PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
- Comment on In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views 3 hours ago:
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Hoo fuckin’ boy
I do have to say that including Hyprland in the original post is silly. Hyprland had a problem with ignorant users making ignorant speech in their community, and they didn’t police it, and once a shitstorm started, they recognized their error and started trying. It’s fine. Putting them up top, and Omarchy which is literally lead-developed by an open fascist, down below, is weird.
Holy God it’s a shitstorm… reading
I just want to point out there is nothing true in this statement. No such thing as far-right in current government (unless you consider anything right of your beliefs to be far-right, which is just silly), and immigration is completely fine, currently. My wife is an immigrant and non-us citizen and we have many immigrant friends. They are only deporting criminals, illegals, people who have broken the law.
Fuckin’ hell man. (That quote is from nobody in particular, just some random user chiming in… but still fuckin’ hell man.)
nrp’s reaction in the reply chain mostly just reads like he hasn’t picked up what’s going on. He still thinks fascism is “a political view” instead of “an active threat that might come for him and people he cares about right now, into his house and his safety, that needs resistance.” I don’t think DHH needs to be in prison or anything unless he’s done something. I do believe in free speech. But yes, the time has come for boycotts, strikes, marches, strengthening the organizations that we’ll need as things continue to get worse. It sounds like nrp is just privileged enough living his tech life that he doesn’t grasp that, and he can’t understand what people are mad about here.
Nobody remembers Switzerland as unsung heroes of World War 2, because of their commitment to freedom of expression and commerce for any side without prejudice. They’re lucky they got away with it, to be honest.
- Comment on In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views 3 hours ago:
Pretty sure there is a pretty generous window where you can just return the thing for a refund no questions asked. It might be worth looking into.
Depending on the wording of the return policy, you might even be able to request one and tell them the reason is “The far right has taken over the world’s biggest government and they’re snatching people in the streets. The time to hide support for them behind ‘everyone’s welcome to their opinion’ is over. If at this moment in history you’re not willing to exclude far-right people from your circle, then go fuck yourself, fuck your hardware, give me my money back, in hindsight people should have done this to BMW and IG Farben both before and after the war. I hope you wake the fuck up. You will not be safe indefinitely from them coming for you, unless people braver than yourself stop them before they reach you.”
Usually I am against bullying people into saying the political views or taking the political decisions you want them to take. You can think they’re wrong about this (as obviously do, I for the reasons stated above) and say so without needing to try to strong-arm them. But, in this case, fuck ‘em, for the reasons stated above. Read the return policy first of course to make sure you’re on solid ground, I don’t really know what it is.
- For the First Time Ever, You Can See Stunning, Centuries-Old Murals at England's Oldest Hospitalwww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models 4 days ago:
Bird flu is still out there, and it seems likely that by the time it figures out humans, the US public health apparatus will be basically destroyed.
Ever lived through a plague in the middle ages? Would you like to?
- Comment on Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models 4 days ago:
What’s the worst that could happen
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!chiptune@lemmy.world
Also, check out this guy sperging out about the music for the Castlevania series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rryDOfG9JF0
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0:05: IDK what this guy’s on about, this is just normal NES music
0:30: Oh I see
1:08: Okay Led Zeppelin, calm down holy crap lol, this is wonderful
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 1 week ago:
Yeah, but so maybe it goes dormant for another 5-10 years and people forget. And then, when middle-aged Stephen Miller comes out like Pink Floyd when he shaved all his hair, all with big plans and fire in his eyes… maybe he’s running against Gavin Newsom who’s kind of a POS anyway and nothing the left can get excited about, maybe he wins, and maybe then he gets to work. And he’s got energy, he’s not old or stupid.
I think it’s better that it’s Trump. It’s still awful, but I really think it’s better this way. I don’t think people will forget this once it passes, or get distracted.
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Also, for the same spirit but just running on the hardware of a toaster oven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKmItXc6rgQ&list=PL3091C072C6A398BB&index=2
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- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 1 week ago:
Seriously. Go after the people who did crimes, make a big public push to impeach the dirty judges, and make sure to bring grocery prices down instead of pushing up wages. If he’d done that, maybe it would have partly worked, maybe it would have been tough, but I think pretty fantastic odds that however it shook out, Biden would be out there drooling his way through his second term right now, and Fox News would be screaming about what a problem it was every time he tripped going up the stairs, but there are lot of Florida detainees who would still be alive. Kilmar would still be happy with his family, right now.
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 1 week ago:
And then, the “reward” we would have gotten would have been someone competent in charge of all this horrifying stuff.
You want terror? It would already be packed up by now. The Democrats would be an illegal party, I think, and the paramilitary would already be semi controlling a lot of the streets, instead of doing such a good job at pissing people off and looking like the bad guys as they are doing now. It is still very very dangerous. But we are very lucky that Trump is in charge of it all.
