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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Now you're just preaching Christain.
No. Trump encouraged hate for minorities, law and order, facts and society. That's why I hate him
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Mentally you are.
The fact is some people are born trans. Biologists agree this is true. What are we doing? Telling the truth? You're just scared that we're encouraging kids to be who they are and not conform blindly to a fake gender binary
Jeremy Falcon wrote: And if I really believed I was a tree and you refused to go along with it? Why do you reject this concept? Think about it Christain. You're saying what you think is right and nobody else can have another thought. How is that not fascist?
The facts are, some people know they are trans. There is no way to make them not trans. Going out of your way to upset them because they confuse you won't make them not trans. It just makes you a jerk. If someone tells me they like to be called a nickname, I call them that. how is this different?
Humans have genders. Humans are not trees
It's fascinating that right wing people have no clue what fascism is. The dictionary defines fascism. Trump is a fascist. Asking you to be kind to people is not fascism
Jeremy Falcon wrote: You say you want to learn, but this isn't learning - it's arguing and a waste of time.
We have always talked about gender roles. I have not had gender with your mum. Sex always meant your parts and gender meant your percieved role in society . This is just a fact. WE didn't change the words, we realised that sex and gender don't always align
Jeremy Falcon wrote: No, you just expect me to pretend they're the other sex and insult me if I don't. This the problem with people that argue, they never look inward.
Every right wing argument is predicated on the idea I tell children to change gender, or want porn in schools, or whatever. IT's always a lie. GEnder is your sense of self. If someone says their sense is female, you can't prove them wrong. Pronouns are a sound you make with your mouth. If you deliberately make the sound that upsets people, you're just a jerk
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Not as much. Do the research.
The way that people become trans in the women makes that seem likely. Irrelevant. I've seen right wing people insist that trans is all men trying to get into women's bathrooms and that trans men don't exist. They really think that
Jeremy Falcon wrote: But, I'm at that point in life where I simply don't care to entertain nonsense anymore.
My core value isn't politics, it's kindness. You're insisting your ignorance of science gives you the right to be kind to people.
I get that right wing people are uneducated enough to have no clue that trans people always existed. I get that the right wing is based on conformity, making all of life the same so it's not confusing. But you're abusing children and I won't stand by
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I'm done with this chat, Christian. I expected more from you. I was wrong.
Jeremy Falcon
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You are saying you expected me to not have morals, and support your feelings over the idea of being kind to children. I'm sorry you thought that
You thought I can't read and don't know what Fascism is? I'm sorry you thought that
You thought I reject science to have feelings because trans people are weird? I'm sorry you thought that
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Not yet, but I'm about to. Pr0n sites are far more entertaining anyway, and occasionally educational. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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LOL!! My wife pushed me into an open marriage and after that, I still don't mind s3x but I'm not super motivated by it
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Roger Wright wrote: Pr0n sites are far more entertaining anyway, and occasionally educational
LMAO
You mean, at your age, there's still things you haven't tried? 
But then, I suppose no matter who you are, there's always someone crazier.
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Yes, I pulled out of Farcebook about 4 years ago. I've never seen the point of Twitter, what a waste of everyone's time!
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I deleted my Twitter account in early 2021 (or late 2020?). Never had Facebook, but had Instagram - deleted it at the same time. (Facebook does too much tracking, hence the Insta deletion.)
I have a Tumblr account where I keep a number of quotes I’ve liked over the years.
Can’t say I like the energy many people give off on those platforms. While there are some good ideas and thoughts put out there, there’s just too much idiocy and anger.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Tribel.com seems to be mainly left wing, fwiw.
I'm enjoying mastodon a lot, but picking a home server aligned to one of your interests can be important. If you go with one of the huge servers your local feed will be plastered with lots of things you aren't interested in. You can join several servers for different interests, and transfer your account if you find one you like more.
I'm still on fb for a couple groups, and friends that are still on there, but mastodon is an entirely different world. No algorithm pushing ads and clickbait, no romance scam friend requests. People tend to have interesting discussions instead of just posting memes.
Another thing to look at is the moderation policy on different servers. The good news is that you're likely to be dealing with a real human instead of an idiot algorithm.
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I tried mastodon. There's no conflict but it's just not interesting. I have a few friends I've stuck with between accounts who post interesting things and drive good discussion. I don't see how you can avoid romance scams unless you just never make public posts.
