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This is a joke, but actually doing and believing a less extreme version of this is great for social relationships. Confidence is attractive

People go where the audience is. The more people leave, the bigger pressure the rest will feel to follow.

Sex is far more complicated than just what is assigned at birth. Especially if you take stuff like hormones into consideration.

Nature doesn't work in discrete categories. Almost everything in nature is fluid and amorphous to some degree. Exceptions to every rule humans can think of.

And if you talk about sex about purely what gametes you have, then that isn't really very useful to talk about in practice outside of reproduction. When laymen talk about sex, they mean perceived sex more than anything else (and to prove the point, the article talks about sexed places and such..). Leave anything else to medical professionals.

What else would be the answer, then? Windows is a commercial product by Microsoft. They will never get better unless forced to. They will keep getting worse for profit because, well, that's what they do.

The whole point about an open-source operating system is that you can make it yours, and nobody can take that away from you. And the more people use linux, the better it gets. Commercial closed sources products can never have the same qualities.

Actually, no. Giving them money, a personal shelter, and general baselines support goes a massively long way and sets a proper foundation that then later allows people to get clean and improve their mental health much easier.

So, no, first they need to have their independence and dignity respected, and then the other stuff.

I assume that must be a kbin thing, because the thumbnails are always correct for me

Yeah, it's already hard enough not to struggle with mental health as is, even in materially good conditions, and then you add onto that losing everything and being forced to live on the streets with everything that brings? Maybe without even having any form for food security?

You are in a straight up survival situation. And it may be especially painful because you're not alone out in the wilderness..

You're surrounded by people. Many of whom are very well off. You are surrounded by people who have a home, food, luxuries, and everything, and you cannot have any of that. You're not allowed to, by society.

It's a goddamn nightmare. No fucking shit people struggle or just straight up break. I would too.

So why call in the first place? And how will I ever know what the call was about? Unless you text, of course, so why not just do that in the first place?

You may not intent for it to be a demand, but unless you have your phone on silent, it will keep ringing and making noise until you do something about it. It demands an action, and tries to get your attention as much as possible.

Which is why it's designated to emergencies. This makes calling more useful as well, because now you know calls are more important, and can actually treat them with more urgency. Otherwise you're just gonna end up ignoring what may be an actual emergency, because you treat every phone call the same.

Or maybe we shouldn't just accept trillion dollar companies doing whatever the fuck they want?

Nvidia is clearly on the wrong here, and infringing on copyright. Do you want to set the precedent that companies can just ignore copyright? Meanwhile when we certainly can't ignore theirs?

Maybe we should hold the companies to a higher standard. And not roll over and give in basically as soon as they do something we don't like, compromising the foundation and good parts of what we already have, in this case Linux. Open source and GPL is the lifeblood of Linux, it's what makes it as good and useful as it is.

Or maybe we should keep companies, which rake in billions of dollars, to a much higher standard??

Nvidia could be better at open-sourcing their stuff. But they don't. Blame them, not GPL.

Ehm, not at all??

There's so much hardware with non-proprietary drivers.

Sorry if I don't think minor topics are worthy of the immediate attention needed for a phone call?

Phone calls are reserved for emergencies. Otherwise you're just demanding the instant attention of someone for nothing.