The philosophical architects of liberalism made an exception for savages, people too backwards to appreciate liberty. Socialism made exceptions for the bourgeois, people too attached to their ownership of the means of production to be beyond saving. Conservatism is built upon the idea that some people are better than others....
We’re in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I–an atheist and a skeptic–am told I need to respect these patently...
Because an invisible pink sky elephant cannot be disproved or proved with any non-supernatural intervention, you must grapple with the imaginary to address the issue.
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That's not how the world works. We don't spend any time grappling with things for which there is no evidence.
Atheism isn't faith-based. If you show me reproducible evidence for the existence of a god, I'll change my tune no problem.
You are not clear on what faith is if you believe atheism to be faith-based. Atheism wouldn't even exist if religion did not. Because religion and unfounded beliefs are so common, there is an actual name for not believing in a god. There aren't a lot of specific terms for a lack of belief in other things without evidence.
What you wrote doesn't even pass the mildest smell test: there is ample evidence that forming babies hear and react to stimuli from outside the womb, for just one example.
But even if there were no evidence of a world outside the womb, I wouldn't expect a baby to think one existed. Nor would I threaten that baby with damnation were they not to believe me without evidence.
Am I religious if I say there isn't a marble at the table? Or a walnut? I don't see one, I have no reason to believe one is there, based on how the world works elsewhere there isn't anything there.
But you're telling me I need to faith to avoid these beliefs in small generally round objects. I say it is you who is using faith to assume the existence of one particular type of thing there and you're claiming I am the person operating without any evidence.
Not going to agree with the commenter above, but I want to point out that this happens a lot:
A person who holds views that are detrimental to others comes to a community of those people and cries "why, when I am not quite like other people who hold these views, but agree with them on the detrimental stuff about you, do you not accept me?"
The people in the community try repeatedly to explain why holding views that harm others is harmful and that the person asking may need to revaluate their own views.
The person then says they're being attacked. Everything they predicted about this community is coming true! They feel like they're being kicked out!
And they are! Because when they came to engage then didn't change, let alone evaluate, any of their own views, the community rightly showed them back to the door until they are ready to actually listen and put themselves in someone else's shoes.
I am sure you feel like you have been badly treated at this point. What you do with that now is up to you. I'll say this: I have no hate for you, I would like nothing more than to give you some feedback that might help change how you view some things. I hope there is enough food for thought here for everyone.
For what it's worth, as a northeastern US liberal who has adopted y'all as an inclusive way to address people, this type of reaction is one of the things that has led to Trumpism.
A bit more temperance before you condemn tons of people based on something open for interpretation like this might be a worthwhile thing to consider going forward.
At what point do we start to discuss how evil the Russian regime is? I mean, this is feeling like we are approaching the lines in the sand that we drew after WWII, if we haven't already blown past them.
I have no desire to lose more lives, but this is evil. How can any country support Russia in this?
FWIW: these types of password rules are discouraged by NIST -
Eliminate Periodic Resets
Many companies ask their users to reset their passwords every few months, thinking that any unauthorized person who obtained a user’s password will soon be locked out. However, frequent password changes can actually make security worse.
It’s difficult enough to remember one good password a year. And since users often have numerous passwords to remember already, they often resort to changing their passwords in predictable patterns, such as adding a single character to the end of their last password or replacing a letter with a symbol that looks like it (such as $ instead of S).
So if an attacker already knows a user’s previous password, it won’t be difficult to crack the new one. The NIST guidelines state that periodic password-change requirements should be removed for this reason.
I see from this Wikipedia article that the fediverse has a LOT of other stuff going on like Friendica, Pixelfed, Streams, Peertube, etc. Does my kbin logon work across the fediverse or do I have to create multiple logons across the fediverse?
Thinking about this more and it'd make more sense: a Ferengi that believed in giving gifts would certainly be banished, maybe he brought his message of giving to Earth....
One becomes a significant person in politics by writing things like this. This is a Russian politician who is saying the things you want. Was only trying to help make sure you are aware.
