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- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 day ago:
Yo why does the “Chad” in this meme look like Jeffrey Epstein?
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 2 days ago:
This is a math problem. $1/hr for 40 hr/wk, 52 wk/yr for 10,000 employees = $20.8 million per year. If a company can prevent that with $20 million in one time anti union spending then they will because it’s simply cheaper to do so.
- Comment on I might actually be a respectable member of society 3 days ago:
Why does every comment section on Lemmy seem to have at least one person who seems to have never gone outside
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 3 days ago:
I recommend Mint if it’s your first time. It’s really easy to set up and use and there are thousands of guides online for fixing any issues you encounter with it. I do not recommend Bazzite like others are recommending because you literally can’t change anything with it. That is fine if everything works out of the box and you’re basically just using it for gaming, but if literally anything is wrong with your install or you have a device where the drivers that come with Bazzite don’t work, you literally can’t fix it. Not as in “it’s really difficult” I mean it literally won’t let you do it. Updating drivers on Linux is notoriously frustrating, but it’s very often required especially if you have older USB peripherals you want to use.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
Legitimately I think it’s because Gen Z and below are horribly anxious and not very social. We really fucked these kids’ confidence over at every opportunity and now we’re wondering why they’re not going out to parties and stuff and why they’re not really dating.
- Comment on thank you fb 1 week ago:
Anyway, these people aren’t following established Biblical lore, they’re totally brain melted from 24/7 conspiracy content on Facebook and YouTube.
- Comment on Buttcoin 1 week ago:
While it is true that Bitcoin is bad at being a currency, it was definitely intended to be one from the beginning. The people who created it and early adopters had weird libertarian beliefs about currency and intrinsic value. Bitcoin was supposed to be like a digital version of the gold standard rather than a modern fiat currency. Of course, this has a lot of problems and there is a reason nobody uses the gold standard anymore, but these people did actually intend for it to be a currency. The whole thing is designed around the ideological belief that scarcity and work are what create value, and that value derived from these is intrinsic. It’s kind of hard to grasp if you’re not immersed in the weird online libertarian culture that created and adopted Bitcoin early on but these are things that people very sincerely believe, although these days most crypto people aren’t into that idea anymore and you see it among people who buy gold and silver
- Comment on thank you fb 1 week ago:
These guys are so far out from mainstream that you can’t really know what the hell they’re thinking. That said, Leviathan isn’t actually an end times figure. It’s a sea monster mentioned in the Old Testament in various points. The most famous passage is Psalm 74, a song of praise to God, which contains a reference to Him saying Leviathan, which appears to be a metaphor for taming the waters of the Earth
Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters[d] on the waters.
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.
Some people believe that there is a reference to Leviathan in Revelation but it’s not direct. Anyway, these people aren’t following established Biblical lore, they’re totally brain melted from 24/7 conspiracy content on Facebook and YouTube.
- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 2 weeks ago:
I explain that isn’t really what socialism is about and actually engage. Most people don’t actually know what socialism is in practice and especially in the US their ideas are from actual propaganda they had in schools. Even self described socialists in the US often fall into the “socialism is when the government does things” trap and most people believe the lie they were told in school that socialism is necessarily the complete abolition of private property and money without questioning how that would even work in practice. I would say fewer than 10-20% of the US population even has a functional knowledge of what socialism even is in practice despite having extremely strong opinions about it.
Things like the quote in the OP are “thought terminating cliches” that serve to stop thought and dialogue before alternate ideas actually get discussed rather then form the basis of actual ideas themselves. For this one in particular I ask if they have ever actually read what Karl Marx believed and if they know that even Marx agreed with the premise that capitalism breeds innovation and economic growth, at least at the start. That this is true is not a problem for socialism intrinsically. You’re never going to change someone’s worldview or undo a lifetime of propaganda in one conversation, but you can crack the door a little and maybe spark some doubt or get someone curious enough to read on their own.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 2 weeks ago:
This is why I am just going to pay networks of my favorite youtubers directly when YouTube finally gets too bad to use. I’m never paying for RedTube or whatever the fuck porny ass name their premium service has so that Google gets most of my money and Mr beast gets a cut while the people I actually watch get nothing. I pay for Dropout already and that shit is so much better than Netflix and other services. Sure it’s low budget but it’s still better than the slop all the big companies are shoveling out of their troughs.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Medieval nobles weren’t out there fucking their sisters- real life isn’t Game of Thrones. The closest relation allowed under medieval law in Western Europe was uncle/niece, and even that wasn’t universally accepted and varied by region. Historically there are very few instances of cultures that accept marriage or sexual relationships between nuclear family members, and the exceptions are almost entirely for a small group within that society. The most prominent example in history would be the Egyptian pharaohs, who practiced brother-sister marriage at various times in history because they were believed to be gods on Earth and were expected to keep the divine blood concentrated. A normal person or even a noble in ancient Egypt would not done this- this was exclusive to the pharaohs.
