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  • Ghosts expire once they complete their unfinished business. So any Neanderthal ghost around now would have to be spectacularly incompetent. Despite their popular reputation, Neanderthals were quite successful in their survival strategies.

    Dinosaurs can’t be ghosts. They can become zombies though.

    Basically we can understand ghostliness as a property of the tool-using hominids, and almost exclusively those which have developed civilization.

    Personally, I don’t believe in ghosts but their existence doesn’t depend on my belief.











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    4 months ago

    Geekandmisandry. Misandry ie. someone who hates men.

    Well at least you’re open about it. Many aren’t when they attack men.

    Here’s the thing about “toxic masculinity”. Some people are toxic. Women and men tend to express that toxicity in different ways. Attacking an entire gender for the behaviour of the worst is stereotyping.

    More broadly it’s part of the modern notion that we are on teams and that the other team is bad.






  • Agreed that it likely depends on the region it was bought in. For most businesses and government services I have found the quality of customer service has dropped through the floor in North America as compared to 20 years ago. I worked in customer service for years and it’s always been a horrible job. But it can be made better or worse by how the department is managed.

    Lenovo Canada’s customer service, shipping, and possibly quality control teams appear to be overworked because the result is slipshod work, ignoring the customer, and general incompetence. Again, I worked in the field and don’t blame the individuals.

    They are trading on their good name, and eroding it at the same time. Glad to hear it’s better in Europe.


  • The whole shipping, returns, and reliability experience for Lenovo was rather bad for me (Lenovo Canada). My Legion shipped with a faulty motherboard and faulty power supply. Bought in Canada, but I work in China. International warranty didn’t cover China so I paid for replacement power supply out of pocket. Then multiple usb keys were fried before I figured out it was my laptop. Back in Canada they fixed it, but jerked me around on the turnaround time. Overall bad customer service, shipped a lemon. It was cheap for the specs though.