If they make peaceful revolution impossible…

Republican history buffs right now

Lol I was joking. He doesn’t need to ask, he already has ICE for that.

In other news, Trump reportedly asked his advisors today if he could do “the opposite of a pardon”.

In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude.

Any Chinese Lemmy users here to weigh in?

The best counter example I’ve seen is Shintoism.

But on a separate note, i believe religion has an evolutionary advantage vs logic and reason, as evidenced by it being so prevalent throughout human history. So in the most literal sense, i believe humans wouldn’t have any progress without religion.

In order to survive, humans need to build societies that can adapt to the ever changing environments we find ourselves in.

One possibility is to use pure science, logic, and reason: educate every child on the scientific method, teach them how to not fall for logical fallacies, to be skeptical, to demand extraordinary evidence to support extraordinary claims, to repeat experiments and engage in peer review, to create ethical frameworks, and have a logical justification for the actions you take…

Another possibility is to use religion: brainwash a kid on what “good” looks like, and show them how to put on blinders to anything that might threaten that. Johnny down the street is “sinning”? Make him stop, that hurts our society. Father Dale is touching kids? Don’t lose sight of the goal, Father Dale is a great man, this is a personal struggle that we can help him through.

Which of those two methods of adaptation requires less energy? Because when an organism has to evolve, the organism that can do it using less energy will have the advantage. Religion, or the concept of morality in general, is a society’s selection pressure on itself. The best we can do is acknowledge this, and learn to wield it as a tool. And I believe that many leaders throughout human history, both political and religious, understood this well.

Ah yes, a democracy founded on the Prisoner’s Dilemma. What could go wrong?

C&C Red Alert 2

I played it as a kid 25 years ago, but Day9 was replaying it recently and I had to go back and try it. It’s so good, especially the campy live action cutscenes 🤌. There was definitely a lot of humor that went over my head as a kid 😂.

Cost of doing business.

People who are interested in geography, geometry, cartography, political science, geopolitics, culture, cognitive biases, ethnocentrism

I maintain that none of those people are the ones interested in this movement, and if you believe they are, you haven’t spent any time thinking about it. Again, I’m looking for any actual legitimate argument in support of it. A condescending argument from hypothetical authority isn’t going to cut it.

If blue states cared, these wouldn’t be issues they’re dealing with in the first place, much less would there be any need to deploy the national guard to solve them. Blue states are blue due to NIMBY democrats, not progressives. My prediction is, once the republican party has fully rotted away (likely in response to a crisis coming to a head), NIMBY democrats and more centrist MAGA will make up the center-right conservatives. It’s where the wealth will be concentrated.

Turns out, deploying the military to address systemic issues is never a good choice. We need to be figuring out how to employ democracy to solve these issues.

Yeah, I’m open to any valid arguments for why it would matter, but I haven’t seen any. People who think land size should correspond to representation are…to be more diplomatic: not making any effort to think things through.

CMV: this movement only matters to stupid people, and does not qualify as something “I should know”.

Note: Gaming performance is purely based on money spent. There’s no fundamental reason windows would have better gaming performance, it’s just that there is more money being paid to engineers and vendors to support DirectX and related tooling.

Then there’s the self-fulfilling aspect that, windows has the largest marketshare, so devs are going to spend the most money targeting it, so that they can get the most money in return, which means more people will use it, which leads to the high marketshare.

The ONLY reason Linux use is seeing the few percent blip in gaming is because Valve has dumped truckloads of cash into making it viable.

He meant among the countries with fair elections. You know…Russia…North Korea…did I say Russia?

looks at the history of the Catholic church

Forever.

If only that were the actual reason…

Ugh, can’t wait to post about how sick this is to my insta story…and tomorrow I’ll vlog my trip to the beach!

The better comparison is that distros are the operating systems (like “windows”, “macos”, and “android”), while “linux” is the kernel under the hood that end users likely never interact with (like “NT”, “XNU”, and…“linux”).

A distro represents an intended user experience. If you want a distro that has an intended user experience that is similar to windows, go with Mint or OpenSUSE. If your desired experience is like the SteamDeck, install bazzite (with an AMD GPU ideally). If that’s all you care to know, then that’s all you need to know; go use your new system how you would any other.

But if you want to dig deeper, yeah, the fact that all the distros are based on linux (and more importantly, are posix compatible) means that a lot of the software is portable across distros. But that doesn’t mean your experience on all distros will be the same. Different distros organize their filesystems differently, they might ship with different versions of core utilities based on the stability testing they’ve done, and they likely offer varying means of installing and managing new packages.

The tl;dr is, go use one distro, and then later try doing the same stuff in a different distro, and inevitably at some point you’ll go “oh, this didn’t work exactly how I expected because the other distro I’m used to handles this differently”. That’s the difference.

Hah this is one of those “Robot, solve world suffering” type solutions. “Affirmative. There can be no suffering if there is no life. Proceeding to eradicate all life.”

Can’t have illegal immigrants if you don’t have any people.