So when we talk about inbreeding of medieval royal families, the main source of this is repeated first cousin marriage and marriage between uncle and niece. Both are taboo in most western societies today but are still not actually illegal in a lot of places. The biggest example of inbreeding among European noble families is Charles II of Spain, who only had 14 great great great great grandparents out of the normal 32, and he still wasn’t the product of any brother-sister relationships, only cousins and uncles.
- Comment on Annon was an oracle 2 weeks ago:
Yeah literally the second episode is all about this
- Comment on Anon is an astronaut 2 weeks ago:
This is something that actually brings up a lot of interesting questions in Christian theology. A lot of Christian thinking specifically centers around humanity and the special place that humans have within the world, having “rational souls” and being “made in the image of God.” Therefore, it is not impossible for other beings to have been made with this formula, but it does raise a lot of questions. I think the multiple Incarnations is the most interesting possibility. Christians believe that God took on a human form as Jesus and shared his message with mankind, and I think the stance of the Catholic Church would be that this is a singular event - after all, it is considered so significant that we still use it as the basis of our dating system to this day. Aliens talking about crab Jesus probably wouldn’t be the end of the world for Catholicism though. After all, God is supposed to be all powerful and so if He decided to become a man to save mankind there’s nothing that would prevent Him from becoming a crab to save crabkind. I would still lean towards the Catholic church deeming that crabs must accept human Jesus and that their crab Jesus teachings are false, akin to Krishna beliefs encountered by missionaries in India. That said, Catholics also believe that Catholic teaching is so fundamentally true that it is possible to arrive at a lot of Catholic principles without Jesus having taught them, and so they would probably focus on how close the Crab Jesus religion is to Catholicism to try to convert Creezus followers to following Jesus.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 weeks ago:
Nope. This was mostly a psychological fad in the 1980s that led to many ruined lives from false accusations. Even the Wikipedia page starts off by saying the phenomenon has been largely discredited. Many people still believe in it but the vast majority of cases of “repressed memory” cannot be independently proven outside of the patient and therapist and in many cases are actually contradicted by externally verifiable facts.
- Comment on IV:XX blaze it cinaedus 3 weeks ago:
Less fancy
- Comment on dating 3 weeks ago:
This is the bumble experience lol. The man still has to do the real first message because the woman’s first message is going to be “hey” 99% of the time.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 weeks ago:
Eh. It really depends on the topic. I am a Wikipedia addict and I would never tell anyone that Wikipedia should be used for anything beyond surface level familiarity. Ideally you start with Wikipedia then move on to better quality sources. The problem with Wikipedia isn’t necessarily inaccuracy, but lack of information and bias. I’m not talking about right wing conspiracies saying Wikipedia is too liberal, but rather I am talking about things in history where a specific view is presented and alternate views are not. This is especially common in situations where modern scholars are questioning historically mainstream views. I suspect this is because the editors simply aren’t aware of these developments and are accessing more available older sources, but it can bring in bias. This can also happen in science and engineering as well. Plus there is the classic Wikipedia problem where some random B list Marvel superhero or star wars extended universe side character has an extremely high quality Wikipedia page and a relatively important historical to figure has a very basic overview. Wikipedia is incredible and one of the greatest achievements of Humanity, but it’s got some flaws and I don’t think that it’s wrong to tell students not to rely on Wikipedia. It’s kind of like all the same issues with ChatGPT but way less severe and way more subtle.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 1 month ago:
I have a theory that Lemmy commenters are dumber than you’d expect and this comment section doesn’t help their case lmao
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 1 month ago:
Canned air is not actually pressurized air in a can though. It’s a liquid refrigerant.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
I own one, but mostly because I had a phase of getting into speciality honey and was eating honey every day during that time. It’s really the optimal tool for the job of getting honey out of a jar and onto your toast while also being easy to clean.
