Doug

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[–] Doug@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'll admit I haven't seen that but it would have to be some impressive magic.

My wife has never managed to stay awake past the opening sweep around the Enterprise but I can't say it really gets better.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I think while Insurrection and Nemesis are widely agreed as bad next gen movies I would argue they're better than the worst original movies.

If you can't acknowledge Motion Picture as bad I don't know that we can have the discussion on a solid base though.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lot of comments here with single down votes. I wonder how salty op is

[–] Doug@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is it requiring a cell for being the 2fa piece? I don't use GitHub but I'd be surprised if they did. There's been plenty of options for a while now. Email, authenticators, u2f keys. You should be able to enable 2fa that will use the same data you're using to access GitHub.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This should come up whenever someone says you just need to work hard to succeed and get a better job than fast food.

This man has grandchildren and hasn't missed a day in 20 years. He's not a teenager. He's not lazy. He's a real person who has worked his ass off, probably more every day than a lot of CEOs in a month.

And I bet he's still happily making your lunch.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago

But pronouns are!

[–] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nah. I've had a domain registered with them for years and I just got the email too

[–] Doug@midwest.social 7 points 2 years ago

Just the cool people

[–] Doug@midwest.social 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Look for the little joys. Seriously. You know that light that always seems to be red when you get there? Celebrate the times it's not rather than getting annoyed when it is. Make up words from the letters on a license and consider what might make a person want that. Come up with bad answers. Absurd ones. Find shapes in clouds.

Not all of that is easy but it can be worth the effort.

Happiness can be chosen, just not all the time. Look for the places you can and try to do it. Like anything it'll get easier with practice.

*There are hard things that will make choosing happiness nigh impossible. If you find yourself in one of these places you need external help, very probably professional. It's not weakness to acknowledge that any more than it is to see a doctor if you cut off your arm.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'll be honest, when I saw the name of that community it gave me pause. I looked at the linked post and was pleased to find I was wrong about what I thought it probably was.

If only for that reason I think there's value in keeping both. I think this could serve a different purpose as well though. Casual or inconsequential questions would fit better under an "ask men" name I think. Like "why do so many guys flush before they're done peeing"

[–] Doug@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

I get what you're saying and while you've got a great point there's something to be said for the way you've quoted there too.

Consider a monarchistic kingdom. The king enforces the system but the people uphold it by going along. If they gathered together they could easily topple the kingdom but without that effort it persists.

But in modern patriarchy that kingdom exists because of a combination of tradition and a few voices being given a lot of extra credence.

At the same time it all comes with assumptions about the participation level of men at large. That's difficult to discern because of how much of it is internalized. Removed from all of that would they choose to continue oppressive behavior, fight against it, or somewhere in between?

I think for a lot of men it's unconscious. They participate without considering. We often have to fight against deeply held beliefs being wrong, so if we know we're good people and *ism is bad we must not be. So someone saying we are must have a reason for trying to make us think we are.

Often that reason is because we are and we need to improve but that's not always easy to hear.

It is undeniable, however, that there are men at the top who stand to gain from its continuance and work to see that happen.

All in all I do both agree and disagree with you. None of this is meant to be upsetting or anything of the like. I could just see an alternative point of view that was both men at the top enforcing and non-enforcing men still hurting each other through the enforced system and wanted to make sure you had the opportunity to consider it.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

prosthetics and bionics are taking leaps and bounds

Heh

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