Interesting how many upvotes this got. Mostly you just hear about how ugly they are.

It’s legitimately an out-of-the-box, eye-catching design. Probably because it’s so terrible for the actual purpose of the thing nobody else would have bothered.

Boomer humour achieved!

I’m guessing they must walk them constantly? Like, otherwise your apartment gets trashed.

Yeah, I’m not even sure if most women-liking people do. Blond and busty is a style that actually does have a significant but non-universal following, but when it’s overdone to the point of looking unnatural I would expect it becomes niche again.

However I am never going to be able to afford the absurd cost of retrofitting one to be energy efficient,

Is that even an option? In my experience they leak so much it’s more like a pile of sticks than a modern envelope. You’d have to, like, add a whole other layer to the inside or outside, or take it all apart and rebuild it to actual geometric standards.

I’m guessing that in 50 years people will feel this way about internal combustion engines as well. A lot of the time the more efficient technologies get, the more boring, as all the energy is going into their actual purpose and not chugga-chugga sounds.

And to add to this, you don’t actually do any coding yourself. Just using something to help with boilerplate code isn’t usually counted.

Although, I’m wondering from this Reddit r/vibecoding thread if that’s a Lemmy-specific definition. Most of the people in it seem to be using LLMs in a sane way and are telling OP this isn’t.

I still object to your definition of losing. Ethics diets are on the rise, and if Linux became less popular at any point that’s new information to me. I’d say we’re underdogs but things are going well.

As for actually answering, I think I just have a weird attachment to abstract conceptual correctness. Or rather, other people don’t seem to, and that’s why they can ignore things like animal welfare and creepy digital mega-corporations even if they know, on some level, that it’s inconsistent with their stated priorities and values.

Quite often. On Lemmy when posting to .ml, and on most political things IRL because of the rural, conservative area I’m in.

I think as long as you’re “pushing the envelope”, it’s justifiable. It’s only once you do more than required to escape direct punishment, maybe to get some kind of reward or be further down the dissident list than the next person, that you become a part of the problem.

Nope. In both cases it’s expensive and bad for you, and it can be hard to stop once you start.

Smoking makes you gross to everyone on top of it, and school was pretty good at explaining all this at length. When I see or hear about someone in our generation who’s a smoker I wonder WTF their reasoning was.

That could be, it was a rough period. I wasn’t around for the beginning, and even the end is approximate as locked down mobile OSs and similarly user-opaque systems gradually came to dominate.

Kids today can still learn computers, but they have to explicitly try. I think something analogous happened with early cars. The first guys had to be able to personally maintain and repair the whole thing, and then over time it gradually became an area for experts and the odd enthusiast only.

This guy lording over us that they don’t hate their appearance. /s

Not to mention, that’s isn’t their priority in any number of other areas of policy.

There really was a magic learning window 1990-2010, I think. Some people who were there are still bad at technology, and a select few from before are good at it and maybe even helped build those systems, but the prevalence is night and day.

No, he was going to stop funding it entirely. Shutting it down has been his life’s quest. He also has an actual affinity for Trump rather than just a strategic interest in not making him angry.

People really like to blame outsiders for things, and are willing to believe they both deserve and have been denied everything and can have it on demand, even against all evidence. History and all the concerns that go into policy are actually uninteresting to most voters. Why fascism seems to bubble up in some periods more than others is the mystery.

It’s probably a manifestation of something that made evolutionary sense when we lived in small, sovereign bands. In a lot of ways humanity is way out of it’s depth, and we’re doing remarkably well considering.

Stalin is a different beast, FYI. Russia had always been an autocracy, he just happened to be well-placed to be in charge of it’s next incarnation after the revolution.

The real question, I guess, would be how to strike out on my own as a literal child. School was repetitive the first time, and my home life was pretty mid as well.

Funny story, I think I actually had enough savings at that point to live on for a month or two. I was a weird kid.

I’m guessing not admitting your finances are shit is pretty universal, no need to pick on 'Murica.

Hmm. You really wouldn’t miss anything? There’s more risk if you’re visible, but you could theoretically live as a human poacher or forager in some remote place.

I’d be pretty worried about getting caught anyway. A tiger is not small and a tiger killing somebody is not quiet, clean or subtle. Unless this is a suicide mission; nobody’s expecting it, so it could probably get you in a room with anyone, once.