There is still room for "some personal spiritual thing" in our private lives.
What there isn't room for is the idea that someone who hears voices in their head might really be talking to God, or an angel, or a space alien.
There is no secret source of truth inside us. No voice of god telling us what to do or not to do. I meet far too many people who have this unfounded faith in some random idea that popped into their head. It is imperative for our species continued survival that such people learn how to think critically.
religious people do believe a higher power exists.. but everything else is optional
well now we're going way off track and deep in to the territory of twisting and distorting the reality of religion into knots, and for what? These religions' texts are quite clear - you only get salvation if you partake in certain very specific rituals. Why do such people go to such lengths to keep a dead worldview alive? If they accept that the rituals and the bigotry of the religion are irrelevant superstition from a pre-scientific age, why are they insisting on looking for life in the religion's hollow carcass? Such people also seem stupid to me. They should just accept that the religion they grew up with is built on nothing, there's nothing of value in it, so they should drop it, and move on with their life, as just another unknowing human being who isn't special and doesn't have any great purpose.
It's honestly fine to live like that and I don't know why you are trying to make excuses for such people. They are holding us back as a society.
You seem to think that there's a possibility that one of the Jewish religions is true. I don't think that at all. There is literally no way in my mind that any of them can be true. It's more likely that the moon is made of blue cheese than Jesus Christ really was speaking to god, or Mohammed really was speaking to a magical flying Jew. But if you call yourself a Christian, or a Muslim, you *have* to believe this. You are not a Christian or a Muslim if you don't think the voices they heard in their head were real and supernatural.
There's no leeway on that. It's not enough to say, "Oh but Jesus was a really nice guy, and we should copy him". You *must* believe Jesus spoke to God and God genuinely told him that he was his son. Similar for Muslims - they *must* believe Mohammed spoke with a Jewish angel.
If I find out someone I know actually believes such complete and utter nonsense, I simply cannot look at them the same again. In my mind, they must be either immensely stupid, or hugely vain.
Evil is a subjective concept that can't really be pinned down, but you don't have to look far to find recent cases of abhorrent behavior carried out in the name of religion. It shouldn't be to surprising when religious people believe that they are "god's favored people" and everyone else is going to end up in the fires of hell for eternity.
not “all the same”
It is a bit simplistic to say all religions are the same. I'm not sure what religion you're thinking of, but there are "peaceful ones" like Buddhism or Jainism. For whatever reason all the Jewish religions - Islam, Christianity and the OG Judaism itself - seem to bring out the worst in humanity. It's maybe not unreasonable to say all the Jewish religions are as bad as each other.
well, not clinically insane, because psychiatrists make an exception for religious people. Magical thinking is considered a hallmark of mental illness, unless it's part of established religious practice.
"I've been praying for a new fridge, I'm sure Jesus/Allah/Ganesha will provide!" -> healthy, normal thought
"I've been chanting to the spirit of Michael Faraday - who dwells in my basement - for a new fridge" -> crazy loon requiring immediate incarceration
A Frankfurt Airport worker has died of malaria after a rare outbreak led to six employees contracting the serious infection spread by mosquitoes. The Robert Koch Institute - a German federal government agency and research institute for disease control and public health - said malaria in Germany almost exclusively affects long-haul travellers who were infected in malaria-endemic areas, and that malaria transmitted within a German airport is rare. "The lack of a travel history can lead to a delayed diagnosis. A delayed diagnosis increases the risk of a severe course of the diseases," the institute said. The last case of airport malaria was in 2023 also at Frankfurt Airport, it added.
6 workers getting infected from one plane seems pretty remarkable. Does that mean multiple mosquitos were on it, or just one that bit them all? I suppose they or it could have travelled in the hold, assuming that remains pressurised for the flight.
Us PieFed users can leave (and see, obviously) emoji reactions to posts, and someone has reacted with the vomiting emoji. There's also 3 party emojis FYI.
Sadly the "Insert Image" feature seems to be broken on PieFed ATM so I can't show you a screenshot of the wondrous glory you are missing.
aww this reminds me of the time I took my cat to the beach. She was in her cat carrier and as we reached the beach and walked past the "no dogs" sign onto the sand, a lifeguard came running up to us, saying breathlessly, "I'm so sorry but dogs aren't allowed on the beach!"
I turned the carrier so the lifeguard could see in and said, "OK but she's a cat". The surprised and flummoxed look on the lifeguard's face was priceless, "Oh... well... Oh... I guess that's OK then"
Admittedly the beach is not a great day out for a cat and I don't particularly recommend it, but she did enjoy playing in a little rock pool next to us.
