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  • Yozul@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    17 hours ago

    Look, I don’t know what I’m failing to communicate here, but I absolute understand that. What I’m saying is that even if someone around here wanted to pretend what they were doing was good for people in Africa it would be to say that they’d be better off without our help. That us giving money to dictators that just end up spending it poorly is doing more harm than good, and Africa would be better off without us. That’s the opposite of a white savior complex.

    Heck, if we weren’t also supporting dictators in other ways for the purpose of exploiting the people and resources of Africa while maintaining a degree of plausible deniability I might even agree with that.

    Mostly though, they don’t talk about Africa, because they don’t think about Africa, because they don’t even pretend to care about Africa.


  • Unfortunately the strategy is probably just to start so many awful things at once that we just can’t make a fuss about all of them, and then they’ll just follow through on whichever ones don’t get enough attention. Even if we can get everyone complaining about Musk’s garbage and Greenland at once, there’s just something else almost as bad that they’ll do instead.



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    1 day ago

    I live in a small town where I have neighbors who fly confederate flags in their front yard despite never having been within 1,500 miles of a confederate state. I don’t need you to tell me what racists are like, thank you very much. Maybe it’s a regional thing or something, but I guarantee that there are a lot of racists in America who do not want to save anyone from anything. They just want to pretend that everyone is just like them, and get very, very mad when they’re reminded that other people exist.


  • Yozul@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know what to tell you. I know a lot of people who will happily spout off some of the nastiest things you’ve ever heard about “those people”, but none of them want to save anything. They just want to be left alone in their own little world where they can pretend that if everyone was just like them there wouldn’t be any problems in the world. They just get mad if you make them try to think about what they believe.

    Maybe it’s a regional difference, or maybe we just hang out in different racist circles. I dunno. I’ve never actually met a racist that cared about anyone outside of the US enough to have a white savior complex though. Around here they’d much rather sort people out by skin color and ship them to the continent that best matches their stereotypes and be done with ever even thinking about it.


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    2 days ago

    You’d certainly think so if you only saw racism in the form of tweets. I live in a racist shithole. I know real racists. None of them care about any of that. None of them think about any of that. They might at most retweet something like that, and even then it’d only be to complain about taxes. None of them are actually thinking about Africa in their free time.



  • SSNs are literally just handed out to hospitals and social security offices in batches and given out in sequential order. They were specifically and intentionally designed to be a terrible system of ID numbers because people actually used to care about their privacy. There are countless people who’ve gone their whole lives using the wrong social security number and gotten their benefits just fine, because unlike everyone else in this dumpster fire of a country the social security office has never been stupid enough to rely on just a single number.



  • Yozul@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFreudian rule
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    4 days ago

    I mean, yeah, okay, technically you’re correct. I should have been more careful with how I phrased things. I know people on the internet are pedantic. I should have seen this coming. Freud didn’t invent studying the mind, he just popularized the idea of, you know, actually using it to help people. The fact that he was bad at doing that doesn’t make it a bad idea.

    What would have happened if he hadn’t come along and done that is just a story you made up. It has no basis in reality. Maybe we’d be living in a magical utopia where nothing bad would ever happen anymore. I can’t prove that isn’t true. It’s not really a helpful thing to discuss though.



  • Yozul@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFreudian rule
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    4 days ago

    Well, he was absolutely a coke-fiend that just made up a bunch of nonsense that was basically all incorrect. It’s easy to call him a fraud now in hindsight, but it’s important to remember that one of the things he made up was the idea that we should treat mental problems like illnesses that could be treated. That’s still an incredibly valuable idea that still isn’t being taken seriously enough. I’m willing to give the guy a break for being wrong when he was making up the entire idea of psychology from nothing. That was still useful, even if we have had to move on from everything he thought about psychology.





  • BSD was the main open source option for a little while, but got into a big legal battle that dragged out for years, and Linux came out during that time and took over. BSD never made a major comeback because no one really needed it anymore after Linux came along. It’s still around because it was already done, so people have just had to maintain and update it since then. Hurd is non-existent for reasons that are contentious, but everyone agrees that at least one of them is that a lot of people got excited about the Linux kernel and lost interest in Hurd and switched to Linux development instead. It is possible that if more people had stuck with it there would have been a real, useful Hurd instead. These aren’t even the only alternatives that were being worked on at the time.

    The idea that any one person could will an entire operating system into existence by making a hobby kernel that fit a useful niche at the right time is just patently absurd. Linux is great, and Linus Torvalds is a good steward of it, but no, he is not the only reason why open source operating systems are popular.


  • They were trying to merge rust code into the dma subsystem, because what they were working on needed to talk to it, and it would be easier to do that with rust code in the dma subsystem. He said no specifically to that part. Just the stuff in the dma subsystem. That’s all. It can be worked around.

    It wasn’t actually a big deal until Martin stuck his nose into a discussion that was none of his business and then cried about it on social media. I get being frustrated. The old guys are weirdly hostile sometimes, but creating drama is not the solution.