Yea, religion is made up and should be ignored. Just like currency, boarders, sovereignty, human rights, the concept of law, literature, art, and language itself. Brilliant.

“Heat death” is the popular name given to hypothesis that the Universe will continue to expand and cool until there is no light or energy left. Using the term for Earth burning up is going to confuse people.

Penis size is 99% male insecurity and 1% female preference.

The holocaust absolutely facilitated the creation of Israel. The Balfour declaration and Theodor Herzl are necessary, but not sufficient. In the aftermath of WWII and the Shoah, there was a need for mass Jewish migration. Meanwhile, “good” countries like the US and UK had strict immigration policies explicitly to exclude Jews. A ship full of Jews fleeing the Nazis in '39 were rejected by the US, Canada, and the UK. Eventually they were returned to Germany. (the embarrassment of this episode is why countries are supposed to give shelter to anyone fleeing persecution until the matter is adjudicated) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis

And that’s the part of history that’s left out. Western Europe and N America were happy to resettle the Jews, anywhere else. Support of Israel by the West cannot be understood without acknowledging the massive amount of antisemitism in basically all of Western Civilization.

The problem with Windows ‘debloat’ scripts is that they monkey with esoteric gedit policies and registry tweaks.

Any Windows update, even security ones, can break the tweaks, cause bugs, or even instability. And naturally the users have no idea which of the tweaks is causing the problem. Especially when its been months since you used the scripts.

Now “deep customization” can break Linux too. The difference is that Linux developers are not going break your tweaks on purpose. For example, Windows recently closed some of the workarounds to install Windows on a local account.

Microsoft decides what users can do with Windows. Company officials have admitted that they’re already coding the OS with AI, and that future Windows versions are going to be AI powered. The Recall behavior of taking screenshots to be analyzed by AI to catalogue everything you do isn’t being developed as a Windows feature, but a core functionality of the OS.

What kind of mouse are you using anyway?

My desktop is Fedora and I have a file server running Debian. I was doing updates to the Debian box through ssh and it took me way to long to figure out why dnf wasn’t working.

Training and culture is important, but one must remember that firefighters and EMTs do not have qualified immunity. Meaning that firefighters and EMTs can and do get sued for negligence and assault. They also have a “duty of care” while the pigs are not responsible to protect the public, enforce the law, or uphold court orders.

Dead Cells is a wonderful game. And it runs natively on Linux

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

-Marx

The big tech boys are all founded on explosive wealth created by innovative technology. And they’re all obsessed with recreating that. Capitalism demands constant growth.

So they’re always in rabid competition to grow and expand while also looking for a new market to exploit.

It’s also why Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet have all been the biggest suckers for AI hype. It would be funny if they hadn’t pushed the entire US economy closer to the precipice.

But with OpenAI, [Sam Altman] told me, “there’s something real happening here”.

This sentience strikes me because it’s a tacit admission that AI as it stands is way less valuable than people like Altman promised it would be. But trust me bro.

Onedrive is Microsoft’s attempt to make Home Windows users a revenue source by making it a subscription service. This has been SOP in smart phones for a decade now.

Not to mention that the prize itself was meant to whitewash the reputation of a war profiteer.

For heat pumps, the thing they’re moving is heat.

The police will often inform you of warrants and arrange a time for you to surrender. These perks and more, come bundled with the Founders tier of American Justice.

I reject the idea that there is a correct way to read the Bible or worship Jesus. I certainly prefer liberation theology to prosperity Gospel, but I cannot say that one is doing Christianity better than the other.

I used to be Christian and I had all kinds of ideas about what was correct Christianity. I abandoned all that when I realized that those conceptions were much more about me than they were about Jesus or the Bible.

And I think that’s true of the practicing faithful. Some are good, some are wicked, but the difference isn’t in how they read the Bible, it’s who is reading the Bible.

The phone was probably stolen from a protestor they were investigating and the bust was coincidental.

I had to switch to Linux because it wasn’t presented with any option besides Microsoft when I learned how to computer.

This is silly. A figure like POTUS is going to be tangentially connected to so many people, some are mathematically bound to be criminals. And “Spiritual advisor” sounds like something official or personal, like the relationship Billy Graham had with several Presidents, not one of 50 faith-grifters that pray over Trump in the Oval office for a photo.

Maybe the political media didn’t cover this because it’s not that relevant or important. Release the Epstein files.

Subscription > point of sale. It’s way more profitable to be a landlord than a shop keeper. That’s why everything is subscription now.