The thing with “just works” in monopolies is that it eventually stops working. I already have terrible excel bugs all the time on my work computer. Left clicking a cell sometimes just selects half a dozen adjancent cells. You vlick something and all of a sudden the rendering just goes completely haywire… You have two larger tables open and it just crashes…

Things will only get worse from this, until the global economy will loose trillions to being stuck with Microsoft.

I am religious. I find the idea of purposefully bringing on the end of times strongly contradictory to my understanding of the Abrahamic religions. It is not the place of humans to decide, when the end times come, nor do humans have the power to do so. And the idea that purposefully bringing on the end of the world would be rewarded, instead of punished, by God is incomprehensible to me.

There is a narration both in Judaism and Islam, that emphasizes this:

https://bliis.org/essay/planting-a-tree-in-the-end-times-an-analysis-of-an-islamic-and-jewish-saying/

“If the [Day of] Resurrection were established upon one of you, and in his hand is a sapling, then he should plant it.”
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِنْ قَامَتْ عَلَى أَحَدِكُمْ الْقِيَامَةُ وَفِي يَدِهِ فَسْلَةٌ فَلْيَغْرِسْهَا[1][2]

“If you are holding a sapling in your hand and someone tells you, ‘Come quickly, the Messiah is here!’, first finish planting the tree and then go to greet the Messiah.” – Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai (30 BC – 90 CE),

and thinking alcohol is bad for you.

I mean there is a strong scientific consensus on that.

I can also recommend everyone to say goodbye to alcohol. Alcohol free beers can be quite good nowadays. The only taste i miss sometimes is a Whiskey where you can taste the smokiness but it isn’t too strong yet. Still not worth the negative health effects.

It is not limited to bacteria. Because of the hygienic conditions and lack of access for vaccinations Polio is also an issue again in Gaza.

Any time that humans are subjected to inhumane conditions it becomes a breeding ground for infectious diseases that could then spread globally. This goes beyond man made inhumane conditions and also into the area of disaster relief after natural disasters. Spending money on disaster relief is money spent on disease prevention.

Yeah, the article notes that Israel is considered a major counterintelligence threat for the US and is regularly engaged in industrial espionage, with a recent example mentioned in the article.

The feets are growers not showers

“terrorists” without naming any affiliation…

I wouldnt be surprised if these show to be Abu Shabab gang members and the whole operation was orchestrated by Israel. the Abu Shabab terrorist gang is supported and armed by Israel to sow chaos in Gaza, most notably to loot and resell aid with the backing of the IDF. Recently they also started to provide Medivacs to Abu Shabab terrorists. The Abu Shabab terrorists also have ties to ISIS, which seems to be a feature for Israel rather than a bug, as Israel also supported ISIS with material and medical treatment of its fighters during the Syrian civil war.

I can’t help to find it a bit ironic after Zelensky kept praising Israel and saw it as a model for Ukraine.

Now Ukraine is set to get the Palestine treatment of slow ethnic cleansing and slow genocide, which at some point will culminate in a fast ethnic cleansing and fast genocide after the rest of the world has been trained to look away.

So my parents tax dollars are wasted on you just standing here?

I remember in Battlefield 3 the Gaz jeep could swim, but only one map actually had the jeep amd water.

Man what is it with people these days?

"Hi, nice to meet you. Honestly this is the first time i go on a blind date and i am a little nervous. Anyways, did you arrive well?

Well, they managed to find someone. So at least in their time and place they managed to do something right.

For example, most religions tend to accept suffering and poverty as a given, as a test or as something that in general is by design. Assigning virtue to being oppressed …

Islam acknowledges poverty and wealth to be given in the sense that it is not by the virtue or failing of the individual that he or she is rich/poor. This is contradicting the neoliberal mantra, that it is totally the individuals fault and thereby justified.

Furthermore it is the duty of the rich to help the poor and it is the right of the poor upon the rich to be helped by them.This is why mandatory donations for the wealthy are an obligation equal to prayer and fasting.

God tests people with poverty and with wealth. Also Islam with its prohibition of interest is incompatibile with capitalism. Christianity and Judaism also prohibit interest, but a millenia long effort to twist the prohibition away eventually suceeded.

If in millennia every religion ever has been used to crystalize a power hierarchy in humanity (from the clergy to caste systems), maybe there is a reason. And the reason is that religious thinking and mindset inherently enables these hierarchies.

