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Drag hates the XY problem not because of the noobs who mess up, but because of the greybeards who are supposed to know better. Drag can't count the times drag googled a problem, went to a stackoverflow question asking exactly what drag wants, and there are no replies answering drag's question. Instead, the greybeards have correctly realised that the noob is suffering from an XY problem, and told them the solution to the actual problem. This is great for the noob, not so great for drag and the dozens of other people who found the question from Google. Nobody answered the question we googled! And worse, if we make a thread asking the question, it will likely be closed as a duplicate. Greybeards need to answer the question the noob asked so that these repositories of knowledge can be useful.

Drag thinks pretending that only electronics are technology is disrespectful to the scientists and engineers of the past who created technologies like the aqueducts, the roads, ships, kilns, swords, and recreational marijuana use. And it limits our ideas about what the future of technology can be, constraining us to a single vision of ever-more-complex computer systems as technology. Drag thinks we need a change in language to provoke a change in thinking. That will open up new directions in science. For example, meditation is a technology, and in the last 15 years psychologists have been pushing scientifically backed up meditation practices to help people. That's technological progress and it's good. We need to open our minds to possibilities like that.

Also here's a wikipedia article on the history of computer science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science. Drag learned about the history of computer science from drag's teachers in school. Alan Turing and Von Neumann and Charles Babbage.

This is great, drag loves the way you tell stories

Drag wishes it was still possible to play Black and White

I'm drag's experience, conservatives tip the best. America is falling into fascism, and Americans are the ones who leave massive tips. Civilized countries with leftist labour laws don't have as much tipping, if any.

Charity is something capitalists invented to get out of paying taxes.

If you're convinced they're so inferior, then how does letting them die make more sense than manipulating them into doing what you want? You know what they should be doing. They should be saving the world. If you're better than them, then be a leader. Tell them what they need to hear to do the right thing. Genocide is much less fun than domination.

Not everyone is as clever as you. Most people need hope in order to get motivated to take action. Being able to try your hardest without any hope based motivation is the sign of an iron will. It's very rare. You should tell all the less exceptional people to have hope, because that's how you get them to do things.

The other side is how noone has gotten to the point of studying the history of technology.

Drag is pretty sure lots of archeologists have studied technology. For example there was the search for the recipe for Roman concrete.

Thinking everything is fine leads to apathy. Thinking there's nothing we can do leads to apathy. The correct thought is that it's bad, but we can fix it.

It sounds like you and drag agree that the winter solstice is only in December in the Northern hemisphere. You've taken on drag's correction and understood drag's point. Thank you for being so reasonable and open minded.

Drag would also like to clarify that the winter solstice does not mark the start of winter in climates that don't have winter. For example, in places that have a six season calendar.

Drag doesn't want to be referred to gender neutrally. Drag wants drag's gender affirmed. It isn't hard. You're going to all this effort to switch between "you", "they", and "them" based on complicated grammatical context rules, when you could just use a single pronoun in all cases. You're going to all this effort to inflect pronouns that drag doesn't want. Drag just wants you to take it easy and use a single pronoun. Why make things hard for yourself just so you can make them hard for drag too?

Drag doesn't use "you" pronouns either. Drag uses drag/dragself pronouns in all grammatical persons.

Drag doesn't use they/them pronouns. Drag uses drag/dragself pronouns in all grammatical persons.

Drag didn't say it's true. Drag said it's not fictional. Fiction and truth are not a dichotomy. They're not even mutually exclusive. There's plenty of things that are both or neither.

Social constructs and myths are the same thing.

Gender is also a myth. You might as well argue Socrates wasn't a famous man, because maleness is a myth.

The Argo isn't fictional. It was a prominent part of the Hellenic religion's myths. People believed in it.

What about Noah's Ark? What about the Argo?

The Winter solstice (Dec 22nd) marks the start of Winter.

Only true in some places. It's not a universal fact. Lots of places don't even have winter. Yet, Christmas is still celebrated. You're making arguments about Christmas everywhere based on your own location's individual climate.