nickwitha_k (he/him) @ nickwitha_k @lemmy.sdf.org

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Or if sunshine starts competing with wood pulp for paper manufacturing.

Bork also borked US agriculture as a federal judge. He's literally the reason that there has been so much consolidation because of his ruling that corporate consolidation is, by default, magically both good for customers and somehow doesn't violate anti-trust laws. To be clear, both are lies and he clearly knew that at the time of the ruling but, like all right-wing judges, loved money and imposing his right-wing values from the bench more than his constitutionally defined duties.

That's the way it started for many of the tech people that I've known (typo).

LLM trying to figure out and explain creative writing.

They aren't even that capable. They simply try to predict the words that would meet a naïve observer's expectations.

Sorry about this essay, but I really wanted to point this out! If you do have any questions, feel free to ask them!

You're replying to someone with AuADHD. I generally have to edit down things before I post and still end up with a fucking novel :D

Thank you for the long and thoughtful reply.

Thanks very much for the long reply.

You can talk about coming of age topics and address the concepts without directly showing things on screen. Many pieces of media have done so without that, and do so with making clear the creep doing the grooming is not a positive character in the slightest.

This is indeed what gave me most conflict. The ripperdoc is a creep and didn't seem very positive to my memory but I haven't seen it for a quite a while. Not only was he being creepy but was basically a drug dealer (illegal BDs) preying on a kid, and was an enabler, helping David get into the fucked up life of a merc (and implanting the sande).

That's a valid choice. I choose to support those who are most vulnerable by not lending support to those who intend them harm (not necessarily including the project lead).

most people who didn't grow up on the internet tend to use swedish tone in english writing and it comes off as very blunt.

That also makes a lot of sense. While I remember dialup, I also was very social on the early web, BBSs, and MUDs, which definitely led to adopting more personable means of communicating via text. I'd say that it's not just a Swedish phenomenon but also occurs a lot with native English speakers who never adapted (ex. typing in all-caps).

the change was probably done quietly because of the extreme reaction the first time.

I'd suggest that a lack of statement is where in this case (the guy even has nazis praising him).

swedes tend to be to-the-point, and especially in english-language circles we tend to come off as rude even though that's not our intention. it's a cultural thing. kling is also a recovering addict who started his os project as therapy. i can completely sympathise with his tone but that's because i automatically translate it subconsciously when reading.

That does make some sense, thank you. I was aware of him being a recovering addict which is one of the reasons that I want to be able to cheer for him as a human being. This could be a good example of where it would be good to learn from Torvalds, who, despite being renowned for his dickishness, took responsibility and acknowledged having said problematic things (it saying things in problematic ways) that made bigots feel more comfortable in his presence than those who were victims of bigotry.

also, hen is not equivalent to they. hen is originally a replacement for the longer expression "han/hon" in legal texts, used specifically as "a theoretical person of unknown gender" it's a very recent invention and has not yet made it into general use. we don't really have a generic singular gender-neutral pronoun. it's still applicable here, but the issue was sidestepped entirely by switching to second-person pronouns.

Thank you very much for clarifying and correcting me.

I want there to be a good ending to this, especially with him using it to help overcome his addiction. I want him to be happy for him learning and growing. Maybe he took responsibility in the project discord or something. I just have trouble finding genuine contrition - ESL is a poor excuse as it explains neither the hostility nor having a problem with grammatical pronouns that also exist in his mother tongue.

and then merged the pr.

Quietly, without acknowledging fault and after behaving similarly in another PR that was not motivated by anything more than the contributor wanting to be grammatically and technically correct.

this was a language issue. kling is not good at english. all the language has been fixed.

It may be that he is not good at English but, the hostility makes it appear much more than a language issue. Plus, the fact that swedish (which is his mother tongue, from what I can tell) has equivalent pronouns to English, including the gender-neutral "hen" (equivalent to they), makes this seem a pretty flimsy excuse for the behavior. I have trouble buying it.

ETA: If anyone does find something (maybe not widely indexed?) that does show that Kling has grown as a person and taken responsibility, I want to see it so that I can support the guy's efforts.

EDIT: Apparently, "hen" is a more modern thing. Leaving the above because, I appear to be wrong and want to own it :)

Even if it's not outright hate, it's enough to give it a bad smell. I'm not nearly as willing to give people the benefit of the doubt in modern times on issues regarding gender. Were here to unequivocally state "Yes, I was wrong", sure, but I've been no such thing.

I'd agree with Servo or going with Links2.

Best to give Ladybird a miss at this point, unfortunately.

The lead dev freaked out at someone making a PR to use gender-neutral phrasing in the documentation (you know, like is standard for any legitimate technical documentation) and rejected the PR. Further, he has amended the contribution policies into rants about not being a place for "personal politics" and threatening bans to contributors engaging in such "bad faith".

Bonus: For some reason Google is indexing stormfront and they have an "article" that appears to be painting the project as a "victim of the woke left" (I didn't click because I'm not giving those shitstains traffic). So, literal nazis love the guy and he has made no statement that I can find beyond hostility in the PR comments, which means no one with any principles should be touching it with a barge pole, as a user or contributor.

People who will not have to live with the consequences of their political decisions, on account of likely dying before the bill is due, have no business being in office. It places too great of a conflict of interest and supports the Chicago School economic bullshit of never looking past the current quarter. Sure, there are a good chunk of people who would aim for long-term stability out of altruism but they are not generally those who seek to hold political power until they die.

It's really past time for boomers and the silent generation to allow the rest of us to determine our own fates, rather than continuing to take loans out on their grandchildrens' futures (that we're stuck paying for).

Meanwhile, Ladybird browser, unfortunately, appears to be made with hate in Europe.

EDIT: It does appear that there may have been some cultural/language conflict and the rejected PR was quietly merged. I'll try to hold judgement but do hope that the lead dev does make a clear and public statement so that Nazis don't keep thinking that he's on their team.

Pure entitlement mindset.

If your business is not able to stay afloat while providing fair compensation to those whose labor is used, whether employee, co-owner, or third-party, you are not entitled to keep running it. Society doesn't have a duty to prop up wealthy thieves.

Honest question: Assuming that you're also referring to the creepy ripperdoc porn stuff. Is that really sexualizing the underage character? It does not seem to be something that is trying to make the character sexually attractive to the viewer. It does fit in with the hypersexualized setting and acknowledge that sexual thoughts and sexual identity don't begin at age 18.

"Acoustic" basses don't have a big enough body to produce the volume needed for a bit show. It's, unfortunately, just a physics problem. You need either an amplifier or a double bass. Do note that, as mentioned, a double bass is not the same as a bass guitar and will have to be learned.