Can’t just be me, can it? Currently 0 for 3 on interviews because I can’t seem to get past the technical interview/test. Usually because of some crazy complicated algorithm question that’s never been relevant to anything I’ve ever had to do on the job in all my years coding....
There are millions of small companies and shops that need engineering help. Many will actually talk to you like a person because they haven't been enshuttified to death.
Can you cite some studies for this, please? Preferably reproduced, peer reviewed ones?
I don't mean to be mean, but I have heard things like this and from everything I have been able to gather, there's no evidence for being able to tell how someone is thinking just from their movements or tics.
Reasonableness on the Fediverse is so fucking refreshing.
FWIW: my only problem is the with the pseudoscience, your picking up his odd behavior is totally correct. I wouldn't trust this guy as far as I could throw him, just not sure what we can decide scientifically from clips like this.
So I have an ulcer. I dry heave at least once a day and I haven’t eaten in 21 days. (Please do not give me advice, I hate it, I don’t want medical advice from people over the internet. At best, if you do, I’ll respond with a “thanks.”)...
I know you don't want advice, but I want to share some information that may be important and helpful for you: recent studies have shown ulcers are essentially an infection and antibiotics have some success in treating them.
For too long doctors thought it had to do with stress or diet, but it's an infection.
I watched Star Trek because my dad introduced me to it. I'm now a dad and I am sharing it with my kids.
I don't know you, and I don't know your family, but if your father liked Star Trek enough to introduce you to it, my guess is that he wouldn't want his death to take that away from you. If anything, my bet would be he'd hope it would bring you comfort and fond memories and hope for the future.
I hope you can get there when enough time has passed, and I hope this message might help it all hurt a little less.
Admittedly, I don’t know much about Brexit, but from what I have been exposed to, it seems like a decisively economical and political impairment that made travel and business with the rest of Europe more difficult and costly. Since it is so highly criticized as a terrible move, why doesn’t the UK just rejoin the EU?
The sad truth is it will need to get much worse until conservatives will admit there is a problem and let progressives solve it.
It has always been this way. You either live in a progressive, upwardly moving state with improving quality of life or you get stuck in a conservative, stagnant or downward trending place where people are more concerned with "others" than they are with doing anything productive as a society. As a species, we seem to slowly wobble back and forth between these extremes. It's maddening.
It wasn't an attempted coup, though, it was more keystone cops action from the Russian Federation.
I tend to agree with OC that these opinion polls don't matter. Putin is in control and until people closer to him change that, Russian citizens are along for the ride.
In Hong Kong there are many of us who want to preserve Hong Kong/Cantonese culture from erosion by CCP/mainland culture. For example, sometimes you can see a lot of mandarin around school kids rather than cantonese. The government is also pushing for schools to teach in mandarin rather than cantonese. Mandarin is the language...
"The West" is essentially the group of nations attempting to abide by a moral code. It is not always, or maybe even often, successful, but there is a vast gulf between their morality-based approach and what China, Russia, DPRK, and other fascist/semi-fascist nations are doing.
President Biden’s support for the Ukrainian war effort continues to be just enough for Ukraine to survive, but not enough for it to win. For Ukraine, this is like treading water wearing a 25 lb. life preserver. All your energy is required just to stay afloat; nothing is left to swim ashore....
Can someone explain how Biden is supposed to do this?
Republicans are tilting further and further toward Russia and away from Ukraine. Independents don't understand why we should be "spending" millions on another country.
Biden seems to be sending about as much as any current US president could hope to.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said he's begun treatment for multiple myeloma. He said he expects to return to Washington to continue work while he undergoes treatment.
I am sure I disagree with this man's politics, but I wish him well. He was also shot in the congressional shooting a number of years back. Respect to him for continuing to show up to work every day.
Hundreds of nominees for military positions have been stalled as Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., protests Pentagon abortion policy. The Pentagon says the total number could swell to 650.
