Hey, it’s a used year! You’re going to have issues. Save a bit and just expect it. But remember that used years are reliable and parts easy to find.
But if you get the First Gen 2026, it’s untested! If you have issues, who are you going to ask? The guys on the 2026Repairs Forums? What if there’s a recall and you have to get a rental 2020 in the mean time?
The largest demographic group receiving SNAP benefits is white people, at 37%, so (tries to do math like a racist) 63% assorted brown people!
But what really sells it to the 37% of white people in mostly red states with poor public education are things like this article about some super genius trolling where the first 3 groups alone add up to like 124%. I expect that the 17% of people who do not report ethnic demographics are largely white in the first place, and have been gaslit for so long that they won’t report out of fear of being some sort of “race traitor” or some other stupid racist BS thing that idiots do.
lol, stick a couple in a police union hall and see how fast the privacy walls go up.
What a stupid design.
If you face the 5G tower or look at your phone trying to pick up 5G signal by broadcasting a 5G ping, that shit’ll bounce around inside this hat like a satellite dish, reflecting all around inside your skull until you get COVID.
It was never a widely used protocol, and needs specially designed HDMI cables to work. It was something obscure and just barely past experimental.
This is like saying “Security by obsoleteness” because you won’t get hurt in a car accident because you don’t drive a flying car.
Agreeing with @[email protected] that you’re not going to stumble into internet over HDMI between two devices. This is a zero percent concern, IMO.
Well, it’s really more that pain is part of the human experience. Suffering is our reaction to the pain. We don’t have to suffer when we experience inevitable pain if we are enlightened.
In context: Using Windows 11 is pain. Continuing to use it by choice is suffering. Accepting Linux into your heart and treating the inevitable tweaks like no big deal is enlightenment.
Not quickly, the atmosphere itself would actually protect us for a while (I had to look into this to explain to my conspiracy-oriented parents that a pole reversal would not kill everyone). But if the magnetosphere was gone for good, solar wind would strip the atmosphere from the planet over time, as happened to Mars. We would probably all have to retreat to underground caves and domed cities sealed to keep the pressure high enough to live.
Also Apple IIe to start then Power Mac briefly, thanks to school. Later at home Windows 3.1 - Windows 7 I think, Back to OS X, Back to Win 10, Win 11, terror and enlightenment, now Linux.
Knowing how awesome a computer could be with the Power Mac made me demand more from a Windows machine, and then understand early on the disappointment with Windows that would last most of my life.
Yeah, some of the rest of the team hit, some don’t. When it’s just hate preaching, I can’t do it. I loved the concept and topics in Better Offline, but Ed Zitron needs to go to a boxing gym and hit something for a couple hours and get it all out.
The subreddit /r/itcouldhappenhere is generally great, which is based on Robert’s podcast of the same name.
The first season of It Could Happen Here was great stuff.
Apparently not many anthropologists or people interested in history on Lemmy.
There’s a few options, and it depends on what you mean by “gods.” The overall category you’re looking for is called “Folk Religion” which means it’s not organized beyond what local groups chose to believe are the “rules.” Without more details, anything below might fit.
Animism is a starting point, in which you believe that everything has a spirit or is otherwise alive in a spiritual dimension. There aren’t gods, per se, but elemental forces are higher forces that are semi-sentient. So, for example, the Sun would be alive, Earth would be alive, the elemental force of water is alive, and each has some sort of sentience, but it’s sort of too high to directly talk with people, but you sort of communicate with feelings.
Shamanism is animism with more nuance. Gods, demigods, demiurges and the like exist - basically there are non-human, non-corporeal entities that operate in a spiritual realm, as do humans, so a shaman does negotiation as a middle-man because they have learned and been trained to be able to operate in both our realm and theirs. While not an organized religion, most forms of shamanism have similar rules and standards. Which is surprising considering that many cultures developed shamanism independently of each other.
As a sort of more detailed step towards specificity, you then have specific things like Native American traditional religion, Shintoism, many African traditional religions, Druidism and European pagan traditions, modern wiccan or other witchcraft-oriented beliefs, where local gods and spirits abound and are deserving of worship and veneration from everyone, not just having the shaman interceding on your behalf.
