i can do you one better. i was in philosophy.

nothing more fun that the bitterness of various academics getting pissy about whose work is ‘most essential’ or ‘primary’ or ‘pure’ or ‘foundational’.

best thing i did in life was leave academia and it’s pissing contests of legitimacy. or worse, how much money they could bring it by wooing the donors. funny how a lot of academic pretension just boils down to who can get the most money.

You are what I’m complaining about dude.

I’m an IT professional. I don’t glorify or condemn anything on principle. They are just tools for jobs. Linux is no more glorious that a hammer. But you seem to think that hammer is the second coming of the son of God. Normal people use hammers to hit nails, they don’t sit around and glorify and worship hammers as being superior to screw drivers.

no. i just think linux is boring and dumb, rather than the holy spirit of using computers.

using linux is not really some great achievement in life, all it means is you’re a nerd who likes command line interfaces. cool, me too bro. I just don’t whinge on about it like windows/mac or sunOS is were some great evil prophets and his holy Linus gave us salvation from our computing sins the other OSes make us commit, or something.

people here think treat linux use as a religious awakening and they must shun/covert the non-believers. or argue about the purity of their faith based on the distribution or the age of their first install. shit’s wild.

yes. it’s not a science anymore than painting is.

you can certainly make mathematical models and paint pictures of theoretical concepts though.

science is the method of empirical verification. math is about as empirical as metaphysics is.

aren’t you trying to leave and get a better job?

theoretical physics is is a lot of pseudo science.

most of it is pure mathematics.

it’s only science strictly, when it’s hypothesis are verified by experimental evidence.

there are still particles in the standard model that are purely theoretical.

it’s existence is inferred, but not verified.

just because i heard a noise, doesn’t mean i know wtf caused it.

non luminous matter is a better term, but it doesn’t sound as cool and mysterious.

don’t talk about my mom like that.

he’s 80. he’s just old and losing it and trying to stay relevant.

he is legit and was dope in the 90s/2000s, he has just started losing his mind due to being old.

sort of like trump and tariffs. those were suppose to solve my athlete’s foot too.

it’s a joke about lemmy users dude. and how insufferable they are about linux and all the twats in this thread bragging about how they learned linux in grade school like it’s a contest to prove how hardcore and smarter they are. and their lack of recognition of how obnoxious and weird that behavior is.

They are like people who argue that German cars are not expensive if you can do all the repairs yourself! It demonstrates a total lack of understanding that non-enthusiasts don’t care about your weird smug nerd shit about how you love to suffer by taking hours to setup your custom homebrew network.

Normal people just want shit that works. They don’t care about Linux, or when you learned it and Mac vs windows is mostly about the aesthetics and branding, not about the functionality of the OS or it’s technical features. They are just browsing social media and watching netflix for 95% of their time on it anyway.

obesity is caused from eating too much and your metabolism not burning it off.

yes, some people have disregulatory eating habits. i have the myself. when i get stressed out all i want to do is shove gallons of ice cream down my throat.

but i don’t do it, because of the consequences. i control my impulses, the don’t control me.

then go to farmers markets.

lol what.

i grew up on that food dude. it’s nasty and bad for you. what are you smoking. most of it is loaded with sodium preservatives, and other chemicals. is it better than not eating vegetables at all? sure, but it has lots of nasty shit in it.

fresh food is superior for you in every way. other than it’s convenience and cost.

i was SHOCKED in college when I found out vegetables can taste good, instead of being disgusting mushy nastiness.

the people run the studies are rich, and thin, and healthy.

until the existing subtypes become distinct diagnoses and the number drops because now they are considered two distinct things where previously there was one. or they roll it together with a broad spectrum type of disorder.

our psychological classification systems are always moving around and modifying this stuff every decade or so. Asperger’s is gone, for example.

those aren’t the same boomers.

No, but I do think all of those things are generally kind of stupid and annoying, and frankly, boring as hell.

if anything if find the predictability of people’s norms and emotional reactions to be depressing as fuck. and their intentions, to be scary in how selfish they often are.

no, it makes you an insufferable nerd though. especially if you went around telling everyone about how cool it was.

mac people/kids are wealthier, so yeah they’d have better academic scores, generally.

Linux people are the insufferable know it all who just inject themselves into things to brag about how superior and smart they are for an arbitrary operating system choice.

the computing equivalent of that football dad who brags to everyone how good has in high school and how he could have gone pro.