Just out of curiosity, does Kbin offer the feature of being able to move your account between different servers? Like for example, moving from Kbin.social to Fedia.io
I don't believe so. However, it seems to me like the fediverse, in general, is less bad about you getting access to your data. I would bet you could create software that could migrate a lot between instances.
At least there was a distinction between web of documents (WWW) and shipped apps with custom canvas. Rendering apps with web’s DOM is stupid. It makes websites a mess and relies on everyone using the same monoculture of browsers (like we now have Chromium, WebKit and Gecko, all nearly identical)....
My young friends are forgetting the days of IE where we really did almost lose the web. It's been a constant struggle, always, against the corporate interests who only see the internet as a money printer.
I am more excited about the web today, with the fediverse for example, than I have been in a long time. Maybe since those days, when the future of any browser but IE was in doubt.
The Georgia sheriff has resigned after pleading guilty to groping prominent TV Judge Glenda Hatchett in a Cobb County hotel bar during a reception for the Georgia Sheriff's Association.
These people not being able to do the things they like to do anymore is why we have a growing Christian nationalist movement in this country. Don't let them fool you that what they want is righteous or just. What they want is continued power over others with no consequences for their actions.
Now that Medium has fully enshittified, and Substack is well on its way, where can I publish for free with good discoverability and no paywall? I've considered starting my own blog site using a static site generator, but I figured I'd get people's thoughts prior to doing that. Thanks!
No, thanks. The first comment, ok, I hear it. This one? No.
Until more of these start shaking out where the people get justice, the cops should not be given the benefit of the doubt. We gave it to them for centuries. Enough. Clearly they have abused and continue to abuse that trust. The default now should be that the cops are lying and trying to cover up their bad behavior: it is the most common thing we see in these situations.
The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence.
Alternate take: look at these fucks trying their same old bullshit and now they're getting caught. Makes the other assholes doing this stuff start to worry a bit more. "There but for the grace of God..."
Respect should extend to everyone. No exceptions.
The philosophical architects of liberalism made an exception for savages, people too backwards to appreciate liberty. Socialism made exceptions for the bourgeois, people too attached to their ownership of the means of production to be beyond saving. Conservatism is built upon the idea that some people are better than others....
WordPress now offers official support for ActivityPub (www.theverge.com)
Mastodon audiences will be able to interact with blog posts.
Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected.
We’re in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I–an atheist and a skeptic–am told I need to respect these patently...
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I love the linux community, never change (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
y'all is such a great and incusive word, I love it. (kbin.social)
And that word is coming from an area known for bigotry.
Ukrainian parents invited to ‘collect their children’ from Russia - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov invited Ukrainian parents to "collect their children" taken from Ukraine amid the ongoing war.
I will burn your servers to the ground, foul villain (startrek.website)
Unity: disappointed at how removal ToS has been framed. We removed it way before the pricing change was announced not because we didn't want people to see it. (twitter.com)
What can I do with my kbin logon besides veiw kbin and lemmy? (kbin.social)
I see from this Wikipedia article that the fediverse has a LOT of other stuff going on like Friendica, Pixelfed, Streams, Peertube, etc. Does my kbin logon work across the fediverse or do I have to create multiple logons across the fediverse?
Burn 🔥 (lemmygrad.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/1977279...
Cult Classic '80s Fantasy Being Rebooted By JJ Abrams (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)
If you're worried that J.J. Abrams will eventually reboot every movie you loved when you were younger, well we've got some bad news...
We've already had visitors from Qo'nos (startrek.website)
Ukraine's Alternate Win Condition: Inside the Gamble on the War of Attrition (www.youtube.com)
The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades.
Can’t just be me, can it? Currently 0 for 3 on interviews because I can’t seem to get past the technical interview/test. Usually because of some crazy complicated algorithm question that’s never been relevant to anything I’ve ever had to do on the job in all my years coding....
Shoigu's Statements Contrasted: March '22 vs Sept '23 (files.catbox.moe)
Can we talk about how much the American healthcare system sucks?
