Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org

@darkuncle

In related news, I'm going to form a new team to keep my legions of fantastically babelicious hot sorority groupies under control. Because that's a real thing. I swear.

@dagon @timbray

This. I learned COBOL in college. It's not super hard. The issue here isn't the language. The issue is "hey - we have a code base that is mission-critical, and has grown over the years, implements some ugly financial procedures that you may not understand, and none of the original folks who understand it are still around, and if you screw it up it could cost millions"- the language is *irrelevant*. I'd hesitate to touch something with those specs written in any language, not just COBOL.

@freemo @mike805

Ah - that may explain my perceptions, at least there. I didn't notice any strong pushing because I was already convinced. We lost 3 family members to the virus before the vax came out, and we were fairly desperate for a *real* solution - and I had read quite a bit of good makes-sense-to-my-comp-Sci-background info on the new class of vaccines. (We've lost one more since - a sister-in-law in Texas who was positive the vax was poison. Sigh. And we've seen multiple infections since, but the rest of us are vaccinated, and have done very well. Small sample size I know)

@freemo @mike805

Thank you. I was just going to mention scurvy (and other vitamin deficiency diseases), and my own thyroid hormone replacement, which also doesn't fit. (My thyroid took a hike in my 20's - seems to run in the family)

But - it gets off topic. Maybe my local peer group is special, but I never saw significant pushback on vaccinations there, and we definitely lean liberal. The only real pushback in my very limited peer group has been from one who believes all illness comes from diet, and another who things both the virus *and* the vax are a government plot. Both very far right (wives). I mostly disregard their advice :-) but again, my peers and experience may be atypical, as we're mostly computer dorks...

@freemo

Rejecting science that disagrees with your current beliefs, whatever they are, seems to be a thing many people do - left, right, or center. Even actual scientists who should know better do it, sadly. Cognitive Dissonance is a harsh mistress. But thank you for the reply - I at least now can see where it comes from. I think with the Covid especially many people formed unsupported opinions early on and close their mind to new evidence, to their disadvantage, and it's an uphill battle to get people to understand that biology is a bit more wibbly-wobbly than many (including doctors) believe it is.

@ThePlant @gamingonlinux

Call it "@gamingonwindows" just to watch the world burn.

@freemo genuinely curious - which science is it that the radical left seems to have a problem with? Just looking for a representative example. Because the ones that come to mind are all right bugaboos - but maybe I have a blind spot.

@gamingonlinux Diablo IV, which runs beautifully on the steam deck. And vampire survivors, because I am a weak man and it's weirdly addicting. But I just got a handful of new games on the steam summer sale so I'll probably spend a chunk of time on Gravity Ace as a palate cleanser.

@ThePlant

Twitter has reached "twitching corpse" stage. It seems like it might still be alive - but it's not. Even if some bits haven't figured it out yet, the entity known as "twitter" is no more. Brain death does that. Very sad - when it was good, it was very good. But that was long ago.

@gamingonlinux

They're not used to real people. They mistakenly believe you're some sort of corporate PR drone (which is still no excuse to be mean), and are still sensitive about twitter turning into a cesspool, as a lot of us were. Not to excuse it, but it helps to know why.

Kids - gamingonlinux is a person (as are most posters here). His name is Liam. He has good content, cut him slack. This is mastodon - there's no algorithm, you see his content because you asked to. If you don't like it, don't follow. Or filter out "twitter" in your client - lots of options, but bitching about it isn't a good one. On mastodon, blocking actually works, so we do it early and often.

@darkuncle

What if it's an endangered species? Or (insert your culture's taboo meats)?

Is pork made that way kosher? I mean - no cloven hoof. If you're catholic can you eat it on fridays?

What if you used human cells? Is it cannibalism? Is it ethical? What if you use your own cells?

I suspect there are still ethical concerns floating around in there somewhere.