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  • Seems to me that Islam is discriminating strongly against women, and that could absolutely be a factor to prevent this sick culture from being abandoned.
    I know there are Muslims who are good people, but I don’t think the religion is helping.
    I knew many Muslims when I lived in Copenhagen, from many different countries, and common for the men were that they were way more discriminating against women than is normally acceptable among cultural Danes. They also commonly claimed that the women preferred it that way! For instance regarding very stereotypical strong gender roles.
    I also don’t believe the honor thing is without heavy influence from religion, and religion is helping preserve these medieval standards in modern times.

    I know there are Muslims that are more modern and more moral, and just like most Christians have abandoned ancient doctrines that are clearly bad.
    It just seems to me that Islam has not progressed away from such practices as much as Christianity generally has.
    For instance by far the most Muslims still believe apostasy is a sin that should be punished. In a modern society that is unacceptable.








  • simply being Greenlandic will be enough to get the attention of social workers.

    The tests cover attachment, personality traits, cognitive abilities and psychopathology, and take about 15-20 hours. It is almost impossible to pass them, says Nellemann; even he and his colleagues have failed to do so.

    I remember reading about this late last year, and I remember not trusting that social worker or the process one bit.
    I once watched a documentary about this kind of “social service” and some of their methods are 100% unscientific, and don’t take personality traits or just moods into account, like whether a person is extro- or introvert. I even posted about it on feddit.dk, but was met with much skepticism. One of the things I saw, was that if a baby doesn’t seek eye contact with a stranger holding it, it should be a sign that the mother doesn’t give the baby enough attention! Yes really it’s that stupid! When obviously it’s more likely the baby doesn’t appreciate a stranger.

    I can’t put into words how much I despise that kind of quackery! Because that’s what it is.
    But quackery is unfortunately standard procedure in social services. And social services even trump real doctors, meaning quackery trumps real doctors by law!!
    Quackery is illegal in Denmark, except in social services where it’s an everyday phenomenon.



  • But we’re pre-dating the common distro hopping discussions

    No we aren’t, Linux fora were full of them even before Ubuntu more than 20 years ago. Debian, Suse, Fedora, Mandrake, Mepis, PCLinux.
    Distro hopping was always a thing people debated.

    The rest of that sentence is a bit confusing, who are we? And how am I supposed to read minds? And going back was kind of where we started, because you claimed it was a new thing for Debian. Debian was definitely recommended to general users, for many good reasons. Stability and huge repository among them, but also user friendly install procedure, and good package manager, that handled dependencies way better than Suse and Fedora.



  • Good summary. 👍

    Debian. I do see Debian mentioned now a lot more than it has been in years.

    I haven’t noticed much difference, Debian has always been the go to distro if you wanted reliability and repositories that cover almost everything. Debian has always been an excellent choice for productivity. It’s not by accident that Debian for more than 20 years has been the distro with by far the most derivatives.

    By that standard Arch is the only distro that has achieved something similar, and it may be somewhat telling that SteamOS switched from Debian based to Arch based. Arch is way smaller in scope, and more nimble and easier to maintain. But AFAIK they do not have the democratic process Debian has, so I’m not sure it can really be called community based distro like Debian. Arch has more of a top leadership.
    Debian is probably the most true to the Free and Open Source ideals among the big distros.