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AncillaryJustice

@ AncillaryJustice @lemmy.world

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  • What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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  • Just FYI, that quote from your girlfriend is not original. Good one though. I believe originally it's, "Better a bitter truth than a sweet lie," but I'm not sure who said it first.

  • What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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  • Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)...

    To enjoy life's immensity, you do not need many things.

    • Ryōkan, a Japanese poet

    Ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

    • Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire

    Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do.

    • Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson

    Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.

    • Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

    • Winston Churchill

    猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)

    Even monkeys fall from trees.

    • Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying

    正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)

    True victory is victory over one's self.

    • Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido

  • in the womens washroom and coworker chatting on her phone in the stall next to me.

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  • Imagine doing that while someone's having coffee shits a stall over. Imagine being on the other side of the line. Maybe you should drink more coffee and the problem will solve itself.

  • I feel sorry for men who have to wear pants

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  • (Linux users !) What was the first Linux distro that you used ?

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  • Debian 2.2 on a consulting job in 2001. I'd used Unix mainframes in college, but other than that had only ever done work on DOS and Windows before then. Didn't think much of it at the time, though it was familiar and easy to work with. Certainly a far cry from the experience we all have with Linux today.

  • Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

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  • neovim of course

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  • Favorite sci-fi novel... and I figure I'll make a hundred alt accounts eventually just like elsewhere so chose whatever for my first.

  • Would you prefer to be the most intelligent among people in your local community/social circle or to be among people of equal intellectual pedigree?

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  • For most circumstance, I want to be mid-bell. In the workplace it means I can both learn from and teach others. Oftentimes, I'd prefer expertise in some areas (smartest in room) but lack of knowledge in other areas that I'm interested in but know there are others there who are experts and are willing to help me grow. In social situations I think it's similar, though there I prefer to interact with people who are open, friendly and kind regardless of their intelligence.

  • Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

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  • And those are all a "deal-breaker in friendships" for you? I think we all realize people find all sorts of reasons to use us-vs-them mindset, that's not really the point of this conversation. What reasons you choose to make your friends or otherwise be decent to someone decides whether or not you're being immature or even a bigot.

  • What's your opinion on all the Reddit alternatives?

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  • For those reasons it reminds me what coming to Reddit in the first place was like. It's really fun to build up a community. It's hard to see compared to what Reddit is now, and the polish you speak of that to me while there are some conveniences or extra features has overall messed up what I liked about it. Lemmy or some other system may or may not ever be as popular as Reddit, but it's way more engaging to be part of a growing community than an oversaturated one IMO. You get to help define what the place will be like to a much greater extent.

  • Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

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  • This is some sort of childish tech-classist B.S. Like you wouldn't talk to a friend because of the shoes they wore or the car they drove. Who cares about people like that?