GreenShimada

@GreenShimada@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The metric system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s really more that pain is part of the human experience. Suffering is our reaction to the pain. We don’t have to suffer when we experience inevitable pain if we are enlightened.

  In context: Using Windows 11 is pain. Continuing to use it by choice is suffering. Accepting Linux into your heart and treating the inevitable tweaks like no big deal is enlightenment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Apple IIe to start then Power Mac briefly, thanks to school. Later at home Windows 3.1 - Windows 7 I think, Back to OS X, Back to Win 10, Win 11, terror and enlightenment, now Linux.

  Knowing how awesome a computer could be with the Power Mac made me demand more from a Windows machine, and then understand early on the disappointment with Windows that would last most of my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Zone Media (Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here etc.)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, some of the rest of the team hit, some don’t. When it’s just hate preaching, I can’t do it. I loved the concept and topics in Better Offline, but Ed Zitron needs to go to a boxing gym and hit something for a couple hours and get it all out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Zone Media (Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here etc.)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The subreddit /r/itcouldhappenhere is generally great, which is based on Robert’s podcast of the same name.

  The first season of It Could Happen Here was great stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently not many anthropologists or people interested in history on Lemmy.

  There’s a few options, and it depends on what you mean by “gods.” The overall category you’re looking for is called “Folk Religion” which means it’s not organized beyond what local groups chose to believe are the “rules.” Without more details, anything below might fit.

  Animism is a starting point, in which you believe that everything has a “spirit” or is otherwise alive in a spiritual dimension. There aren’t gods, per se, but elemental forces are higher forces that are semi-sentient. So, for example, the Sun would be alive, Earth would be alive, the elemental force of water is alive, and each has some sort of sentience, but it’s sort of too high to directly “Talk” with people, but you sort of communicate with feelings.

  Shamanism is animism with more nuance. Gods, demigods, demiurges and the like exist - basically there are non-human, non-corporeal entities that operate in a spiritual realm, as do humans, so a shaman does negotiation as a middle-man because they have learned and been trained to be able to operate in both our realm and theirs. While not an organized religion, most forms of shamanism have similar rules and standards. Which is surprising considering that many cultures developed shamanism independently of each other.

  As a sort of more detailed step towards specificity, you then have specific things like Native American traditional religion, Shintoism, many African traditional religions, Druidism and European pagan traditions, modern wiccan or other witchcraft-oriented beliefs, where local gods and spirits abound and are deserving of worship and veneration from everyone, not just having the shaman interceding on your behalf.

  Slightly more organized, but not really, are polytheistic religions. Hinduism, Hellenism, the Roman Pantheon of gods, etc. Westerners think of these as “organized” but they really weren’t/aren’t in the way that we typically think. There was no main “Church of Zeus” and then after worshiping him, you go to Athena or Nike. A person and household had their god and they gave sacrifices, then also did the same for other gods if they needed their help. It was very ad-hoc, and sort of interesting, as the Greeks and Romans went around the ancient world meeting other cultures, they would find another polytheistic religion and not say “No, our god of war is Ares, and she’s stronger than your god of war.” They assumed that the gods were the same globally, and it was just the names that changed. So more like “Oh, you call the god of war Kartikeya? Cool, we call him Ares. You know him, too, awesome.” So the dogma is actually quite light.

  Honorable mention for Taoism and Buddhism, which both can incorporate varying levels of animistic beliefs. However, as philosophies-cum-religions go, there’s much more dogma and convention in play. However, both are Gnostic, in that personal experience plays a role in shaping a personal dogma. I’m not familiar with the Taoist angle there, so I may be wrong about that to some degree.

  There are subsets of monotheistic (primarily Abrahamic) religions that are mystical and are less dogmatic. Sufis or Kabalists or Christian Mystics. They sort of do their own thing, and typically are seen as maybe heretical, maybe not, by the mainstream elements of the same religion. This crosses over the last line of what you mentioned about dogma, but worth mentioning.

  Finally, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is just about anything you want it to be, and there’s also a Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, FFS. Of course it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evangelicals in the US vs Protestants ib Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  US Evangelicals at this point are one big core group with specific branding and associations that uses the mass of people that go to their churches as a financial and political machine, which their leadership wields to their personal benefit. Anyone outside of the mega-church group are marginalized, with some smaller churches on the fringes.

  With the larger group and brand, the Bible means nothing beyond cherry-picking verses to make any point you want. No learning is needed, and everything is how you feel (how the Spirit moves you!) as long as it agrees with what the church says and you tithe. These people would appear as downright heretics to any Christian from the 1800s or before, and have more in common with the Pharisees that Jesus went to Old Timey Israel to call out for being dicks than Jesus himself. Prosperity Gospel, the idea that Jesus gives one money and power if they want it bad enough (entirely heretical), is a big deal for American Evangelicals, as is making a big show of sermons and prayer, something Jesus said was wrong.

  It’s entirely about money and politics, selling books and media, making people feel like they belong, and wrapping people and their families up in the brand, making other denominations out to be not even Christian, so if you leave the church you’re abandoned. I’ve had Evangelicals tell me that Catholics and Orthodox denominations aren’t Christian at all, and that the Pope has Satanic symbols on his hat. Seriously. Conspiracy theories abound and nothing is done to discourage them, which is why the Evangelicals won’t turn away Creationist types, but typically don’t confirm that either way. Very little is actually pinned down in terms of religious beliefs, unless it’s something that is a political policy matter.

