bitcrafter
@bitcrafter@programming.dev
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 2 hours ago:
…though my personal recommendation is that you don’t.
- Comment on Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank 22 hours ago:
We will as soon as Elon Musk turns Tesla around and earns his contractual trillion dollar payout as a reward!
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
Generally when one refers to a country as being “occupied”, the implication is that the people there are poor off as a result, especially relative to a neighboring country whose land is presumably being considered occupied, which in this case is implicitly North Korea due to the history of how the two countries split. It is therefore not in bad father to directly ask whether the people there are better or worse off as a result.
You also seem to be hyper-fixated on one possible meaning of prosperous, which is “wealth and GDP”, when there are lots of other means related to flourishing in general. The original commenter was perfectly free to provide an answer along the lines of, “North Korea is the more prosperous country because X.” where X is a list of ways in which the people there are flourishing, and this would have been a valid answer (if not necessarily a correct one).
Alternatively, if they think that South Korea is better off but this does not matter because it is still less ethical than North Korea, then they could have taken the opportunity to be up front about that.
So in short, this question could have been used in all sorts of ways to provide an answer that clarified the commenter’s position. It is a shame that we never heard from them exactly what their thoughts were.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
If it makes you feel better, you are emphatically not my enemy. 😀
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
I didn’t say the people of South Korea are being subjugated.
Quote the comment that started all of this:
Is anyone really surprised one of the biggest companies in occupied korea would do this??
I acknowledge that this is not your comment, but you stepped in and answered a question directed at this person, so you should not act so surprised that you have become associated with their position, especially since you continue to work really hard to do everything except actually state your own opinion, except insofar that “everything is too complicated for anyone to have an opinion” counts as an opinion.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
I will take from your attempt to throw a “Gotchya!” at me that you acknowledge that you are unwilling to state your own opinion on the matter.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
If you don’t feel like stating your opinion on which country is better off and why, then you could just say that outright or say nothing. You really don’t have to go to all of this trouble to pontificate about how it is unreasonable to even consider the matter. 😜
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
Do I need to explain to you what that means, or do you have a clue about South Korean history and US foreign policy?
I appreciate you showing me how not to make a point in “a pointlessly hostile and asshole way”!
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
I appreciate your honesty in admitting that you consider human well-being to be irrelevant!
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, playing with it for fun to see what you can make it come up with is a perfectly reasonable use case, if it weren’t for the environmental cost…
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 3 weeks ago:
When I go on a bike ride, I don’t constantly have people pulling beside me reminding that I could be driving in a car.
When I use cash, the person taking it does not remind me that I could have used a credit card.
When I open a container of oatmeal, there isn’t a little piece of paper that springs out and reminds me I could be eating instantly ready breakfast cereal instead.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 1 month ago:
Apparently not quite! It looks like you would mostly be stepping back and forth between UTC and its opposite.
Given that time zones are essentially set by the local research stations, I conclude that Chile and Argentina would win the war because their time zone has the most coastland and so they would have the most penguins on their side.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 1 month ago:
They would all lose because they stretch all the way down into Antarctica which means that the penguins would be involved…
- Comment on How would a wealth tax affect real estate rentals? 1 month ago:
I think that the implication was that they would have to sell in order to come up with the cash to pay the tax?
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
Hey, at least you tried! 😉
(And don’t think too harshly of the other poster; we were all 14 once, after all!)
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
EDIT: Hahaha, instant downvote!
For the record, the downvote was from me, and it was because you are being an ass.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
All evidence points to a jew who, under roman occupation, organized a political and religious movement around his person with a message so powerful that it immediately started replicating. Otherwise, how can we explain the sudden outflow of missionaries from Galilee ? Whose message were they spreading, which travelled as far as Asia and Ethiopia with relative unity and consistence ? What reason do we have to doubt that a revolutionary mystical prophet such as Jesus existed (they were legion at the time in that region), and why should we subscribe to some more exotic, laborious explaination ?
I think that it is worth noting that the person who did most of the successful evangelizing in the beginning that led to the explosion of the movement was actually Paul, who had his own message that wasn’t quite the same as Jesus’s apostles–in fact, he started spreading the message without talking to them first because he figured that he already knew everything that he needed to know, which led to conflict that required Acts to work really hard to make it seem like they were all on the same side all along.
