[–] 3 points 3 days ago

It had not occured to me until recently that all the big late Pleistocene fauna (like Ice Age animals) just lived alongside all animals still around today. Tens of thousands of year is nothing in terms of animal evolution.

So the African wildcat was absolutely contemporary to saber toothed cats!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    It's not that they were weak, it's just that all their prey disappeared when humans showed up. Seeing natural selection as some kind of merit has flaws. If they evolved, they were well-adapted by definition. If they went extinct, the conditions that made them evolve changed.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I wouldn't say that the Nordic countries are minor. As a Belgian, I'll abstain on the status of Belgium.

    But in no way I'd call Luxembourg major 😄

    Anyway, this classification is subjective and reveals the personal biases of Sanders towards, apparently, rich countries.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, the guy in my story was to be a developer as well. Clearly it's way more confortable to work on Linux. The justification in my company is that the security protocols are already built for Windows so they don't want to redo the job on Linux. Handling to OS' would increase their work load.

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  • [–] 157 points 2 weeks ago* (35 children)

    In my story, he was not really fired. But a new hire in my company was handed his computer. Seeing it was on Windows, he asked to work on Linux instead. IT told him that Windows was mandatory so he resigned on the spot.

    Based af, but he didn't even enjoy the burrito he ordered for lunch :(

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    I feel a sort of duty of staying informed about the suffering in the world. This includes current events like war crimes being commited today; as well as the history of oppression: colonialism, imperialism etc.

    But it makes me feel bad, really depressed. I feel like I'm torturing myself. So I try to stay back, take care of my mental health.

    But then I feel bad turning my eyes away from it. It's like the passerbys looking away from a homeless person. Or the people, safe at home, not caring about the suffering of others because it's far away and it doesn't touch them personally.

    I guess I'm not alone feeling this. How do you find a balance between taking care of yourself and not falling into apathy, insensitivity, or willful ignorance?

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