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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I feel like you've built two straw-men and conflated them together. I haven't seen anybody arguing either case on the left side of the meme in response to the images depicted (or similar) on the right side of the meme. People wanting to send weapons to Ukraine generally tend to also say it doesn't have a Nazi problem (and may compare Russia with Nazis), and people wanting pacifism in Palestine also don't like weapons and support sent to Israel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I'm wondering if the cause and effect are the other way around, people that have trouble with noise (such as people with APD) might want noise cancelling headphones. The rise in cases of APD might indicate otherwise, but with the information provided, it sounds like it might be under-diagnosed anyway.

The first thing many people used to assume is that if you had any problems with listening, you might be somewhat deaf. APD and other difficulties listening definitely aren't deafness, but I wonder if there is increased awareness of other reasons why someone might have difficulty understanding speech.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It's nice to see someone who used to be so deep into the Adobe ecosystem was finally able to switch over. I hear that it used to be considered practically impossible unless you weren't already in very deep. As a result, many people simply said they wouldn't consider Linux unless Adobe products supported Linux.

The fact that he's proven Adobe doesn't have a stranglehold anymore gives me hope that we'll be seeing more and more people migrating as software supporting Linux gets better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Autism affects how senses are processed, and taste is a sense - some autistic people don't want things that are strong or that vary a lot, preferring consistency instead.

With that being said, it's not a universal thing, different people are affected differently.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

While true, I would add that a big reason is that freight is prioritised by rail companies, causing large and frequent delays for passengers. Amtrak owns some of its own rail, mostly in the northeast, which is perhaps less-than-coincidentally the part of the US that has the most people taking trains.

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

I think people do think it should fail. Snap isn't bad, but when people run a command, they expect it to do as asked, or fail. The fact it does something else breaks that intuition, as it's doing what it thinks you will want instead.

With that being said, it's not a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Anecdotal, but I have had bad experiences using Ubuntu. I know it's not a bad distro, and that it contributes a lot (especially historically), but it's the other distros that take their contributions and add to it that I find worth using or recommending, or sometimes an unrelated distro. It's the sort of thing I might give money to, but I'll never want to use directly.

I think this is what people mean when they say it's bad - that distros that take what Ubuntu made and add their own touch seem more user friendly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As someone who voted yes in a very no place, I was actually a bit frustrated by how poorly the yes campaign communicated with people - right up until those pamphlets came out, most of the people I was talking to had never heard of the referendum, and only after that most people started looking up what it was about.

I would argue the no campaign had a huge head start on the yes campaign, there was negative speculation going on a year before the referendum, and it gradually snowballed into misinformation before the yes campaign even started. So the stuff people found was all negative. For the people I was talking to, I was the only person they knew who thought a voice was a good idea.

One of the people I was talking to mentioned how they hadn't even encountered a single ad promoting a voice to parliament until a week before, and it didn't bother talking about how it would work or why it's a good idea. They did eventually vote yes, but only after I talked to them about what I understood about it. In fact, my experience is that most people leaning no were willing to vote yes after hearing enough about it.

I think a huge issue is that the yes campaign either failed to reach here somehow, or just relied on the media and self-research for informing people. And the media was very insistent on platforming no campaigners while almost never platforming yes.

One of the most confusing things to hear was how people in the capital cities had heard so much about it when people here had barely heard of it. Some people missed the referendum date entirely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

To clarify, Lidia claimed that both the racist no campaign and the yes campaign drowned out the progressive no campaign.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Lidia Thorpe has also believed before the vote that a No vote would prove Australia is racist, just as a yes vote would prove Australia is racist. Given that, I think Lidia would agree with the author here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Admittedly this is where the meme kind of breaks down.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I forgot about that, oops.

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