So I have an ulcer. I dry heave at least once a day and I haven’t eaten in 21 days. (Please do not give me advice, I hate it, I don’t want medical advice from people over the internet. At best, if you do, I’ll respond with a “thanks.”)...
Mistakes only hold you back if you let them (startrek.website)
Started Star Trek: The Next Generation for the first time last night. How big of an ongoing factor is "Q?" Because I kind of hate him. (kbin.social)
I also had no idea the top portion of the U.S.S. Enterprise could separate like that. That was pretty sweet.
Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?
Admittedly, I don’t know much about Brexit, but from what I have been exposed to, it seems like a decisively economical and political impairment that made travel and business with the rest of Europe more difficult and costly. Since it is so highly criticized as a terrible move, why doesn’t the UK just rejoin the EU?
Russia's Shifting Public Opinion on the War in Ukraine (www.voanews.com) Ukrainian
Is there a word in English to describe someone who wants to preserve a (minority) culture against erosion from a majority culture?
In Hong Kong there are many of us who want to preserve Hong Kong/Cantonese culture from erosion by CCP/mainland culture. For example, sometimes you can see a lot of mandarin around school kids rather than cantonese. The government is also pushing for schools to teach in mandarin rather than cantonese. Mandarin is the language...
What's a dead giveaway that someone is a bad person? (kbin.social)
What would be a good sign coming out of such people?
The US is Fanning the Flames of War with China (truthout.org)
On Ukraine, Biden needs to listen to these US generals (thehill.com)
President Biden’s support for the Ukrainian war effort continues to be just enough for Ukraine to survive, but not enough for it to win. For Ukraine, this is like treading water wearing a 25 lb. life preserver. All your energy is required just to stay afloat; nothing is left to swim ashore....
Steve Scalise says he has been diagnosed with a 'very treatable blood cancer' (www.npr.org)
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said he's begun treatment for multiple myeloma. He said he expects to return to Washington to continue work while he undergoes treatment.
With hold on confirmations, Pentagon says fate of hundreds of officers in limbo (www.npr.org)
Hundreds of nominees for military positions have been stalled as Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., protests Pentagon abortion policy. The Pentagon says the total number could swell to 650.
The 10 Best Pilots in Sci-Fi Television, According to IMDb (collider.com)
From Stranger Things to The Last of Us, these 10 sci-fi shows featured excellent pilots. How do the pilots rank against each other?
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (www.computerenhance.com) Japanese
Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen....
Moving between servers on Kbin (kbin.social)
Just out of curiosity, does Kbin offer the feature of being able to move your account between different servers? Like for example, moving from Kbin.social to Fedia.io
Flash, Java (if they were open source and standardized) was better concept than most of today's web frameworks
At least there was a distinction between web of documents (WWW) and shipped apps with custom canvas. Rendering apps with web’s DOM is stupid. It makes websites a mess and relies on everyone using the same monoculture of browsers (like we now have Chromium, WebKit and Gecko, all nearly identical)....
Georgia sheriff pleads guilty to groping prominent TV judge (www.fox5atlanta.com)
The Georgia sheriff has resigned after pleading guilty to groping prominent TV Judge Glenda Hatchett in a Cobb County hotel bar during a reception for the Georgia Sheriff's Association.
I find the slices of bread deeply disturbing for some reason. (feddit.uk)
What do people use to start a blog nowadays? (kbin.social)
Now that Medium has fully enshittified, and Substack is well on its way, where can I publish for free with good discoverability and no paywall? I've considered starting my own blog site using a static site generator, but I figured I'd get people's thoughts prior to doing that. Thanks!
Eddie Irizarry’s family say they knew from the start that police lied. Now, they want accountability. (www.inquirer.com)
Eddie Irizarry was killed by Philadelphia police and his family says the officer who shot the 27-year-old should face criminal charges.
Judge who approved raid on Kansas newspaper has history of DUI Arrests (www.kansas.com)
The Kansas magistrate judge who authorized a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom over its probe into a local restaurateur’s drunken-driving record has her own hidden history of driving under the influence.
Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify (www.axios.com)