There's always so much money to be made running care homes - children's homes, nursing homes, halfway homes etc.
All these used to be run completely by the government, but they've been moved into the private sector supposedly because that's the only way to make them provide better service at lower cost. This article is about unregulated children's home providers, but even ones that are fully legit often fail to provide a good standard of care.
The staff at these privatised institutions always seem to be earning absolute rock-bottom wages, so where is all the money going?
You could try getting collars with just a simple bell on. These make enough noise to prevent one cat sneaking up on the other so at least the younger cat won't be pouncing on Paxton. It might help defuse the situation.
I presume the idea is that by separating the encryption step from the messaging app, people can be more confident that government agencies are unable to monitor their conversations. You know, by taking secret screenshots of the device or whatever.
But it seems to me that you could easily do this yourself using the gpg command line tool like so:
gpg --encrypt --armor --recipient <PUBLIC KEY ID>
This uses the stored public key identified by --recipient to encrypt whatever you type and produce the result in ASCII text form, which can then be sent over whatever messenger you wish.
I'd prefer to do it this way than trust some unknown 3rd party app.
You could even pipe the output into a tool such as qrencode to send your encrypted message as a QR code, depending on message length. This would allow you to keep the machine doing the encryption fully offline.
I suppose they get paid the same without the extra work so they don’t bother
a more cynical person might wonder if this is one of those studies paid for by "the industry" and that industry might prefer people drink the addictive variety.
No one can answer your question unless they know the internals of how youtube works. It's quite possible for the view to be counted by some other means completely separate to a user's watch history.
yeah Heroic is how I play my GOG games on Linux, and also the Epic freebies I've picked up.
Actually as a game launcher, I prefer Heroic to Steam - if only because of the instant start-up.
I'm kind of bored of Steam and its 60-second start-up time. Most of it is Steam waiting for network connectivity so it can confirm your account validity and connecting to Friends servers, which Heroic doesn't have to worry about.
It does seem to be kinda the same thing - "communicate your privacy preferences [from] your device [to] websites or apps. You could then choose whether you want to accept, refuse, or limit tracking."
But is there not a way for these advertising/tracking cookies to be genuinely blocked by the browser?
Would it not be as simple as treating every new tab as if it were opened in a private/incognito window? Well, with the slight difference that only first party cookies would be allowed to persist across sessions - all 3rd party cookies would be created new, and destroyed at the end of the session.
So much broken in the US system. A supposed representative democracy, yet the president is treated like a king - they can unilaterally make and abolish laws, can pardon anyone at their sole discretion, even their wife is called "the first lady".
There is still room for "some personal spiritual thing" in our private lives.
What there isn't room for is the idea that someone who hears voices in their head might really be talking to God, or an angel, or a space alien.
There is no secret source of truth inside us. No voice of god telling us what to do or not to do. I meet far too many people who have this unfounded faith in some random idea that popped into their head. It is imperative for our species continued survival that such people learn how to think critically.
well now we're going way off track and deep in to the territory of twisting and distorting the reality of religion into knots, and for what? These religions' texts are quite clear - you only get salvation if you partake in certain very specific rituals. Why do such people go to such lengths to keep a dead worldview alive? If they accept that the rituals and the bigotry of the religion are irrelevant superstition from a pre-scientific age, why are they insisting on looking for life in the religion's hollow carcass? Such people also seem stupid to me. They should just accept that the religion they grew up with is built on nothing, there's nothing of value in it, so they should drop it, and move on with their life, as just another unknowing human being who isn't special and doesn't have any great purpose.
It's honestly fine to live like that and I don't know why you are trying to make excuses for such people. They are holding us back as a society.
You seem to think that there's a possibility that one of the Jewish religions is true. I don't think that at all. There is literally no way in my mind that any of them can be true. It's more likely that the moon is made of blue cheese than Jesus Christ really was speaking to god, or Mohammed really was speaking to a magical flying Jew. But if you call yourself a Christian, or a Muslim, you *have* to believe this. You are not a Christian or a Muslim if you don't think the voices they heard in their head were real and supernatural.
There's no leeway on that. It's not enough to say, "Oh but Jesus was a really nice guy, and we should copy him". You *must* believe Jesus spoke to God and God genuinely told him that he was his son. Similar for Muslims - they *must* believe Mohammed spoke with a Jewish angel.
If I find out someone I know actually believes such complete and utter nonsense, I simply cannot look at them the same again. In my mind, they must be either immensely stupid, or hugely vain.
Evil is a subjective concept that can't really be pinned down, but you don't have to look far to find recent cases of abhorrent behavior carried out in the name of religion. It shouldn't be to surprising when religious people believe that they are "god's favored people" and everyone else is going to end up in the fires of hell for eternity.
