The only seperate bathrooms needed are stalls, urinals, handi-capped/"family" stalls, and sinks. Gendered labelling is a solution looking for a problem; A relic of racial segregation and the times before women could vote.

If I'm talking to the skirt next to me at the urinal, its for wardrobe tips, where to get high heels and dresses that fit, and also to put other chatty dudes in their place. Because seriously, who actually wants to hold a conversation at a urinal? Old perverts like me, only worse.

Do I care if they have a dick or are using a funnel? Also no, because I realize none of it is my business until they tell me otherwise.

All that said, I'm fully aware that trying to use a urinal in women's wear is a pain. If you're encountering them and they bother you, ya done fucked-up by going out of your way to find it in the first place. Going out of one's way to cast shade at unicorns...

They were so busy trying to come-up with something out-there enough to resemble "giving Florida-man ideas" that they never stopped to consider whether they should.

Is Florida-man's habitat ready for this?

Because his friend that brought him children to rape got arrested, and the friend whose dick he sucked was stuck married to Hillary Clinton.

Honestly don't know what his beef with Hillary was; I'm still pretty convinced he was supposed to be a fake candidate for her to trample. Considering her main concern with all the women Bill slept with, harassed, and/or raped was to discredit or silence them in the press, I don't see a world where Dumbass didn't want her to win, so much as maybe she didn't want to win all that badly, because naked fascism is less work than pretending.

I mean, community-sourced is what I would want anyways, so ...

Makes me wonder when he's getting an SCP designation.

Sure it did. Tiles on Windows Phone were a big hit for a time. If anything, the problem on that side of things was that they didn't commit and make sure the things that worked on the phone also worked on the "tablet" version.

Instead, they took the approach that "the developers will thank us for charging them an arm and a leg to learn and use the new APIs, like they always have, forgetting that developers often follow users, and almost every user was verbal about hating what MS had done, including Windows phone users who understoo what had been promised then effectively bait-and-switched.

Microsoft's way has just always been so inspiring, you know?

I never got into gnome. Was more of an XFCE guy for a time, enough-so to realize Gnome had "deprecated" anything I liked about GTK. I was more looking for a classic start menu style with minimal overhead, and XFCE gave me that, while most other DE's wouldn't let me do stuff that Windows 95 had been cool with.

Windows 8 had a "reason"(TabletPCs, and the success of Tiles on Windows Phone) for the changes made. The old UX was still there if you knew where to look and what settings to change; Some searching online could mostly have you back to what you wanted in under an hour. It was coded by humans, tested by humans, and consistently worked as intended.

Windows 11's changes have no such saving-graces or anything resembling rational justification. They let their AI re-code a bunch of fundamental features, and particularly the UI/UX, from a low-level programming language to frameworks intended for fucking websites, just so they could say it was capable of doing-so. Along the way, they used AI to test the results and skimped on or ignored the results from testing done by humans.

How many times before has Microsoft publicly admitted one of their products is broken and promised to fix it? What does being technically solid have to do with UX? EVERYTHING.

... Windows 11 is far worse. 8 was solid compared to 11. 8 was a pain in the ass, but it mostly did what it was supposed-to.

Its all pattern-recognition. Your side of the debate is arguing that training on patterns is theft of said patterns, the same way industries are fighting reverse-engineering and right-to-repair in the legal sphere. I may not spend most of my time working and playing out-doors, but I woud wager I have always spent more time doing-so, and still-do, compared to yourself.

Spent most of my life being told I'm un-motivated and un-serious for prioritizing life over work, work in physical mediums over digital, and avoiding the "defense" or marketting industries, just to be told I'm un-informed or "clearly agitated" when I engage with those who took the opposite route.

Look in the mirror; Did I say you should feel guilt or be unable to sleep at night? Yes, I'm fully aware the people who think as I described "you" are few and far between among those who can even do what you do, but you described me as one of them first.

You also never engaged with my statements on the origins of modern code, even and especially pattern recognition and neural networks, so here we are.

Everyone on all sides is so quick to rule out anyone they engage with as un-informed, a vested-interest with an agenda, or "lacking standing" - that's how we got to a state where almost every elected official started from a degree in politics or law. Meanwhile, I repeat, taxpayers payed for all of it, the same ones who have also been paying the creator-"class" all-along.

Why would you let keeping-up with AI code cut-into the amount of time you spend writting code? Your conflating Torvalds being okay with/allowing programmers using a tool PROPERLY with Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft and their ilk shoving it down everyone's throats, proper usage be damned.

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