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[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

I’m old enough to remember a time when you could receive your messages instantaneously via instant messages!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

subsidize women

What does this mean in the context of fitness tests and standards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yup, flat zero.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It took a lot more than Reagan. Trump is the consequence of the last 50 years of Republican (and Democrat, but less so) politics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

No, as bad as Reagan was, Trump is infinitely worse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Oh, no, the consequences of my actions. I didn’t think I’d see them in my lifetime. This is so unjust!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Largely, yeah. I think it would have been fine if we’d stayed in the Iron Age. Things started getting fucked up with the Industrial Revolution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

LOL, the Amish Philosophy.

Nothing so crude. I simply think it’s better for the universe if we don’t propagate it, because we’re not a good enough example for other species to follow yet. It’s not about respecting “God’s” law so much as acknowledging humanity’s limitations. We’re a pathetic species, not ready for rulership over multiple planets, let alone multiple solar systems. My comment simply suggests I don’t have confidence we ever will be. This has nothing to do with the Amish belief that we’re better in a simplistic state; just that the universe is better without us in whatever state.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The ability for human beings to advance scientific knowledge further than it currently exists.

Something needs to protect the rest of the galaxy from us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There is some truth to this in that one of the first distinctions infants learn to make is “good/bad” or “pleasure/pain,” in terms of its ability to analyze its own emotional states.

That being said, it’s still an increíble oversimplification of even an infant's mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The G-2 will take EnerGel refills. Best of both worlds IMO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I understand. I was mainly just making a joke.

 

I fled Reddit due to the authoritarian mod craziness, but Lemmy.world seems infested with too much Communist craziness. I'm leftist, but communism is idiocy. Is there an instance that leans more democratic socialist but refrains from going off the deep end?

 

I’m sure MAGA approves of where its tax dollars are going.

 

And what is the evidence for it being a Chinese spying platform? Is it owned by a Chinese company? Is there any hard evidence? Why is it so controversial?

 

Please, tell me again why we need the president to have the power to pardon as a check on our judicial system….

 

I'm a big fan of this guy's work. His previous films include The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman.

 

Posting this because I think it's an interesting examination of the overlap (or lack thereof) between atheists and general skeptics. It's worth remembering that the term 'atheism' only means a rejection of theistic beliefs; non-theistic beliefs that are nonetheless irrational and unsupported by evidence are not relevant to the term. And yet one can easily see why there is an overlap between these two communities and why many atheists scoff at other atheists who profess belief in things like astrology, ghosts, reincarnation, etc.

I'm definitely one of those who doesn't believe in anything supernatural, but I've certainly met atheists who do. It's worth remembering the two groups aren't synonymous.

 
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