Honestly I don’t try to change my older relatives’ minds on things. After a certain point your views about life/politics get fixed and then that becomes part of your identity.

Fortunately I don’t know any scrum masters personally so they would not even get the experience of being let down last time by a dev. Exceot in a purely metaphorical sense I guess.

They better have cross operating system multiplayer working this time! Friends and I went straight back to Civ5 when we found that we couldn’t even host LAN between linux and macOS

Letting down people I love somehow

I remember being stubborn and trying to setup eduroam at my uni library using only wpa_supplicant for a whole day. Hugely frustrating. Gave up and installed NetworkManager and it just fucking worked… my tech minimalism phase was extremely counterproductive lol

Controversial one: I thought Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a bad book. And I liked Thompson’s Hell’s Angel’s book that he wrote prior. The metaphors like “the great wave” of hippiedom coming from the west which crashed and receded make up about 0.1% of the contents and are not that interesting. The rest could be extremely niche satire I’m missing since I wasn’t alive in the 70s but I doubt it. For the most part it reads like a blog post on one of the 90s drugs forums where someone has just boofed meth or something.

When I saw them in the wild their faces were covered in tumours. Sure would have been cute without those though. I think our tour guide might have said it was due to intra floral/fauna contamination between species like these who were historically isolated.

This sounds extremely plausible. I am culinarily challenged.

In scotland I would have no fuckin idea where to get it lol

seems like it would be hard to track down to me but idk

Someone got fired making an “inspirational” Andrew Tate inspired speech on slack about how depression doesn’t actually exist. This was on a company wide channel about promoting/raising awareness for mental health issues. Two comments prior someone had described in heartbreaking detail how their stepchild had committed suicide last year.

I have a gentoo desktop but for a convenient middle ground just put Debian on my laptop. It’s stable, things just work out of the box, maintainers/devs are competent, they haven’t drunk the snap/flatpack kool-aid…

Switching to Testing is always an option but I’ve not found the need to do that yet when I can install programs from a deb package or just compile from source and install it in ~/.bin in my home directory.

lol we get it you like drugs

No, that’s just your opinion.

I don’t think there is a correct answer to the question you are posing. You asked for people’s opinions and I gave you mine.

In my opinion it’s because in the past human beings needed to be constantly working or assisting with a group in some capacity in order to ensure mutual survival for the group. Let’s say a village.

Activity which is not seen as being productive or could be construed as lazy has a stigma around it because it casts doubt on your ability to contribute to society.

Obviously none of this applies in the same way these days but there is a kind of primal conflation of intoxicants and laziness. Laziness is bad and so consuming intoxicants turns into a moral issue.

These attitudes are very deeply ingrained and although they can shift a bit as people become more liberal the deep suspicion remains.

RustyTrombone: An unusual musical instrument. (Urban Dictionary)

Java class names look like German compound nouns though

Yeah the spectator are probably the most right-wing publication in the UK with wide readership. They have a lot of edgy columnists like this dude. They are probably somewhere between the tories and reform in terms of the right wing scale.

Edit: My boomer parents actually got me a subscription to it for a year, a few years back as a birthday present. I’d say like half of the political coverage was palletable and pretty good on the whole; half was swivel-eyed right wing garbage. The arts coverage was susprisingly good.

Personally? I’m a Lib Dem member but I care about civil liberties a lot. Probably obligated to say Ed Davey but he’s a bit too wet for me.