I don’t fly very often but last time I flew my American Airlines flight was delayed. The customer service and communication was non existent. They didn’t have a plan and nobody knew what was going on.
This is great context. Particularly as it highlights the differences in gendered experiences. For women it’s in some ways a demand for attractiveness while for men it’s more of a literal command that is more likely to be used in self policing (that is men policing masculine expectations of other men). Also notable that both sentiments seem to be more likely to come from men.
As someone who presents masculine, I have gotten the "be a man" treatment from women several times. Ultimately it does come from a patriarchal standard of society, but its something that is perpetuated by everyone, consciously or otherwise. Not discounting what you are saying, but I think it's important to highlight that toxic masculinity can come from anywhere.
This is absolutely true. I’ve thought about this a lot in reference to a study I once saw on how early education professionals are far more likely to be right-leaning women and how that plays into this phenomena (a cursory google search did not turn up a wealth of evidence so take that with a grain of salt). Particularly because I think that policing of masculinity from women in positions of authority can be incredibly salient for young boys. Unfortunately, for some it is unlikely that they will be exposed to a more feminist perspective until later in life, sometimes much later.
It’s because ultimately we all value ‘strength’ (of varying sorts) over ‘weakness’. We are still far from socially internalising “strength is being able to show weakness”, because in part you need to be strong to deal with the expected pushback of being OK with being ‘weak’.
Well, if we look at his successes I don’t think it’s far fetched to say that he is exceptionally good at being a fat wallet. Because his contribution has mostly been throwing money at the thing.
To be fair, a majority of these were OTA fixes and often related to abstruse automotive regulations–e.g., there was a “recall” because you could remotely vent the windows on the car. The recall involved Tesla updating the app so that option was no longer available. The reasoning is a byzantine regulation governing powered windows that was made before remote operation of any vehicle functionality existed. Other recalls? The cars were too quiet (now they have the EV “whine”), several for FSD and FSD-related technology, etc. I.e., it’s a new car with new technology, and most of these recalls were solved by OTA updates. I consider that normal given how new modern EV vehicles are and how feature heavy most Tesla vehicles are-- as silly examples, they can fart and dance to music.
There are also reasonable recalls: seat belt issues, brake caliper issues, but those are diminishingly small. Note that Tesla regularly receives five-star-safety ratings from the NHTSA, and are considered some of the safest cars on the road in crash tests. Elon is a tool, but the engineers that work for Tesla made a very solid electric drivetrain and very safe body. Fit and finish leaves a lot to be desired, I’m told, but that’s what is gonna happen when you prioritize the engineering over the comfort.
Illness, death, and antisocial behavior. All of these were threats we evolved to handle, people who are “a little bit off” in one way or another, who might endanger the group or individual. This, and that our pattern seeking brains don’t like it when something doesn’t easily fit within an existing schema, even more so if it lies just outside of our existing preconceptions.
Obviously, I can’t say that these definitely are the reasons why we experience the uncanny valley, but I think it’s probably a better explanation than… Skin walkers? Or whatever else the meme would be implying.
Still, it’s a cool premise for a horror story at least.
The one app I can’t stand as a snap is firefox, it took a minute to navigate to the first webpage every time I start up. The rest are or more less fine I think, but flatpak meets my needs for most other applications.
Also command line tools are terrible as snaps. And the worst part is you have no idea why they won’t work. It doesn’t tell you that snap is the problem. It just doesn’t work.
It look me about two hours to realize that snap was the problem when I was trying to run Mastodon in a Docker container. That was the last straw before I moved to Fedora.
Snap can’t read anything outside of the /home directory, and there’s no way to fix that except changing the source code and recompiling it.
Yeesh, imagine getting this mad because of a post about a messenger. I hate explaining memes because it ruins them, but I guess I have no choice.
When most people hear about Threema, they believe that 5€ is way too much to pay for a messenger. Some realize that 5€ is not that bad, but without a continuous stream of money, a service like this will cease to exist once it runs out of money, so it’s better to avoid it. And if they read the entire website, and discover that the company is actually providing messaging solutions used by a lot of companies who pay them monthly, for each of their employees, it becomes clear where the money is coming from, and that the company won’t go bankrupt anytime soon.
That’s the meme. If you don’t like it, I understand. But you can fuck right off with calling everything that mentions a name of an app/service as an ad. I made memes in the past mentioning open source chat apps, and nobody ever called it an ad.
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