Again you are describing institutionalization. On the contrary if someone is steadfast in their belief, they will obey God and not the worldly leaders, if those demand something in violation of the faith. This also creates a measure for the legitimacy of leaders that cannot be set by the leaders themselves. So what the historical and current leaders are doing is to try to corrupt existing religious institutions or build institutions so they can be corrupted. The hierarchy is inserted into the religiom by existing hierachies.

To further argue that point. What became of Soviet Russia? Maos China? Eastern Germany? All the other Warsaw pact countries? All of them were hostile to religion on a range from surveillance and coercion to death squads murdering clergy by the tens of thousands and razing places of worship down to the foundations.

Authoritarianism finds any tool to impose unjust hierarchies. And it creates its own idols to worship. Be it the market, the great chairman, the 5 year plan, the supreme race, the expanding imperium…

All these idols share one crucial aspect. They are geared towards material aspects in this world. And this is a great weakness of communist revolutionary thought. It chains itself to compete with the capitalists in the struggle for capital accumulation and distribution. Thereby communist thought is enslaving the working class to remain producers and consumers.

As i have written:

What we have seen over the last century is the result of deliberate meddling by outside imperial forces that promoted wahabism and other extremist strands twisting Islam into being a tool of oppression and riddling it with hypocrisy.

To your statement:

Religion is a form of institutionalized control and oppression, and as such is a fundamental enemy of the working class.

A common argument is that Jesus would be a socialist by todays definitions, condemning the corruption of the rich and sitting with the poor. The prophet Mohamed, blessing and peace be upon him, was persecuted by the polytheists because Islam was challenging their business model surrounding the idol worship and they tried to coopt him into furthering their economic agenda. Moses was liberating his entire people from enslavement under the Pharaoh. The Abrahamic prophets all fought injustice and corruption in their society.

I agree with you that the institutionalization is an issue, but that is an issue of the particular institutions, not the religion itself.

I am fairly confident, that there is more content on lemmy right now, than a person can sift through.

If there is more than about a dozen comments under a post, i rarely read all of them.

Labour won in a landslide after the Brexit mess rightfully fucked up the Tories. They do this because they aren’t center left, but a right/far-right party by their ideology now. They don’t have to do this. They want to do this.

The “Labour/Social Democratic” parties all over Europe have been sliding into right/far-right authoritarianism and Racism over the past decades, after many of them slided into Neoliberalism at the end of the 90s and in the 2000s.

You would have to cut off the UK government and politicians from the rest of the worlds politicians, rather than cutting off the internet though. The idea to make these authoritarian laws is the contagious problem, not the people using the internet.

you have mosques kicking off every morning,

Have you ever been to Southern and Central Europe? Churches ringing their bells every day. Villages being mostly dark at night, with the church being shined on with a dozen spotlights. Religious festivities including parades around holidays. Priests and Nuns casually walking in the streets.

Islam is noticeable in everyday life everywhere (to the extent that I feel that you have a substantially higher religious freedom in Europe as a muslim),

As you can see with the statement above, the fact that religion is “noticeable in everyday life everywhere” has nothing to do with religious freedom.

and if you do something that is socially (and therefore religiously - as there’s a nonexistent division between church, states and culture here) risque, you can also gtfo. so what?

Islam is quite accommodating and tolerant to other religions. Religious minorities enjoy protection and are allowed to practice their ways even when it contradicts Islamic law, such as Christian being permitted alcohol. What we have seen over the last century is the result of deliberate meddling by outside imperial forces that promoted wahabism and other extremist strands twisting Islam into being a tool of oppression and riddling it with hypocrisy.

Also we see how religious minorities are instrumentalized to start divisions and civil wars in places like Syria and Lebanon. Areas where Christians and Jews have lived for Millennia and built vibrant communities, with religious tensions being the rare exception. Or looking at Iberian Peninsula, where the Jewish community fared well for centuries under Islamic governance, until the Christian conquerors slaughtered them and forced them into conversion and hiding like the Muslims.

Finally the western nation state model is incompatible with Islamic governance, but again was imposed upon Muslim majority countries.

About 20-30% of the people enslaved and deported to the US were Muslims.

The “Christians” brought Islam to North America by force.

lemmy is quite alive. Source: this post has 22 comments by the time of me writing this already.