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Years ago, I thought Linux was for nerds(which it is) and performed badly and was hard to use. Now I haven't used Windows as a daily driver in 5+ years and every time I have to use someone else's non Linux machine, it feels like an ancient machine with absolutely no character to it.
it really has come a long way in a short amount of time. took me only 2 months to learn it to the level that made me comfortable on it as a daily driver and even then i think 2 months is too generous if not for the fact that i built a very specific spec box for a very specific tech purpose using lots of core.if not for that it would have likely been less than a day to be setup on a linux workstation out of the box doing average computer stuff.
And wine and window emulators are plenty on linux so you can run windows programs anyways so there really is no missing out. i run windows office software and 7zip out of heroic only cuz i like having buttons and icons and a ui.
My mom boiled brussels sprouts and I hated them. As an adult who knows to roast them, they've become one of my favorite vegetables.
People also did a lot of work to reduce the bitter glucosinolates https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/
Ritalin.
I'd heard all the stories about zombie kids and such. Then at 30 I was diagnosed with ADHD and it explained so much. My first ritalin was a life changer. Not a zombie - I could focus on what I wanted to, get things started, music stuck in my head gone, so many other things. Not perfect, but so much better.
I'm still pissed that for most of my life since I haven't been able to have it or anything else to help.
Keeping and maintaining ADHD medication is so freaking difficult these days. It's exhausting.
My wife has AuDHD - diagnosed with ADHD about the same time I was (age 30 for her, too). She's still able to take meds, and yeah, it is a damn struggle every single month.
And recently, the hospital system her PCP is in changed the rules so that you have to have therapists re-confirm the diagnosis every three months. She already had to drug-test every three months (ironically to make sure it was detected so they know she's taking them and not selling them...... :eyeroll:)
Yeah my boy friends pharmacy refused to fill his script because they deemed his dose so high and called all the pharmacies around so his doctor had to lower his dose and now it doesn't do anything for him. Yeah it sucks to have ADHD these days.
I'm amazed at how many parents, including ones of my generation [millenials], are afraid of ADHD medication. Especially considering the volume of research on ADHD and the effectiveness of stimulants that has come out since the 90's.
"But it will change little Timmy's personality."
Yeah, that's hyperactivity. Not his personality. People don't normally act like the Looney Toons Tazmanian Devil on crack.
"But he might become dependent on it."
And i'm sure people with missing limbs spend a lot of time worrying about becoming dependent on prosthetics. You know what you should really be concerned about him becoming dependent on? Drugs and alcohol. Because self-medicating is real and the statistics are not in Timmy's favor.
Green beans. My mom always made nasty-ass soggy canned green beans when I was a kid, and so I thought I hated beans for like two decades.
Then one day I decided to try sauteing some with garlic one day as an adult, and oh. My. God. Do I love green beans.
My mom's canned beans still taste like shit.
Older pop music like Lady Gaga. I didn't like the overzealous fans she had
"older" damn yo, don't do that to me.
Veganism.
Their entire basis of preaching guilt over the consiousness angle was egotistic, overzealous and unproven.(either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not. Therefore everyone, no matter what matter they consume to survive, remains guilty of ending a consiousness or not and therefore neither diet maintains the higher ethical ground to guilt from. I will not be convinced otherwise. And especially not while every white paper starts with defining consiousness is always in their own pure hubris)
It was not until it was called 'Plant based' that i got on board as that research is proven. yes: it is healthier, yes: less emmissions. yes: uses less matter to consume. yes: more sustainable. (Although not sustainable for those who remain unable to digest beans as a form of protien. but that is another story)
Ethical? in the form of 'less matter' one might try to argue but i would not use any guilt angle on ethical stance so long as any matter that may be argued to contain consiousness is consumed. No ethical stance starts with measuring anything in value as 'less than' another so long as it is used just to justify to find their own comfort to judge others from.
either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not.
Plants do not have brains or nervous systems, they are not conscious.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8052213/
I am aiming for a vegan lifestyle, but it is difficult to escape hidden milk and eggs in unexpected places. I hope everyone can agree that factory farming is needlessly cruel and should not be supported. I am happy with any steps taken to reduce suffering in the world. I think too many people view it as all-or-nothing, and they can't do all so they do nothing. But every choice we make affects the world we share; any individual can make a difference, even a small one, and they add up.
Kudos man.
Vegans on the internet seem like a psy-op and full of trolls. The vegans I meet are rarely that fucking crazy.
The cost of meat has gotten so expensive over the past decade that they vegan/vegetarian alternative is so much cheaper. I'm not a vegan. I'm just not going to spend $40 for a chunk of steak.
Even at dinner parties, I make tofu/vegan stuff. I make chicken patties, spaghetti and meatballs, Asian stir fry... All using mock protein. I tell people and they're convinced it's good too.
either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not
man what
Don't even bother, I've tried.
They misunderstand that science is always striving for evidence and if something isn't 100% irrefutably proven it doesn't mean that alternative hypotheses should be considered equally viable.
They don't understand that a line is drawn in the scientific community based on current evidence and there is no secret cabal preventing research into plant consciousness. They ignore scientists who study plant electrical signaling who explicitly distinguish between complex biochemical response mechanisms and centralised subjective experience.
They don't even acknowledge that even if plants could be considered conscious they would have levels of it below that of your average mammal.
I've tagged them as "Plants are conscious advocate" so I can take any opinion they push with a handful of salt.
