Firefighters and EMTs get a little extra glorification to make up for their salaries.

Joking about suicide is a red flag. As in an indication that something might be wrong. It can indicate that suicide is something that’s on their mind often.

I would avoid these jokes in a professional setting because loosing someone to suicide is common and you’re likely to crack a joke in front of someone who will not appreciate it.

In my opinion, bigotry is more like a cognitive bias than a wrong idea. That is it’s extremely difficult to get that stuff out of your head, and the effective strategy is to acknowledge that you’ve got bias and try to correct for it.

I feel like it’s OK to demonize narcissism in ways that would be unacceptable ableism if you were talking about other neurodivergents or personality disorders.

It’s just as blanket and vague as calling someone an asshole.

It’s become such a pop-psych phenomena, I think it’s time for clinical people to abandon the term to pop culture. When a diagnosis becomes a common insult, it’s time for a new term.

Some seem confused so: There was no organized effort to selectively breed enslaved people. While the slavers did get to decide who would have children with whom. And they no doubt chose individuals with “desirable” characteristics. This isn’t the kind of multi-generational project that could possibly hope to select for traits.

The brutality of slavery may have had some selective pressure, but that was unintentional.

I think of analog time as kinda a pie chart telling me how much of the minute and hour that’s elapsed. So I don’t see 13:45, I see 75% past one o’clock.

Does that make sense?

You should know the difference between dejure and defacto.

I don’t want to alarm anyone from outside the US, but the pigs are pretty loose about how the rules apply to themselves.

Boy, you’ve obviously never seen Precious (2009)

Most of what I know about Trixie is that it was so easy to upgrade that the only configuration I had to fix was changing the clock back to 24hr time.

Unlike Bat or Super, people like Lex exist. Lex doesn’t hate Super because he’s powerful, he hates him because he’s loved.

Lex’s whole worldview is that the people who are smart and cunning should rule over those lesser. Super’s existence contradicts this by serving the interests of people who are his inferior.

Lex must believe that Super is a fraud who doesn’t deserve his position because otherwise Lex is the pretender.

I LOVED figuring out the problems, even if I wanted to pull my hair out.

I recently dumped M$, and in my decision I expected the learning curve to be a downside, but what I’ve experienced is joy and accomplishment in learning new things.

I’d go further to say that learning Windows teaches you about Windows but learning Linux teaches you about computers.

What I don’t like about ebay is that as a seller you appear to have few rights or recourse in a dispute, while being a buyer comes with little protection or assurance either.

Just goes to show which party is being protected. I know I’m horrible for buying from Amazon, but easy returns and shipping are worth any money you may save on ebay.

Right on Brother! always demand a level of investigative and hard-hitting standards for internet-culture puff pieces.

Or maybe, like me, you’re mostly annoyed that music that I consider “new” is already a “nostalgia trend” or that the 2000s is considered a “historic period” way back 20 years ago.

Psensor is a graphical widget on top of lm_sensors that’s shows constantly updated temp/fan/usage info. It’s similar to HWMonitor on Windows.

In the US, of 100 rapes against girls and women reported to the police, 18 will be prosecuted.

Jeffery Epstein and his cohort abused hundreds of girls, and all anybody cares about is what powerful man might be embarrassed. Has anyone proposed or suggested anything to protect girls from rich perverts?

From the founding till 1951, raping your wife was legal in all 48 states. And that protection extended in several states beyond the federal change. Some states even made common-law husbands immune.

The Christian Bible considers rape to be a property crime. in conservative circles, girls as young as 12 are regularly married off to their rapist.

The leading cause of death for pregnant people in the US is homicide.

I think young women considering men to be a threat is pretty rational.

I’m trying to imagine the user that both needs a text editor in the command line, yet is uncomfortable outside a gui.

I write scripts all day, but closing a program without clicking the little ‘x’ is scary and weird.

This isn’t cooperation, this is rivalry. The point is for you to use Edge instead of Chrome.

Just another skirmish in the war for what matters most: which tech-giant is the default choice.

Crush patriarchy. That’s the system that’s failed these men after all. It wasn’t progressive values that promised them women to dispose of. It wasn’t feminism that promised them easy success and automatic status.

It’s the promise of patriarchy that has “been stolen from us”. And it’s the restoration of patriarchy these men are clamoring for. Men want their privilege back and the Left can accommodate them for the low low price of jettisoning feminist values from the movement.

This is really the most Democrat bullshit ever. Left politics is getting more support than ever, but we’re going to get obsessed with pleasing the groups that hate and oppose us instead of championing the issues of those who support us.

You conflate being Asian (a resident of a continent) with Slavic (a cultural group). So what is race? A coordinate, or a cuisine?

Race is so unreal that you can’t even keep the lore straight in your own head.