🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@louisrcouture My code has been going as smooth as usual. I am getting tired, too long no vacation and more specifically no ocean. I have had overwhelming cravings to step foot in clear waters again. I think a vacation will do me a world of good.

@herag At this point simply existing is a premordity to depression. If your going to be depressed no matter what you do you might as well be informed and depressed.

@herag The US generally bleeds money and with Biden in charge it is worse than usual in terms of spending. Trump didnt do our economy any favors either but in his case the issue was more his policy on QE than his spending. Either way the economy in the US is a trainwreck to say the least.

@herag the thing about a changing a metric like inflation is that you can only compare it to the same metric.

Under the current metric for inflation a 1% - 2% is healthy and desirable, an 8% inflation rate is not. But under a different metric/calculation (such as pre-regan era) an 8% inflation rate might be perfectly acceptable. Its an apples to oranges kind of thing.

that said the US dollars inflation rate has been reasonably acceptable though the last few months it is unacceptably high. Not a big deal if its temporary but if it can turn into a problem if this carries on.

@mcduquesne

Though still not even remotely ethical. Gene editing can at least be applied ethically if done right.

@icedquinn @hans_w @lucifargundam

@herag saying "the buying power of the dollar has been consistently falling compared to bitcoin" is a bit of a misnomer. It would be more accurate to say that the value of the dollar hasnt fluctuated very much but the buying power of bitcoin has increased a great deal. Objectively speaking it isnt the us dollar's value falling that is happening here (though it is falling very slightly), bitcoin is just gaining in value quickly.

@PorkCow

It is neccesary due to how genes evolve and work overtime. As medical science is able to treat genetic disease better and give someone a normal lifespan with an otherwise debilitating disease then that disease is no longer selected against very strongly and can proliferate throughout society.

So the end result of modern medical science is, over time, genetic diseases becoming more common until you have a future where everyone is wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy, half blind and only able to see with medical devices and effectively on life support from the first day of their life. This gives a rather concerning quality of life for future humans if we dont ethically implement gene editing before it gets to that point.

@icedquinn @hans_w @lucifargundam

@icedquinn

Agreed this is an issue that no one is really addressing well. People either oppose gene editing all together, or take no issue with the current ethics and application and wheres its heading. I dont see any solutions that actually pave a way forward for ethical gene editing on humans.

Then again we seem to have an ethics breakdown recently in the most general sense that is headed towards a train wreck to. The ethically minded have educed everything to such extremes as to be self destructive meanwhile everyone else is so sick of being called a racist for nonsense that they are in full on "fuck you" mode. In the interim the ethical norm in the world slips farther and farther behind.

@hans_w @lucifargundam

@icedquinn

We are no where near ethically mindful enough as a species to engage in gene editing ethically. Sadly we **are** quickly approaching the point where gene editing is necessary for the species to thrive at all. It is a dangerous cross roads to be at for sure.

@hans_w @lucifargundam

@icedquinn

I can see both sides of this issue. On the one hand there is a whole can of worms gene editing will open up that can get VERY ethically ugly and cause all sorts of oppression down the line.

On the other hand it is almost a necesity for any intelligent species to engage in it in some form (even if its selective breeding which is ethically just as questionable). The thing is when you build a society where people with health problems are given an equal or near equal chance of surviving as those without then over time society will be come riddled with genetic disease from poor vision, to diabeties, to congential heart defects. In the long run the only way the species will survive is if you start killing off anyone that isnt the best genetic speciment (which of course isnt ethical to anyone except perhaps a Nazi wannabe), or engage in gene editing.

@hans_w @lucifargundam

@hans_w

Gene editing on humans is certainly a can of worms, but the ethics there are a bit less direct. Its more about a slipper slope than the effects of any one person making the decision.

It is particularly hairy when your modifying your kid who is too young to consent but will be effected by a lifetime. But at least with gene editing, for the most part it is done in the best interest of the child, with an abortion you cant really make that argument,in fact very much the opposite, sacrificing the child for the good of the parent.

@icedquinn @lucifargundam

@bonifartius yea, most people would have stuggle with the 2 years I just went through. hell COVID alone has been hard on most people without adding a spinal injury into the mix.

@hans_w

As a general rule as long as you arent hurting anyone who isnt consenting, and everyone is of the age of consent you can do anything with your body you want. That isnt just limited to sex but almost anything. I even go so far as to be ok with suicide, even if it is a tragedy.

The only time these rules are not particularly straight forward is when we talk about abortions where the fetus may or may not be considered a life with its own bodily autonomy as well. So that one gets hairy. But the general principles in evaluating that situation is still the same for me.

@icedquinn @lucifargundam

@robryk the OS itself has been out for a year now and looks in screen shots to be pretty clean. That said I havent tried it but you or myself or anyone can always just run it in a virtual machine to see if it is as polished as the screenshots looks.

Other OSes claim to have the whole "run android on linux" thing down too. Sailfish does this but its proprietary. I havent personally tested it and I cant say if they did a good job but I do agree with you that getting android to work on linux is probably nontrivial. Supposidly there are other tools on linux that let you run android in any distro but I havent tried those either... either way doing that side well would be impressive for sure.

I can say this, all the solutions I know of that run android on a linux box are usually modified versions of debian and not modified versions of android.

@hans_w

What i find interesting about the dutch, and this makes me respect them even more so, is that most dutch people are generally pretty traditional in terms of their sexual expression, and yet still very accepting of others who are far from traditional.

@icedquinn @lucifargundam

@hans_w

The Dutch/German response to anything sexually raunchy is always exactly the response it should be :)

@icedquinn @lucifargundam

@lucifargundam

If you are both does that make you a "middle" :)

@icedquinn

@robryk I have seen pinetab. A few reasons i never got one includes its hard to find one to buy (last I looked), doesnt look nearly as sexy, lacks a stylus or high resolution (resolution is a deal breaker for me), and this new jingOS that can also run android apps and has a nicer tablet-oriented UI is a big selling point potentially.

@shoshin I am very tolerant of the cold, most so than the heat. That said being someone who loves water I tend to prefer the heat over the cold.

@bonifartius Thiws is true busywork is very demotivating. But that has always been the case for me, lately ive struggled to get excited at even the fun stuff.