I just helped my elderly brother with his older core 2 duo iMac. Can't run chrome at all and Safari won't bring up many sites because it only supports TLS1.0. The OS cannot be upgraded past 10.6.3. Firefox seems to work barely, but this computer is essentially unusable for basic home computer tasks.
I have a 27 inch imac in the same boat. I'm not going to whinge about ancient computers though.
All because Apple won't allow a newer OS to be installed. You could run Linux on a computer 25 years old.The latest Windows 10 runs OK on core 2 duo era computers.
Get one of those Vista ready machines form the same era and install W10 on it.
The old Macs run Linux fine. I put Linux on my older PCs as well. Considering the price of Personal computers today, I paid 5K for mine in 1990, and the fact that they don't have a 2 year window of use, it is amusing what people complain about.
I've cleaned out a lot of computers, with a lot of dust.
And this 500 dollar "repair" is a little silly. On an iMac, you simply attach suction cups to the glass, and pop the glass off. Give the glass a nice cleaning (I like Everclear or 91 percent Isopropal, and pop it back into place. I never thought about it, because it is just the sort of thing you do for someone as a freebee.
For those that actually believed we'd have drone delivery by now, just wait a few years. Its coming.
For those that knew better, there is still only a niche benefit atm, and individual copter style deliver is energy intenstive vs. rolling on wheels. Not even to mention other challenges. Plus, who wants drones flying all over the place?
I suppose if a person live in a treeless housing development in the middle of what used to be a farmer's field, it might make some sense. I'm trying to imagine drone delivery in my neighborhood. It's in a forest. Trees are pretty much everywhere except for the streets.
So Amazon's drones would have to fly at street level with the cars. At that point, you might as well just have a delivery truck,
"And if a person wants to be a vegan - they must tailor their diet very specifically and very carefully in order to survive in a healthy manner."
So it's completely possible to be a human herbivore. Thanks for making my point.
I made no such point, unless you have something else in mind. No one is going to simply go into the woods and live a healthy life by eating only plants. You need very specific knowledge and access to some very specific replacement foods. Perhaps you didn't grok "very specifically and very carefully." The sort of specifically and carefully that must be adhered to when engaging in an un-natural activity.
For the record, I eat plenty of meat. I just find your line of thinking stupid.
That's nice. And given your responses, I'm not surprised you find my line of reasoning stupid. It really isn't difficult though.
Human - Eat an omnivorous diet. Get nutriments that millions of years of evolution have adapted your physiology to function with. Naturally and simply. No intervention needed.
Human - Eat an all vegetable matter diet. Without intervention, insufficient nutriment intake. Diet must be supplemented with some rather specific intake. That intake must be known to be eaten.
Frank Carnivore - Not possible to adequately feed on an all plant diet. Additions of plants into food is dangerous.
Frank Herbivore - I do not know of research showing a meat only diet for Frank Herbivores.
Omnivores - Eat a mixed diet. Get essential nutriments from both meat and vegetable.
As a person who knows a lot of rich people: that isn't true. Technical degrees and good for making a good salary and having a good career, but they people at the top invariably have non-technical degrees. In America (and probably the West in general) that is how it works. If I wanted "real" money, I would never have gone to engineering school.
You're sorta correct, but You need to look at the populations of the groups you speak of.
While yes, the CEO might have an MBA, or the top lawyer might have his law degree, you are in very rarified air there. There just aren't that many jobs to be had. If you are a MBA graduate, you are going to be lucky or very driven to get that top paying CEO job. If you are an engineer, especially a good one, you'll have many very good employment opportunities.
So yes, if you have an exceptional level of drive, you might not need any degree at all. But even so, the very few careers open at the very top is a small group, and we don't hear about the folks who didn't make it there.
Being a male on a college campus is a rather unpleasant experience
Slashdot: Where you can learn all about the modern college experience from men who left college 30 years ago.
Next up: What it's like to live in San Diego, as related by someone who has never left the suburbs of Wisconsin.
Must not have paid much attention to me before - I've spent most of my career and worked on a College campus for the last 30+ years. Retired and recently went back.
Next up - silly little Anonymous Cowards with overactive imaginations making up shit.
You apparently missed the part when I stated "for all practical purposes".
"...and has nothing to do with what we are actually designed to eat."...And we're designed to eat plants. Yes, we can eat meat as well but we are certainly designed to eat plants. I don't think I'm getting your point there.
