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. 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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] HobbitFoot 33 points 6 days ago

People on Lemmy aren't "normal" people and shouldn't use their personal views as the norm.

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
  • No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
  • Static typing sucks.
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[-] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago

Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago
  • 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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[-] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

Not shower every day depends very much on the situation.

In summer there are certain coworkers who most fuckingly definitely should shower every day unless I'm allowed more wfh.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

I think "shower before you start stinking" is a decent rule to live by

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Along with "it's sometimes hard to detect your own stink"

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Python sucks.

Not only is it extremely inefficient, it is also a pain in the ass to work with if you have to use APIs that heavily rely on dynamic type wrapping and don't provide stubs. Static analysis via Pylance is not possible then and you're basically poking around in the dark, increasing the difficulty enourmously to get to know such an API. Even worse if there isn't even a halfway decent documentation.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I thought you were referring to Monty Python like op did and I thought: what the heck is he talking about?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Agreed. I don't understand the people who claim it's easier to work with, or better for prototyping.

Automatic typing exists. Type casting exists and is even handled automatically in some scenarios. Languages like java and C# can manage memory for you, and have the same portability and runtime requirement as python.

Prototyping in python and then moving to another language later makes no sense to me at all.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

There shouldn't be borders.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

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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[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago
  • 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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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

People without empathy shouldn't have the right to lead people (politics, work, ...).

There should be an upper limit to personal wealth.

Russia should be denuclearised and split up.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

The red nub on IBM/Lenovo laptops is far superior to a touchpad

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I believe you are referring to the Thinkpad clit.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Don't say "acronym" when you mean "abbreviation"!

"Acronym" specifically refers to an initialism that forms a new word. For example,

  • scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus)
  • NASA (pronounced like a word - you don't say "ehn eh ess eh").

It's acro- (height) -nym (word) - a word that exists on top of / above other words.

In contrast "NIH" is not an acronym because it isn't pronounced or read as a word. It's appropriate to say, "'NIH' is an abbreviation" or "'NIH' is an initialism". But saying "'NIH' is an acronym" is wrong!

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter

The race and gender of an actor don't matter. Ask Shakespeare

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Han Solo shot first. Screw any of the remakes or special editions he was a pirate and was just protecting himself from an even more dangerous pirate.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Nope. Sorry but you're just wrong. "Han shot first" implies Greedo shot second. And he most certainly did not. Han shot, Greedo died. Green fucker with finger suckers didn't even get a shot off.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Data is pronounced data and not data.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Using "themselves" for a non-binary person or unspecified gender is grammatically incorrect.

It's "themself." (Unless they're plural.)

Also, "Latinx" is performative white ally cringe. It's not pronounceable in Spanish. Use "Latine." -e is the obvious gender neutral ending.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't get why people think "Latinx" is unpronounceable in Spanish, it's equally pronounceable as in English lol.

You could either say "Latincs", or "Latin Equis" which would be the Spanish version of how i hear people say it in English.

I do prefer "Latine" though, it sounds better and matches the gender neutral versions of other words in Spanish. Also feels cunt, which is important.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Spanish doesn't have the /ks/ consonant cluster, does it? like the 'c' in "acelerar" is pronounced like /s/, not /ks/ like in English "accelerate" right? I can't think of any words with /ks/, anyway. Consonant clusters are often hard if you didn't grow up speaking them. Plus the /ks/ in Latinx is final, and final consonant clusters are extra tricky, especially since Spanish words mostly end with vowel (+ {s,r,n}). So I assumed it'd be tricky for Spanish speakers, the way that initial 's' is (this I know firsthand, since my boss always pronounces "stress" as "estrés" even though he's very fluent in English.)

Maybe it's gotten easier now that most kids grow up studying English? Idk, I'm really surprised to hear it's easy to pronounce.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"Acelerar" is pronounced like that because it has a single "C", the english equivalent has two. A comparable word for pronunciation would be "Acceso", this one does use the "KS" sound.

Also words that start with "S" aren't hard to pronounce for Spanish speakers, it just sounds like your boss either has a thick accent or doesn't care to use the English pronunciation of the word.

Source: i'm Hispanic, lol.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

If my boss has a thick accent doesn't that mean it's hard to pronounce for Spanish speakers? Obviously it's not hard to pronounce English words if you have a good English accent.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not really, it will depend on the person.

Another reason some hispanics tend to add an "e" for english words that start with "s" is because the spanish equivalent of it does start with an "e" (stress, study, etc).

If we take words that start with an "s" in both languages, suddenly that's not an issue, that's why you don't hear hispanics saying "Eh-Shadow" instead of "Shadow".

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

the sh in shadow isn't /s/ though, it's /ʃ/. and I'm specifically claiming that no Spanish words start with s+hard consonant. s by itself is fine, for example sonriar obviously, but I claim that no Spanish word starts with 'st', 'sp', 'sc' etc. so you have estudiar, espalda, escuela. in Latin these were stūdium, spātula, schōla. Spanish added an e before the s specifically because it became hard for them to pronounce. this same shift happened in French, hence étude and ecòle, but not in Italian (studio and scuola.)

so I think you have it the wrong way around. the reason Spanish has those initial es in the first place is because it's hard to pronounce consonant clusters without them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You're saying that certain things are hard to pronounce for Spanish speakers, and i'm letting you know that it will depend on each individual and not apply to the entirety of Hispanics as a whole, not too difficult to understand, everything else i kinda don't care. Also, "My boss has trouble pronouncing this therefore it must be an issue to literally all hispanics" is kind of a nonsensical conclusion to arrive to.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

People should be educated on FOSS software & Fediverse and try to use it whenever possible.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Being vegan is a moral base line.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Daylight savings time needs to be gotten rid of.

The imperial measurement standard needs to be gotten rid of.

The UN security council veto should be able to be overridden by the general assembly.

Collective responsibility for a democracy's crimes should be a thing.

The country of Israel should be moved to an open area of land with no people on it. Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, or the jungles of South America.

There should be a corporate death penalty when they commit crimes.

All kids should have food.

All humans should have access to very basic water and food. Like beans and rice for everyone, no exceptions.

Basic sanitation is a human right.

Religion should not be respected any more than any other bag of philosophical ideas. Stupid parts of religions should be called out and discussed, not hallowed and treated with respect even if its utter nonsense.

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