Do you really have to be a jerk? Or you were dropped in your infancy and you just can't fucking help it? Go seek some professional help maybe, it really hurts to see someone being so miserable.
Your litany of butthurt actually bolsters my opinion of the bozos at emacs-devel, who I've long criticized for hypocritically advancing emacs on proprietary os's despite their ostensible mission to destroy them.
You seem to think there is only one version of Emacs, and that its entire monolithic developer community is totally unified in its opinion and philosophy and mission, so you can accuse the entire community of being hypocritical if there is any dissent or diversity or competition.
I just wrote a long list of proprietary operating systems one version of Emacs ran on, and even linked to the source code proving it, which RMS opposes so vehemently that he calls it "Software Hoarder Emacs", and jokingly accuses its developers of burning his house down.
If you really think RMS's mission to destroy all non-free operating systems is "ostensible", you definitely don't know him or his reputation.
>ostensible /ɒˈstɛn(t)sɪbl/ adjective: stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
You're overcomplicating this. If RMS and his lackeys were so hellbent on ridding prop OS's from the world, they could move marginally closer to that goal by simply deleting w32* ns* and android* from GNU Emacs. That they instead collectively spend several man-months per year stressing about their upkeep means they care more about expanding their userbase than any bullshit notion of "freedom."
Sapiens is a bait-and-switch. It starts out great promising at least a
hypothetical account of early man, then begs off saying 30,000 years
is too long ago, and burns 300 pages on essentially wokeism.
Bryson's book is great, but it's wide-ranging pop sci, not specifically
about early man.
Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s
The implications behind gene propagation being one of the highest achievements a person can aspire to are quite unfortunate to consider.
Regardless, I don't think anyone is going to, say, avoid a specific doctor because said doctor is fond of Emacs. Same for a plumber, a baker, an electrician, a lawyer, et cetera. As a matter of fact, I have a hard time thinking of any profession where a fondness for Emacs may be considered a bad thing. Perhaps a software developer may have a harder time finding gainful employment if potential employers find out about the preference for Emacs, though that would likely only be an issue among a limited and specific set of potential employers.
Never in my 20 years of programming, data engineering, engineering management of games, search engines, dating apps and machine learning systems I had a problem of people not wanting to hire me because I prefered Emacs (and linux).
The opposite is also true. I have never heard anyone climbing the ladder specifically because they are "so fucking good" with [insert whatever IDE/editor]
Dude is saying nonsense. "Emacs users are unemployable" sounds like "Tesla drivers unregisterable" - what an imbecilic, utter bullshit that has zero sense to say. Ever.
I think all chess fans can recall Ivanchuk's recent mortifying defeat at Naroditsky's lightning-quick hands at World Blitz. Just goes to show no matter how devastating the loss, someone, perhaps even your vanquisher, is having an even harder time.
If life could be measured in potential moves considered, he lived
several lifetimes. Sad to see such a force of nature expire so soon.
Condolences to the Russian chick and their kid.
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