We are designed - we have evolved, to eat both plants and meat. This is the very essence of an omnivore. Not exclusively plants, and not exclusively meat. There are specific nutriments that humans need to live in a healthy manner. And if a person wants to be a vegan - they must tailor their diet very specifically and very carefully in order to survive in a healthy manner.
There is nothing inherent about being human. There's no such thing as "human nature" since we are able to create it as we please.
"Human nature" you're quoting something I didn't write by the way - is the least of this matter.
This is more in the realm of biochemistry. If you create as you please, the concept that you don't need air, or can live by eating sawdust, you won't survive no matter what you please.
Certain enzymes are needed. Certain proteins are needed. A herbivore doesn't do well on a all meat diet, a frank carnivore can't live on a all vegetable diet.
Omnivores evolved to use and need a mixture of plant and meat. But they likewise do not do well on only one or the other. No matter what we decide as we please.
"No moral choice can re-sequence your DNA and magically turn you into an herbivore".
While a vegetarian is certainly still capable of being an omnivore if someone only eats plants then for all practical purposes they are an herbivore. We're animals capable of free thought, no DNA re-sequencing necessary,
Your rationale is something that might be used to promote breatharianism.
Fixed the quotes for you.
Rick is still correct. Humans are simply not designed to be vegans, or even vegetarians. Yes, a person can make a choice that they only eat a certain thing. One of the vegans I actually liked was a fruitarian - she made the choice to only eat fruits. But the choice she made - or anyone who defines themselves by what they eat - is made by a moral or preferential choice, and has nothing to do with what we are actually designed to eat.
I lost contact with her several years ago, I hope she went away from that diet, because that can't be healthy.
It certainly can. The lifetime earning increase from a college degree very often substantially outweighs the cost of tuition. Not to mention that there are quite a few jobs you simple cannot get without having earned a college degree.
That "often" is the operative term. There are some degrees that do have good value. Your engineering is a good example.
But not everyone is cut out for that. I'm sure you remember spending nights in the lab or library while the cool kids were out punishing their livers.
If Universities were to eliminate all of the useless majors, they'd be a lot smaller of places. I'm not suggesting that they be eliminated, more that people choose their majors more carefully, and not expect to make a non-academic career out of say, a doctorate in Philosophy.
There are some degrees that will enable payback, biology, EE ME, Chemistry, and a few others.
So many others might best be described as pecuniary extraction. Unless one is planning on going the whole way to a doctorate, then replacing instructor, you're getting nothing of worth.
As well, the single minded obsession with getting a degree allowed some amazing tuition inflation.
The tuition inflation allowed adding multiple layers of middle management, and as the story notes, groups that had nothing to do with education.
So there is the price gouging.
Some other things started happening as well. Universities were a place where ideas and different opinions were allowed to flourish, and tolerance of different outlooks was encouraged. But they hit a real pothole in the road by tolerating people who promoted intolerance of a far left wing variety.
So people like Anne Coulter, and Bill Maher were uninvited from some places they were to speak at after the far left kooks demanded they be excluded.
People such as Bill Maher, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Larry the Cable Guy all stopped playing college campuses because of the political correctnes demands. As Maher put it (paraphrased) "When a lily White guy, a Black guy, a Jewish guy and a Redneck agree that colleges are a bad place, they are probably on to something".
Toxic environment.
Being a male on a college campus is a rather unpleasant experience. You have to pay for "classes" where you are told just how evil a rapist you are, and that your future depends on your strict obedience. What is more, those things that can get your future destroyed are rather ambiguous. To cap it off, there is no due process. If you and a female engage in anything while both drinking, she cannot give consent. But for some reason, you can. The results are a confusing mine field for male students.
So at this time, we are seeing something like a 67 percent female enrolment in college. The males have made their decision to avoid that toxic environment. As male attendance drops, the people remaining get angrier and angrier, and the way a man sits is now worthy of outrage and hatred. You mean I'm supposed to pay for that abuse? The interesting part is that as some of these career women hit their mid to late 30's they want to settle down, find a man, and start fertilization therapy. But they find that there are no men "worthy" of them. DDG "where have all the good men gone" to see the laments of modern professional women.
They want to settle down, but unfortunately, there are no men that measure up. In true far left feminist fashion, they are trying some of the same tactics that drove men away in the first place.