Slightly more organized, but not really, are polytheistic religions. Hinduism, Hellenism, the Roman Pantheon of gods, etc. Westerners think of these as “organized” but they really weren’t/aren’t in the way that we typically think. There was no main “Church of Zeus” and then after worshiping him, you go to Athena or Nike. A person and household had their god and they gave sacrifices, then also did the same for other gods if they needed their help. It was very ad-hoc, and sort of interesting, as the Greeks and Romans went around the ancient world meeting other cultures, they would find another polytheistic religion and not say “No, our god of war is Ares, and she’s stronger than your god of war.” They assumed that the gods were the same globally, and it was just the names that changed. So more like “Oh, you call the god of war Kartikeya? Cool, we call him Ares. You know him, too, awesome.” So the dogma is actually quite light.
Honorable mention for Taoism and Buddhism, which both can incorporate varying levels of animistic and shamanic beliefs, plus gods as higher beings that are out there, but not as high as every human’s inner Buddha form (if that makes sense). However, as philosophies-cum-religions go, there’s much more dogma and convention in play in some versions. However, both are Gnostic, in that personal experience plays a role in shaping a personal dogma, rather than having someone shout rules at you from a pulpit. I’m not familiar with the Taoist angle there, so I may be wrong about that to some degree.
There are subsets of monotheistic (primarily Abrahamic) religions that are mystical and are less dogmatic. Sufis or Kabalists or Christian Mystics. They sort of do their own thing, and typically are seen as maybe heretical, maybe not, by the mainstream elements of the same religion. This crosses over the last line of what you mentioned about dogma, but worth mentioning.
Finally, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is just about anything you want it to be, and there’s also a Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
I bet we’ll get that gift a bit early.
And a 15, 25, 35, 45, 55 year old…
Oh, FFS. Of course it is.
US Evangelicals at this point are one big core group with specific branding and associations that uses the mass of people that go to their churches as a financial and political machine, which their leadership wields to their personal benefit. Anyone outside of the mega-church group are marginalized, with some smaller churches on the fringes.
With the larger group and brand, the Bible means nothing beyond cherry-picking verses to make any point you want. No learning is needed, and everything is how you feel (how the Spirit moves you!) as long as it agrees with what the church says and you tithe. These people would appear as downright heretics to any Christian from the 1800s or before, and have more in common with the Pharisees that Jesus went to Old Timey Israel to call out for being dicks than Jesus himself. Prosperity Gospel, the idea that Jesus gives one money and power if they want it bad enough (entirely heretical), is a big deal for American Evangelicals, as is making a big show of sermons and prayer, something Jesus said was wrong.
It’s entirely about money and politics, selling books and media, making people feel like they belong, and wrapping people and their families up in the brand, making other denominations out to be not even Christian, so if you leave the church you’re abandoned. I’ve had Evangelicals tell me that Catholics and Orthodox denominations aren’t Christian at all, and that the Pope has Satanic symbols on his hat. Seriously. Conspiracy theories abound and nothing is done to discourage them, which is why the Evangelicals won’t turn away Creationist types, but typically don’t confirm that either way. Very little is actually pinned down in terms of religious beliefs, unless it’s something that is a political policy matter.
Since everything comes down to national-level politics and the whims of your local pastor, who often has a high school education at best, sermons can swing wildly around any topic, contradict each other, and provide zero real insight about the Bible or their religion. They’re entertainment the same way that Fox News is opinion-entertainment (so says Fox News in court documents to avoid lawsuits). Leaving space for people with mental health issues, corruption, schemers, idiots, and general human slime to prey upon the church. And it’s a constant parade of those types, pushing people to go out and say and do anything they feel like, and which usually pushes along the financial and political machine.
This is a screenshot of this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503 Edit: WAS a screenshot - thanks for editing the post.
Which is about this Reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1oiz0v0/youtube_is_taking_down_videos_on_performing/
“non-standard” means without a Windows account (gasp!) and on “non-standard equipment” - like, what a Samsung Smart Fridge instead of the ads? I can’t tell what that means, YT thinks I’m a bot, and can get fucked instead of me digging any deeper.
Replace “paranoid” with “highly surveilled.” Just say what it is.
Easy swap out.
The first one is like Mister, the second one is like “that, uh…”