I second that, sounds like a good idea.

News like this is faded out by all the political tourmoil in the US, but it is this kind of devastation that will make things so much worse in the long run.

Impressively accurate meme. 4650630 is indeed a 2x2 lime slope peace.

https://www.toypro.com/gb/product/6082/slope-2-x-2-45/lime

I don’t know enough about Islam to claim that this applies, but it certainly applied to Christianity up until the enlightenment: there was no point in doing experiments to find out more about the world, the answer was already in the Bible. If you couldn’t see it yet, you needed to study the Bible more.

This is just plain wrong.

Have a look at this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology

What often happened was that rich people’s sons became priests, because it was a respected and not very time intensive endeavor. This would give them ample free time to engage with the sciences as much as they wanted.

Eh, I don’t know. I mean, sure, there are stereotypes.

But it feels a bit different. I thinks it’s the difference between friendly banter, like friends do it sometimes, and blatant bullying.

I’ve done a little experiment. I went to https://witze.net/ , a website that is German and filled with humour that must be at least 30 years old. Many jokes refer to cultural events from that time (there was one about the explosion of the Challenger, which was in 1986). So that should give a good example of the time period I was reffing to.

You find examples of friendly banter for the French, etc.:

"Whats European heaven like?

The Englishman opens the door for you, the French is cooking, the Italian is the Entertainment and the German takes care of organising everything.

What’s European hell like?

The Frenchman opens the door, the Englishman is cooking, the German is the Entertainer and the Italian takes care of organising everything."

Not funny, but also just a play on stereotypes. It’s like that.

The polish stereotype is “they are thiefs”.

“Whs do Russians always steal two cars? Because they have to drive trough Poland on their way back.”

“Why is Viagra not allowed in Poland? Because everything that stands longer than 10 Minute is stolen.”

And on and on.

Am I imagining that there is a difference if your stereotype is “bad at humour” (which the German website proves quite well ironically) or “steals everything all the time”?

During my childhood, in Germany, during the ninetees and early 2000s, it was manly making fun of the Polish for beeing thiefs or beeing overrun in WWII.

Insanely racist time, looking back now, but it was just completly normalised.

Since the standard is: “Don’t be assholes” I think thats quite allright :-)

I don’t know if this applies but I did the switch to Linux a coupls weeks ago (To Linux Mint, because beginner friendly).

I’m curious with tech stuff but I’m not tech savvy in any way shape or form.

Thing is, the in way to connect to my Google drive sucked hard. On windows I would install the program and be able to access it like any drive. On Mint there is a GUI way to connect to your Google account, but it is so slow that it took a PDF solid 2 minutes to load each page. So no way to work with that.

So I needed a solution, which I found by installing rclone and setting it up.

That was a stupid amount of work and command lines I realy did not understand at all (this was my time using the console).

The ICD-10 is used in Europe and the DSM-5 in America. In that sense we are both correct.

Mental illnesses are very clearly defined, for example in the ICD-10 puplished by the WHO. Pedantry is defnetly not listed in there.

And yes, this was an attempt of humour.

My first trial (after 2 months) was installing something that was not on the software manger. With installation instructions writen for Arch. That needed Python to work. It stops feeling like windows real quick then :-)

I’ve used Windows 10 since it’s release. I had to reset it twice because I had a virus, which very much was my misstake. Other than that it did just work fine.

I’ve switched to Mint 2 months ago and I am troubleshooting a lot. Most of that comes from inexpeariance, but the point still stands.

Windows is more or less stable most of the time.

I did that 2 moths ago and rarley boot into windows any longer. It’s a learning curve for sure, and I’m at the bottom part of it, but it feels nice to expand your knowledge bit by bit.

Relevant XKCD

I can’t post images atm, I assume this is the reason?