Reminds me of the old saying "The floggings shall continue until morale improves"
So back to the original part of my post, outside of a few majors, college is not remotely worth it. As well, it takes advantage of many women who after its over, find themselves in possession of worthless degrees consisting of giving your opinion, and that only inflate their egos, then deprives them of normal life relationships and activities.
1) It takes 30 minutes to print a 100g "steak" which appears to be a little larger than a quarter.
2) No information on it's taste or consistency. Being translucent is not a good sign.
I really want someone to make a replacement for meat, not because I give a shit about the animals but because they are heavily subsidized and damaging to both the environment and our bodies. This isn't going to cut it.
I guess I'd try it, but it doesn't sound too appetizing.
Since we're on the subject of personal ethics, might as well give my own. I wish to cause animals as little pain as possible, but understanding that humans are inherent omnivores, I accept that meat is a part of our dietary need. So I eat meat. I enjoy it. I don't care what vegans think, and having worked with several, at this point pissing them off is not a negative thing.
But whatever. I like food that tastes good. And I've found some veggie burgers that to me taste better than a lot of real ones. The wife and I have them several times a month.
Oh - with a couple nice pieces of my home made bacon on them. Yum!
If I were to give my outlook on eating meat, it would be akin to the American Indian practice of thanking the animal that provided us with the sustenance.
All life is precious. From humans (though we seem to try to skirt that at times) to lower animals, to plants, to micro-life. Not one of us survives except by killing and eating living things.
The concept of a human eating meat being evil is simply silly, making any omnivore or carnivore evil, and only frank vegans as non-evil.
And for what it is worth, the vegan diet is the diet of a prey species.
Capitalism without any sort or moral structure destroys itself.
I agree, it probably does. The questions are, though, how long will that take, and how much collateral damage will occur in the meantime? Also doesn't help if the government doesn't punish corporations for being bad, or worse, encourages them.
What happens is Capitalism is destroyed and turned into corporatism as soon as the market selects a winner. The issue with greed is that the winners are often endowed with huge amounts of greed, and do not want competition, and want nothing less than total control.
The problem with that kind of pathological greed is that it has no concept of when to stop. It wants all of the money. Instead of harnessing the greed for good, it wants to gut those that initially supported it.
If the USA continues on it's present path, after the most greedy are finished turning the country into a bananna Republic, they will turn on each other. there is no money to take from the poor any more at that point.
Monarchs take some years to complete their migration cycle. A few years back, we noticed a drop in population. There was an extensive program for people to plant milkweed, one of the Monarch's main food sources. Here in the east, the population has rebounded.
Some folks have planted milkweed beside the roads near natgas corridors - a lot. The number of Monarchs flitting around last year and this has been impressive. So that bubble of butterflies should be reaching the west in a few years, assuming food sources in the midwest can accomodate them.
Side note: I often take the Cape May - Lewes Ferry, which crosses the Chesapeake bay between New Jersey and Delaware. Monarch butterflies often ride the slipstream behind the ship with us during the late summer and fall.
potentially, at very small scales (people talking about only room for one water molecule) electrons tunneling (due to quantum effects,.
I believe this is based on quantum tunnelling. Fowler–Nordheim tunnelling in tungsten and gold devices, while using Schottky emission in platinum device. Whether this is because of the electric field strength needed is lower in platinum device isn't clear, as increasing the field strength tends to favor FN tunnelling.
Its pretty interesting stuff, but will it work? That would be pretty cool if it does.
But I can rap so Hug school, I'm too cool to go back
Gimme the mic, show me where the huggin'' studios at
When I was underground, no one gave a hug I was white
No labels wanted to sign me, I almost gave up, I was like "hug it"
Fixed that for you, ya insensitive clod. There iz wimminfolk in here ya know!
What does this have to do with equality? This is about civility.
There have been many professions that have achieved a practice of civility without sacrificing value. I see no reason why software development can't do the same.
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Apple devices are designed to go "vintage"
I just helped my elderly brother with his older core 2 duo iMac. Can't run chrome at all and Safari won't bring up many sites because it only supports TLS1.0. The OS cannot be upgraded past 10.6.3. Firefox seems to work barely, but this computer is essentially unusable for basic home computer tasks.
I have a 27 inch imac in the same boat. I'm not going to whinge about ancient computers though.
All because Apple won't allow a newer OS to be installed. You could run Linux on a computer 25 years old.The latest Windows 10 runs OK on core 2 duo era computers.