No ethical stance starts with measuring anything in value as 'less than' another so long as it is used just to justify to find their own comfort to judge others from.
That's not what I'm doing. I'm going from the ground up. Based on all available evidence, plants do not feel fear or pain. Again, they have no brains. This information guides my choices, following my goal to reduce suffering in the world.
You're the one thinking backwards. I never said they were "less than," only that they lack consciousness. You're pretending we should feel guilty for eating things that cannot think.
If you feel that strongly about it, stop consuming anything.
One thing: I absolutely hate vegan branding. Some things, I want it to TASTE like meat (like mock pork, or vegan nuggets).
Other things, I would rather it taste like a vegan version of it. Like tofurkey is not at all comparable to regular turkey. And any meat eater hoping to switch is going to be pissed.
Like no, this is a whole different meal man. Don't get it twisted.
Soups!
I think my first experiences as a child were tomato soups that just tasted bad to me.
Now I love minestrone, chicken and corn, beef and vegetable, pea and ham, and more! Often a slice of toast or crackers or croutons with.
'Country' music. There is a specific style of country which is the most prominent, and it is so stupid it's a parody of itself. It's what you would make if you wanted to make fun of Americans, but made and listened to in full sincerity. Then there is the rest of it. Johnny Cash is technically classed as country but there's no way I'd class him as being anything like Garth Brooks. More modernly, Poor Man's Poison uses country sounds, but doesn't bemoan the loss of their truck, dog, and wife with the same chord progression that hasn't changed in decades.
Guy Fieri.
People make fun of him but he's just a happy dude who likes food.
I just heard someone on a podcast point out that they never actually show him eating food in his shows. They always cut away and then back to him just as the 'bite' is hidden away inside his mouth.
Do with that what you will.
Interesting. Apparently the criticism is that he never swallows. But I did a quick search and found this: https://www.wired.com/story/this-streamer-has-convinced-the-internet-guy-fieri-never-swallows-food-on-diners-driveins-dives/
As critics of the conspiracy theory were quick to point out, some of this sleight-of-fork is to be expected in the production of DDD. Fieri visits lots of restaurants in a short span of time and can’t eat full meals at all of them. Sometimes a second or third (or tenth) take is necessary, and it’s not practical to take a new bite for each. Certain editing choices are no doubt for the sake of continuity and flow: does the audience really want or need those few extra seconds of awkward silence as Fieri finishes chewing a morsel of barbecued meat and gulps it down?
Others simply disputed the accusation that Fieri is faking it. “Not true,” Joe Sasto, a chef who has competed on a Food Network Tournament of Champions series hosted by Fieri, commented on the Doctor Spaghetti video that ignited the no-swallow controversy. “I’ve filmed plenty of shows with him. He eats EVERYTHING.”
I actually liked Guy Fieri. His face is on my local restaurant because he visited and that "Fieri bump" gave them a lot of traffic.
That was until I learned he may lean Trump.
Deliberately misinterpreting "bad representation": Darwinia, the PC game (one of the first ever non-Valve games on Steam).
As a teenager I thought it had "bad graphics" because its art style was all polygons and 2D sprites. So the game's representation on-screen was bad. See what I did there?
I don't even remember why I bought and played it at all, probably just curiosity, but it wasn't long before I fell in love with it. Within a week I switched from "this game sucks" to "I love this game".
I hated Coheed and Cambria because a coworker that I didn’t get along with liked them. Then I was at a festival and saw them perform live and ended up liking them.
Very similar. A coworker of mine in maybe 2005 or so was a huge fan. I didn’t dislike him, but I did think his music taste sucked. So I thought Coheed and Cambria sucked. Then I saw them live several years later at a festival, and was blown away. I admit I was dead wrong. Listened to every album since and they are incredible composers and performers.
Vocaloid. I used to think it was about worship anime-like figures. And the voices in music were just too squeaky for me. But now I realize that the figure worshiping was just practiced by some westerns that I've come across, and that it's actually just a tool to make music vocals. I found out that japanese (and other) individuals make really cool music with it. The squeaky voices just took some time to get used to.
It would be easier to tell what I initially liked due to wrong representation but dislike now.
Genshin impact. I heard about how it was a "Zelda clone" and full of predatory gacha slop and I refused to play it. Then during the pandemic I saw an AMV someone had made of a bunch of the cutscenes and I was impressed by the cutscene quality. I was also broke and had too much time on my hands, so I installed it intending to stop playing when it hit a point where I couldn't progress without paying to win.
6 years later and I'm still playing, with hundreds of hours of gameplay into it and a mostly free to play account. Occasionally I'll throw $5 at it, but the hours of gameplay to money sink ratio is far less than almostany other game I've played. I've probably spent $100 total on a game I've played almost daily for 6 years.
I've had my ups and downs with it, but it's for sure a good game, and it's shaken up a whole industry of games to force them to do better.
I was just thinking about how I enjoy watching album reaction / review videos, but for years I strongly disliked that genre of videos because the first two videos I watched from different channels covering the same song were both really misogynistic and minimizing the talent of the original artist.
There have definitely been songs, especially of the vocalsynth kind, where I avoided them any time they'd be recommended to me on yt because the thumbnail alone didn't make it look all to enticing. Especially compared to other songs with more enticing thumbnails.
I mean, load the thumbnail for this video and tell me you would be enticed compared to this video. Ignore that I commented on the first video since I eventually did watch only to find it's a good song.