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I haven't exactly quit twitter/X or Facebook but I have gone back to using as I saw them in the beginning.
Facebook is a modernish phonebook.
Twitter/X is little more than a broadcasted SMS service.
So, if people truly want to communicate with me, there's always a way to ask for my phone number in person, and you have the option of calling, texting or setting up a one to one meeting at a cafe for a serious discussion (or facetime me if you're more than 600 km away by land)
As for news...I have a wealth of online newspapers at my disposal.
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I used to be active on NetNews (aka. Usenet). I didn't give it up; it was more like NetNews itself gave up ... I read a while ago about someone trying to bring it back to life, but I doubt that they will succeed.
In my youth, several of my friends (and myself) used the mail service - the original, dead trees based one - to exchange opinions, telling about our activities and such, photocopied to all the others. That died out, too. I think I was the last one to mail out anything to the group, but as the reactions ceased, or I got a two-line private (not to the group) response to a three page letter, I quit.
When dead tree mail was replaced with email, we used mailing lists within a few social groups for a few more years. We had increasing problems with some group members knowing nothing about the things we were discussing, invitation to meatings and such. When we ran into those 'deaf' ones (which were increasing in numbers) and asked, the common response was 'I almost never open my email any more - could you rather send me an SMS?'
Of course some wanted us to use FB. One of my work mates felt such responsibility for my 'social' life that since I was not on FB, he all the time tried to bring me into the real life, dragging med over to his screen to show me all his new FB postings, and the comments from all his friends.
Years ago, people tried to drag me into Second Life. I was somewhat fascinated by their technology: Considering the typical internet line speeds at the time, they managed to create an graphic, interactive UI of impressing quality. The 'social' aspects failed to fascinate me to any significant degree. As far as I know, SL still exists, but I never got around to joining it.
Now, FB seems to be on the decline; I would be coming too late to the party. Over the years, there has been a constant flow of reports of censorship, political manipulation and spying on everybody's private lives that has kept me at a distance.
I honestly haven't been attracted to any 'social', public net forum since the days of NetNews. My main reason for following CP is to pick up programming and computer info. I do recognize the signatures of several of the active posters, but I do not consider The Lounge a place for meeting 'friends' in any way that resembles meeting real friends in real, physical life.
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My wife threw me out a few years ago. We're together but don't live together. I'm in a band and that's it. I'd prefer more IRL connection but it's not there
Usenet? I was active there in the 90s
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This might be fun.
Like an anecdote in a live TV show many years ago in Spain. One of the guests (important writer and owner of one of the letters of the "Real academia de la lengua española") was closing the eyes and balancing the head, the moderator tried to tease him...
- Moderator: Mr. Cela, are you sleeping?
- Guest: No, I was "slept" **
** correct traduction would be asleep, but in spanish we use the same word "dormido" for both the adjective and the perfect tense
- Moderator: Are they not the same?
- Guest: Of course not, is it for you "to be fvcking" the same as "to be fvcked"?
- Moderator: (idiotic face and no words)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Do you have your potato? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Wonderful Terry Pratchett reference, and that's The Truth! 
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Like, keep this on the downlow until you guys snag it. Real talk.
Jeremy Falcon
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Docker Desktop generates random container names if you don't supply one. I'm trying to get CodeProject.AI Server running on the Jetson Nano so decided to speed things up with an Ubuntu 18.04 / CUDA 10.2 Docker container.
The autogenerated name: epic_payne
I honestly couldn't have picked a better one. (It's not going well).
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Agree with this, in the initial part of one's career.
More often than not, I've seen youngsters with a lackadaisical attitude, as though "I've got a job; so I can relax", and in some cases, "I have nothing more to learn" kind of attitude.
This is not good in the beginning of one's career, and this is what he's implying here. Youngsters need to work hard to build the nation, since India is still termed as a "developing country".
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Amarnath S wrote: More often than not, I've seen youngsters with a lackadaisical attitude, as though "I've got a job; so I can relax", and in some cases, "I have nothing more to learn" kind of attitude.
Seen that in the United States too.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Seen that in the United States too. 
And in a couple of countries in Europe too.
Heck in Spain we even call the the "ni-ni" (the neither-nor) generation: Neither job nor lust to work.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: in Spain we even call the the "ni-ni" (the neither-nor) generation: Neither job nor lust to work.
I thought ni-ni is for "neither studying, nor employed" (ni estudian, ni trabajan). Not sure it's something of their choosing.
Mircea
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