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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • The idea that your identity can/should/must include inventing cruel language to enforce the idea that people who are unlike you are disgusting and lesser is a pretty significant part of the reason things aren’t good and are getting worse. The idea it’s acceptable or tolerable isn’t great.

    It may surprise you how many people don’t invent language to diminish others, and are diligently working to avoid language that already exists.







  • For the record, I fucking hate Plex.

    But this is a disingenuous simplification of where the gap is.

    Me, my brother-in-law, and friend all share our libraries with the same elderly relatives.

    The GAP is that great grandma has to log in/out between servers to find content that may or may not be on an individual server. Plex lets you search/aggregate from all sources without having to jockey credentials and servers.

    It’s not a giant ask. I heard a fucking absolutely brain-dead take that “that would require a centralized server which is against Jellyfins core ideology”.

    So, I dunno. Maybe it isn’t YOUR use case, but it’s MY use case. Doesn’t make me a shill. I’m still pissed as hell.

    But don’t fucking pretend that there is feature parity when there isn’t, and don’t accuse me of being a shill just because Jellyfin literally doesn’t support my use case. I WISH it did. I HATE PLEX.




  • People play real fast and loose with these terms.

    My advice is to do what you’re doing here, which is learn… But to remember to meet people where they’re at.

    By these definitions, with sex relating to biological things, you might be tempted to tell someone they can’t just “decide” their sex, by this definition. Don’t do it.

    Not saying you would, but resist the urge to get into a semantic argument. Just ask the specific people what they mean by these words when they say them, and roll with it. Prioritize understanding over being understood.

    This advice goes for anything, but this is a particularly spicy meatball.




  • It’s not at all the same.

    This would give the PPC one seat total, and deprive the CPC of their current leader.

    Your analogy is actually much more similar to PP WINNING the seat. The Liberals being so happy to call a special election is BECAUSE they LIKE keeping PP, the guy they just beat the leader of the CPC. If the libs drag their feet to give challengers the space to make a play for CPC leadership, they’re rolling the dice. They’re choosing the devil they know and beat. Their bet is they think PP is a guy they can beat again.