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- Comment on Received an official government letter dated nearly two months ago... 6 days ago:
‘within 10 days of receipt’?
IDK about other countries, but they NEVER do that here.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
That’s strange, because the old pope was. I thought he was supposed to be the one defining catholicism more than anybody else.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
only two key events of the biblical story of Jesus’s life are widely accepted as historical, based on the criterion of embarrassment, namely his baptism by John the Baptist and his crucifixion by the order of Pontius Pilate.
Except there is no historical evidence of these events.
The only evidence there is, is that John the Baptist is an actual historical figure, and there exist AFAIK a reference to Pontius Pilate, although his position is unclear. But the events are NOT documented and neither is Jesus.The historicity of Jesus is a concept driven by Christians that have undertaken the biggest accumulated search in history spanning 1800 years, to document the existence of Jesus, and they have turned op NOTHING!!! Just the Mormon church alone has spend massive amounts of resources on this for more than a century. Obviously the Catholic church is by far in the lead, since they are both the oldest and most wealthy of all.
There are at least fourteen independent sources for the historicity of Jesus from multiple authors
No there are not, not a single one is contemporary, and not a single one is first hand or even has a reliable source. This is required to be considered reliable historical evidence.
It may sound convincing on the surface, until you dig into it, and find out it’s all hear say, and it’s all created AFTER Christianity became a thing.
Also evidence for the existence of Jesus is just about the most faked historical/archeological thing there is. Because it creates fame like nothing else, and churches are willing to pay enormous sums to get their hand on it.I’m an atheist, but a historical Jesus almost certainly did exist.
You didn’t investigate enough.
This is a long piece, but it’s easier than doing the research yourself:
www.atheists.org/activism/…/did-jesus-exist/ - Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
GandalfNo but that’s because Lord of the Rings is way more consistent than the Bible is.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
That sounds like a cool priest, but unfortunately Catholicism is still against gay marriage, meaning they are still discriminating.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
There is no evidence Jesus ever existed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Everybody farts, the gasses released are a result of digestion, and even though not all foods or bacteria in the stomach are equal, they all release gas at some level, which results in occasional farts.
Eating fats and protein creates less gas than eating carbs. But it is never zero. - Comment on The number of manipulative, disinformation posts on lemmy is too damn high 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m naive, but I haven’t seen this besides from spam accounts that are generally quietly closed.
The thing to do is of course to report it when you spot it. - Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s originally because of bad programming. It’s so incredibly stupid I don’t have words.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 2 weeks ago:
the guidelines that NIST, Microsoft, GCHQ and a few other institutions now recommend for password security
Because they are morons that don’t understand entropy.
Requiring at least 1 number increases entropy less than simply allowing the use of numbers, and then recommending it.
But most password queries are lousy at describing what’s allowed when creating it, and they generally don’t describe it at all when you enter it for access.
The second part can be crucial for remembering exactly how the password was created, because what is now required, used to often not even be possible to use! - Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 2 weeks ago:
Your password MUST contain big and small letters, and contain at least 1 number character and 1 spacial character, it MUST be 8 characters long, and it MUST be typed on a German Cherry keyboard between 8-9 PM, using ONLY 1 finger while blindfolded and listening to ABBA music.
This is because of something called entropy we never even read about so we have zero understanding of it.Making all these possibilities OPTIONAL would actually make for safer passwords (higher entropy), as would using multiple words separated by spaces. Then only meaningful way to accept a password would be to test it against common bad passwords, and test the entropy to determine acceptable levels. There is no good reason a password couldn’t be 10 words and at least 127 characters. There is no way that should stress a properly designed modern system.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Magnetism is always blamed as the factor causing these negative health effects
Better get rid of all loudspeakers then.
Even a stupid lightbulb has a magnetic field that influence you more than a solar flare.Most of the papers I read on this mention “Schumann resonances”, and sometimes “pineal gland” crystals.
Probably to dupe the gullible and uninformed with technical terms.
These people are probably either con-men or mentally ill.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances
Schumann resonances are the principal background in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum[2] from 3 Hz through 60 Hz
These frequenceies are very close to many other everyday phenomena, occurring in music (loudspeakers) and light-bulbs as previously mentioned.
my.clevelandclinic.org/…/23334-pineal-gland
secretes the hormone melatonin. Your pineal gland’s main job is to help control the circadian cycle of sleep and wakefulness by secreting melatonin.
