greenskye

I feel like Linux works for hardcore users and extremely casual users, but it doesn’t work that great for medium savvy users.

Like sure if I’m barely using the computer for anything other than a web browser then it’ll work fine.

And if I’m willing to do a whole lot of research I can also make it work for power user setups (at an even better outcome than Windows).

But if I’m just a gamer who’s smart enough to do some modding and run a couple of game servers and maybe some other utilities, but I’m not incredibly tech savvy otherwise? Not a great fit.

I wish more people could recognize you can support specific actions without liking or approving of the entity taking those actions. It’s not a binary choice.

Oh good point. For a non-benevolent genie story, I suppose being made a prince of a defunct country would work. He would be a prince, but it wouldn’t be good enough for what he wants to be a prince for (a good match for the princess). Yeah I see your angle now and that makes sense.

If it was impossible he shouldn’t have accepted the wish. Aladdin already gets a wish rejected for not being possible. Fulfilling a wish with something different than what was wished for shouldn’t be a thing.

And what does being a prince of a non-existent country even mean? That’s still not a prince in any capacity (as confirmed by the story). It’s just a scam.

Plus an easy way to accomplish this is just to make Aladdin the lost son of someone. It’s a pretty common trope for royal kids to end up missing and raised as commoners, especially in Disney stories.

True. And I’d expect you’d need fewer of these moments for younger people than older ones. Every little bump might be the one that diverts someone to a different path. I know it hasn’t worked well on my older family members, but it was those kind of moments that helped my diverge from my religious upbringing when I was younger.

My understanding is that it’s not bad when done correctly, but if they screw up the install it can be a nightmare and a huge safety issue. They screw up the mixture and now you’ve got extremely hard to remove foam stuck to everything that’s going to off gas dangerous chemicals for 20 years. It can go bad enough to completely condemn the home.

I’ve found that even if you do this, it doesn’t really alter their behavior. A moment of consensus is never going to be enough.

People need to treat this kind of stuff like breaking someone from a drug addiction or helping someone lose weight. Without addressing the lifestyle factors that drove them down that path, you’ll never get them to actually change.

That’s why the brainwashing is so terrifying. People can fall into it pretty quickly and then it can take years and years to deprogram them.

The Disney genie was also just a scam. Aladdin explicitly wished to be a prince. Not look like a prince or be as rich as a prince or have a parade like a prince. But actually be one.

Instead he’s revealed to be a ‘fake prince’ because the genie half assed his wish.

Somewhere along the way we built a system that doesn’t actually require you to do or make anything. And that’s been absolutely horrible.