Get one of those Vista ready machines form the same era and install W10 on it.
The old Macs run Linux fine. I put Linux on my older PCs as well. Considering the price of Personal computers today, I paid 5K for mine in 1990, and the fact that they don't have a 2 year window of use, it is amusing what people complain about.
And this 500 dollar "repair" is a little silly. On an iMac, you simply attach suction cups to the glass, and pop the glass off. Give the glass a nice cleaning (I like Everclear or 91 percent Isopropal, and pop it back into place. I never thought about it, because it is just the sort of thing you do for someone as a freebee.
For the bored: http://bored-bored.com/pc-whic... No imacs though.
Also I fail at fucking links...
Forward looking statement
I tried that link, and no fucking at all
We were promised hookers, blackjack and fucking!!!
For those that actually believed we'd have drone delivery by now, just wait a few years. Its coming. For those that knew better, there is still only a niche benefit atm, and individual copter style deliver is energy intenstive vs. rolling on wheels. Not even to mention other challenges. Plus, who wants drones flying all over the place?
I suppose if a person live in a treeless housing development in the middle of what used to be a farmer's field, it might make some sense. I'm trying to imagine drone delivery in my neighborhood. It's in a forest. Trees are pretty much everywhere except for the streets.
So Amazon's drones would have to fly at street level with the cars. At that point, you might as well just have a delivery truck,
I didn't say anything about MBAs or CEOs. You would be surprised how many rich people there are.
No I wouldn't.
"And if a person wants to be a vegan - they must tailor their diet very specifically and very carefully in order to survive in a healthy manner."
So it's completely possible to be a human herbivore. Thanks for making my point.
I made no such point, unless you have something else in mind. No one is going to simply go into the woods and live a healthy life by eating only plants. You need very specific knowledge and access to some very specific replacement foods. Perhaps you didn't grok "very specifically and very carefully." The sort of specifically and carefully that must be adhered to when engaging in an un-natural activity.
For the record, I eat plenty of meat. I just find your line of thinking stupid.
That's nice. And given your responses, I'm not surprised you find my line of reasoning stupid. It really isn't difficult though.
Human - Eat an omnivorous diet. Get nutriments that millions of years of evolution have adapted your physiology to function with. Naturally and simply. No intervention needed.
Human - Eat an all vegetable matter diet. Without intervention, insufficient nutriment intake. Diet must be supplemented with some rather specific intake. That intake must be known to be eaten.
Frank Carnivore - Not possible to adequately feed on an all plant diet. Additions of plants into food is dangerous.
Frank Herbivore - I do not know of research showing a meat only diet for Frank Herbivores.
Omnivores - Eat a mixed diet. Get essential nutriments from both meat and vegetable.
Now let's not go Dunning Kruger on us, mkay?
that is not the Chesapeake Bay -- that's the Delaware Bay
Yup - my bad!
How many wildebeest are there? 1.5 million.
Did you ever notice that in a nature show, whenever you see a wildebeest, something really bad is going to happen?
well-connected vagina.
Oh man - that should be rephrased!
As a person who knows a lot of rich people: that isn't true. Technical degrees and good for making a good salary and having a good career, but they people at the top invariably have non-technical degrees. In America (and probably the West in general) that is how it works. If I wanted "real" money, I would never have gone to engineering school.
You're sorta correct, but You need to look at the populations of the groups you speak of. While yes, the CEO might have an MBA, or the top lawyer might have his law degree, you are in very rarified air there. There just aren't that many jobs to be had. If you are a MBA graduate, you are going to be lucky or very driven to get that top paying CEO job. If you are an engineer, especially a good one, you'll have many very good employment opportunities.
So yes, if you have an exceptional level of drive, you might not need any degree at all. But even so, the very few careers open at the very top is a small group, and we don't hear about the folks who didn't make it there.
Being a male on a college campus is a rather unpleasant experience
Slashdot: Where you can learn all about the modern college experience from men who left college 30 years ago.
Next up: What it's like to live in San Diego, as related by someone who has never left the suburbs of Wisconsin.
Must not have paid much attention to me before - I've spent most of my career and worked on a College campus for the last 30+ years. Retired and recently went back.
Next up - silly little Anonymous Cowards with overactive imaginations making up shit.
Your move.
You apparently missed the part when I stated "for all practical purposes".
