I don’t want a status quo either, I’m also a leftist.

I’m just trying to describe things as I see them.

Actually that is really really interesting what you said, “morally opposed to windmills.” They obviously are against them from a “moral” perspective, but I’ve never seen even an attempt at a moral argument against windmills, its all crazy conspiracy theory stuff. I would almost respect it more if one of them just said something like “I don’t like windmills because I think it is morally wrong to harvest wind”.

That is kinda my point, the meaning of “conservative” changes a lot through the centuries it has been used, and the only consistent part seems to be the assholes using it as a “friendly” sounding mask.

And your perspective of the public opinion of liberals is entirely too informed by mainstream media. Many leftists dislike liberals for not being leftist enough, and moderates seem to only expect maintenance of the status quo, not magic

I don’t think it is unreasonable to assume people are sane until proven otherwise.

The problem is some people get comfortable with their opinion of someone and won’t change it when presented with new information.

I disagree that people generally have a good idea what a fascist government looks like, or else there wouldn’t be this level of confusion. I think most people at best, know what countrys had a problem with fascism in the past, without any certainty of what parts of of those governments were where the fascism was, just guesses.

Thats why comparisons to nazis and such are so common I would say. People find it a lot easier to point out similarities to known fascism than to try and concisely point out the exact point where an action became “fascist”

They weren’t quite like this but there was still shitty conservatives in much the same way… The extremists weren’t the core yet though. They were absolutely still there and voting for Bush, they just weren’t allowed to be the face of the party… Yet.

Why do they all hate windmills so much?

I had an old family friend meltdown, unfriend me from facebook, and avoid me like the plague ever since I told him he was wrong when he claimed it takes more electricity to make a single windmill than a windmill can ever produce in it’s usuable lifetime…

“conservative” is starting to feel like a meaningless label that assholes throughout history have tried to use to describe themselves because they didn’t like the other words people were using to describe them.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there are “real” conservatives out there and in history, but it sure feels like they are outnumbered by the people that use the word as a mask, and that is weird.

Fixing our emissions problem absolutely is the most important part, but technology for ecology restoration is ALSO very important. There are things (quite possibly the survival of many species of coral) that are already gone or past the point of no return, that are necessary to fix or replace to prevent further collapse of ecosystems. And don’t downplay the effort and work done by biologists and ecologists to save individual species, it is difficult and often underappreciated.

The most convincing argument that elon does a lot of cocaine is just listening to him speak in a less formal interview.

BUT! I don’t think he used to be actually smart, just lucky. Too many people assume “succesful” people had to have done something exceptional to earn it, but 99% of extremely wealthy people acquired that extreme wealth through a simple combination of luck and startup capital (which of course they have because they are lucky).

Also how do you not realize how asinine you sound???

“She said she can code in 5 languages! That’s crazy, she probably isn’t a master in all 5 of those languages possibly! That means she is a liar! I’M RIGHT! I’M RIGHT! I’M RIGHT!”

Lmao proof positive that you are just an asshole gatekeeper. Probably sexist too, despite your claim otherwise, since you are so determined to put her down.

I haven’t been coding for any years, I’m not in CS. You being a gatekeeper probably means you think I should’t even be allowed to comment in this thread at all. I do have many people in my life who are in CS and discuss it with them regularly. (I hope you don’t mind how vague I’m being, don’t want too much identifying information)

The original claim in the post was just “can code in”, and you made unnecessary disparaging comments implying she was a liar and inexperienced, just like the assholes in the screenshot, because you got your panties in a twist that anyone DARE claim a skill in something you do without your approval. It then turned into a stupid back and forth where you constantly changed how experienced you expected her to be to meet your criteria.

That kind of behavior pisses me the fuck off. Let people do and enjoy things, don’t gatekeep, and don’t act like you are certain of something just because of what you think is “likely” in your limited worldview.

You still don’t actually have proof she doesn’t know java and C++ but you don’t care, apparently as long as you say it enough that is good enough for you.

I flat out don’t agree that knowing 5 languages is ridiculous. It is your opinion.

I’m only still here because you are being a gatekeeping asshole, and because of your constant abuses of the word “proof”. Just because they aren’t on her stackoverflow doesn’t mean she doesn’t know them. You think it is impossible for her to know 5 programming languages (and constantly redefine “know” in that context) and have claimed so without proof.

You are wasting your own time by “chatting” on lemmy, don’t try to put that shit on me.

Fyi DMs on lemmy don’t have the best privacy. Don’t think of them as private.

But you sure like to make the big claims despite your convenient issue with providing anything to back them up. Maybe don’t act like a rude gatekeeping “expert” if you aren’t even willing to provide credentials.

I never accused you of claiming to be an expert in 5 languages without evidence. I accused you of claiming to be an expert in programming (“…and as an expert in programming I recognize that.”) Without proof. Why does she need proof for her claim and you don’t for yours? Your claim seems bigger, claiming to be an expert in the whole of programming.

No, you claimed that, over and over and over, with no evidence. You linked a video about how people generally become masters at things, argued she (probably) hasn’t put in that amount of time (despite evidence to the contrary), then you made some equally unsubstantiated claims about the exact amount of years it supposedly takes to learn java and c++, and again argued (despite evidence to the contrary) that she hasn’t had to time to learn those either.

I’m just doing to you what you are doing to her. Did it get through? Is it annoying to deal with your own bullshit?