From 96da0a9970c20091928370264845d493b2140141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Deven Blake <trinity@trinity.moe>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 12:29:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] clean up old stuff

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 <H1>My opinions</H1>
-<H3>updated 2021-11-12</H3>
+<H3>updated 2022-02-06</H3>
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 <P>I don't hold public office. Don't fret about my beliefs, they probably won't ever affect you.</P>
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 <UL>
-	<LI><B>Affirmative action</B> - very necessary. As it is, it's flawed, but it's sure as hell better than nothing at all. If you have serious problems with it you might be part of the reason it's needed.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Anarchism</B> - I don't understand it but it seems pretty cool.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Baloney</B> - spelled "baloney".</LI>
-	<LI><B>Bisexuality</B> - twice as cool.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Bitchute</B></LI><UL>
 		<LI>
 I tried to swap from YouTube to this site back in 2019(? maybe 2020).
@@ -39,17 +37,6 @@ Looks like everyone's using PeerTube now, my only concern with that is data resi
 		</UL>
 	<LI><B><I>Call of Duty</I></B> - propaganda with which I don't agree.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Cannibalism</B> - if it's consensual, sure.</LI>
-	<LI><B>Capitalism</B> - ridiculous.</LI><UL>
-		<LI>Why should a corporation get to siphon off profits from my work?</LI>
-		<LI>Why should people be able to make money without laboring?</LI>
-<!--		<LI><I>and in its current implementations...</I></LI><UL>
-			<LI>
-Why were <A HREF="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx">
-	one in every ten households food-insecure in the USA</A> in 2019, despite the fact that <A HREF="https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/food-loss-and-waste">
-	30 to 40% of the food supply goes to waste</A>?
-			</LI> Not enough relevance to topic.
-			</UL> -->
-		</UL>
 	<LI><B>Cereal</B></LI><UL>
 		<LI>The milk goes after the cereal into the bowl.</LI>
 		<LI>Corn flakes aren't that bad, despite their origins.</LI>
@@ -58,7 +45,6 @@ Why were <A HREF="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food
 		<LI>The last powdery bits of the cereal are much better than the initial big bits. A lot of that powder is sugar and it sweetens the milk.</LI>
 		<LI>Bag cereal is just as good as box cereal. Taste-wise they're identical and they're about the same effort to pour because the boxes have bags in them too. The only con to bagged is that a greater amount of cereals are boxed (e.g. there are no off-brand Wheaties where I am) and boxes have cool puzzles on the back (though now that I'm not a wee lass I do have a cellphone on which I play Konami Picross instead).
 		</UL>
-	<LI><B>Children</B> - I generally agree with <A HREF="http://harmful.cat-v.org/society/children/">Cat-v.ORG's stance</A>, though maybe to a lesser extent.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Computers</B></LI><UL>
 		<LI><B>Document editor</B> - I like Wordpad on Windows even despite the fact that it's proprietary. Sue me. I like Libreoffice elsewhere.</LI>
 		<LI><B>Free software</B> - most excellent.</LI>
@@ -88,7 +74,6 @@ Why were <A HREF="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food
 				<BR />Why? That seems to be what everybody says. Personally sometimes I say "vee" instead.</LI>
 			</UL>
 		<LI><B><CODE>main</CODE> as the default git branch</B></LI><UL>
-			<LI>If you're a black person whose ancestors were freed from the shackles of slavery a couple generations ago, you shouldn't still be pushing your work to master.</LI>
 			<LI>I want my projects accessible to anyone who may want to work on them.</LI>
 			<LI><CODE>main</CODE> is easier to type than <CODE>master</CODE>.</LI>
 			</UL>
@@ -110,7 +95,6 @@ Why were <A HREF="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food
 	<LI><B>Execution</B> - all people deserve to live, except monarchs.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Eugenics</B> - proof anyone can make up facts, cite them to barely-relevant research, and get millions of people to fall for it.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Fascism</B> - short-sighted and inevitably doomed to failure. Awful rule under which to live.</LI>
-	<LI><B>FedEx</B> - Awful. In maybe half a dozen packages I've never had a pleasant experience using FedEx. I've paid ~$30 to get a product from a middle-man rather than direct from manufacturer because the manufacturer exclusively used FedEx. Worth it.</LI>
 	<LI ID="film"><A HREF="#film"><B>Film</B></A></LI><UL>
 		<LI>Favorite movies, without reason or context</LI><UL>
 			<LI>The Great Dictator (1940)</LI>
@@ -137,51 +121,20 @@ Why were <A HREF="https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food
 			<LI>Blade Runner 2049 (2017)</LI>
 		</UL>
 	</UL>
-	<LI><B>Florida</B> - should be swallowed by the sea.</LI>
-	<LI><B>Furries</B> - I've been too harsh to them. Furries are cool.</LI>
+	<LI><B>Furries</B> - pretty cool.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Gun control</B> - guns shouldn't be scapegoated so much in the USA. The issue with mass shootings in the country is an issue of mental health. However, given that, I still don't know what I think should be done about them.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Homosexuality</B> - pretty cool.</LI>
-	<LI><B>Incels</B> - funny in a sad sort of way. Like "Proud Boys" except their pent-up anger does lead to people getting hurt, which I don't like.
