SorryQuick

@SorryQuick@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To our collective social woe, disinformation succeeds because so many people care deeply about injustice but do not take the time to study the facts before passing along or acting on disinformation.

  Something many of us should learn from, even more appropriate on lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem. The interaction you describe is what happens IRL. On lemmy, or most of the “left” internet, it’s the total opposite, with people getting offended at the slightest misstep. Somehow being ignorant in some areas makes you evil or a jerk. People all have a limited amount of time to spend, and not everyone choses to spend that time learning all the politically correct ways to call people.

  I also wouldn’t refer to someone as “an illegal immigrant” the same way I wouldn’t refer to them as “that fat man” because you just don’t refer to people that way. But I don’t have any issues talking about fat people, or illegal immigrants, in general. Or if it’s specific, it’ll probably be something like “John got deported last week because he was an illegal immigrant”. Not “get out of here you illegal immigrant”. Not that it sounds much worse than “get out of here you undocumented migrant.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with calling people what they want to be called, but most people don’t spend their days on lemmy and aren’t up to date with what people like being called. People should get used to be called the wrong thing, or wrong pronouns. If you specifically tell me you want to be want to be called a certain thing, I have no issues with that, but until you tell me that, you shouldn’t be offended that I call you what is effectively a description.

  I personally have never heard anyone IRL say the words undocumented migrant, or even outside lemmy tbh, while illegal immigrant is obviously common. So by default, if I need to refer to these people, this is the term I’d have used, not intended as an insult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some, but “illegal immigrant” isn’t. Calling someone a fucking idiot is an indult. Calling someone an illegal immigrant to their face can be an insult, but the words themselves are fine, it’s crazy how people are insulted by what is effectively a description. Not like idiot or moron which is obviously “tagging” someone with something they aren’t. Or calling someone an illegal immigtant when they aren’t just because you don’t like them. Undocumented migrant is fine for now, next thing you know even that’s not dignified enough. The same way retard became handicapped and suddenly out of nowhere handicap is not dignified enough, so it became disabled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the words themselves are not an insult, it’s the context they are used in that make them an insult. If you don’t insult people then you don’t have to worry about what words are insults and what they aren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s praising the site’s action, not the site itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost as if it’s the nationalism part that makes them do that rather than having anything to do with their religion.

  Same with christianity, the core religion is somewhat fine, it’s the church and the people that used it as a tool that arent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cat > Chat every time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, if you know little to nothing about what you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course you don’t operate the kernel, but the kernel operates the system.

  My point is that there are many layers between the kernel and user and which you interact with depends on the person. The only common point between all these, at least for linux, is the linux kernel itself.

  I get that the “axchually GNU/linux” is just a joke, but considering how much impact linux has versus GNU, it’s totally fine to omit it. You can totally just use busybox instead and you’re still using a Linux OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then where do you draw the line?

  The vast majority of people also don’t interact with the GNU tools at all, so GNU/Linux isn’t the OS either. KDE would be, or perhaps the distro itself. I’m not sure I’d call the OS GNU/Linux/Ubuntu/KDE. At that point might as well throw in firefox, for many it’s pretty much all the interaction they have with the computer.

  Or what about the distros that don’t use the GNU coreutils? They are generally still called linux and still get to run apps made for linux, even with no traces of GNU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The kernel is the OS though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a bit of an extreme view. Most conservatives do have empathy, though they will prioritize their closed ones with it.

  The problem with this specific scenario with the tarrifs is just people being misinformed and buying everything the party tells them, but I wouldn’t blame it on lack of empathy. If they’d actually known what the repercussions would be, I don’t think most of them would have voted for trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern mineral wool is actually way better than that. I recently bought and installed some that was advertised as “really soft” and without gloves or masks, at the end of the day I couldn’t feel an itch. Of course good airflow during installation always makes a huge difference. I would 100% wear a mask in an attic though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So do I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no issues with facists fucking off. The problem is most people on lemmy seem to give just about everyone they disagree with a facist tag. Honestly in the US I agree the situation is different, but here in canada, I haven’t heard of anyone dying or being abducted by conservatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem. You see the other side in a way they themselves really aren’t. When people say the left is just as bad as the right, they don’t mean in opinions and policies, but in behavior, just like you’re doing. They both think themselves as having the moral high ground while the other side is complete and utter evil.

  Honestly of all the conservatives I know, I don’t think a single one of them is remotely racist in any way. One in particular is agaisnt talking about lgbt stuff in schools but he also has a trans friend and thinks as long as they’re adults it’s fine. It’s not being evil, it’s having a difference in opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about tolerance imo, it’s about discussion. You’d be surprised to learn their reasoning if you actually listened to it. You don’t have to agree with it.

  Both sides have this problem right now. Both only converse with their own. Why are republicans not changing? Well if their friends, family and everyone they talk to is a republican, they’ll never be exposed to different opinions.

  Don’t forget that both sides can have valid policies depending on how you view the world. I’m not taking about trump and whatever you people are doing out there in the US, but in general, conservatism is the idea that people will manage their money, rather than the government.

  Look at Quebec for example. A very socialist government. 2 years ago they invested a ton on money into one electric bus company. Well that company failed really bad and while they aren’t completely bankrupt, they aren’t far. It’s easy then to then see why conservatives would want to vote conservative. If their money had stayed in their pocket instead of going to the government, this wouldn’t have happened.

  Same thing with health. The public health system is currently clogged up so a lot of people end up having to pay to go to the private sector to actually get cured in time. So conservatives believe this whole system is a huge waste of taxpayer money. Most conservatives I know aren’t agaisnt the government helping with that, but they’d rather the government just pay the invoice after you went to a private clinic, similar to insurance in the states, rather than try to control a system that clearly isn’t working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Reddit...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The lemmy community is a very specific subset of reddit’s. Reddit has a somewhat more diverse set of opinions and interests. Despite lemmy not having a specific algorithm, it ends up being an echo chamber nonetheless, a bit more than reddit imo.

  That and of course the fact that if you remove political content and tech/linux, there is hardly anything left.