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- Three Decades of Research Reveal a Forgotten Medieval Castle on a Scottish Islandwww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- 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 week ago:
why the need to accuse me of re-editing a comment? (which never happened)
You edited this comment after I posted my reply to it which talked about archaeology. I thought you’d edited the comment to remove mention of archaeology, but I was wrong, that mention came from this comment of yours.
But then, I realized I’d been wrong, and retracted the wrong thing I’d said, and apologized about it. Not sure how you even managed to see my wrong accusation within the ~2 minutes or whatever that it was on Lemmy, but in any case, my bad.
What you are seemingly trying to tell me here, “PhilipTheBucket,” is that you’re not really able to countenance the actual arguments I’m making above.
Now would you say that’s a fair or unfair statement? If unfair, could you give me some facts & reality-based reasons as to why not?
I don’t know how to upload an image within a comment in Piefed. Presumably it’s not that hard and I’m just thick. Anyway, please in the meantime enjoy this ASCII art of a sea lion:
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Like I said, I have no interest in continuing a dispute with you about this.
- 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 week ago:
Yeah, I realized after that you were talking about archaeology up in your original reply to me, not in the pre-editing version of some other comment. Sorry about that, I had already edited my comment to take out the accusation (within 5 minutes of originally posting it.)
I pretty much agree with this comment of yours. I have absolutely no reason why that would mean we have to continue to bicker. I do think that comment is pretty firmly in contradiction to your earlier statements ("King Arthur / Robin Hood"), but whatever, I see no profit at all in us having a dispute about that part of it.
- 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 week ago:
Oooohhhh
I mean, yes, obviously. It all of a sudden makes the other commenter’s steadfast insistence against me make sense, if they thought that I meant this person actually existed who could do real life magic tricks and came back from the dead and he still watches to see if you’re masturbating.
Yes, I was talking about the historical figure, not the superhero. I thought that went without saying but maybe not.
- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 1 week ago:
I feel like the programmer smuggled this video topic to him somehow, after not hearing from anyone who had noticed their exhaustive attention to detail
There is 0% change that this didn’t take a shitload of “unnecessary” effort, including updating the power lines every time something in the level got modified or rearranged
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 1 week ago:
Yeah. The judge in that situation was pretty chill with me as well. I feel like it’s like a lot of human interactions, if you show that you respect the other person’s side of the interaction, they’ll be inclined to do extra for you where they can.
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 1 week ago:
And FFS, dress appropriately.
Random story, I once showed up groomed and in a suit that was sharp enough that the judge thought I was defense counsel (with the defendant not showing up) instead of the defendant, and I had to politely correct him. 😃
- 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 week ago:
Which is fine as far as it goes, yet does very little if anything to address the body of the above concerns.
What? Of course it does. A near-unanimous consensus by experts in the field is worth more than whatever you are bringing up in your Lemmy comment.
I mean, it would be possible to lay out logic so compelling that even if experts in the field felt one particular way about it you could make a case otherwise, but weird strawmen like wanting archaeological evidence of Jesus’s specific skeleton or something is not that.
- 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 week ago:
In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, Bart D. Ehrman wrote, “He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees."[13] Richard A. Burridge states: “There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more."[14] Robert M. Price does not believe that Jesus existed but agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars.[15] James D. G. Dunn calls the theories of Jesus’s non-existence “a thoroughly dead thesis”.[16] Michael Grant (a classicist), “In recent years, ’no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus’ or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary."[17] Robert E. Van Voorst states that biblical scholars and classical historians regard theories of non-existence of Jesus as effectively refuted.[18] Writing on The Daily Beast, Candida Moss and Joel Baden state that, “there is nigh universal consensus among biblical scholars – the authentic ones, at least – that Jesus was, in fact, a real guy."[19]
- 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 week ago:
Most modern scholars think that none of the gospels were written by eyewitnesses.
It’s a little bit academic (har har) anyway, since they all went through so many layers of translation often by people with specific agendas that the modern English versions can’t really claim to be “authentic” to the originals anyway, but regardless of that they almost certainly weren’t written by those specific disciples of Jesus (even if you accept the events described in them as semi-authentic.)
- Comment on Conservative 1 week ago:
Well this is sure going to go well lol
OP: On the off chance that you are sincere about this: The modern Trump administration is snatching random people including citizens off the streets and stuffing them in extra-judicial hellholes where they sometimes die and sometimes get ejected from the country to God knows where, without the semblance of due process that “deported” would imply. For no other reason than that Trump and Stephen Miller wanted them to be punished. He’s also claiming that making fun of him on TV is illegal and that attacking American cities with the US military is fine. He was close friends with Epstein and, apparently, raped several children. Any person with even a shred of deceny or law abiding nature is going to hate him and everything he stands for.
