Maybe someday

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You deserve an award for telling the truth

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Yeah, it's amazing the things you can do with UX when your platform takes in enough money that you can support a UI/UX team.

~~don't ask where that money came from or why kthx~~

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The self impression of the imperial empires at the time. The kind of thinking that justified genocides, slavery and robbery with "but we bring them culture"

In terms of ethics and culture i would say most places in the world to have been far better developed than European imperialists.

don

it feels like it's everything republicans/MAGA/right-wing/anti-democratic/etc. use to defame something and direct hate towards it anyway.

That’s exactly what it is.

JackbyDev

Oh shit, thanks for the heads up! But this is not my real name. I got it as a captcha years ago and thought it was funny, so it's just some random emails address I have as a backup.

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Thanks for encouraging your kids to have diverse interests and hobbies instead of letting a glowing screen raise them. I don't have children but if I did I would hope to achieve the same for them.

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More or less is proving my point no?

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Yeah, same. I sort of vaguely remember it as a kid. I had this saved on my computer from somewhere and saw it while making my Lemmy account. What's cool is that it is actually animated on some platforms.

don

There are plenty of kids who aren’t interested at all in the activities yours are.

Maybe your kids are the exception.

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I remember just feeling cool for using something different than everyone else.

Kind of uncomfortable how my other tech choices map onto this logic. Linux, vim, fediverse, ... Am I a dickhead?

don

No, not all of you! Or any other group, for that matter. Although I could certainly be wrong, I don’t think the comment is a blanket statement regarding the whole of the two generations, but rather just the portion of the demographic specifically mentioned, which certainly does exist.

Many people older than those two specific generations don’t fit into the “younger generations dumb!” trope that gets highlighted by another commonly referenced subset, so I’d suggest not using that group as a measurement for all older generations. I hope that makes sense.

Ignorant people have a tendency to be loud to compensate for their ignorance, and shouldn’t be used to define those with more nuance.

don

No, having a liking for things that aren’t mainstream, in itself, doesn’t make you a dickhead.

Being a dickhead makes one a dickhead.

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That's what I love about the fediverse. Sure, the huge instances will struggle to maintain their identity, but new instances can be spun up for approx $15/mo USD. Pass the hat around to 100 people and you can easily cover that.

Also instances do not have to please everyone, and they don't have to push ads, or worry about being a friendly corp playground, so they can just tell people who don't fit the vibe to fuck right off.

don

No, I think they mean “Well, fuck. The thing I liked is being taken away, and here’s where everyone else is going, so I should do that, too.”

That’s just my interpretation, though.

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Browser plugins can do that.

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This is fine. I don't want mainstream users. I want niche weirdos.

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Compared to Internet Explorer it certainly was awesome, as I recall.

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OK but my wife is actually excited by how it lets her see Chinese experiences

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I don't think you can localize to a language. You localize to a region, you translate to a language. Localization goes beyond mere translation, they are different concepts.

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Not to tech bros, they were to hungover from their sketchy frat bro ragers full of men hoping to get lucky and commit sexual assault to pay attention in that one humanities class they took freshman year.

Language studies are an obsolete profession to them, the future they have built is bullshit all the way down, there is nothing left to study other than the language of utter incompetency and proud willful ignorance.