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The lever can reduce the speed of the trolley depending on which way you turn it, but regardless the trolley will gradually accelerate either way.

I know, I know. I appreciate your response. But it’s just an anecdote, not really a broad answer IMO.

It doesn’t surprise me that someone (a) on lemmy and (b) in the Linux community would respond with this comment though. But the number of people on lemmy is only a few digits.

It does matter – when I think “Desktop Market Share,” I’m already excluding the type of windows devices you just mentioned.

Who is using Linux, though? Like, 6% (or 11.3% as others have pointed out) means tens or hundreds of millions of people. But where are they?

How do we know these numbers indicate real people?

US Green Card

The image clearly says Extraordinary Ability Green Card (EB1-A). This is not a standard green card.

Exactly what this comic is saying. C++ can handle in 20 minutes what takes python 12 hours, but something gets destroyed.

my bad, I didn’t see the quotation marks on “‘Free-thinker.’” Thought this was just a meme against thinking freely for some reason.

Free thinkers can also say “communism is good.”

as for chips & salsa, tex-mex food is kind of an interesting case.

Land stolen from the Native Americans in almost all cases. (That’s different from the other items in this list, which were produced or invented or traded.)

It came across wrong. I was inferring that you weren’t doing real-life activism because I don’t encounter people with the opinion I thought you had (that land back = ethnic cleansing) out on the streets in real life. But yeah, in another thread, it turns out I misunderstood you to begin with.

if this is what the Indigenous would want with their land reclaimed, then it’s not up to you or me.

I was responding to you saying it necessarily means packing up and leaving. That is our point of contention. I agree with you that land back could lead to an ethnic cleansing in theory, though I agree also it’s very unlikely. Perhaps I misunderstood you, but this is what you said that made me think you meant something else:

Motherfucker, landback means […] you GO BACK too, no one should give a fuck about which gen. you’re currently a part of.

also

if this is what you’re worried about.

(a) I’m Canadian btw; US isn’t the only colonial country. and (b) I’m not worried about it, no. It’s a completely absurd and very improbable notion. Indeed, I often have to remind people who are worried about it that white genocide/ethnic cleansing/whatever is a total myth and conspiracy theory. So I’m shocked when I see on lemmy somebody talk about it as though it’s a real thing.

i’m not going around telling hexbear users to get off of hexbear.

I didn’t say that to Dessalines.

Reclaiming stolen land is not ethnic cleansing.

Right. That’s my point. Land back ≠ ethnic cleansing. I’m not sure we actually disagree with each other? The comment I posted, which is now deleted, was entirely just saying “no, land back does not mean ethnic cleansing” in response to @Samsuma.

what are you going to do

I don’t have any rights to the land to begin with. I’m not a home-owner. What would be different? If nobody gives me a home, then I’m homeless. As a ~socialist, I don’t believe we should have homelessness, but that’s not what you asked

imo if people are talking about kicking you out of the place you were born, you are warranted an opinion.

So you’re saying that we shouldn’t have protests…?

Oh, I’m really sorry! I got mixed up.

fuck reddit

(also, this isn’t even your instance.)

I didn’t give impracticality as an excuse. I just don’t agree with ethnic cleansing. Everyone has a right to live where they were born. Furthermore, it just doesn’t track with the indigenous people I actually know in real life. I can’t imagine any of them wanting to expel most of their friends.

do something more meaningful

I help with language revitalization on occasion, there are places coders like myself can help there. I’ll admit it’s not exactly a full-time job, but it has its value. But in general I don’t want to bother people who live on reserves. Regardless, I reject the notion that you need to actually be helping in order to have an opinion.