deaf_fish

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[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

Are you trolling me? Do you really believe what you just posted?

Why not just meme all republicans like to eat babies? I am sure that will confuse a lot of them and that confusion will uhh, be really funny I guess, and that funny will uhh, improve the situation somehow?

You're being ridiculous.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Do you talk with many feminists? Because it sounds like you have confused reality with a conservative straw man of feminists.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ok, so there are two kinds of idiots.

  1. The idiot who actually doesn't know any better. They are just following the misinformation wherever it goes because their friend on face book said it and they trust them or something like that. Unironically the bacteria is crunchy and good for you and the bad things aren't real.
  2. The person you are talking about. The person who knows it is bad and knows what they are doing.

There are only a few 2s, most are 1s. Like 1 "2" for every 100000 "1".

2s, as you have stated, don't care. They know. They know their arguments are dumb and a misdirection. They will not engage with this meme, because they know what they are doing and they know it is wrong and they know that engaging with this will just out them and expose their bad takes.

Even if you get rid of all the 2s, 1s will self perpetuate. So you really should target the 1s.

The 1s are not aware of all of this 6d chess going on. So if you show them this meme, they are going to be confused because they have no problem with refrigeration and they are going to be mad because you are implying that they are dumb and you are not addressing their concerns. So they ignore us and don't learn anything and we look like idiots. This is what the 2s want.

The thing is, pasteurization is an easy win for us. No need to overcomplicate it. Just tell the 1s and 2s the truth. Otherwise we end up looking like we don't have an argument by making up positions they don't have. If the 2s pipe up, we have the data and "It's your life, if you want to risk getting deadly diseases tuberculosis, brucellosis, and E. coli, that is your choice". If they go farther you can just say they are in a death cult, it's easily winnable even if you are an ok debater.

Honestly the 1s are looking at this meme and must think it is some other group that is being targeted because they have no problems with refrigeration so this post is like 99% of people who agree with each other patting each other on the back. Fun, but not productive.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

If you were prettier people would like your comment.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

This feels like a straw man. I don't remember them making any arguments against using a refrigerator.

I mean fuck them, but fuck them on topic otherwise we are just huffing out own smug cloud and that doesn't convince anyone.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

I don't. When I say social change I'm more talking about like social thinking that individuals are the problem. Sorry if that was not clear.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

That’s not really what the meme is saying.

I know, that is why I said "I’ve changed from the meme to:"

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 35 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's different. I think the machine on the left is an infinite energy machine. Those will never work.

The machine on the right is a carbon capture machine which does work. But not well enough. Are fast enough to solve any of the problems that we have.

I'm fine with playing around with a carbon capture machine and seeing if we can improve it, but I would never want to rely solely on it.

I want to try a thousand solutions to the global warming problem. Including societal and government changes. Cuz you know otherwise we all die.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I've changed from the meme to: if I'm going to live I want to live. Not have to do a bazillion things in order to survive another day. So if I fail to do something that keeps me alive, I accept the risk of possibly dying.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

The way I think of it is as follows: if you like the idea of socialism or communism, and you think the only way to get there is to have an authoritative leader "clean house" before they for some reason or another decide to give the power back to the people, then you are a tankie.

In my opinion, an authoritative leader will never give up power back to the people willingly. Or if an authoritative gets in charge, it will never dismantle systems like capitalism because capitalists give authoritative people power.

Another good hint is if they really like the idea of murdering billionaires even if there are less violent solutions to it. I'm not saying that there are currently less violent solutions. I'm just saying they will never go out of their way for less violent solutions. As if they like the idea of murder a lot.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's that line from the show Good Omens?

Don't think of it as dying, think of it as beating the rush.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ixlgfKqUk98

 

I have been a software engineer of off highway farm equipment for most of my life. I have like 15 years of it. I have just lost the ability to care about it anymore.

I have explored all the things that interest me and now it seems like everything is just turning the crank to completion. A very boring/slow turning with deadline pressure. I am doing less development and more code reviews because I have become a more senor developer.

My position in the company is pretty good and I could probably ride it out until I die or the company picks up on the fact that my output has dropped due to the lack of caring. But that eats at my soul and it isn't fair to my coworkers.

If money wasn't an issue, I would jump to game development but I hear that doesn't pay well or treat their employees well either. I suppose I could start my own company...

I have a wife and we plan to have one kid if that is possible for us.

Burnout is a possibility, but if that is what this is, I am not sure what to do about it.

So here is what I think my options are. I am open to other suggestions:

  1. Stay where I am.
  2. Pivot hard to management where I am.
  3. Try to find a new job within Embedded Systems
  4. Try to do Game Development.
  5. Drop everything, become a philosopher like Diogenes of Sinope

Thanks for your consideration.

 
 
 

I am enjoying the game, except one thing in the story that keeps coming up and causes me cognitive dissonance. I am in the first system and it isn't clear to me why we are not considered Pirates.

The characters are always saying stuff like "Don't be a Pirate" or "Kill all the Pirates". And then we do stuff like steal from factions/corporations that are neutral to us. Why doesn't that cause us to be Pirates?

We literally accidentally kidnapped someone. I am so confused.

 

So, I have come to the conclusion that the word "want" in my brain has two closely related meanings.

  1. Something I want right now for the dopamine. Ex Ice Cream.
  2. Something that I want for my self long term. Ex to be healthy.

It is hard enough to organize my thoughts normally, but when I have competing wants like Ice Cream, vs to be healthy. It really sucks to have the same word for both.

Does anyone else feel this way? Is there other words that you use to help separated these ideas in your head?

 

I am writing a unit test and mocking library in C and I want to set the call stack memory to some pre determined value like memset. I want to do this before the test function is called so the test writer can verify they aren't using uninitialized memory in their tests. Is there any somewhat portable way to do this?

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