 	<LI><B>Land, Nick</B> - seems like a nice person.</LI>
-	<LI><B>Linux distros</B></LI><UL>
-		<LI><B>Arch</B> - very good but has systemd. Great for personal computers, if you're a developer.</LI>
-		<LI><B>Artix</B> - an excellent increment of Arch.</LI>
-		<LI><B>Debian</B> - good, but it has systemd. Great for servers.</LI>
-		<LI><B>Damn Small Linux</B> - more of a historical curiousity nowadays but still neat.</LI>
-		<LI><B>Mint</B> - very nice for basic users. I would use Debian instead but Mint is special and I agree with many of the decisions around it.</LI>
-		<LI><B>Ubuntu</B> - bad. Operated by a for-profit company. Uses systemd and snapd. Mint is a better replacement.</LI>
-		</UL>
-	<LI><B>Monarchy</B> - I'm in favor of public execution of all remaining monarchs.</LI>
+	<LI><B>Monarchy</B> - TODO: end it.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Necroposting</B> - good actually. If I have the same problem as another forum poster I want the previous knowledge gleaned in the same thread. It also makes it easier to reference in the future.</LI>
-	<LI><B>Nonconformity</B> - pretty cool. I'm in support.</LI>
+	<LI><B>Nonconformity</B> - pretty cool.</LI>
 	<LI><B>Propaganda</B> - I used to make some. It's good when I agree with it.</LI>
-	<LI><B>"Proud Boys"</B> - cowards, and pathetic ones at that. They should leave terrorism to incels.</LI>
-	<LI><B>RMS</B></LI><UL>
-		<LI>Stallman is <A HREF="/shitlist#stallman">on my shitlist</A>.</LI>
-		<LI>Richard Stallman's <I>acts</I> are nearly always in good faith, despite some things he's said being concerning.</LI>
-		<LI><B><A HREF="https://rms-open-letter.github.io/">The open letter calling for the removal of the entire Board of the Free Software Foundation</A></B></LI><UL>
-			<LI>The letter has many strong points regarding things Stallman has stated in the past.</LI>
-			<LI>The argument that Stallman is transphobic is so obviously invalid I don't believe it's made in good faith.</LI><UL>
-				<LI>The core of this argument is that <A HREF="https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html">Stallman's belief</A> that "they" is a plural pronoun is transphobic. While the idea that "they" is exclusively plural is incorrect and frequently used by transphobes, Stallman instead uses alternative singular gender-neutral pronouns.</LI>
-				<LI>From the <A HREF="https://web.archive.org/web/20181022140126/https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html">GNU Kind Communications guidelines, mirrored 2018</A>: "Please think about how to treat other participants with respect, especially when you disagree with them. For instance, call them by the names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender identity." This article is cited in the letter's appendix as proof Stallman is transphobic.</LI>
-				</UL>
-			<LI>I have submitted a pull request to sign <A HREF="https://rms-support-letter.github.io/">the letter in support of Stallman</A>. His achievements have earned him a place on the board of directors.</LI>
-			</UL>
-		</UL>
-	<LI><B>Sex</B> - unnecessary. I use arch btw</LI>
 	<LI><B>Standardization</B></LI><UL>
-		<LI><B>Date format</B> - YYYY-MM-DD. Anything else is a hate crime against people with brains.</LI>
+		<LI><B>Date format</B> - YYYY-MM-DD.</LI>
 		<LI><B>Time format</B> - T[HH]:[MM].</LI>
 		<LI>Nobody will get on board with this but maybe we could mark dates from the Unix epoch? Just a thought.</LI>
 		</UL>
 	<LI><B>Unions</B> - very cool but I'd rather work a non-union job than be unemployed. And I'll say what I mean - I like unions but I'm too much of a wimp to put myself on the line for them.</LI>
-	<LI><B>USA political parties</B></LI><UL>
-		<LI><B>The Democratic Party of America</B> - sucks because they're Capitalist.</LI>
-		<LI><B>The Green Party of America</B> - seems nice but the <A HREF="/shitlist#greenparty">behavior of the Georgian Green Party</A> deeply concerns me.</LI>
-		<LI><B>The Libertarian Party of America</B> - I like it because it amuses me but it sucks because it's Capitalist.</LI>
-		<LI><B>The Nazi Party of America</B> - it brings me slight relief that because this party was dissolved in 1983 most of its former members are probably dead.</LI>
-		<LI><B>The Republican Party of America</B> - sucks because they're Capitalist.</LI>
-		</UL>
 	<LI><B>Weezer</B> - great band.</LI><UL>
 		<LI><B>Weezer (the blue album)</B> - <I>equally</I> as good as Pinkerton.</LI>
 		<LI><B>Pinkerton</B> - very good.</LI>