But regardless, it is peculiar that people seem to think that starting a widely successful cult is a particularly hard thing to do if the founder has enough charisma (and luck), given that all you have to do is look around at the numerous modern examples. For example, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness was founded in 1966 by a guy banging drums in New York, and has since grown into a huge movement with hundreds of dedicated temples. So it is far more plausible that this is what happened in the case of Christianity than that some other more complicated process synthesizing the existence of a fake founder.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
It must be very convenient to be able to declare victory in a discussion without hanging to present an actual argument. 😉
- Comment on Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up? 1 month ago:
Poor thing must have accidentally made it with the shiny side facing in instead of out…
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
You are thinking about this the wrong way. From the scraps of information that we do have, which includes volumes of work by Jesus’s followers, there are two extremes one could take: we know absolutely nothing about Jesus or whether he even existed, or we know absolutely everything about Jesus. I agree that the later extreme is wrongheaded, but surely treating it as a binary choice so that the only other possibility is that we can say nothing at all about Jesus is also wrongheaded.
You might argue reasonably, of course, that his followers cannot be trusted, so we can learn nothing from their writings. This is not true, however, because if nothing else we can learn from the editorial choices that they made; for example, when a Gospel goes out of is way to explain a detail that would have been embarrassing to contemporaries, this actually provides potential evidence that this detail was true and widely known at the time so that it needed to be explained, because otherwise it would just have been left out.
At the end of the day, scholarship is essentially about weighing probabilities rather than certainties, and good scholars do not pretend otherwise.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
Keep in mind that most likely the historical Jesus was just one of many apocalyptic preachers going around telling people that, within the lifetime of some present, God was going to come down and vanquish evil once and for all, so one had better be prepared and be on God’s good side when this happened. (Incidentally, the Romans probably could not have cared less about this; it was when they got word that he was claiming to be an earthly king–which may have been how Judas actually betrayed him–that they got seriously pissed and executed him because they had a zero tolerance policy for that kind of thing.)
You can see imminent apocalypse theme in the epistles where John writes that there is no real point making big life changes like getting married since the world is going to end any day; amusingly, when this did not happen, they needed to start coming up with alternative policies, and so other letters start to set down rules which thematically contradict the earlier letters, but it turns out that there are other things about these letters that make them different too so I’m many cases they are considered to be forgeries. (Obviously this is an oversimplification of the academic research!)
(Also, it’s also worth noting that John and the apostles had really different notions of what Jesus was all about, and part of the whole point of Acts is to paper over these differences and make it seem like they had all been past of one team all along.)
Finally, it is worth pointing out that there were a lot of texts floating around in the same genre as Revelation, so it was not all that unique and it almost did not make it’s way into the Bible, but the Church Fathers thought incorrectly that the John who wrote it was the same as the author of the Gospel of John; if they had known that these were two different Johns, then the Left Behind series would never have been written (amount other consequences).
So in conclusion, be very wary of trying to read a lot of significance into the New Testament as a whole because it was not a unified document written with single purpose.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 2 months ago:
(Off-topic, but your username is fantastic!)
- Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion 2 months ago:
Make sure you check out Metal: Hellsinger if you haven’t already!
- Comment on Me too. 3 months ago:
I think that is a bit of a misleading way of putting it because the feeling being a “self” that is in charge of the body is an experience that is contained within consciousness rather than the essential nature of it; in principle, one could imagine having consciousness without any feeling of being a “self” at all.
If I had to define the nature of consciousness, I would say that it is essentially an internal simulation that the brain creates in order to aggregate information from various sources in order to facilitate processing and decision making. Just to be clear, this is not my own original idea, and more importantly I do not think that it is a particularly clever or deep way of thinking about consciousness, but rather the inevitable conclusion one reaches when one plays around with one’s own attention and awareness and sees what happens; the trick is just to do it like a scientist and be constantly challenging one’s own conclusions, rather than to invent one’s own version of chakras. I find it especially enlightening to watch what the mind does when one tries not to steer it into doing anything; with some practice, it is possible to watch the “self” pretend to be in charge while simultaneously realizing it is not, and this experience can be helpful (though frustratingly I have not found it to be as immediately life-changing as I might have hoped).
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 3 months ago:
China takes care of its people
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 4 months ago:
Imagining your death.
- Comment on There's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world. 4 months ago:
+1 actually a shower thought
- Comment on Planck units 4 months ago:
I for one like to keep things simple and just express everything directly in units of the number of periods of the radiation emitted by the ground state hyperfine levels of Cesium-133.
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 4 months ago:
Okay, fair enough, you got me: I wrote his name on a piece of paper and was standing on it when I wrote that comment in order to absorb his authority. You win this Internet argument.
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 4 months ago:
I was definitely not standing on the authority of Elliott, merely making use of his words and crediting him for it, so you are simply wrong.