Ok, I don’t like making generalizations, but let’s play the game:

• Dynamically typed programming languages are for babies.

• Having depression is not being sad. Having anxiety is not being nervous. Mental health exists and it’s very complex.

• We should start trating unhealthy use of social media as an actual addiction, and the platforms should be held accountable for the damage they have and still are causing.

• Sometimes older people have actual knowledge and wisdom that is only gained by experiencing life, and younger people shuld learn to shut the fuck up some times and stop pretending they were born knowing everything.

People on Lemmy aren’t “normal” people and shouldn’t use their personal views as the norm.

• No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
• Static typing sucks.

Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.

• Mental illness or/and a disability aren’t excuses for shitty/abusive behavior.
• No, having certain skintones doesn’t magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.
• Boiled eggs > fried eggs.
• If people need it to survive, then it should be free.
• Littering should be punishable with jail time.

Not shower every day depends very much on the situation.

In summer there are certain coworkers who most fuckingly definitely should shower every day unless I’m allowed more wfh.

Python sucks.

Not only is it extremely inefficient, it is also a pain in the ass to work with if you have to use APIs that heavily rely on dynamic type wrapping and don’t provide stubs. Static analysis via Pylance is not possible then and you’re basically poking around in the dark, increasing the difficulty enourmously to get to know such an API. Even worse if there isn’t even a halfway decent documentation.

There shouldn’t be borders.

I disagree vehemently with one of these and I thought it might make a fun little mystery, but on second thought I’ll just state up front it’s the Monty Python one.

• Laptops should be thick and durable with good keyboards (like old Thinkpads)
• MacOS isn’t as bad as people here say, its still a Unix-based OS and that alone makes it superior to Windows
• Arch Linux is severely overrated
• Debian Linux is extremely underrated
• Alpine Linux is great on low end laptops
• Fedora Linux is the best distro for newcomers
• Rust belongs in the Linux kernel
• GPL > MIT/BSD
• Tiling > stacked
• AI sucks

People without empathy shouldn’t have the right to lead people (politics, work, …).

There should be an upper limit to personal wealth.

Russia should be denuclearised and split up.

Being vegan is a moral base line.

Han Solo shot first. Screw any of the remakes or special editions he was a pirate and was just protecting himself from an even more dangerous pirate.

The red nub on IBM/Lenovo laptops is far superior to a touchpad

Don’t say “acronym” when you mean “abbreviation”!

“Acronym” specifically refers to an initialism that forms a new word. For example,

• scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus)
• NASA (pronounced like a word - you don’t say “ehn eh ess eh”).

It’s acro- (height) -nym (word) - a word that exists on top of / above other words.

In contrast “NIH” is not an acronym because it isn’t pronounced or read as a word. It’s appropriate to say, “‘NIH’ is an abbreviation” or “‘NIH’ is an initialism”. But saying “‘NIH’ is an acronym” is wrong!