themeatbridge @ themeatbridge @lemmy.world

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It's both. Parents want their babies to have designer penises, so they pay doctors to mutilate them for aesthetic reasons. It is mutilation, and it is cosmetic surgery.

You see this a lot in project management. People go to school to learn to manage projects, and they think that all projects are pretty much the same. You define the deliverables, set the schedule, track the progress, and everything should work out fine. When the project is a success, they pat themselves on the back for getting everyone to the finish line, and when the project fails they examine where in the process unexpected things happened.

Video games are an art form. Creativity can't be iterated into existence, and the spark of fun is more than the component parts of a good time. Capitalists believe that they can invest in the creative process and buy the value of the talent of extraordinary people. They have commoditized creation, dissecting each step and then squeezing it into a format that fits into a procedure.

Here's a Kanban board of game features, pick one and move it to the next phase. Develop, test, evaluate, repeat. What are your blockers? Is this in scope? Do we need to push the deadline?

That can help you make something, but it won't be art.

Aesthetics are the most often cited reason for male circumcision in the USA. It is rarely medically necessary, and only religiously motivated among Jewish people.

It's the same reason men want their sons to play sports and do manly things. Most of the dads pushing the patriarchal agenda aren't doing it out of some hyper masculine superego, they just want their kids to fit in. The really sad part is that it's because they know what it's like to not fit in. They perpetuate the trauma because they were traumatized.

Maybe we should stop routine elective cosmetic penis surgery on infants?

apt is for like when you want to, and apt get is the other way to get the apt. And then if it doesn't, sudo apt will, or then sudo apt get. Like if you're just doing an apt, and then you also need to apt get, you can.

Looking wistfully behind me at the "brink" of crisis

I cannot express how much I want this movie to be unconditionally good.

Much more accurate than guessing is not a strong endorsement.

They are, for better or worse. Kids learn to be people from the people around them. The only situation where your parents aren't role models is when they aren't around you, and that's a sort of role model in its own way.

Kids also learn from their peers, their mentors, their heroes, etc, so it's not like kids of shitty people are completely fucked.

Yes, Democrats ruined his reputation. Democrats and historians. Mostly historians, and people who aren't shitty bigots. Historians, people who aren't shitty bigots, and yes Democrats have ruined the once pristine reputation of the murderous slaver who was credited with discovering a territory full of people. Why would the Democrats do this.

Watching the Brak Show feels like smoking weed to me, but I'm completely sober. Except for when I'm high.

While you are correct, the only people using "woke" anymore are using it as an insult, meaning "not a bigot like me."

Who is going to hold them accountable?

It's hard to put yourself in the headspace of someone who believed in Donald Trump, and it's always surprising what each person's "last straw" was. Like, now that he hurt my business with tariffs, he's suddenly a horrible person. As though he wasn't a felon, a rapist, a bigot, a racist, a misogynist, a pedophile, a despot, an incestuous, traitorous, egomaniacal, lecherous, kleptocratic, lying sack of shit yesterday, but today he's gone too far.

Just checked for local restaurants, and sure enough there's a few in my area. I haven't eaten at any of them, but now I know not to.

I ask for summaries and examples for things I understand well but struggle to explain. Sometimes it's very helpful, and sometimes it's just deranged nonsense.

That's why I'm less likely to ask it to about something I don't already know. How would I know if the answer is accurate or coherent? At least with something like Wikipedia, I can track down a source and look for foundational truth, even if it is hidden under layers of bias.

If the admins won't address bigotry, then yeah I get that. It was also a transparent process with a clear cause and effect. I don't know why I was banned from some circlejerk community, but I can only assume it's some arbitrary nonsense from a tripping moderator.

My kids used to shout "Swiper No Swiping" at the tv.