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Too bad overnight reinforced concrete isn’t possible, because some car-driving adult baby will intentionally drive through them sooner or later.

Seems like it’s a yearly subscription membership only thing. If I can’t buy it and own it I pirate it.

Any Gameboy game with an emulator.

Nintendo doesn’t care about making their old games, nay, works of art like Golden Sun still playable, so I consider them free to play at this point.

If you need to monitor operational processes from within a browser I wouldn’t recommend Zen. If you don’t, damn, that sucks ☹. I hope you can at least install uBlock Origin in vanilla Firefox.

Zen, LibreWolf, and Waterfox strip Firefox clean of AI.

Zen is a feature powerhouse like Vivaldi, without the bloat. LibreWolf is privacy focused and ships with uBlock Origin by default.

Zen is my main browser. LibreWolf at work for stability. Waterfox works on PC and Android, but I only use it on the latter so can’t vouch for its performance on the former.

There are even more Firefox forks, but these are the one’s I use.

Zen, LibreWolf, and Waterfox strip Firefox clean of AI.

Zen is a feature powerhouse like Vivaldi, without the bloat. LibreWolf is privacy focused and ships with uBlock Origin by default.

Zen is my main browser. LibreWolf at work for stability. Waterfox works on PC and Android, but I only use it on the latter so can’t vouch for its performance on the former.

There are even more Firefox forks, but these are the one’s I use.

What the fuck indeed. I asked why in the comment section, because that’s her YouTube channel.

About 10 years ago a friend discovered Linux during his studies and suggested I try it out.

I haven’t looked back ever since.

Liked, bookmarked, installed. Can finally start using GIMP.
On Arch Linux pacman -S gimp will do, run and close, and then overwrite as instructed above. No need for Flatpak.

Why was I even surprised this is real: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115724141568860081

To those who sometimes feel bad by comparing themselves to “more accomplished” peers, the one-page CV on her website is clickable, it’s actually six pages. Then realize your peers or you will never match Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, so be kind to yourself. You do matter too, firefly: https://ncase.me/fireflies/.

She’s a one-in-a-century human such as Leonhard Euler: brilliant scientifically, ethically, and most importantly, still kind.

Quote from her talk Exploring Many Worlds at 35:31:

Q: “Graduate school is hard. I was once told by my dissertation advisor that it’s not how smart you are, it’s really how disciplined you are. And I was wondering if you could give us your reflections about persistence and tenacity in the context of advancing in your field.”

Sabrina: “I think the craziest thing is that you actually get advice like that. You get told things that no one should be telling you, that you’re doomed or whatever. So if I wasn’t happy doing this more mathematical research, that I should leave, and not that there’s, maybe, ways to change it. So I think that persistence is a tricky thing because, again, it’s like this cost-benefit analysis of where do you want your future to be, who do you have to deal with in the meantime to get there and whatnot. I think that maybe the sociology needs to change in that it shouldn’t be like “this is the way things are”, kind of that tough advice [tough love] type of thing. I don’t like it because it sucks, it gets rid of diversity of thought.”

PS Sabrina didn’t actually say “no” to Jeff “the unethical” Bezos, because she wanted to work for Blue Origin and held an internship there. Choosing theoretical physics instead doesn’t mean she flipped him off—however nice that would’ve been indeed.

“In June 2021, Reiner said that he was working on a 10- to 13-episode TV project covering the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The project, he said, would cover the leaders’ childhoods up until the point where their lives cross.” ―https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reiner#Political_views

Hmm 🧐.

“‘F the Police’ but who’s stopping you from killing me?” ―Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy

I do believe about 20% of police officers have good intentions and significantly more signed up with that attitude, not knowing that they protect the wealthy elite and crooked politicians more than they uphold democratic values and ethical standards in society.

Unfortunately, probably more of them consider such a career because of the authority it gives them. Therefore I prefer to say that “many cops are bastards”; granted, it doesn’t have an equally nice ring to it.

Holy crap at the dude tackling one of the shooters.

society is chock full of people who have exited religion

Where the church and state has been separated the fear of doing so is decreased. This is not the case in all religious countries indeed. Hence why public education, which is state funded, should therefore be devoid of religion except for in history classes.

But is that a problem with religion or with government? To some extent it’s both but the real issue is the ability of people to do violence to you with impunity. In modern society this is a feature of government and not religion.

It’s religion that causes people to want to do violence, the government doesn’t interfere because it has been poisoned by that exact same religion.

you’re free to stop participating any time. If you decide you no longer want to follow their silly rules then you don’t have to.

Sorry, nothing personal, but this is remarkably out of touch with reality. You frame it as being just as easy like not believing in Santa anymore. When children are raised in strict religious conditions it often means their entire identity and social structure is built around it. The slightest hint of doubt could mean negative repercussions, and wavering faith or leaving it has a high likelihood of being ostracized by the community. Not to speak of severe punishment. Moreover, brainwashed people lack the cognitive capabilities to question themselves. I’d even say the majority of humans struggle with this whether they are religious or not.

It’s a little weird to call out specific religions here for behavior they all engage in.

First, some religions have worse track records than others. Second, your imploration was to “name a more iconic duo”, which you got. Third, what’s actually weird is FGM and kiddy fiddling.

religions are bad but as long as we live in a world where they are voluntary

Religion isn’t voluntary because it’s perpetuated by the indoctrination of children.

Governments and telling people how they’re allowed to dress. Name a more iconic duo.

• Islam and female genital mutilation.
• The Catholic Church and little kids.

My grandfather believed in a Hildegard von Bingen based religion that got him convinced putting rocks under his pillow and following a strict monotonous diet would be good for his health. He died.

“Men will continue to commit atrocities as long as they continue to believe absurdities.” ―Voltaire

All religion should be a thing of the past. If banning something is the best course of action I don’t know, but currently it would be something I’d vote yes to if I could; unless someone convinces me otherwise without using ad hominems, nonsensical claims such as being racist, or any other fallacies. I simply despise anything that makes humanity dumber.

To consider antireligion instead of atheism
“The harm of religion is historically evident whereas the presence or absence of gods is not. Ultimately, the continued existence of religion is predicated on the indoctrination of children and suppression of rational thought. Therefore, I am against religion but not necessarily against the idea of gods. For all we know gods are computer scientists and we are in their video game.” ―https://www.arscyni.cc/file/antireligion.html