $70 on a game that they might end up hating and opt to "demo" the game first. Refund policies can help alleviate the issue, but are hardly a silver bullet, with games inserting tons of fluff at the beginning to ensure you exceed the playtime threshold.
Either deliver the games you promise, or price them according to what's actually there, and I'm sure the majority of gamers would be content in paying full price. DRM only serves to increase friction for the honest people paying for your games.
I mean the premise already feels a bit absurd, but I'll play...
I'm not a vegan myself, and I don't really hang out in vegan spaces that much, so my answers may differ from your typical vegan, or not... who knows. But I suppose if the general goal is to preserve life where possible, then you should absolutely try to find some place for the animals to live out their days in peace. If we can manage to stuff them all in neat little boxes on the land we have now, I doubt it's some intractable problem. You don't have to let 'em run free and "out of control" per se, repurpose the land of the now defunct factory farms and slaughterhouses, build a number of sanctuaries all over the place, and plop 'em there. Of course, no one can possibly know all of the variables involved, so I'm not saying this is a well thought out solution, I'm just spitballing... but we're not exactly hurting for land, to my knowledge.
However, suppose I granted you:
Realistically the amount of livestock is not sustainable and they’d need to be culled in gargantuan numbers
Why would that necessitate this outcome?
And then you get the slaughter without the benefit of feeding billions of hungry people.
Veganism isn't some virus that physically prevents you from eating meat, and plenty of vegans have been meat eaters at some point in their lives. If it came down to it, I imagine there would be a steady supply of folks who would opt to revert temporarily instead of letting it go to waste. Vegans may disagree with me here, but I think it's certainly a more ethical choice if the animals are already dead, can't let the sacrifice be for nothing.
The vegan viewpoint on animals really just boils down to eliminating unnecessary suffering and death. Many are fine with the prospect of hunting, fishing, or raising livestock for food when there aren't other options (eg. environments with insufficient crop yields to feed everyone or infrastructure to get other food), the problem arises from the fact that those of us privileged enough to live in a land of abundance continue to needlessly slaughter. Do we need to eat? Of course. Do we need to kill things to do it? Fuck no.
All that said, I think a more realistic transition scenario would be something like the meat industry halting slaughter operations, exhausting their existing supply until either there are no animals left to kill, or there are a small enough quantity to where we can just yeet the rest onto some farms somewhere. Not that vegans would be entirely on board with that, being anti-slaughter and all, but it's at least a reduction in harm and a more believable way for things to play out... I think.
Not spacey at all, totally coherent. I appreciate you taking the time to write all of that out and share it with some stranger on the internet.
I don't find myself disagreeing with any of what you said. Confirmation bias is a bitch, and regrettably something that most of us are guilty of at some point. Instilling fear, hatred, or self-loathing in your children based solely on your own anecdotal evidence isn't right, and it's a shame that it's as prevalent as it is.
I guess where I might diverge in the context of the overarching post, and I'm not suggesting this is your position, but I don't believe the argument being posited is that men/boys in their entirety, or on the basis of them being men, are definitively dangerous and ought to be feared. I think that's how a lot of men end up taking it, myself included once upon a time. But as you put it, "most people don’t have the ability to access that world view as a normal part of thought", I think that's also true of men, and a big part of why this discussion is so contentious. It's hard for many of us to truly comprehend the scope of what being a woman in day to day life entails. The majority of us don't have to go through life worrying about being cat-called, followed home, sexually assaulted, having friends of the opposite sex constantly trying to turn it into "something more", and a plethora of other things. These things can and do happen to men too, of course, along with some unique problems of our own, but those men have as much a right to be angry and speak out about their abuse as women do.
For me, it's the disproportionality of it that's concerning, along with the regressive trend of either outright denying we have a problem on our hands, or attempting to silence and/or shame the people (men and women both) who speak out, because it's more comfortable not to look at it. Many seem to be content with throwing their hands up and saying "well, X, Y, and Z are already illegal, what more do you want us to do?", and that's simply not a viable path forward.
With that said, I certainly don't want anyone degrading themselves over traits that are entirely out of their hands... To any young men who may be reading this, or men who find themselves torn on the conversation because they feel perhaps the conversation has veered into outright bigotry:
There's nothing inherently wrong with you, you can be a tremendous force for good in the world, like so many other men before you, and anyone who claims otherwise can get fucked. And I'll admit I could be wrong here, but I'd wager that the majority of folks saying they'd "pick the bear" feel the same way... they're just tired, pissed off, and done mincing words with an uncaring world.
