in reality everyone is mostly looking out for their own self interest and the interests of the ‘in group’ they identify with.

the question of ‘goodness’ is simple do you identify with that group and their supposed values.

the irony is that pretty much everyone is hypocritical and often does not actually practice the virtues/ideals they preach. and/or corrupt. most folks are corrupted by power and use their own to abuse others once they attain it.

non-hypocritical people are far and few and usually aren’t ‘recruiting’ for their faction.

because it makes people feel good to be miserable and feel morally superior to declare everything racist/bigoted/whatever.

a lot of people don’t genuinely engage with content. they are just there to be trolls. or they are bots.

the point is making comments like that though, drive engagement. good news doesn’t drive engagement.

FWIW i used to be part of a really cool bicycle group. Then a bunch of miserable people choices and decided everything we did was racist and sexist and anti-trans. If you dared to say that isn’t the case, they would tell you that it’s because YOU are racist/sexist/anti-trans. These were the same people who spend all their free time making social media posts about how awful everyone is and how great they are. Their entire social world is limited to ‘i am good people and everyone else who isn’t like me is bad people’ and they subsist on a diet of social media induced RAGE at the ‘bad people’.

TMP 1.2 is out of date. That’s why.

It’s a hardware security issue.

right, so anyone who isn’t a huge die hard fan is a hater?

god forbid… someone have a neutral or critical point of view, right?

I don’t. Most techies are idiots outside of anything technological.

and they overcompensate hard by trying to turn everything into a problem to be solved with a convoluted technological solution.

yeah and? generally those inferences are true. most of us are in the bell curve.

what i find that people really hate, is they make a inference about you, you tell them they are wrong, and they tell you to go fuck yourself.

I get that a lot. because i’m not a part of the bell curve and it really pisses people off that i don’t fit the stereotype they have of me.

but the vast majority of people do fall in that bell curve, based on sex, race, class, education, whatever. most of us are average. but that tends to offend people’s egos. they all want to think they are exceptional. i live in a city full of wealthy people who all want to tell you how poor and broke they are. it’s hilarious. very very few of them understand that they are wealthy, because they are so jealous of the neighbor who has a slightly better car/apartment/lifestyle.

and they do with this sex, race, and whatever else too. ‘if only i was taller’ ‘if only i was white’ ‘if only i was a man’ etc. Met so many female doctors who are RIPSHIT at the world because they think they’d be making 550K instead of 520K if they had a penis. and they are probably right. They’d also probably make 550K if they were a few inches taller. But none of them can seem to grasp the fact they 30K is not even an amount of money that would have any measurable impact on their life.

Must be nice for you?

Amen. What I hate so much is most ‘woke’ types just want to replace existing bigotry they disagree with it with their own form of bigotry.

They also love to ramble abotu power structures and hierachy… but what do they want to do about it? put themselves on top of that hierarchy so they can dole out punishment and reward to those they regard as ‘loyal’.

They fail to realize that their fantasies of justice as just inverting the roles, not ‘fixing’ anything.

at what point is the piper ever paid?

how can you ever make progress on these issues if there is a perpetual historical debt to be ‘paid’?

I’m not responsible for slavery. It’s totally bizarre and counterproductive to assume that I am. Anymore that is to assume I’m responsible for sexual crimes against women.

The people who did those things were responsible for them. If they are dead, well best we can do is forgive and move on and try to make things better in the future.

Also you’re insane if you don’t think women and minorities don’t hold positions ove power in the hierarchy… and actively seek to re-enforce it. Power is not exclusive to white rich guys.

bigotry feels good. makes people feel powerful.

a lot of modern feminist is a celebration of misandry and female victimhood, at least online feminism.

sexism towards men is a social norm. it’s just a social norm that feminists are totally cool with

feminists generally don’t think they should be discriminated against for their sex, but they also seem to have no issue generally discriminating against men for their sex, or feeling like patriarchal norms should only apply to men in their lives.

easy example is that women are disgusted by men watching porn, but see nothing wrong with reading erotica. it’s bad/wrong ti idealize female bodies for sex, but totally cool if you do it to male bodies, apparently.

trans women are trans women. trans men are trans men.

all people are valid. but don’t expect all people to validate you.

i really have an issue with trans people who think i must validate them in their identity or i’m a horrible peron. I dont’ expect them to validate me in mine. Just go live your life and i’ll live mine. I’m happy to acknoledge your humanity, but i don’t care about your gender identity anymore than your nationality or your taco toppings.

to me it’s equally as obnoxious when someone demands I validate their ‘heritage’ or their ‘hotness’ or ‘success’ or whatever. just leave me alone.

there is a difference between appearance, and reality.

that’s what it’s about.

and yes, battle of the sexes is very much appearance vs reality. people want to believe in the mythology they tell each other about ‘men’ and ‘women’. not the fact that we are mostly the same apart from our sex organs and some hormonal chemistry. there are differences, but they aren’t as titanic as people want to believe.

When you start making people feel the need to defend themselves you’ve probably gone overboard on the generalization.

only if that generalization isn’t against men and ‘majority’ groups. if you wanna bash white people, men, heterosexuality, etc. people pretty much give you free reign. especially in ‘left’ leaning spaces.

they’d be different.

better is a function of what you want the outcome to be.

all i know is that men and women both hate it if you don’t treat them like ‘men’ and ‘women’.

people generally enjoy sexism, especially if it is beneficial to them.

IME the loudmouths are mostly mouthing off about things that are totally unrelated to the problem at hand. all in some weird big to appear confident and in control.

smart doesn’t mean anything.

what baffles me is that so many experts just willfully refuse to apply there general intelligent to problems outside of their field of expertise in the most basic ways.

like so many ‘genius’ techies who can’t cook or understand a sentence with more than two clauses. it’s not really that hard… just break it down into the functional components like you do with your code, bucko.

that sounds like it’s part of the homosexual/trans agenda!