I'm not dead or in jail, so I'm doing alright. When I think about it, a lot of the things we were fed as kids was never the whole story, nor was it all true.
I generally don't use social media (outside of lemmy) because most of it is about trying to sell parts of your life to people that usually lacks context. It's great for sharing ideas and information though.
Yikes, if this is really your worldview, it seems pretty small and is dismissive of a lot of realities that both men and women live in. To be clear, I've tried to parse what you're saying, and generally it seems you're calling out symptoms of an issue where the conclusion is men are "built different". It would be nice if life were so black and white.
So, anecdotally, the school I had to go to didn't have a robotics program, or laptops to lend out to students, but other schools (probably in other districts) did. My colleagues today who did have those things, have experiences that are different from mine as a result, arguably better as they had earlier exposure.
My school did offer sports and orchestra I participated in, and with people closer to where I lived where I could hang out with before and after school.
I don't think being sent to a school farther away in a different community would be an ideal solution, or necessarily make me a better person as a whole. Besides being treated like an outsider and the unavoidable stress and time loss that comes with travel, I would probably be stressed out and struggle to be happy in that environment.
Again, I'm speculating but school isn't just about what job you want to have, it's about exploring and developing, not only as an individual but also as part of a community. I think my ideal is one where communities have more access to opportunities, rather than limiting opportunities to specific locations. To clarify that location matters a lot, and I think history (redlining as an example) provides guidance to that.
Either way, it sounds like we both would like folks to get access to the resources they want and need so I'm cool with that.
Replying to say I appreciate your discourse and can empathize with some of your views. I think it's important to level set, and that level currently is your perspective and identification of a libertarian is one data point, and some of your perspective includes some nice, popular opinions:
Everyone wants policies and rules that empower, not limit. (Don't treat me like a child).
Hell yeah, balance the budget, nobody wants their money going to waste, that's a no brainer.
Drugs clearly won the war, and the program did what it was intended to do: throw minorities in jail and destroy families. You're against it, so am I.
Now, instead of outright providing counter arguments to the things I'm not on board with, I'd like to suggest a route where instead of divesting from resources under the banner of "choice", what if we invested resources into communities into the way they're built? For example why bus students from a poor district to a rich one when you should leverage equity to bring communities up to par? I think that solves more problems than it adds.
Anyway, I'm sure the libertarian community is pretty diverse and I'm sorry for generalizing them. Again, I appreciate your perspective.
Always interesting how "nerdy" successful dudes with money gravitate towards libertarianism. It usually boils down to not having to pay taxes or reinvest in the communities they extract value from.
Lot of problems with the directions windows has gone or is going (cortana finally gone), but people need to chill if they think the OS is unusable or something.
Anecdotally I'm hoping SteamOS continues to progress how it has so there are even more reasons to not depend on Windows.
I kind of envy the mindset where one has empathy for someone who is so out of touch with reality given their status. I like to think I'm a good, just person that wants to do the right thing but when I think of what the billionaire's perspective is: someone with so much power and influence that most people are just objects or playthings to them, it's frustrating to think about. They think they're bigger than people, the earth, maybe even the universe.
I'm not saying I could be the triggerman, I'm not that kind of person, but yeah, fuck 'em.
It's funny all the things you forget when you install an old OS. Last time I virtualized XP for old software, I realized the browser it comes with can't even speak TLS, and thus accept a protocol modern web servers would offer. You can overcome this, but at that point you need to stop and thinking about your goal lol.
Not a fan of pre release DLC but I'm on board with the roster. I also realize that doing stuff like this requires extra money, just sucks to see some original MK characters part of that.
Really like the initiative by the EU to try and empower consumers again. I think generally the Switch and Steam Deck feature replaceable parts, but device manufacturers need to be held to a consumer-friendly standard.
I don't think that's necessarily fair or the point. Usually the point of essays are to get students to think critically about the subject, derive some conclusions and demonstrate evidence to make their points. I think the idea of having students critique an A.I driven essay begins to remove some of the "middle man" of content generation in essay writing, but still gets the student to think about the subject, gather some perspective and ideally look into evidence to support said perspective.
To add that I don't think the goal is to write "perfect" critiquing feedback that's free from errors. Errors are also part of the learning process :)
I un-installed it when the blackout started but I understand the feeling. I definitely use my phone less, probably am disconnected from some current events, but I'm trying to participate more here and in the fediverse in general.
Is there an anti-MLM lemmy community like there used to be on reddit?