Systemd and Gnome Shell were designed by complete and utter morons who should never work in IT again.

That is all.

I hate the term “privilege” and even though I sometimes use it myself, I mostly wish it would just die. As presently used, it harms any analysis rather than helps.

Strangely, someone on Tumblr said it best to self-referentially discredit the privilege police.

Privilege isn’t a neat little math equation where you can add and subtract how many rights someone has based on a bunch of check boxes. You can’t assume either that just because someone technically should have a privilege they are automatically better off because of it. A lot of privilege stuff is just better odds in a lottery you can still lose.

People need to stop measuring the level of rights real people have based on a hypothetical chart that cannot possibly cover every variable. It’s fucking harmful and dehumanizes everyone.

Most of the time it’s just used to shout people down, and most of the time the people you’re screaming at about it don’t have a clue what you’re on about.

Much of the time, it’s also used as a weapon against people who’ve already been harmed in some way.

Sorry, being informed that I have privilege is useless to me to “make it all better” when I’m being stabbed in the face.

For instance being told my complaints are invalid because I had “privilege” when my family was on the bottom of the totem pole in rural North Florida where people acted like we were true scum when we had the gall to walk into a bank – yeah, not going to help!

It’s fine in an academic setting. Other than that, it’s worthless and harmful.

This is true. It’s happened to me.

Conversation with a recruiter several years ago who had called me by accident and was backpedaling after realizing I didn’t have a degree, lightly edited and as best I recall:

Recruiter: I apologize, I didn’t realize you did not have a degree.

Me: No degree, but I’m currently doing the job that you’re hiring for.

Recruiter: But you’re not qualified for this position due to no degree.

Me: Ok, but I’m actually currently doing this job in real life, like right now. I’m at work doing what you’re hiring for right now.

Credentialism doesn’t help anyone as Sarah Kendzior often points out. It doesn’t help companies as someone having a degree or not in 99% of fields only has a really middling relationship with their actual job performance.

And of course it really hurts individuals.

If you don’t hire me, your loss.

I’m fucking awesome at my job.

Young people are just as technologically and politically dumb as old people. Or conversely, age doesn’t equal wisdom in either direction.

we finally got rid of files. dropbox, google drive, soundcloud, spotify, netflix, hbogo, youtube, wattpad, kindle, and a host of other cloud based services finally killed off three letter filenames like mp3, mov, doc and xls. spending a week in the caribbean with young adults and bad internet was the tell on this one for me. they don’t even have mp3s on their iphones anymore!

As if getting rid of files is some laudable goal. If you don’t have the file, you don’t have shit.

It could be taken away at any time and some big company could force you to re-rent it again. The perpetual rental model is something the copyright industry has been striving for since at least the 1930s and probably earlier.

Technologically, they are finally able to achieve it.

So you people don’t keep anything locally? Good luck keeping anything at all long-term.

I guarantee at some point it’ll be taken from you by some large corporation.