No that was a generalization, not specifically in the context of OP. Life definitely doesn’t have the same value to all individuals as u/Zwuzelmaus claims. Not specifically related to Latin America.
Regarding that read my response in the main thread.
The article doesn’t seem to show any context to this, are equally poor countries on other continents better or worse?
My guess is the main problems are probably poverty inequality and corruption. Catholicism may also be a problem, as every crime can be absolved by the church, and Catholics may believe themselves free from the ultimate personal consequences of their crimes.
So the corruption and inequality may create a sense of need for many people to need to balance the injustice, and combined with a lack of perceived ultimate consequence may be a toxic cocktail that stimulate violent crime.
This however is pure speculation on my part. But it seems evident there must be some kind of social factor to cause things to be so bad. And it seems to me that statistically poverty and Catholicism combined promotes this.
Life has the same value to every living human.
That’s an extreme oversimplification, and that way of looking at it completely ignores people with depression and people committing suicide.
Obviously a life with more suffering is more likely to cause depression, and a life in depression is subjectively worth less.
He basically just said it looks a lot like the picture could be made by an AI. Which is completely irrelevant since it clearly isn’t, something you could find out in five seconds by looking her up.
Pretty easy to look her up before spreading conspiracy theories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kostyuchenko
Here’s an article from Le Monde with a similar picture of her:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2022/05/03/elena-kostioutchenko-a-russian-journalist-exposing-the-open-wounds-of-ukraine_5982324_117.html
Yes and Windows has some funny business with making the first letter of a filename big no matter what. Which occasionally causes problems too.
That actually made me laugh out loud. 👍 🤣
Hopefully things will work with Wayland at that point.
I used XFCE many years because there were bugs and limitations in KDE I couldn’t live with.
Now I’ve used KDE for about 2 years without issues, and they pull this stupid stunt!
I still have XFCE installed, and when I switched to that my games worked fine again. Then when I wanted to switch back to KDE/X11 I couldn’t. It was friggin removed as an option after the latest upgrade, despite I specifically used KDE/X11 instead of Wayland because of a KDE/Wayland limitation that you can’t disable compositing.
I do use compositing, but I like to have the option to disable it if I need to. And it was when I noticed I couldn’t disable compositing, I switched to XFCE to see if that worked.
So long story short, I had to install a kde-x11-session package to be able to switch to it? WTF??
I must admit this incident has made me think of switching to another distro that respect user settings more.
PS:
My short trip to XFCE was quite nice, they have refined the design some since last I used it. But damned I’ll have to port all my hotkeys again, I used top have them in xbindkeys, but I moved them to native KDE to be compatible with both X11 and Wayland. 🙄
It would be nice if we could switch MESA version as easy as we can switch the kernel.
to some disappointment is still using Mesa 25.1 series graphics drivers
Good call IMO, my distro just upgraded to MESA 25.3, and I’ve had problems with black screens in games since that. I even tried switching to older kernels and since it’s apparently not the kernel, my guess is on the MESA driver.
PS:
I use a Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, and it has worked fine for years before the upgrade.
I checked the cabling first, and that the card was firmly socketed, but they are fine, and it clearly happened after the kernel/MESA upgrade??? It doesn’t happen in desktop, only in games.
EDIT!!!
Turns out it was KDE/Wayland that caused the problem, for some reason the upgrade moved me from X11 to Wayland, and I had to install X11-session for KDE, after switching to that it works fine again.
Sad that Wayland which is supposed to be the better supported option now fails where X11 is still going strong.
It was never a major part of my job description, and I lost interest doing small hobby projects.
OK thanks for clarifying. 👍
it being not obvious what happens under the hood
To me it feels like it does things I didn’t ask it to. So I’m not 100% in control 😋
the idiomatic version of a loop in Rust usually involves iterators and function composition.
What? You need to make a function to make a loop? That can’t be right???
C-loops are easy for me to understand.
Absolutely, the way C loops work is perfect. I’m not so fond of the syntax, but at least it’s logical in how it works.
OK that’s new to me, I have to admit I haven’t been looking at it for years, I do not feel comfortable following Microsoft specifications, as Microsoft has a long h9istory of fucking things up for others on purpose, and their safety record is probably among the worst in the industry.
I am willing to bet that the ownership paradigm that it enforces is going to feel at least moderately new to you
Absolutely, I am more used to program closer to the iron mostly C. My favorite was 68000 Assembly, python is nice, but I prefer compiled languages for efficiency. Although that efficiency isn’t relevant for basic tasks anymore.
The compiler error messages sound extremely cool. 👍
Thanks, I might take a look at it just for fun. 😀
I would have guessed that mixing different programming languages would cause problems. But apparently it’s working well.
It’s been 20 years since I did any serious programming, so I’m a bit rusty, is that what Rust is for?
Only as long as Microsoft allow it, and only because a lot of work was put into that shit. The first couple of years it was very flaky.
I think you skipped an interim there.
Other diseases can cause depression, but it is only when depression hits the subjective value of your life really degrades.