Be proud to be a man, own it, just bear in mind that there is a minority of us inflicting a tremendous amount of hurt and suffering in the world, on men and women alike. If we truly wish to be a force for good, then we have to be willing to rally against wrongdoing in any form, by any perpetrator, and not allow these things to proliferate out of complacency. I can understand if you're put off by the present discourse... don't get behind it for the sake of feminism, or some political ideology, do it because it's the right thing to do.
~~Never made the comparison. As I've stated in two other comment threads already, two sets of stats, two distinct conclusions. That third sentence has been there since the inception of this post, the edit was added after two people blatantly ignored it.~~
~~Me saying they aren't comparable isn't "hiding behind" anything. It's an acknowledgement that there are far too many variables involved be able to draw anything conclusive between the two. To not acknowledge that would be a disservice to anyone reading and would ultimately feed into confirmation bias in both directions.~~
~~Moreover, I could completely nix the info on bears and my point would still stand, the point of the hypothetical isn't about the god damn bears.~~
Y'know... I thought more about this comment, and my response to it. I went back and re-read my post, and yeah, I can see how it was interpreted that way... It certainly wasn't my intention to mislead or come off as dishonest, but admittedly it could have been composed more carefully. I went back and edited the main post to, I hope, be a more objective and accurate representation of what I meant overall, and why I decided to leave both of those things in, even with the acknowledgement that they were not analogous.
First off, I appreciate your thoughtful responses. I'm not trying to be combative here, but I'm having some trouble understanding what it is you're trying to get at.
You said:
But writing off the behavior of abusive women (or even well-meaning women with problematic behavior) as a factor is just as problematic as people assuming it’s all the fault of women.
This indicated to me that you felt my response was, in some way, writing off women's abusive behavior, hence the question about what behavior it was you were alluding to and the subsequent response.
I mean psychological abuse due to unresolved power dynamics - i.e., interpersonal trauma loops. [...]
Could you give a hypothetical to describe what you mean by this? You gave trans-generational trauma as an example (which isn't something I was aware of, so thanks), but I'm not sure how to interpret that in the context of this discussion. Do you mean, for example, an abusive or neglectful mother treating her son in a fashion that might lend itself to misogyny down the road?
Gotcha... misinterpretation on my part then. Apologies.
The
demonizing half of the humans because penis is not justified tho
Along with
I can’t believe that is a sentence that needs to be said
Came off to me as a sort of "not all men" argument.
But writing off the behavior of abusive women (or even well-meaning women with problematic behavior) as a factor is just as problematic as people assuming it’s all the fault of women.
Not saying I disagree, or that you're wrong; all people are capable of doing shitty things. But I'm curious what kind of abusive behavior you're alluding to here... the prompt posed in the original post?
While I typically don't like the prospect of sweeping generalizations, it seems to me that women have tried to convey these ideas "the nice way" for decades, and it has either fallen on deaf ears, or been met with intense scrutiny by people either maliciously or ignorantly missing the entire point. It's understandable why there's some vitriol in the way things are presented today.
[...] and that impacts both men and women, deeply.
100%, we're stronger as a society if men and women can find a way to work together to deal with the litany of other issues we're facing. But it's going to be hard to do that without first addressing the elephant in the room, which is that women feel unsafe in society as a direct consequence of the actions of men.
I mean, I feel like that goes a lot deeper than some perceived slight by women...
Entertainment, and subsequently our culture, has crafted this notion that if you're kind to a woman, she's obligated to be your girlfriend or fuck you, and when it doesn't pan out like that in reality; young men are justifiably depressed and angry, just... at the entirely wrong thing. This is further expounded by the ever growing disconnect by people in general, a lot of young people feel lonelier than ever and end up turning to shit like dating apps, which are inherently superficial and not a good way to build authentic relationships. Failure on these platforms can lead to young men feeling like they aren't "good enough", and when a grifter like Tate comes along to tell them that it's actually just the women that are the problem, it's an easy dose of copium to ingest.
Suicide is a multi-faceted issue, and while the struggle to find meaningful relationships is certainly a contributor, I'd wager that the general sense of hopelessness, lack of opportunity, and increasingly fewer prospects for the future are far bigger factors to many young adults going through higher education or entering the workforce.
Already addressed this in another comment, just read the next sentence I wrote...
They're not comparable for a variety of reasons, even if you account for population; I kept both in, with that caveat, because they make two distinct points. And my "conclusion" was really only in respect to the violent crime statistics presented.
Yeah, kinda beating a dead horse here, but it's giving "2024, Year of the Linux Desktop, inadvertently sponsored by Microsoft."