squaresinger

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 30 minutes ago

I've seen a 3DS in the Technical Museum in Vienna.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago

There's no proof for or against God, just by the simple fact that God could just not care and not get involved, and such a God would be neither provable or disprovable.

The only position that can be logically drawn from that is the agnostic one: "I don't know whether God exists or not, and I don't care. It doesn't affect me.".

Atheists on the other hand are in a position that doesn't logically follow from the evidence. They believe that there is no God. It is a belief, because it cannot be logically derived from the evidence. And there are lots of Atheists who live their atheism like a religion. They study their literature to build a belief system, to find evidence, to disprove others. They meet up (online or physically) to talk about their non-belief and to hone their arguments. They strongly defend their position in discussions. I've even met Atheist missionaries who stand on street corners preaching that God doesn't exist.

To respond to your quote: Not playing tennis would be agnosticism. Atheists are running around the field, following the players and shouting in their ears that tennis sucks. They are playing, just a different sport.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

"Don't have a religion" includes

  • Atheists
  • Agnostics
  • Spiritual but not religious people
  • Religious but unaffiliated people

Saying "don't have a religion" equals atheist is like claiming that everyone who didn't vote for Trump or Harris is an anarchist.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

Try adding up ethnic groups. If you count Jewish as a separate ethnicity, you get an estimated total of 225% and even without Jews it's still 195%.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

The voting in 2020 thing was probably not a guess or estimation, but a remembered factoid from reporting around the last election.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago

I'd like to know how large their sample size was. I mean, this was yougov, so I expect at least some level of credibility to this, but depending on how large the same size is and how biased your selection is, you can get some really weird numbers.

E.g. do the same study with some old KKK members or with a school class in a black, impoverished neighbourhood or with a group of CEOs and you will get very different results.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

Maybe they think all the trans people are in some other part of the country like New York or California, or maybe they think that trans people are so indistinguishable from cis people that anyone they meet could be secretly trans?

That could explain the paranoia that some people have about trans people. And also why people e.g. think that Daniel Radcliffe's wife is trans because she's taller than him (even though they have a child together, but then again, maybe these people think that transwomen can get pregnant.).

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

If JS is chaotic neutral, what then is chaotic evil?

All I'm saying is

"10" + 1 => "101"
"10" - 1 => 9
"a" - "b" => NaN
[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I recently joined a team that had no backender for a year and the frontenders maintained the backend. In this case the image totally applies.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

I once had a company give me an assignment that sounded very much like what you are describing. They said I should allocate 10h at once to implement a real-life task that they had and that their developers "already solved".

At that point I only wrote a handful messages with their recruiter and hadn't even spoken to a human there. I didn't even know anything about the team, my potential boss or the project at that time.

I didn't even answer back, just ghosted them. I'm not going to spend multiple hundreds of Euros of my time just for some assignent to maybe qualify for an interview.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

90% of the things that Japan introduced according to comment sections on the internet never happened (or never made it past the prototype stage) and the rest was actually introduced in Korea, not in Japan.

The Japanophilia is strong with a lot of people on the internet.

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