IQ does not measure intelligence, it measures different fields of intellect, mostly about logic, language comprehension and memory. It doesn’t measure intelligence per se, but if you have a low score <70, you can be sure your life is going to be impacted negatively in some way, either because you don’t understand other people, you don’t understand the world or you cannot chain together complex logical chains.

Global warming is not about producing more energy, it’s about burning fossil fuels instead of clean energy (renewables, nuclear…) and about wasting energy.

But it’s not as easy, technically everytime you use your car you become “part of the problem”, or everytime you buy some useless single-use crap from temu, but I think it’s unfair to blame yourself for it. The system allows and encourages wastes and “problematic behaviour” because it’s either more profitable (see bigger cars in the US) or changing is more difficult and politically inconvenient.

As far as I know Mint and Fedora have the same choice of Desktop Environment more or less, I’m really curious to know what you refer to when you say “modeen interface”

Especially since they technically exploited a bug in my own code.

Yeah that’s called an intrusion, hackers do that and it’s illegal. If you accidentaly leave you house door unlocked is it your fault if someone trashes your house?

Report them, no damage was done and it’s a relatively minor thing so I wouldn’t expect grave consequences, but maybe this person will be more more responsible in the future.

We sometimes think of our memory as an hard drive we can read files from with an index, that’s really not true, our memory resembles Content-Addressible Memory, where the data itself (of at least something similar to) is the key to unlock the data. You recall a piece of memory only when you are epxeriencing something similar. This also explain the “unlocked memories” of things you did in the past you completely forget until you find an object related to it.

The mind is fucking weird.

Please elaborate, I don’t remeber this wtf

If a password is centrally assigned and managed it is not a safe passqword, regardless of other security measures

Ok who says that a straight male should be attracted to female gender? Sexual attraction is physical (to most people) so a straight male od attracted to people with female primary (vulva) and secondary (boobs, ass, etc…) sexual characteristics. Just because a biological male with male sexual organs and a male-presenting body identifies as female, and a straight male ks not attracted to her it’s not disrespectful, fetishizing, transphobe, “super straight”, it’s just straight. In the same way as a generally straight man will likely not be attracted to a female transgender person who did hormome therapy and looks like a female but didn’t do the surgigal operation to transform her male genitalia in female genitalia, as straight male will probably not be attracted to a “woman with a penis” and that’s perfectly ok

Overturism can and usually is a cost and a nuisance for a popular city, especially when there are just too many tourists. Usually the price is quite low (a few € per day, much less than you would spend on accomodation or food), and it’s limited to the most crowded spots in the most popular time of year, and it’s just enough to discourage a little number of people

Unfortunately that doesn’t always work. For example on linux there are not high-quality DRMs available so streaming platforms are stuck at 480p/720p, forget your 4k

If someone is attracted only to woman with male genitalia is not feticism, nor a “chaser”, it’s a sexual preference and, just like any sexual preference, if it’s carried out in a respectful and non-creepy way, it’s perfectly reasonable and must be respected.

I agree with the proliferiation of labels not being super useful and possibly damaging, while sexuality is very complex. What I don’t agree with is your critique of “liking only genitalia” = “objectivizing”

Liking one genitalia and not the other is not “traeating people as body parts”. Is it objectivization if a straight cis male likes women, but is not attracted to a transgender woman with male genitalia? I don’t think so…

If a belief stands on authority alone it’s not something I believe, it’s something I accept, either because I want to change or as a compromise.

Incoherence, and it’s particuarly bad when I realize i’m being incoherent

I use third party launchers, but that’s not the point, very few apps support them because google (and consequently Android) stopped caring. Of course, it might just be corporates being corporates, but I just don’t see why google doesn’t want them

Stumbled upon Jeremy Clarkson biking in a European capital. We instinctively approached him to just confirm if he was us, and he politely asked to not bother him because he was on holidays. We felt a little bad and of course left him alone. It must be a little sad to be famous and be recognized everywhere

Songs of the Gorilla Nation. It’s supposed to be a book about the autism of the author, but it’s just a weird love letter to the entire Gorilla population, described as perfect creatures every human should aspire to be, it’s pretty much like that simpson shimpanzee parody episode, except more sad.

There is very little content about autism, but you can tell there is a lot of resentment towards neurotipicals (who she calls neuromutilated) and a lot of toxic autism pride. I believe the author has a lot of unresolved trauma that she coped with cultivating resentment and obsessing over gorillas.

Didn’t learn much about autism nor gorillas, a pretty lame book overall.

Even android stopped supporting shaped icons to feel like apple where you only have stupid rounded squares. Thank you overlord google for plain boring corporatism when you could have chosen interesting thing you already did

Which one?

Who the hell thinks “tomorrow I’m going in jail, better update my linkedin profile so everyone knows”