I can’t speak for them, but:

1. I found gelatin kind of disgusting even before going vegetarian, and many vegetarians, including past me, grow more disgusted after they become vegetarian. You typically also inform yourself more and learn of various foods with gelatin, where you might’ve found the thought disgusting even beforehand.

2. I can empathize with your point that these mints contain so little gelatin that it hardly matters, since they really do contain very little gelatin. But vegetarianism often follows shortly after you decide that “my impact doesn’t matter” isn’t a valid argument for not doing your best anyways, as that’s also typically the excuse for still eating meat for as long as you did, when you had already decided that it’s immoral.

3. It’s often easier to not eat something at all than to make exceptions, because you have to inform yourself on the impact for the latter. This may be an impossible task, because you will find hardly any information for the concrete supply chain of the product you’re looking at.
   For example, I would be morally a-ok with eating gelatin, if it came from the bones of cows that died of natural causes. Cows dying of natural causes is practically not a thing, but leaving that aside, I’d need to know the gelatin suppliers and their bone suppliers and would need independent audits of them to have even a chance of knowing the impact. Compare that to just looking for a green V on the packaging or quickly scanning the ingredient list. I may be a moral Goody Two-Shoes, but I’m also lazy.

It’s a toxin that’s injected into your body, so personally I wouldn’t recommend it to any gender…

Oh Mann, stell dir vor du würdest in einer Welt leben, in der ein Fernsehbeitrag ausgestrahlt wird, weil 365 Tage lang niemand getötet wurde. Nicht durch Krieg oder Hunger, nicht Krankheit oder Alter, sondern durch Menschen, die einfach nur von A nach B kommen wollen. Das wäre schon absurd.

Fish has it built-in.

It is, after all, a command line shell for the 90s.

As a fish fanatic, I agree completely.

Dachte zuerst im Titel steht “Schottergärten machen den Menschen Angst” und war schon direkt in voller Zustimmung. Hat für mich echt immer was von Comicbuch-Bösewicht…

So far, I’ve also always added a splash of olive oil, but I cannot imagine it ruining the tomatoes when you don’t, since they mostly just cook in a pan. They have too much moisture to really grill (unless you leave them for far too long).

If you press one of the small speaker buttons to the right of this website, it’ll say it: https://www.dict.cc/?s=Pünktchen

So, back in 2021, William Shatner accepted an offer from Bezos to be flown into space for a few minutes. He played Captain Kirk in Star Trek for a gazillion years, so actually going to space was a life-long dream for him.
Despite that, his experience was very much like the comic, just more …profound:

[…] when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death.

I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her. […]

It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. […] My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

Source: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/william-shatner-space-boldly-go-excerpt-1235395113/

Also, if you want to see some real cringe, there’s videos of Shatner talking to Bezos after the landing, where he’s articulating these same deep thoughts. And when Bezos realizes that Shatner didn’t like space very much, he has to shut him up, of course, so he calls for his emotional support sluts to pass a champagne bottle for him to ejaculate over them.

It’s such a bizarre disconnect from this 90-year-old man completely shook to his core, where you really want to listen to what he has to say, to Bezos interrupting him mid-sentence to just go do something else.

Art style in the bottom-right is referred to as “Corporate Memphis”, by the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

So, this is only to some degree Microsoft’s fault, but yesterday, we were basically on a workshop at $DAYJOB to learn about a hardware setup, which had some crucial software on a Windows PC.
And because you can’t run updates in the background on Windows, the internal IT has a nagware program to remind you, that you should stop working and install an update.

And like, truly nagware. It pops up in the middle of the screen, overlays all other windows, but also minimizes them, and the only way to close it, is to either go ahead with the installation or to click “Defer”, which makes it ask again in 5 minutes.
It then also unminimizes your windows, but does so in the wrong order, so a different window will end up on top.

But what truly made this a unique experience was that there were like 8 updates it tried to install. Each of those updates had its own nagware pop-up with its own 5-minute-timer, so we get one of those ridiculous pop-ups every 30-45 seconds.

Eventually, we did realize that it was different updates it was trying to do (and not just a BIOS update which had failed twice already), so we could make it go ahead with the installation of some of those updates, which reduced the nagware pop-up frequency somewhat.

But yeah, for innocent me with my Linux laptop, this was still absolute bedlam. Just genuinely a moment of “How the hell do you get any work done?”.

My guess would be the anti-corporate-ness of the user base. I did quite a lot of Pokémon in my youth and still know far too much about it. But realizing how much of a scam it is, in many ways, has definitely killed my enjoyment of it…

My first thought was “teabagged”, which would have had to be some inclusive usage of the word, but I guess, it would have also been very relevant for lesbians, but I was also then confused why the baggee is Miss USA, rather than another football player, but I guess it might actually be Miss USA after all, although I’m guessing that’s still not what it’s supposed to mean…

🙃

My impression has been that it’s not a good language. That relatively many people try it out, because the initial learning curve is small, only to fall out of love with it hard a few months later, because the low language complexity results in high complexity of each individual codebase.
Perhaps the most elaborate rant about that experience: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride

And yeah, personally I care a lot about being able to work with good tooling, so that’s my reason to stay away from it as long as I don’t need it for employment.

But our industry famously loves terrible languages (see JavaScript, Python, PHP etc.), so if you are just interested in employability, I do imagine that you will continue to find jobs a few years from now. I certainly also feel like it’s well established in ops tooling and cloud services, so there’s gonna be people who continue to write new software with golang in those fields.

Yeah, these plastic clips irritate me so much, because they’re advertised like some essential thing everyone ought to have, when we’ve had much better methods for clipping things a long time ago.

Yeah, there’s this whole concept of “Oracles”, which were supposed to be trustable sources for facts, but they can mainly deal well with things like stock prices or weather data.

It would also have been possible for these Oracles to employ people to fact-check things in case of a dispute. So, user30000004 might claim that the pizza has been delivered and wants their money for it, while user9000005 says nothing got delivered, so then you have someone physically drive out to user9000005 and see if there’s pizza there or not.

But yeah, you still have the problem that a pizza isn’t hard to hide/eat, so you’d need to do some expensive detective work to try to figure out the truth. And that just isn’t worth the cost…

I’ve also heard the theory before that even GPUs went pretty much straight from mining cryptocurrencies to then be used for training LLM models.

Today in Things A Brainworm Would Say™:

Yeah, the untracked files not being copied is also a big reason why I’ll typically just switch to a different branch instead.

I mainly use worktrees when it’s useful that untracked files are not copied, like when I need to check out a completely different state of the project, where cached files would need to be invalidated anyways, for example.

Yeah, I think their saving grace is that they really aren’t that hard to use. I don’t use them often enough to remember the commands by heart, but it doesn’t take me long to figure it out anew each time. Typically not as long as cloning the repo anew, at least.