folkrav

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Couple of questions… Why does it matter to you that some people consider it a sport? Does the very idea being contrary to your opinion, make the sports you consider as such any less sports? The first antique olympics had horse racing. Where does shooting, curling, archery, golf, equestrian, etc, fit in this definition? If no, why does dance bother you so much all of a sudden, and why not as much anger towards them?

What’s that “Ancient Greek tradition” you seem to want to protect the purity of, and why does or should it matter? There’s been events that were added, tested out, and many removed subsequently, throughout the olympics’ history. It’s not the first time some event doesn’t make unanimity as far as everyone liking the event. Some people threw a hissy fit when snowboarding and later skateboarding were included, for example. Who gets to decide if an event fits in there? Is the practice of trying it out and reevaluating next olympics that terrible?

It’s not like modern olympics are some sacred and pure untouchable event underlining human performance for the sake of it. Unless you've avoided the subject on purpose, which would be surprising considering your position here, the CIO itself isn’t made out of saints doing it all for the love of sports either…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My deluge server been reliably running behind gluetun for almost a year and a half now. It’s pretty damn great indeed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It’s all computers. How “personal” it is just depends on what you do with it. I used what was technically a desktop PC as a home server for years. Without a monitor and kb/m plugged in, there’s not much personal computing going on with it. It’s mostly semantics, in the end it’s all computer systems lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Naming is really hard, I can’t blame you haha. I never had to name public facing things, at work I usually advocate for either really straightforward descriptive names or just having fun on a theme (e.g. we had classical music based stuff at one place, like Orchestra, Sonata, Symphony, and pop culture/nerdy stuff at another like Marvel heroes or SW characters, etc). Coming up with a name that’s marketable, discoverable and searchable sounds like a nightmare lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I’m the ADHD spouse in my marriage, if they’re anything like me, they know they are, don’t worry too much 😂 I probably thank my wife of putting up with my bullshit every other day or so lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The practice of calling a product “FooBar X”, unless it’s literally your version 10 that you just happen to be marketing in Roman numerals, feels a bit like those businesses that named themselves “Plumbing 2000”, it’s a bit tacky and doesn’t tend to age well IMHO. But hey, it’s not like it’d be the first software with a slightly kitsch name I use either lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah… It always being there hardly makes it a “renaissance”, no?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, but you also said it should be protected in “all cases” but went on about “exceptions”. Assistance in dying doesn’t fit this criteria that would make it acceptable as most definitely not everyone agrees with it. Some DNRs don’t either. The idea that the “whole society” needs to agree is also pretty disputable, and comes with its own set of moral issues. The question of professionals being “properly” trained on the matter as well (what does this mean?).

I just think it’s a lot more complex than “save everyone always”, and the exceptions aren’t that straightforward.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Human life is to be protected, rescued etc. in all cases.

Where does a DNR and medical assistance in dying fit in this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, yeah. So one’s the limit, the other the actual? Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It’s not so much opposition rather than other BSDs having almost negligible desktop presence… If we really want to get into semantics, too, Linux is technically not UNIX.

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