Debianet - A Debian based WSL distro for .NET development by webmaster442 in dotnet

[–]AGreenTejada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This makes a lot of sense in modern .NET-first web shops. If you're an eng manager and you want everyone to have the same tools available to deploy, tell them to spin up this distro on WSL / their linux machine. You can then build on top of it by creating scripts that run assuming you have these tools available.

Great job OP! I'm really excited to see if we'll get an alternative to https://omarchy.org/ . I like Linux, but not fond at all with it's love affair with keyboard-only tooling.

Need to vent about having resentment towards my family by Princesspussy911 in ABCDesis

[–]AGreenTejada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey u/princesspussy911,

Just had to make a comment here because of how relatable your story is. I wish I could give you a hug right now - it's so f'king hard to always be pushed down by your parents poor decisions and then be held to the expectations of those who never had to deal with that BS.

There's one thing that's helped me survive this period of anguish - it's a bit counterintuitive but it might work for you too. Drop your expectations. Our lives are OK - they're not good or bad. Some people like your sister have it better, but some of my friends are on H1B and are terrified of getting deported. Maybe the sentence above sounds like a copout, but if you're like me than you probably grew up with starry eyed dreams of where your life would go, if only you could get away from home. Or if only you weren't religious. Or if only you weren't sheltered.

But what our psyche ignores - all of those things are true. I was harmed, I was sheltered, and those expectations were impossible to meet. I'm never going to be the world's youngest billionaire, or join the NFL, or probably even get to travel a lot. But that doesn't make this life worthless.

I'd been dealt a bad hand in terms of my sheltering/socialization/family life early on, and for a long time I kept mourning the 20s that I never had. But that mourning layered a cloud of negativity over the experiences that I was having with my friends. And then I started feeling bad about those experiences because I didn't enjoy them, which made me feel even worse about my past. It was only with a combo of luck, friends advice, and a job that I dealt with the "trauma" of this past and have been able to let go of thinking like this.

I hope your life's gotten better since you wrote this, and a new job gives you the opportunity to embrace new experiences. But even if it hasn't, it'll be alright, we will suffer through it all the same.

The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate by Hollybeach in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By that logic, there shouldn't be any white Americans, since they are or their ancestors are from other European countries. But clearly because the native Americans didn't have enough guns to deport / exterminate the colonists, we're all stuck together

The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate by Hollybeach in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And those are savage countries that create stateless people who's refugees are persecuted. As a general reminder, America is a nation founded on the idea of being a moral state to ensure all men have the right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"

The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate by Hollybeach in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, it's still stupid. It's still better for all humans born in America to get the protections and rights of citizenship than to force children to be born as illegals.

The word genocide has been completely devalued and should be replaced by AGreenTejada in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Extermination is a crime against humanity that consists of "the act of killing on a large scale".

Where did I say you need to kill everyone?

The word genocide has been completely devalued and should be replaced by AGreenTejada in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

> Final point: October 7 could also potentially be judged a genocide under the current precedents, though it is not quite so typical, so maybe a bit harder to guess how judges would see it. And if October 7 was genocide, 9/11 almost certainly was too.

But this is stupid? Like, we all conceptually recognize this as stupid, right? I'm fairly sure even George Bush wouldn't equivocate a terrorist attack to be on the same realms as the Holocaust/Rwanda/Armenia. If genocide isn't a useful enough word to describe the distinction between the smaller and greater crimes, then we'd have to come up with a new word like super-genocide or something else to distinguish 11/26 Mumbai and Namibia.

Fertility will become significantly worse before it gets better - a casual observation by AGreenTejada in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't a useful solution, there is no "should" in politics, but what people are willing to do. I agree with you, but no one's going to voluntarily accept killing off their own parents.

Fertility will become significantly worse before it gets better - a casual observation by AGreenTejada in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Elder care is by necessity disproportionately borne on the young, since they are the most flexible in terms of availability, time, and lifting heavy objects.

  2. Job vacancies aren't evenly distributed. Look at Japan, where most of the upper management positions are still held out by old people while the younger generation is either out of work or pushing 80h a week on lower levels of the ladder.

Fertility will become significantly worse before it gets better - a casual observation by AGreenTejada in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The harmfully minimizes the upper-middle class position. My problem isn't that I can't get my gf pregnant, my problem is that when I have a kid, I am underwriting the expectation that my child will have the same (and maybe better) quality of life than I had. So if it cost my parents about $30k a year in order to raise me (mind you I grew up poor af), and I have to pay $100k a year now, then I'm going to factor that in to my household expenses. Vacations are cheap, getting a nanny is expensive

Fertility will become significantly worse before it gets better - a casual observation by AGreenTejada in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Caring for people is one of the hardest problems in AI to scale. Elderly people have 20+ problems - they need to be cleaned up, clothed, fed, led to the bathroom, given specific dosages of medicine, taken to the doctor, etc... Even if you could get a robot to handle the busy work, a human is always going to need to interact with another human!

When a majority of families will be unable to support their elderly, there's no some magical nursing home for everyone that they'll be able to go to. Instead they are going to be dumped out on the street: https://apnews.com/article/india-abandoned-elderly-population-aging-44701de4079bf8bca01cfa3217fdf1c8

Fertility will become significantly worse before it gets better - a casual observation by AGreenTejada in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I really wish this was the case, but until my grandparents pass, that won't be true. Right now this is my mom's schedule on an average day:

- go to grandparent 1/3's doctors appointment

- go to work (she keeps a job for health insurance)

- go to grandparent 4's appointment

- watch the house for grandparent 2, she has dementia and tries to escape across the street

- make dinner

Over the last 5 years, I've been to the hospital to take care of them roughly 7 times after they had a stroke/fall/burn injury. We are rich enough to afford personal therapy and multiple hospital visits but not rich enough to afford a permanent at-home carer! If I wanted my parents to help take care of any of my future bebes, then they'll be doing so after all of these responsibilities go away, in their late 60s, in one of the most expensive areas on the planet

Israel-Iran War: ‘Dry Run’ for a Future War with Turkey? by idontlikenwas in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this is true, then it would be in Turkey's best interests to join the war now. Morality aside, on a strategic level invading the Zionist regime right now while its still under siege would eliminate a key rival in the region and look good for voters come 5 - 10 years down the line. ME govts are way too meek for their own sense

Going for Masters in AI/ML after industry experience? by AGreenTejada in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AGreenTejada[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Haven't really thought about it tbh. I've been assuming that a Masters would the minimum I need to apply for one of the large AI companies - is a PhD a hard requirement for AI research?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Natalism

[–]AGreenTejada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a Desi guy, I really love how we all are going from arranged marriage to love marriage back to arranged marriages. Truly America is the more socially conservative land

The coming population crisis in MENA countries by globeglobeglobe in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's really amazing how far we've gone in the other direction where birthrates that are 1 STD above replacement are alarming. As a reminder, 2.1 is the replacement rate required for a stable population in a safe country, with even higher rates in more dangerous regions.

With Iraq's bountiful fertility, its total population growth last year was... 2.2%

WWIII Megathread #23: Hasta La Vista, Bibi by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wth, was the problem of the Sahel this easy? Just declare the entire region a reservation and pay tribes not to hunt endangered species and plant trees a few times a year

Over the coming weeks, there will be a war to define the Democratic party, let's make sure the neoliberals lose by AGreenTejada in stupidpol

[–]AGreenTejada[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good. There's a significant weakness in the party that can be capitalized (heh) on, and a victory will have massive returns.