"...and has nothing to do with what we are actually designed to eat." ...And we're designed to eat plants. Yes, we can eat meat as well but we are certainly designed to eat plants. I don't think I'm getting your point there.
We are designed - we have evolved, to eat both plants and meat. This is the very essence of an omnivore. Not exclusively plants, and not exclusively meat. There are specific nutriments that humans need to live in a healthy manner. And if a person wants to be a vegan - they must tailor their diet very specifically and very carefully in order to survive in a healthy manner.
There is nothing inherent about being human. There's no such thing as "human nature" since we are able to create it as we please.
"Human nature" you're quoting something I didn't write by the way - is the least of this matter.
This is more in the realm of biochemistry. If you create as you please, the concept that you don't need air, or can live by eating sawdust, you won't survive no matter what you please.
Certain enzymes are needed. Certain proteins are needed. A herbivore doesn't do well on a all meat diet, a frank carnivore can't live on a all vegetable diet.
Omnivores evolved to use and need a mixture of plant and meat. But they likewise do not do well on only one or the other. No matter what we decide as we please.
"No moral choice can re-sequence your DNA and magically turn you into an herbivore".
While a vegetarian is certainly still capable of being an omnivore if someone only eats plants then for all practical purposes they are an herbivore. We're animals capable of free thought, no DNA re-sequencing necessary,
Your rationale is something that might be used to promote breatharianism.
Fixed the quotes for you.
Rick is still correct. Humans are simply not designed to be vegans, or even vegetarians. Yes, a person can make a choice that they only eat a certain thing. One of the vegans I actually liked was a fruitarian - she made the choice to only eat fruits. But the choice she made - or anyone who defines themselves by what they eat - is made by a moral or preferential choice, and has nothing to do with what we are actually designed to eat.
I lost contact with her several years ago, I hope she went away from that diet, because that can't be healthy.
It certainly can. The lifetime earning increase from a college degree very often substantially outweighs the cost of tuition. Not to mention that there are quite a few jobs you simple cannot get without having earned a college degree.
That "often" is the operative term. There are some degrees that do have good value. Your engineering is a good example.
But not everyone is cut out for that. I'm sure you remember spending nights in the lab or library while the cool kids were out punishing their livers.
If Universities were to eliminate all of the useless majors, they'd be a lot smaller of places. I'm not suggesting that they be eliminated, more that people choose their majors more carefully, and not expect to make a non-academic career out of say, a doctorate in Philosophy.
So many others might best be described as pecuniary extraction. Unless one is planning on going the whole way to a doctorate, then replacing instructor, you're getting nothing of worth.
As well, the single minded obsession with getting a degree allowed some amazing tuition inflation.
The tuition inflation allowed adding multiple layers of middle management, and as the story notes, groups that had nothing to do with education.
So there is the price gouging.
Some other things started happening as well. Universities were a place where ideas and different opinions were allowed to flourish, and tolerance of different outlooks was encouraged. But they hit a real pothole in the road by tolerating people who promoted intolerance of a far left wing variety.
So people like Anne Coulter, and Bill Maher were uninvited from some places they were to speak at after the far left kooks demanded they be excluded.
People such as Bill Maher, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Larry the Cable Guy all stopped playing college campuses because of the political correctnes demands. As Maher put it (paraphrased) "When a lily White guy, a Black guy, a Jewish guy and a Redneck agree that colleges are a bad place, they are probably on to something".
Toxic environment.
Being a male on a college campus is a rather unpleasant experience. You have to pay for "classes" where you are told just how evil a rapist you are, and that your future depends on your strict obedience. What is more, those things that can get your future destroyed are rather ambiguous. To cap it off, there is no due process. If you and a female engage in anything while both drinking, she cannot give consent. But for some reason, you can. The results are a confusing mine field for male students.
So at this time, we are seeing something like a 67 percent female enrolment in college. The males have made their decision to avoid that toxic environment. As male attendance drops, the people remaining get angrier and angrier, and the way a man sits is now worthy of outrage and hatred. You mean I'm supposed to pay for that abuse? The interesting part is that as some of these career women hit their mid to late 30's they want to settle down, find a man, and start fertilization therapy. But they find that there are no men "worthy" of them. DDG "where have all the good men gone" to see the laments of modern professional women.
They want to settle down, but unfortunately, there are no men that measure up. In true far left feminist fashion, they are trying some of the same tactics that drove men away in the first place.
