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  • I like my PC being my PC. The more it does things I don’t ask of it or tell it to do, the more I will seek alternatives.

    One of the most frustrating parts of MS products these days is that you’re just along for the ride. And unlike Apple which is just the same, MS has far less intuitive behaviour or method. I would say their products are for beginners or those not tech literate, but the failure rate and amount of complex troubleshooting required for MS products and environments are easily the most challenging and frequent. It does not help that Windows Update constantly introduces new issues to the OS and other software while undoing any previous workarounds.

    That company doesn’t get to touch my stuff anymore. It’s like trusting your car to a four year old.


  • Proving even on Lemmy, you and me are extremly prone to propaganda.

    Uuuuh… This place is a breeding ground of heavily biased propaganda. Just look at your feed, it’s all news articles reinforcing a side of things. It’s got its fair share of users that don’t look at things from a broad perspective and most get mad when they perceive their opinion is being challenged, even when it’s not. That’s why it’s riddled with posts that aren’t for interest; they’re rooted in agenda that is to either push narrative or reinforce ego.

    And if your filter lists aren’t full of users, communities, and instances, it’s very plausible your mind my be one that’s easily duped, because the shits got to be one of the most obvious places on the internet to spot it. Part of the Lemmy experience is maintaining and customising the feed.







  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoBluesky@lemmy.worldSaying Nothing Is Best
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    So a person that never spoke as or acted as a white supremesist, said they weren’t a white supremecist, and very regularly condemned white supremecy and implored for its removal from society, was indeed actually a white supremecist in your mind because…what, you have a hunch? You just prefer it that way for your narrative? It’s just totally fine to twist things into other things when it suits what you want?

    There are so many things to be said about this piece of shit but you’re just not winning hard enough you gotta do exactly what they do. Except I’m sure you think it’s okay when you try push misinformation onto others, huh? Because it’s either that or you genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about, actually believe it, and choose to disregard the put forward to you as hopefully not for realsies, even though a quick search will show you that they are and very abundantly so.


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    Cultural chauvinism is the belief that one’s own culture is superior to others, often leading to prejudice against different cultural groups. This concept is commonly discussed in the context of international relations and communication, highlighting how such attitudes can affect interactions between nations and ethnicities.

    A subset of…

    Chauvinism is the unreasonable belief in the superiority or dominance of one’s own group or people, who are seen as strong and virtuous, while others are considered weak, unworthy, or inferior The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes it as a form of “excessive and unreasonable” patriotism and nationalism, a fervent faith in national excellence and glory.

    Which is not the same as…

    White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races.The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism and was a key justification for European colonialism.

    Here you go… https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Chauvinism-Intercultural-Communication-and-the-Politics-of-Superiority/Ibelema/p/book/9780367710033

    You would also do well to pay attention to the events of Daryl Davis.

    On top of books and many studies on this, there’s also documentaries and reports if your attention span so needs this.

    Or, you know, it’s all bullshit and you know best!

    A sponge is wet. The ocean is wet. Therefore sponges are oceans. And saltesc is dumb.


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    What’s your point?

    It’s okay to redefine what White Supremecy is just so we get to call someone one?

    This is cultural chauvinism or cultural imperialism; it is not white supremecy or any racial superiority ideology for that matter. These are two different, well-defined, and bad things. You don’t have to try force them together to make a bad thing. It’s already done. You win. Being either one or both is bad.

    But it’s not exactly good to shift the goal posts to try frame a person you didn not like into being something you want them to be but cannot confirm that they were. That’s my point.


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    Yeah, but people that aren’t white supremecist also say that. White supremecist from non-westrrn cultures say the same of their culture instead. White supremecist enjoy and emerse themselves into other cultures without it impacting their position of being genetically superior.

    What you’re trying to explain is called cultural chauvinism and it’s as related/unrelated to many other things as it is/isn’t to racial ideologies.

    No dog whistles here, just already very established and understood stuff.

    Plus, it’s White Supremecy here. There’s so much already there to work with. There’s no need to apply assumptions onto it and sell it as a new package.



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    Culture has nothing to do with White Supremecy or any other form of racism or “scientific racism”. We can indeed have good and bad cultures; this being entirely subjective to individual opinions. Cultures are a social outcome, not a genetic one.

    People can “define white Supremecy” however they like, though it’s already well defined, so their personal definition may be confusing or discredit any other views they may share.

    I don’t think Charlie Kirk was a white supremecist at all, but there’s many different ways of being a total cunt. At a certain point of cuntiness, it really doesn’t matter if he was one or not.




  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devThe future is here
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    Friend’s colleague needed Excel to, “return the month where the majority of days in the week fall into”. Had Copilot do it and sent it to my friend, apparently impressed by making such a robust looking formula.

    The formula:

    My friend’s solution a minute later:

    I can see it could be slimmed even less, but I assume the table is large so LET is doing performance stuff.