[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Probably not Ankh-Morpork, because Vetenari is nothing if not competent.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Reality is a team sport, to some people. They don't mean things when they say words. They're just signalling loyalty to their ingroup hierarchy, and playing a dominance game where they get to decide what's true. It's not a judgement call. In their worldview there is no objective means to evaluate claims. There's just whatever their guy says, and whatever our guy says, and their guy is right because he's their guy.

So please stop falling for it when they declare themselves fiscal experts. They don't give the slightest shit. They're just shuffling cards. It's another song and dance they do, to grasp for narrative legitimacy. Nothing else exists in their moral universe.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Considering I've seen it printed on booty shorts, yeah, probably not.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

I only recently tossed a Handbook Of Christian Apologetics by Tacelli & Kreeft. I was never devout, let alone outright brainwashed into anti-science nonsense, but at the cusp of my reddit atheist phase I figured a question this big deserved a fair shake. So I got a big ol' book of the best arguments anyone had. They all sucked. So that was that.

The one that made me put the book down and go 'yep, atheist' was "the argument from magic." You think about moving your hand. Your hand moves by thought alone. Magic! Therefore, Jesus. I fucking wish I was exaggerating.

Took another decade to figure out the people pushing these arguments don't actually give a shit about being right. The point is performing loyalty to the ingroup. There's a conclusion, and it comes from people above you, so your job is to make whatever mouth noises get there. A monotheistic god is only the purest expression of that tribalist worldview.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

All while aiming to be cash you can e-mail, and failing at that because its high volatility and low speed make it a completely artificial commodities market with nearly zero real-world applications. It's a technology that took off because Paypal is the devil and it is arguably worse.

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

Ban them.

Get rid of the entire business model. It's an abuse. Games make you value arbitrary worthless nonsense - that is what makes them games. Attaching a dollar price to that imaginary form of value is a scam.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

That is not what Firefox has done.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Linking to another instance is kind of silly.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Sodium-ion batteries are likely to be the obvious answer in another decade. Dirt cheap, abundant materials, competitive density.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

... by submitting queries to another website that only does what's ruining search engines.

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