If you’re not on board for that stuff, then I think you should say so. I have some isolated views that someone could call “conservative” (certainly in Lemmy’s overton window), it is fine, in the abstract. But in the modern US political environment, calling yourself “conservative” is a death sentence for your credibility. Certainly if you’re not going out of your way to say that you’re not on board for all that (probably even then).
If you’re just trolling, then fine, good luck with it. If you don’t think that Trump is actually doing any of those things, come to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world and let’s talk. But if you want to make a conservative community on Lemmy, and your idea is to be pro-Trump in any way, I think people are just going to laugh at you.
- 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 week ago:
If you want an honest answer, only my own theory for it but supported by actually having read and learned academically about small chunks of the bible which I think is more than a lot of people who have opinions on this topic, your answer is:
- The people who wrote the old testament lived in a world that was almost unfathomably dangerous and difficult compared to today’s first world. Death, disease, starvation, natural disasters, the collapse of whole towns and settlements, unexplained daily suffering for which there is not even an explanation let alone a cure, were constantly present. If you’re in that place, and you believe there’s a God who’s in charge of it all, there is absolutely no conclusion to come to other than he’s a real son of a bitch.
- I definitely believe that Jesus had some kind of genuine religious inspiration, that a lot of what he was teaching was for-real insight about life. The stuff about forgiving your enemies, living for good works through action and how it really doesn’t matter what you say or what team you’re on, trying to build a better life by caring about people around you, taking care of the sick and injured, even if they are beggars or prostitutes or foreigners or otherwise “bad” people in your mind simply because of their circumstances, seems pretty spot on to me. It was 100% at odds with the religion of the day, pretty much as much as it is with modern religion. What Jesus actually said does obviously have “spiritual” and supernatural elements also, but it is also focused to a huge extent on what you as an individual can do, and a sort of alignment towards the greater good and a calling for humanity, as opposed to this wild half-Pagan mythology about a capricious and bad-tempered God who might kill you at any instant.
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 2 weeks ago:
I was in court a few times when I was younger. Nothing too major.
The first time, it really disgusted me seeing person after person get up before me and try to tell the judge how they hadn’t done anything wrong with just transparent horseshit. My turn came up, the cop testified to what happened, the judge asked me for my side, and I just said that it happened the way the cop said. The judge was legitimately a little taken aback.
What the fuck, what am I supposed to say? Maybe it would have been different if it had been big charges or if I had been less naive or something, or if there was some wiggle room in what happened, but I just didn’t see the point in wasting everybody’s time and making myself look stupid and dishonest.
(Note: Do not do this. Court reality is different from everyday life honorable reality. Get a lawyer, don’t say shit, fight to negotiate a better deal and threaten to waste their time and resources making them prove it if they don’t work something out with you. That is what a person will do if they want a good outcome. My priorities were different, I guess, I don’t know. I will say that in this case it didn’t wind up getting me in any more trouble than I would have been anyway. Mostly I’m just telling what happened to me and how I reacted and why.)
- Comment on Politics 2 weeks ago:
Hm… so part of my concern about the “everything else” politics community is that I feel like it is guaranteed to not really get used all that much. There’s always going to be !ukpolitics@feddit.uk or !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !canada@lemmy.ca, I feel like pretty much all the political content that is put up by denizens of whatever part of the world is going to go into a region-specific place, and the “everything but the US” community just wouldn’t get used.
I feel like the two obvious options are:
- !politics@piefed.social which is for “anything” with a specific focus on political news, and in practice is 99% US politics
- !uspolitics@piefed.social, which is for US politics only, i.e. the same thing but we have to have little disputes every now and then about whether something like Petro wanting to move the UN belongs there or not
I went with the first option. I really am fine with renaming it to !uspolitics@piefed.social, completely up to you.
I do get the concern from the rest of the world that it’s annoying to have US stuff as the “default” and everything else get put in its own region-specific “non default” category. Maybe uspolitics is a little more forward thinking in terms of getting away from that thinking (especially as the years go by and the US collapses in on itself like a rotten pumpkin, geopolitically speaking).
(And yeah, !world@quokk.au is fantastic, I like it. I sort of bounce between quokk.au and piefed.social currently in terms of my “main” account.)
- Comment on Politics 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I get that. But also, 2 of the 5 stories I posted were not US politics stories. I would like to be able to post stuff about what’s going on in the world without needing to sideline it if it isn’t US stuff.
I do get what you’re saying. Like I say, I’m just going to defer to letting the person who’s organizing the top-level communities on piefed.social have the final say. I did add a “US Politics” flair, to make it a little easier to block US Politics stories if that’s what people want to do, but I feel like more likely the people who don’t want US politics in their feed are just going to block the whole community regardless which is completely fine (and I categorized it topic-wise accordingly).
Like I say, I do get it, I’m just deferring the decision to someone else instead of you and me arguing back and forth about it.