It is a bit simplistic to say all religions are the same. I'm not sure what religion you're thinking of, but there are "peaceful ones" like Buddhism or Jainism. For whatever reason all the Jewish religions - Islam, Christianity and the OG Judaism itself - seem to bring out the worst in humanity. It's maybe not unreasonable to say all the Jewish religions are as bad as each other.
well, not clinically insane, because psychiatrists make an exception for religious people. Magical thinking is considered a hallmark of mental illness, unless it's part of established religious practice.
"I've been praying for a new fridge, I'm sure Jesus/Allah/Ganesha will provide!" -> healthy, normal thought
"I've been chanting to the spirit of Michael Faraday - who dwells in my basement - for a new fridge" -> crazy loon requiring immediate incarceration
Hmm. Maybe. How much VRAM you got?
6 workers getting infected from one plane seems pretty remarkable. Does that mean multiple mosquitos were on it, or just one that bit them all? I suppose they or it could have travelled in the hold, assuming that remains pressurised for the flight.
Us PieFed users can leave (and see, obviously) emoji reactions to posts, and someone has reacted with the vomiting emoji. There's also 3 party emojis FYI.
Sadly the "Insert Image" feature seems to be broken on PieFed ATM so I can't show you a screenshot of the wondrous glory you are missing.
aww this reminds me of the time I took my cat to the beach. She was in her cat carrier and as we reached the beach and walked past the "no dogs" sign onto the sand, a lifeguard came running up to us, saying breathlessly, "I'm so sorry but dogs aren't allowed on the beach!"
I turned the carrier so the lifeguard could see in and said, "OK but she's a cat". The surprised and flummoxed look on the lifeguard's face was priceless, "Oh... well... Oh... I guess that's OK then"
Admittedly the beach is not a great day out for a cat and I don't particularly recommend it, but she did enjoy playing in a little rock pool next to us.
There's always so much money to be made running care homes - children's homes, nursing homes, halfway homes etc.
All these used to be run completely by the government, but they've been moved into the private sector supposedly because that's the only way to make them provide better service at lower cost. This article is about unregulated children's home providers, but even ones that are fully legit often fail to provide a good standard of care.
The staff at these privatised institutions always seem to be earning absolute rock-bottom wages, so where is all the money going?
You could try getting collars with just a simple bell on. These make enough noise to prevent one cat sneaking up on the other so at least the younger cat won't be pouncing on Paxton. It might help defuse the situation.
I presume the idea is that by separating the encryption step from the messaging app, people can be more confident that government agencies are unable to monitor their conversations. You know, by taking secret screenshots of the device or whatever.
But it seems to me that you could easily do this yourself using the
gpgcommand line tool like so:This uses the stored public key identified by
--recipientto encrypt whatever you type and produce the result in ASCII text form, which can then be sent over whatever messenger you wish.I'd prefer to do it this way than trust some unknown 3rd party app.
You could even pipe the output into a tool such as
qrencodeto send your encrypted message as a QR code, depending on message length. This would allow you to keep the machine doing the encryption fully offline.a more cynical person might wonder if this is one of those studies paid for by "the industry" and that industry might prefer people drink the addictive variety.
No one can answer your question unless they know the internals of how youtube works. It's quite possible for the view to be counted by some other means completely separate to a user's watch history.
It has a pretty low 52% on The Movie DB
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10016-ghosts-of-mars
yeah Heroic is how I play my GOG games on Linux, and also the Epic freebies I've picked up.
Actually as a game launcher, I prefer Heroic to Steam - if only because of the instant start-up.
I'm kind of bored of Steam and its 60-second start-up time. Most of it is Steam waiting for network connectivity so it can confirm your account validity and connecting to Friends servers, which Heroic doesn't have to worry about.
It does seem to be kinda the same thing - "communicate your privacy preferences [from] your device [to] websites or apps. You could then choose whether you want to accept, refuse, or limit tracking."
But is there not a way for these advertising/tracking cookies to be genuinely blocked by the browser?
Would it not be as simple as treating every new tab as if it were opened in a private/incognito window? Well, with the slight difference that only first party cookies would be allowed to persist across sessions - all 3rd party cookies would be created new, and destroyed at the end of the session.
It's available as a payment option in Lidl's online shop, not in physical stores. Baby steps I guess!
So much broken in the US system. A supposed representative democracy, yet the president is treated like a king - they can unilaterally make and abolish laws, can pardon anyone at their sole discretion, even their wife is called "the first lady".
Nitter link with the video: https://nitter.net/TuiteroMartin/status/2080582764106063878