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I thought my use of capitalized Discord would be subtle but noticeable that it was a joke. I guess I was too subtle.

Here, I was keeping it in a drawer because I thought I wouldn't need it, but obviously I did.

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The problem mister Alexander here makes is to assume geniuses exist, or that original ideas are rare. They don't and they are not. Spend more than 15 minutes with any toddler and you'll easily reach those 100 new original ideas. Humans are new ideas machines, it's what we do. It is spontaneous, not extraneous, to us. To assume otherwise is very cynical and disingenuous. Every person has the capability to be a genius, because genius is just a social label granted to extremely narrow interpretations and projections of an individuals abilities in an extremely concrete set of skills or topic. For example, re-contextualize with a diagnosis of autism and now suddenly they are not a genius, they have an hyper-fixation.

Also, the premise that every idea, specially brand new, can be judged and ruled as good or bad in a vacuum, right out of the gate, is also very stupid. The category of genius is a very recent concoction, stemming from the halls of Victorian moral presumptions and the newly developed habit of nobility of worshiping the writings they didn't understand of people they had never met. This is what motivates the myth that genius whatever is always positive, in the popular mind. But, Goebbels was a genius at propaganda, everything that we do today in publishing is based on stuff he invented. That doesn't mean all his ideas were worth listening to, and were he alive and you followed him on Twitter (lets be honest, he would have a Twitter), that would shed a rather poor light on you.

Because, and this is the important part, humans are not a loose collection of isolated ideas. We are not modular, freely separable and reconfigurable beings. We are holistic, evolutive and integral. Sure, we might be different things to different people (privately) and audiences (publicly) at different points in time, but our own sense of identity and being is not divisible. Steven Pinker is perfectly capable of simultaneously being a liberal, atheist and intelligent linguist; a mediocre intrusionists psychologist who forgot how history works; and a stupid mysoginist and racist. All at the same time, and never stop being a single integral person. It doesn't require an imaginary score of good to bad takes ratio. That's a stupid premise. You don't keep a broken clock around in the off chance it might be right twice a day. Use a more holistic sense.

Remember, what's behind the user name is (still more often than not) a full person, not a black box (except if it is a bot, of course).

I understand and see why he didn't touched the moral aspect of his own argument. It is because any moral analysis completely dismantles his premises. Morality is the most important thing separating humans from animals and machines. Of course if someone is an evil POS it you should block and cancel their ass. It's Karl Popper all over again, if we don't rule out bad takes in the off chance there will be a good take, we end up with a Nazi bar.

if you want to learn, you search discord.

Searching Discord is precisely the opposite of learning. You lose knowledge every second spent on Discord.

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No, you are harassing and bullying poor Stenzek.

Typical Linux user, using Linux and stuff.

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Not actively, they stopped trying to make money long ago. Since 2018 you can't buy anything from them and artists are leaving. No new releases since then, of course.

Please don't propagate the myth that all gays are ultra horny and promiscuous all the time. It is not true. Gay men deal with a shit ton of toxic standards as well.

if you were gay things would be easier.

If you don't have standards, maybe …

Gays looking for a hookup are some of the most superficial and demanding dating pool members. Dudes looking like the Penguin on Batman Returns will demand Adonis or infant looking twinks and nothing else. It's very hard and very rare to find people actually willing to give a chance to non-hegemonic looking guys.

Kind reminder that no streaming platform is very good on the ethical front. There are no ethical alternatives because the root of the problem is the legal strangle hold labels and record companies keep on artists and commercial music distribution.

I mean, for that matter, neither fish or bird technically exist (also, trees). So it doesn't matter. Try feeding birdseed to a penguin and you'll see.

Ok, so you say humans come from monkeys, right?

But then, who put the monkeys there in the first place, uh?

Have you ever thought of that?

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Distros don't define the UI.

That's the desktop environment's work. Many distros will look and feel exactly alike, because they use the same DE.

These are:

• GNOME
• KDE
• Cinnamon
• a long list of etceteras.

GNOME is their own thing, with very opinionated and authoritarian devs. They are not very flexible in their design and development philosophy. That said, Gnome is a very good and quality DE that does have customization, but is also very different to everything else UX wise.

KDE Plasma is very Windows like, because their thing is to be extremely flexible and customizable. But, with sane defaults that look like Windows as closely as possible. So it is very familiar out of the box, though it can be made to look and work into very unique ways. It is also very good and quite polished, aiming to have virtually everything into a GUI or menu, minimizing the need for terminal commands.

Cinnamon is Linux Mint's continuation of what Gnome used to be like. Which means that it is very similar to pre-Windows 10 but with modern quality of life upgrades and functionality.

Most distros will use one of the first two, and Mint champions it's own Cinnamon. Other DE's are for more specialty or niche distributions.

Very few DE's capture the macOS experience. Mostly because there's little interest on it from the crowds that use Linux, so they get abandoned quickly. The closest thing currently is Budgie, which had died for a while, but is now revived by a different group of developers.