Lemminary
@Lemminary@lemmy.world
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 12 hours ago:
I’d be surprised if it didn’t happen at this point.
- Comment on meal 14 hours ago:
If you have cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, you won’t want to eat. I’ve had it twice and I lost weight. 🤷♂️
- Comment on An oopsie occured 3 days ago:
Is this a late stage capitalism?
👨 🫴🦋
- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 5 days ago:
Yes, we are, but people hate hearing that by the looks of your downvotes. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 week ago:
Thanks for that! I wonder if that still works because ever since they implemented the kernel-level anti-cheat, I’ve heard it’s become virtually impossible to install it on Linux.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 week ago:
Oh, definitely! I got my eyes on PopOS but I have a feeling I’ll need an afternoon to do it
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
People just want to be taken seriously.
Had this experience yesterday. I called in to get an update and the first guy was a dry jerkoff who would cut me off in a condescending tone. The second guy said virtually the same thing as the first guy, but let me speak a bit and ask a couple of questions, and that made everything 100x better.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m a bit amused that the original author’s post in plain text is used instead of a picture.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I imagine they could rebind those books and resell them. Maybe some employees got lucky and get all these “scraps”?
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 1 week ago:
¿Por qué no los dos?
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 week ago:
copying the user’s screen content
Can’t imagine why anyone would be upset about that!
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 week ago:
Ehh, I’ve had a few problems with it, from the installation freezing, to my wifi drivers disabling on system resume, to it completely freezing when I switch language input, to sometimes crashing when I load a web page. I’d try a different distro than risk the instability.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 week ago:
Been using Linux for a while. The only thing I miss is League of Legends, but other than that we’re chilling.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 week ago:
Nazis deserve a machete to the face, but that’s just my opinion.
- Comment on it's right there 😖 3 weeks ago:
“What if I jump from here?” is my favorite.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
A novelist?? What a disappointment! /s
(But seriously, congrats, that’s no easy feat!)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If only they could read above a 6th-grade level…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I can’t agree with you. I’ve lived through many periods of prosperity followed by moments of despair. This is only a winding turn on the rollercoaster, but there will be better days again. Just because the USA is doing some shit right now doesn’t mean the rest of the world isn’t thriving.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 weeks ago:
Umm I think he told everyone who would listen.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 4 weeks ago:
And an unsuspecting seasoner! 😋
- Comment on Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland 4 weeks ago:
These assholes have worse writing than an uninspired comics writer.
- Comment on Oh nooooooo 4 weeks ago:
And cockroaches, too. They’ll haul ass and scurry away every time. They know.
- Comment on Mafs 5 weeks ago:
Damn, and I just scored some gummies! It’s my lucky day.
- Comment on Your grandma's mine 5 weeks ago:
I agree she should go for the PS5, but also, grandma’s dad and doubt she cares.
- Comment on Cube me 5 weeks ago:
No, but they should. On me.
- Comment on Wafrn, a fedi software that also connects with bluesky 5 weeks ago:
I wish these posts came with a small description of what these sites are, what they do, and why I would want to join.
Wafrn is a federated social media inspired by Tumblr that connects with both the Fediverse and Bluesky.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen them together in the same room in person… 🧐
- Comment on that is crazy! 5 weeks ago:
Wataru Futanari. You sly bastards! 😂
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 5 weeks ago:
The real solution is to tape it down with enough duct tape to restrain an African bull elephant. You’re welcome.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 5 weeks ago:
What anecdotes? The woman who called dozens of churches and only got 3 willing to provide emergency food for a hungry child who had been starving? You can listen to these calls yourself in the video I shared. Notice that I’m not arguing about food pantries, but rather churches not being willing to help adequately.
And still, your emphasis on food pantries is exaggerated. Food pantries were invented in the 1960s and are a distinctly American religious invention, so naturally, they would be primarily religious. What’s more is that your article even mentions the negative effects that these food banks have and their questionable efficacy:
Despite the rise in charitable food, there is a lack of evidence supporting their effectiveness in addressing the main issue of food insecurity. At the individual-level, the charitable food system has been shown to contribute to stigma and shame among patrons [13–15], offer poor nutritional value [11, 16], provide insufficient and inconsistent food supply [11–17], consist of limited food choice and variety [16], and exacerbate pre-existing chronic health conditions [11, 18, 19]. Furthermore, “pantries spring up wherever someone is moved to create them” [20] (p221). In this way, the geographical distribution of food pantries may not follow any systematic pattern or necessarily reflect need. Many food pantries operate out of churches and volunteers are often motivated to volunteer because of their religious commitments. Given these circumstances and undercurrents, faith is an important and dynamic element of the charitable food system. However, faith-based affiliations within the current charitable food system is unknown and likely context-specific.
I also found this:
a study involving case studies in Indonesia, Fiji and Samoa (Thornton, Sakai, and Hassall, 2012) showed that the contribution of religious groups in providing disaster relief and welfare services to their members and advocacy for the poor is often present but not always comprehensive or positive. The influence of religious groups in the public sphere and as institutions can also exacerbate unresolved tensions between different ethnic and secular groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0272-3
Regardless, food pantries and poverty in general are symptoms of great social inequality and of a society that doesn’t prioritize welfare, despite its religious devotion. So why confine ourselves to questionably effective religious-based initiatives? I’d rather compare the overall state of caregiving between religious and secular nations.
I concede that religion is useful for bringing communities together and alleviating the hardships of poverty by providing people a coping mechanism, but it’s by no means a towering force over secular initiatives because the desire to help and contribute to charity is innately human. Religion arguably only serves as a reminder of that with regular church attendance.