  Since everything comes down to national-level politics and the whims of your local pastor, who often has a high school education at best, sermons can swing wildly around any topic, contradict each other, and provide zero real insight about the Bible or their religion. They’re entertainment the same way that Fox News is opinion-entertainment (so says Fox News in court documents to avoid lawsuits). Leaving space for people with mental health issues, corruption, schemers, idiots, and general human slime to prey upon the church. And it’s a constant parade of those types, pushing people to go out and say and do anything they feel like, and which usually pushes along the financial and political machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a screenshot of this HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503

  Which is about this Reddit post: old.reddit.com/…/youtube_is_taking_down_videos_on…

  “non-standard” means without a Windows account (gasp!) and on “non-standard equipment” - like, what a Samsung Smart Fridge instead of the ads? I can’t tell what that means, YT thinks I’m a bot, and can get fucked instead of me digging any deeper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your ironic comedy is lost on them. If you had pasted an image of a dolphin tamagochi where the actual Flipper is, maaaaaybe through would have understood that it was a joke. Maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just spent my entire rent money on vintage 240p JPEG files of soup, and I've never been happier. AMA.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently received a similar email from LordSoup420.

  Am I going to get scammed? It sounds like you have all of the vintage 240p JPEG files of soup. What’s left?

  Did they offer you images of croutons as well? I have a few myself and was looking at getting serious about my collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks - not sure where it went!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, well according to the Tesla board, he’ll get paid $1 trillion if he makes Tesla the best selling car on the planet earth.

  Just do it with your own money, Elon. All you have to do is one thing to get it. C’mon, “I love Telser,” right? Run with that and see what you get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As bullish as I am on Sodium-ion batteries, only very recently did researchers figure out how to boost the charge capacity](phys.org/…/2025-10-sodium-ion-battery-breakthroug…), making any attempted commercial models in use so far nice, but not the final form where normies are buying them from Home Depot.

  The Sehol car mentioned is a niche configuration of a common model, because the Li-ion model goes farther between charges. Other than the launch in 2023, and articles recycling the same info, find me 1 article that doesn’t use words like “could” or “will” or “might” about sales of this model? Same thing for the BYD Seagull with Na-ion batteries. It’s all greenwashing news where if you dig at it even slightly, you see how not real any of it is.

  It’s closer than it was 5 years ago, but it’s still not a “revolution” by any means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, hey, what’s this article about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theory that stupidity enabled Nazis?

  Hur hur… Bonhoeffer. You’re mom’s a Bone Hoeffer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In that golden moment when the Blackberry was the hottest hot shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Professor Obvious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen Jeff? 100% confirmed Eggman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kaiju.meme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might end up being the White House Christmas Card this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yo: sup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of humor is this?

  Answer: Odin’s chosen humor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baseball⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now, neither can I.

  F

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The toxic manipulation of how American Evangelical churches teach the Bible is to intentionally remove context and just point to a through-line of whatever supports the topic of the week. The same out of context OT verse can mean 30 different things to these people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the challenge was how to hold in one’s mind “being Christian” and simultaneously going down a checklist of actions and words listed as defining Christianity and doing the exact opposite. Though, By 320 CE, that was the status quo.

  Jesus’s whole way at talking truth to power was to acknowledge and show compassion for those marginalized and hated by the Romans and the Pharisees. His main problem with the Pharisees was literally the hypocrisy of them saying they follow the laws of the religion, and then not doing any of that. It was dangerous to call them hypocrites due to their political power.

  Sound familiar yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for reminding me of every Thanksgiving since 1996.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When are we getting a Nicholas Cage Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted to call it “TayLinux Swift” at first, but MinTay is so much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood things like pervasive distrust of Jews, but blanket approval of all things done by Israel because Jewish people are “God’s chosen people.” It’s so much mental gymnastics to selectively justify hating Muslims and any Jew living in a large city, and completely ignores the point of the NT, which was to not make the religion tied to blood lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same idiots that say this are the ones who think Nutella is some transcendental ambrosia even though it’s more palm oil than either hazelnuts or cocoa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When are we getting a Nicholas Cage Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OOOoooooooooooh. MinTay Linux is solid.

  I looked at this once when Hanna Montana Linux was memeing around a few months back, and it’s basically just branding the installer and making the default themes in Cinnamon refer to specific starting points. Sounds easier than it likely is, but it certainly didn’t sound impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When are we getting a Nicholas Cage Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on board.

  Though, if we want the year of the Linux Desktop, someone needs to just take Mint and slap a Taylor Swift wrapper and wallpaper on it, call it “TayLinux Swift” and you’ll just fucking CRUSH through maybe 4.5% market share in days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SMH a workaround for a workaround to enable their shitty surveillance. Pure genius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  three times a year.

  WTF is up with MS doing this rate limiting? I just learned that Win11 will lock you out of your own machine for 2 hours if you restart too many times, like if you have a dualboot and are doing something that requires restarts to resolve.