So why is the main function of the gland unaffected? Also there is very little reason to believe these alleged “crystals” would be magnetic.
It consists of small crystals that are less than 20 µm in length
20 µm is very small.
From the above link about Schumann resonance:These correspond to wavelengths of 38000, 21000, 14000, 11000 and 9000 km.
There is NO WAY these 2 can resonate together, simply NADA possibility. There is a factor of 1 billion distance between them being able to resonate!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s hard to say, it doesn’t seem like the CEO of Apple being openly gay has detracted from the popularity of the brand.
And as we have seen with Elon Musk and Tesla, an unpopular CEO definitely can detract from the popularity of a brand.
There has been no such reaction against Apple.
So my guess is, that it is possible, but it obviously depends on the candidate.If you had asked a few years before Obama was elected if a colored president would be possible, I would probably have guessed no. But Obama proved it was in fact possible when he got elected in 2008.
I think if the right person comes along, he or she can win disregarding color sexuality or gender.
Of the 3, it seems to me that currently not being a man is probably the biggest handicap.But in time politics will be dominated by women, the trend where I live (Denmark) is pretty clear, women will most likely dominate within a few decades. Just recently all the Scandinavian Prime ministers were Women. To me that was a very clear sign of a trend towards more women in politics, and more women gaining leading positions too.
We also had a gay man as a pretty popular leader of the conservatives of Denmark. So it is not much of a stretch to say a gay man could absolutely become Prime Minister here. No issue whatsoever.
USA might be a bit harder, but not impossible. - Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but that goes only for infant animals, infant animals generally look cute to most predators, to give them a chance to survive if they are detected by a predator.
But I think the question is meant to go further than that, because animals can become part of our group as adults too. And will help rescue in a situation of disaster, and will also be rescued. For those animals the love goes deeper than just looks. - Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 5 weeks ago:
True, but you can have similar emotions towards wild animals.
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 5 weeks ago:
It’s probably mostly a side effect of our ability to feel love for each other.
As a group animal we have an instinct to protect each other that is born from love, the pet is included and has become part of the group maybe even family.
So in short it’s based on an instinct that helps the group survive, this is also useful regarding dogs horses and to some degree farm animals. For less “useful” pets, the instinct is the same, but doesn’t really serve an immediate purpose. Except maybe it can be helpful to overcome hardship. - Comment on is it ok to call a woman “sir” in your opinion? 5 weeks ago:
To use the wrong gender is derogatory, not recognizing the person you are talking to. Or at least most would probably consider it that way.
So the answer would obviously be a very strong no. At worst you may ruin someones day, at best you just look like an idiot. - Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 1 month ago:
I agree, but technically it needs to be 2 quarters in a row to be an official recession.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 1 month ago:
If the US tariffs stand, I think the chance of recession during this year already is near 100%.
So my guess is that the financial analysts are betting that there is a good chance like 50% that these tariffs are removed very quickly. And by very quickly I really mean VERY quickly, like in a matter of a couple of weeks.The economy in many places around the world is already shifting away from USA. The obvious boycott by Canada and also in Europe by consumers, is only the surface.
To run a company you want stability, and companies all over the world are already seeking alternatives to USA, just as American companies are already seeking alternatives to imports.
This will stall economic progress, it will create jobs and take away jobs in USA, but the jobs created will be lower wage than the ones that are lost. American production will take over low wage jobs from abroad, and despite the tariffs making competition easier on those jobs, it will not make them high wage jobs.
It will make US trading partners poorer, so they can afford less US imports. And companies are already looking towards ways the highest profit US exports can be replaced. Those are all in services, something not even considered in the moronic US trade deficit calculation. But the area where USA actually has huge surplusses, and at profits often nearing 90%!! Those jobs are at risk now!
All in all it will make both USA and trading partners relatively poorer. But probably USA will be hit the hardest, as the outside world has a more than twice as big trading block than USA has with itself. If that scales linearly, USA will be hit twice as hard by their own tariffs than the rest of the world.
