No. No, it really doesn’t.

I want a vegan recipe that uses turbinado sugar. I get 3 articles and only one of them is a recipe. If I don’t like that recipe…too bad. That’s what they have.

Even if I do want it, there are plenty of free models that I can use locally, on my desktop PC. They don’t phone home, either, so Nadella doesn’t see a cent from me directly or indirectly.

You mean that if you convinced somebody to do something stupid…and then they did it and died…you wouldn’t feel guilty at all?

A 19-year-old doesn’t have a fully-developed brain yet.

Not versions. Distributions. They’re all developed and maintained by different organizations and are geared towards different types of users. It isn’t like Windows where your choice is Microsoft or nothing.

This means that different distributions can have a completely different UI and even approach things like installing software in very different ways. That’s why I tell people that if they install it and they don’t like it, try a different distribution. Or a different version of the same distribution. Changing your desktop environment can make a huge difference. Most distros push GNOME on their flagship version, but I’ve had a much better experience with KDE. If you don’t like the GNOME version, download and install the KDE version. If you like a Windows-style desktop, you can have that. If you prefer Mac, you can have that. Or you can do something completely different! The sky’s the limit, really.

That’s cool and all, but I don’t see how that changes anything. Christian Satan is different from Jewish Satan.

Sure, but we’re talking about Satan within Christian mythology, not Judaism.

You should read Revolt of the Angels.

Have you read the Bible? The only evil shit that Satan does is when he fucks up Job’s life, and that’s in collusion with God. Meanwhile, God is doing evil on almost every page of the Old Testament.

The reason we’re supposed to hate Satan is because he rebelled against God. Again, if you’ve read the Old Testament, you have dozens of good reasons to rebel against God.

This train of thought is what lead to the creation of Satanism as a literary movement in the 19th century and then as a religion in the late 20th century.

Oh shit yeah. Fuck all of that.

Then asking them to clean their dishes and having them argue with you…

It’s more like having only one pair of shoes. There isn’t usually a compelling reason to change them frequently, so you only need one.

And then sell you the cure.

My favorite was the boss who told me that I just had to put myself out there. This after blaming me for not being at a meeting which no one had told me about. So, I guess if you’re being kept out of the loop on important work stuff, it’s your own fault because you have a bad attitude.

Speaking as a Satanist: we don’t believe in Heaven, Hell, or an afterlife, so we’re very much anti-apocalypse. This world is the only one we’ve got, so we don’t want it to end.

The only good that prayer can do is as a mindfulness exercise, and there aren’t any shortcuts for those.

So that’s what those are for? That’s like saying “I don’t need to go running. Look, I can just draw a stick figure in this book, flip the pages, and he runs for me!”

That thing would make me want to start praying if it’s very existence didn’t prove that there was no god.

What’s wrong with effective altruism?

I don’t know how you could read the Bible and not think that’s where those are fuckers are going.

Apocalyptic religions? Where the apocalypse is a good thing? Those are scary.