Well this is Lemmy, not reddit. We’re all tankies here.

You’re absolutely right. Trump is a lightning rod for rage, but most of what the US is doing is bipartisan. It’s a huge problem that so many people harbor false hope for the controlled opposition.

I want a fucking Huawei P70. The 10x camera on that thing can practically take stabilized macro photos from a 5 m distance. But Ursula says Orange Man will spank her if she allows competition to Apple and Google.

I think the sooner we stop hoping and start fighting, will improve our chances to see a world based on freedom and reason within our lifetimes.

It cuts even deeper than that. KDE took Microsoft’s philosophy to the extreme, didn’t abandon projects that crashed and burned under Windows, and somehow at long last made many things work.

Explorer was supposed to be an everything-browser. Didn’t work out. Microsoft gave up and made a file explorer and separate Internet Explorer. Meanwhile, KDE made Konqueror with KHTML that browsed everything – sftp, samba, websites, open any file within any Konqueror pane, split your view horizontally and vertically as many times as you god damn like. It was really fucking weird until you got used to it. KHTML went on to become WebKit then Blink; Internet Explorer went on to become a wrapper for Blink.

Windows 98 wanted to put HTML on your desktop as applets or gadgets or whatever. Didn’t work. Sucked. Huge resource hog too. Got abandoned for the next ambitious Microsoft project that they never follow through on. Meanwhile that’s exactly how Plasma works, and it rules.

I file this under “questions I didn’t know I had with really fucking obvious answers”

For real. This is photo of the year material.

It’s actually kinda scary to see multitudes of grown-ass people in dire need of rehabilitation into society because they doomscrolled just a bit too much.

I guess I’m so anti-gun that I think getting robbed is not a reason to kill someone.

Self-defense means defending yourself or somebody else, not your stuff. Your stuff can be replaced. A functioning state leaves headroom for this instead of forcing you to put your own life at risk for $12k, and/or becoming a murderer for $12k.

You are correct that women were not included in clinical trials for general medications up until fairly recently, and this has arguably lead to slightly worse health outcomes for women. A very narrow group of young, healthy usually white men in their 20s have always been the primary labrats. Women were excluded not because they were forgotten, but because

• The role of the young female is to churn out babies
• The role of the young male is to risk and potentially sacrifice his life in service of others.

Absurd? Maybe. Just maybe.

Where you’re wrong is your assertion that treatments specifically for women were not tried on women. Progesterone birth control go through the same clinical trials as any other treatment, but let’s not pretend that they tried them on a bunch of young men and declared them safe and effective for women.

The commune says no

Don’t try to pretend that treatments specifically for women are not tested on females.

I mean anything from HPV to HIV can still kill you directly even with access to the best health care on the planet.

I think that if a company was serious about bringing a male contraceptive to market, the medical benefits of preventing unwanted pregnancies would be taken into account by the EMA/FDA, even if the user of the drug isn’t the primary beneficiary.

The problem is that despite lots of research no viable drug has been found yet.

Yep. Plenty of women out there that insist on having sex without condom as well.

Oh please. Female contraceptives have been available for 80 years. The first ones were extracted and slightly modified from yams.

We’re now in a time where pharmaceutical development is in a space age compared to what it was 80 years ago. We’ve mapped the entire human genome, we can bioengineer bacteria to spit out custom molecules and proteins, we have freely available XRC 3d models of hundreds of thousands of proteins and their docking sites, we have (free) computational chemistry software that can do quantum molecular dynamics and supercomputers (but you only really need a fucking laptop), and the toolbox of organic chemistry is vastly larger than what it was in the 1950s.

The reason why no-one has come up with a safe and effective male contraceptive that can be anywhere near compared to existing female contraceptives is because it turns out to be fucking difficult.

He is a certified psychotherapist.

I mined a bit too. Got almost 2 bitcoin in 2 weeks. Figured it was a pyramid scheme, went back to running folding@home. Forgot my wallet passphrase.

Gentoo is fun and a nice way to learn more about computers. Their wiki and their community was really good when I was into it, I’m sure it still is. But compiling everything from scratch is quite demanding of your CPU and your time, so it’s not really something that you run as your daily driver for long.