Dangling on a hyphen.

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  • Sorry, please don’t take this as an attack. It’s just that I’m so tired of that lame joke.

    I tried to present this as an observation. When filing a bug report (which I tried to emulate here), you have to take into account the distro, as it may influence the behavior of the software in question. Namely here Firefox.

    Now, does that make you laugh? Good, laugh about it. But please think about it in this context. You are laughing about a personal choice. Prejudice is taking hold of your mind. You’re turning someone’s choice into a strawman, easy to be laughed at just because.

    It’s a bit like attacking vegans. Now it’s not about this or that person and their choice. They’re evened out, ridiculed, just because it’s memetic to do so. The same with Arch users, so it seems.

    I don’t use Arch btw. There’s no btw because I don’t care about that. This just reminds me of how certain groups always have to hear the same old tired jokes about them, just because, individually, everyone telling those jokes feels it’s so clever to do so.

    Sorry. I think we can do better than this here at Lemmy. Again, this is not an attack. Perhaps just a reminder.


  • This is not the first time I see one of these. The format: X says something. Z puts X’s something into question. X supposedly owns Z by revealing how awesome they are.

    Why this got me triggered?

    Maybe the format. No problem here. Someone else likes this and this is why it gets posted and upvoted. No surprise there.

    Maybe the content. In making aesthetics, judgments, we’re mostly guided by affections. Trying to own an aesthetic discussion with degrees or prizes is… well, an aesthetic.

    Because we all know instances of very knowledgeable people making questionable aesthetic judgements. What makes their judgement questionable is OUR relation to the object in question.

    It’s this personal relation to the object that structures the whole jugement. This, as people correctly say, it’s… subjective.

    So, here the proof is like that at many levels. First the level of the meme. You like this format? If yes, you move to the next level. Then the movie itself. If you loved it, you love to hear others praising it to the skies. Finally, the so-called credentials presented here. You consider an Emmy a great award? If feel it is, than you feel vindicated, feeling this is a great argument.

    It is not. It’s a subjective display of affections masquerading as an argument.






  • I really want to thank you for the levelheadedness you’re bringing in.

    Perhaps that’s a learned behaviour from other networks where drama=engagement=upvotes. I don’t know. But reading your comment filled me with gratitude.

    It’s reassuring to see these technicalities being taken for what they are. Different people have different needs. Understanding that makes respecting those needs something simple and natural. Each to their own, right?

    tl; dr?

    Thank you for your levelheadedness.