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- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 day ago:
I mean he literally murdered someone in the middle of midtown Manhattan (I know Lemmy is really into the “Luigi is Innocent” conspiracy theories but I legit think he did it). Even if you think what he did was justified, that doesn’t mean it’s legal. We can’t have a functioning society where you can just extra-judiciously kill people and get away with it even if they’re doing something bad. He knew what he was getting into when he did this, and knew that he’d probably get arrested and convicted. If he gets convicted it will be justified, even though I completely understand why he did it and don’t feel bad for the victim.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 days ago:
Even within the perspective of religious philosophy, the existence of ghosts in the sense of a spirit that stays on Earth and causes noticeable effects is difficult. Mainly- ghosts would not be made of matter, but could interact with matter. Within the realm of religious philosophy there are all sorts of explanations for the “mundane” version of this question of how a spirit attaches itself to the matter of the body in the first place, but all of those explanations kind of go out the window when the spirit sticks around and starts interacting with other matter. If ghosts only appear in sensory visions and do not truly interact with matter (I believe this was the view of Aquinas), then you have a major problem in proof and then ghosts effectively do not exist for practical purposes. The Catholic Church believes that the dead can appear to the living in visions but takes no stance on physical manifestations.
Within science, of course, there has never been a scientific observation of any supernatural being such as a ghost or effects it might have. But that doesn’t disprove the idea of purely spiritual apparitions. Then again, it also doesn’t disprove that Zorlon the Gorilla God appeared to me in a dream either. I think we can pretty conclusively say that you can live your life under the assumption that ghosts don’t exist and be completely 100% fine.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Cybercucks buy these shitty vehicles for the same reason they do anything - to own the libs. That’s the only point of it.
- Comment on Just getting into a little bit of Troubles 1 week ago:
- Comment on WMD 1 week ago:
The problem with railguns is that chemical propellants are just really, really good. The main thing that came out of the railgun project (pictured in this meme) was the projectile that can survive extreme acceleration and maintain incredible accuracy. It is just better to shoot said projectile out of traditional gun instead of the railgun because the equipment required to run the railgun is huge and the projectile will fit in an existing terrestrial howitzer. That said, the equipment size and energy requirements really aren’t a huge problem for naval applications, but then again you can do the math and find that an equivalent size of traditional gun can sling way more mass per hour than the railgun can and you can make a hundred of them for the cost of one railgun.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 week ago:
Because their real answer of “Because you dumb fucks will buy it anyway” wasn’t nice enough for the press lol. Seriously as long as you dumb asses keep buying old ass games from Nintendo for way too much money they will keep letting you do it.
- Comment on lelz 1 week ago:
Eh. The biggest trump fans I know are well paid blue collar workers who definitely have something to lose if shit gets worse for them. They’re just legitimately stupid people who refuse to see any evidence that Trump isn’t their Messiah.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps a privileged take but I’d be completely willing to pay way more for games with no micro transactions or other “live service” BS. Like if economics make it so that it doesn’t make sense to sell most high budget games for $70 without micro transactions then sell me one at $100. Video games were way more expensive when I was a kid and prices haven’t risen with inflation at all. Consider that Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time retailed for $59.99 in 1998 while Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom cost $69.99 in 2023. That is a 16.7% increase over 25 years, or an average increase of 0.619% each year. Meanwhile, average CPI inflation is usually ~2% per year.
- Comment on Anon finds a cool rock 2 weeks ago:
People were a lot less weird about stuff like this in the past, even in the 90s and early 00s. My dad gave me a pocket knife when I was like 8.
- Comment on Let's discuss the real issues. 2 weeks ago:
Zoom out those graphs lol. Precious metals are very clearly a bubble right now, and international stocks are mostly finally catching up to US pandemic recovery. The stock market situation is a little more complicated because major US stock indices are extremely top-heavy with AI stocks right now and being influenced by the AI bubble, but this narrative is not particularly accurate. Neither are Bondi’s absurd ramblings.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 2 weeks ago:
My local grocery store now has big ass signs on the door saying no dogs unless they’re actually real service animals like seeing eye dogs and that emotional support animals don’t count. I think they must be actually enforcing it too because it’s one of the few places I don’t see people’s fucking dogs running around. I love dogs, probably more than the average person, but they don’t belong in most stores especially because the overlap between people bringing their dogs into stores and the people who actually train their dogs is pretty small.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
Oh God it’s a Seebeck effect fan isn’t it? That’s almost nothing anyway lol
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
I’m 90% sure this thing effectively does nothing and just spins when hot air flows over it due to natural convection to make it look like it’s doing something.
- Comment on Anon is all smiles 2 weeks ago:
In the latest Epstein files, it was revealed that Epstein met up with Christopher Poole (Online name- Moot), creator of 4chan, on like the day before /pol/ was created.
- Comment on Praise Be 2 weeks ago:
Homie it was literally 2000 years ago and social norms have changed dramatically.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
Yo why does the “Chad” in this meme look like Jeffrey Epstein?
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Yeah literally the second episode is all about this
- Comment on Anon is an astronaut 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Less fancy