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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • As a professional IT guy, I love to show my users their uptime after they lie to me about how they already rebooted their computer and it still isn’t working right. Yesterday I showed a user her uptime of 152 days which is impressive considering the city she works in has worse average electrical uptime than the state of Texas.






  • It was a social norm to call black people the N word for generations… Social norms do not define good or bad behavior. They define what people find acceptable. Socially, the word you wish to be acceptable has made more and more people uncomfortable and has in fact become less and less socially acceptable to use casually. Many words you used to use are weird now. Growing up we used to say “frick” unironically. These days it would be a little strange to toss that in as a filler word. It’s the same concept except for the fact that the word has not become a slur, it’s just been outdated in its use.

    Language evolves and words become acceptable and others become unacceptable. It’s the way it goes and is not a sign of sensitivity, instead a positive sign of progression of language. You are fighting against the nature of how language develops.







  • If you’re confused about the down votes, it’s probably the way you worded this thought. Saying it’s a man identifying as a woman, implies you believe they are a man not a woman and are only treating them as a woman because that’s what they want. In reality they are a woman who identifies as a woman.

    I think you being downvoted and not getting an explanation as to why might leave you to continue the same line of thinking without correction.

    It’s not a bad question to ask how this will affect trans women though. I live in a place where there are a lot of TERF women who might want to take advantage of this service and would be offended to be picked up by a trans woman.



  • Far and away, business is the primary use case for PCs, education second, art and design art likely third, and gaming (while always growing) is still niche use case for PCs worldwide.

    At best, gaming has over taken media consumption as a PC task but I think that has more to do with media becoming primarily, a mobile device activity in the last decade.