Reminds me of the old saying "The floggings shall continue until morale improves"
So back to the original part of my post, outside of a few majors, college is not remotely worth it. As well, it takes advantage of many women who after its over, find themselves in possession of worthless degrees consisting of giving your opinion, and that only inflate their egos, then deprives them of normal life relationships and activities.
1) It takes 30 minutes to print a 100g "steak" which appears to be a little larger than a quarter. 2) No information on it's taste or consistency. Being translucent is not a good sign.
I really want someone to make a replacement for meat, not because I give a shit about the animals but because they are heavily subsidized and damaging to both the environment and our bodies. This isn't going to cut it.
I guess I'd try it, but it doesn't sound too appetizing.
Since we're on the subject of personal ethics, might as well give my own. I wish to cause animals as little pain as possible, but understanding that humans are inherent omnivores, I accept that meat is a part of our dietary need. So I eat meat. I enjoy it. I don't care what vegans think, and having worked with several, at this point pissing them off is not a negative thing.
But whatever. I like food that tastes good. And I've found some veggie burgers that to me taste better than a lot of real ones. The wife and I have them several times a month.
Oh - with a couple nice pieces of my home made bacon on them. Yum!
If I were to give my outlook on eating meat, it would be akin to the American Indian practice of thanking the animal that provided us with the sustenance.
All life is precious. From humans (though we seem to try to skirt that at times) to lower animals, to plants, to micro-life. Not one of us survives except by killing and eating living things.
The concept of a human eating meat being evil is simply silly, making any omnivore or carnivore evil, and only frank vegans as non-evil.
And for what it is worth, the vegan diet is the diet of a prey species.
Capitalism without any sort or moral structure destroys itself.
That would be in a similar way to which a nuclear bomb destroys itself.
Likewise the damage is not limited to the bomb...
Kinda. But if there is a throttle, it can be harnessed.
Just like a car engine. run it wide open, and it is finished after a short time. With a nice throttle, it can run a long time.
Capitalism without any sort or moral structure destroys itself.
I agree, it probably does. The questions are, though, how long will that take, and how much collateral damage will occur in the meantime? Also doesn't help if the government doesn't punish corporations for being bad, or worse, encourages them.
What happens is Capitalism is destroyed and turned into corporatism as soon as the market selects a winner. The issue with greed is that the winners are often endowed with huge amounts of greed, and do not want competition, and want nothing less than total control.
The problem with that kind of pathological greed is that it has no concept of when to stop. It wants all of the money. Instead of harnessing the greed for good, it wants to gut those that initially supported it.
If the USA continues on it's present path, after the most greedy are finished turning the country into a bananna Republic, they will turn on each other. there is no money to take from the poor any more at that point.
Some folks have planted milkweed beside the roads near natgas corridors - a lot. The number of Monarchs flitting around last year and this has been impressive. So that bubble of butterflies should be reaching the west in a few years, assuming food sources in the midwest can accomodate them.
Side note: I often take the Cape May - Lewes Ferry, which crosses the Chesapeake bay between New Jersey and Delaware. Monarch butterflies often ride the slipstream behind the ship with us during the late summer and fall.
What dark sorcery is this?!? Are you a witch?
A warlock, indeed.
potentially, at very small scales (people talking about only room for one water molecule) electrons tunneling (due to quantum effects,.
I believe this is based on quantum tunnelling. Fowler–Nordheim tunnelling in tungsten and gold devices, while using Schottky emission in platinum device. Whether this is because of the electric field strength needed is lower in platinum device isn't clear, as increasing the field strength tends to favor FN tunnelling.
Its pretty interesting stuff, but will it work? That would be pretty cool if it does.
But I can rap so Hug school, I'm too cool to go back Gimme the mic, show me where the huggin'' studios at When I was underground, no one gave a hug I was white No labels wanted to sign me, I almost gave up, I was like "hug it"
Fixed that for you, ya insensitive clod. There iz wimminfolk in here ya know!
What does this have to do with equality? This is about civility.
There have been many professions that have achieved a practice of civility without sacrificing value. I see no reason why software development can't do the same.
I'm not so certain. Go read #metoo.
Hug on the other hand doesn't really have the same warning value...
But "Hug" is sexual assault unless enthusiastically agreed to. Just because it is typed out makes it no less sexual assault.