Personally we’ve stopped buying everything American that we can. And as the one who does most of the shopping, I was actually surprised by the amount of American things we used.
On a side note, USA has now forced EU to cooperate with China more on trade, something we held back on for security reasons.
But now that security balance has changed dramatically. USA is no longer a more secure partner than China is.
For instance USA is aligning more with Russia now than even China is!!I don’t see how this will not end with a recession for USA maybe already for 2nd and 3rd quarters, which I guess is the soonest possible actual recession (2 quarters of negative growth).
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 month ago:
If you consider Democrats left wing then yes, by far the most here are left wing, since by most European standards Democrats are clearly right wing.
Republicans are extreme right by most standards. Republican (MAGA) is basically an American version of AfD!
So by that standard I guess about 80% here is left wing. - Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 1 month ago:
I hate that kind of question, as if you are expected to live in the fast lane, and all sorts of things should have happened.
It’s probably not meant that way, but that’s how it feels. I’d probably answer something along the lines of: “Nothing dramatic. how about you?” - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That you’d have to ask Audi about. I just know they do it.
www.theuth.co/…/11102/ - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Maybe it didn’t have the limiter because it’s not specified to be able to go above anyway?
Congratulations on the upgrade, I haven’t tried it myself, but I’d imagine it was amazing. 😀 - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It doesn’t make sense an American standard would use km/h.
Article:
This limit at 250 km/h dates back decades and has origin in Germany.
You:
so vehicles weren’t faster than police vehicles
Article:
They reached a gentlemen’s agreement to electronically limit the maximum speed of its models to 250 km/h.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I find it weird that a rental wasn’t limited to 250 km/h. Which most factories do by default. In fact it should be limited to even lower than that IMO.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s way faster than most cars can drive. Even high end performance cars often have a limiter at 250 km/h.
Here in Denmark, the limit is 130 km/h, If you drive 200 or faster, your car is immediately confiscated, and you lose your drivers license.
Many electric cars are limited to 160 km/h.So in short 300 is about twice what most would consider responsible. The breaking distance is 550 meter or more than half a km, in ideal weather with no slopes, and a response time to push the brakes of only half a second. That’s almost 5 times the breaking distance compared to driving 130 km/h (113 m).
Just in the half second to respond, the car will have moved 42 meters at 300 km/h!! - Comment on Does not having a (mainstream) social media account make you look suspicious to the authorities? Is it a good idea to have an innocent looking social media account just to look "normal"? 2 months ago:
it really is just people being xenophobic everywhere isn’t it?
That’s what it looks like to me. Italy too AFAIK.
- Comment on Does not having a (mainstream) social media account make you look suspicious to the authorities? Is it a good idea to have an innocent looking social media account just to look "normal"? 2 months ago:
We had a similar party here in Denmark, that became second largest party of the country with 21% in 2015, When the government introduced tough restrictions on immigration, they almost vanished a few years later, only very narrowly managing the 2% minimum requirement to have seats in parlament.
The popularity of the party was highly based on limiting immigration, much like Brexit, Trump, AfD and AFAIK also RN of France.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 2 months ago:
I think it’s more about the fraud rate
AFAIK there is less fraud on sex pages than on facebook.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 2 months ago:
It’s a Victorianism syndrome,
oxfordreference.com/…/acref-9780195176322-e-1665
Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834—were introduced for the moral reform of paupers
Where morality has nothing to do with actual morality like in whether it is doing harm. But everything to do with government making decisions over your private life and your body.
This mindset is disgusting, immoral and childish. And it so permeate everything about most English speaking countries culture for some reason.
It’s a kind of a thought police, that has no base in actual morality. But in bodily inhibitions and insecurities, supported by superstitions about an old man in the sky who disapprove.So anything having to do with naked skin and sex is a nono. Even if it’s not actually sex but only loosely related to it, like being gay or trans.
If they were really serious about this sex thing, stating to be CIS should be exactly as problematic, and pushing the thought of marriage on children would be extremely immoral, because that too indicates sex. Which has almost become the sole purpose of marriage under the moral standards of Christianity, as it’s the only allowed form of sex.
So in short, the answer to your question could be boiled down to “brainworm”.
There is no logic or moral explanation, that doesn’t boil down to inhibitions, control and religion.