Also, please for the love of God stop buying shitty honey that comes in a bear shaped jar. Go to your local farmers market and pay what you think is way too much money for locally produced honey. Honey where quality really matters and a little bit of really good honey is better than a lot of cheap honey.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 1 month ago:
I feel like I’ve been hearing this stupid “PhD level intelligence” claim about every LLM that’s come out since ChatGPT was first released, including GPT-3.0 which it launched with. It kind of amazes me that people keep falling for it and not questioning how the new model having “PhD level intelligence” is both a true claim and also noteworthy when the claim is made about every new model.
- Comment on Nat 20 1 month ago:
Yeah that immediately set off the bullshit detectors. Everything else in this post looks stupid but that sounded like utter crap
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 1 month ago:
The idea is that a robot + guy in india to run it is cheaper than hiring and American
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 month ago:
As opposed to Airbnbs which ask guests to clean their own sheets and I guess use the honor system that they actually did it.
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 month ago:
Never book through Hotels.com even for actual hotels. Just look at the price and call the hotel directly. They will always price match because Hotels.com takes a cut of bookings through their site so they always win out if you book directly at the same price instead of going through hotels.com
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 2 months ago:
Honestly I know I’m going to get a lot of hate for this but from my experience the average Lemmy poster seems kind of dumber than the average reddit poster, or at least more anti-intellectual, outside of certain instances and communities specifically dedicated to tech stuff. I really don’t get it because Lemmy is more confusing to set up than Reddit and I always imagined people who were into the fediverse to be on the more tech savvy side but I’m constantly surprised at confident incorrectness and how much it gets upvoted.
- Comment on Drama 2 months ago:
You are thinking about this from the perspective of a normal person, not someone who is sad and pathetic enough to do something like this. These people are most likely deeply disempowered IRL and being a mod of a large subreddit is probably all they have going for them so they are way too invested in it.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 months ago:
ITT- a lot of people who are very confidently wrong even about basic facts about this.
Jesus flipping tables wasn’t aimed at the priests and church authorities, but at people who were based in the outer area of the temple selling supplies to make sacrifices and offerings prescribed in Jewish law (see the book of Leviticus for more descriptions of these sacrifices). Jewish law at the time required a lot of animal sacrifices and monetary offerings at the Temple, and Jesus didn’t seem to have any issues with these- after all, they were a core part of the religion at the time and again, the Torah explicitly states that priests are supposed to live off of Temple offerings (note that in this passage the priestly class are referred to as “Sons of Aaron”). So it would have been odd for Jesus, as someone who at least according to the Bible was very knowledgeable about scripture and Jewish law, would have been surprised at that aspect.
What he was mad about was the commerce occurring around this system. The Gospel descriptions of this event discuss “moneychangers” and people selling doves. These are people who exchanged Roman currency for traditional Jewish currency (which is what ancient monetary offerings were denominated in) and sold animals (and based on other writings in the Torah, probably spiced cakes as well) that could be sacrificed in the Temple on the purchaser’s behalf. As for why this made Jesus mad, that is up for debate. The obvious answer is that it represents greed and people making money off religion, but the large amount of sacrifices required by Jewish law at the time really encouraged this behavior just from a practical standpoint. Myself I think he would have been completely fine with it had it been happening right outside the Temple instead, but the Temple was considered an especially holy place, where God’s presence literally descended down to Earth to be with mankind in the innermost portion, which each concentric ring acting as a sort of “air lock” for ritual impurity.
So the problem was not that the priests were making money from religion (again, this was required by Jewish law at the time) but that these other people were hanging out in the Temple treating it as a marketplace rather than as an exceptionally holy and highly ritualized space. Understanding this is kind of difficult for modern people because we don’t really treat religion the same as people did back then, and especially from a Christian standpoint we tend to view religion as a matter of personal belief and not impurity that occurs as a natural consequence of things that happen and that must be cleansed before encounters with the divine.
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 2 months ago:
A lot of people live this way too. They just keep working and getting fatter until they die of a heart attack at 60
- Comment on IT'S TIME! 2 months ago:
Some do, actually. Most plants that taste good basically rely on being eaten as part of their reproductive cycle.