Paid in cheese

Not really keen to get into a theological argument about a sacred text I don’t believe in. However, if you gave a neutrally translated Bible to someone who had never heard of the Trinity, it’s extremely unlikely they would come to Trinitarianism on their own.

Not an athiest but not a Christian or Muslim either. I used to be a Christian. At roughly the minute mark, the presenter claims that the Bible says that god is a Trinity. The video references Matthew 28:18-20 (about baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). While it’s true that Matthew says that about baptism, that verse doesn’t say that God is a trinity. Trinitarianism is one doctrine some have derived from the Bible but the Bible doesn’t contain the concept directly or Christians wouldn’t have had so much fighting about it. That’s not even getting into the nature of Jesus himself which spawned some humdinger disagreements over time. 🥴

Slightly before that, the presenter claims that the Bible is our only source of truth (paraphrasing … not going back to get the exact wording). The video doesn’t prove that and it’s not true that the Bible is our only source of truth.

It also relies on a lot of ignorance of the Quran at the very least on the part of the people watching it. I’m not in a position to speak much to the Quran other than to note that a devout Muslim would likely not find those arguments compelling.

This kind of “apologetics” / evangelical effort aren’t edifying or useful to the believer or the unbeliever. To borrow a concept I heard from Christians while I was one … those who can be argued into converting can be argued out of it. This kind of presentation is the sort of thing unprincipled people use to grift money out of believers in the idea that this will convert unbelievers.

Being limited isn’t that big a deal. My instance has them limited because of their lax moderation and an excess of reply guys. All it means is that I get a notification saying “Someone you might know sent you a notification” and I get to review and accept or deny the notification depending. Plus they have to request permission to follow me so I get to check them out before accepting.

I still have tons of mutuals on .social and I get new ones all the time. While each person making the choice about whether to accept notifications or follows from a particular user is going to make their own choices, I don’t think it’s particularly inconvenient.

At the moment, not so far as I know. The challenge for any client is that Mastodon (right now) doesn’t load entire threads unless you’re on the same server as OP. Instead, the API object says the post is “in reply to this post.” If no one on your server is following the post directly prior to that in the thread, then the chain is broken.

There’s a bot called FediFetcher that an admin can install to pull in other toots in a thread. Vanilla Mastodon is already working on an effort to integrate this functionality directly but I don’t know how soon it will be live.

There’s a browser plugin called Substitoot that will pull in other parts of a thread provided you click on the next post up in the thread (in my experience this may take a few clicks).

Lastly, I hear that GoToSocial already pulls in the rest of the thread.

None of that does exactly what you asked for but it’s a prerequisite to implementing what you’re hoping for.

If it is the DNS, I’d say OP should change DNS on their phone to point to something else. I can (and do) on iPhone. I’d be shocked if Android couldn’t. Easier than leaving your VPN on all the time. Although there are benefits to leaving VPN on too. Kind of a personal choice for the most part.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardassians_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine_episode)

I was getting the episode number for a joke I was doing in Ten Forward. 😹

The closest thing to groups we have on mastodon really are just boost bots. It’s pretty annoying that mastodon doesn’t have more. But it’s pretty understandable that mastodon users would assume that.

I’m guessing the issue is with mastodon users at-ing multiple communities on Lemmy/etc creating unnecessary cross posts / duplicates?

If part of your coworker’s job is answering questions for coworkers, it’s disrespectful (not to mention a career-limiting move) to outsource that labor to an LLM. However, your coworker may be in a situation where they feel overwhelmed by coworkers not using available resources or they may have some other reason for “outsourcing” their work to an LLM. Or they could be underpaid, disgruntled by workload, or a bunch of other different things.

Without more context, it’s hard to know what may be going on there. I don’t think a constructive conversation with your colleague is possible without getting more information from them. I would recommend being pretty direct. Maybe something like: “It seems like you may not have read my question. This isn’t a question that I can get a usable answer from an LLM for. Is there another resource you think I should have used before contacting you?”

If this still feels too confrontational, you could take out the second sentence.

Hard to pick just one but I’ll go with John Titor.

For my full desktop, I turn it off when I’m not using it. It basically exists to do heavy compute tasks. I basically do that a few times a week. There’s no reason to leave it on if I’m not in the middle of a job. That would be true regardless of the O.S. I’m using on it.

My main computer, I suspend. Usually, I try to make sure that happens on purpose because Ubuntu has this impossible to troubleshoot behavior¹ that seems to happen more often if it falls asleep on its own.

I would be more inclined to shut it down but I’m particular about my windows and it takes what feels like an hour to get everything just so after reboot. I can’t deal with that every day. (Nor am I thrilled about how often Ubuntu LTS wants me to reboot for updates. My desktop needs Ubuntu Studio LTS but my main computer doesn’t. When I get time and energy, I’m switching it to Mint so I can deal with someone else’s obnoxious choices for a change without learning an entirely new distro.)

¹ The behavior is not recovering video on wake. It does seem to be working but following the commands I have memorized to shut it down from inside a virtual terminal don’t work. The only way to get it down is to hold the power button for “4 seconds” or pull the power plug.

Pedro the Lion (like Priests And Paramedics and A Simple Plan), the Sixpence None The Richer album This Beautiful Mess particularly Love, Salvation, the Fear of Death, some of Rich Mullins like much of A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band.

I think the ethics mostly come into how you raise them, religion or not. It’s ethical to teach kindness and empathy. It’s ethical to allow your kids to explore while asking them questions that help that exploration. You can do those kinds of things no matter what faith (or non-faith) you practice.

Speaking as someone who was raised in an environment that gave lip service to kindness and empathy but was really very harsh, judgmental, and rigid, only one of my siblings kept something reasonably approximating my parents’ faith. The rest of us are mostly some variety of pagan. Each of us had a painful journey out of our parents’ faith to something. No matter how you raise your kids, they are their own people and will come to their own conclusions. You can make the path much more difficult than it needs to be or you can set them up for a much less traumatic journey.

I’m not sure what version they’re running on their flagship but I last posted from there on March 20th and my blog federated to Mastodon.

More for the OP but if you’re looking for a blog with a comment section, I wouldn’t recommend WriteFreely at present. Customization is also unnecessarily painful.

It does federate. Social features are rudimentary. I end up using my existing microblogs to promote the posts anyway.

I knew all that going in and chose it anyway. It’s not for everyone but it does what I need it to at a price I’m fine with.

Mostly I agree but I disagree in this way:

Face to face, especially in a small community, some people take it upon themselves to establish what they see as the right and proper rules for the community. Everyone must have a grassy lawn cut to exactly three inches is kind of the least terrible end of this.

“Queer people are a danger to our children”, “Everyone must be in a straight, monogamous relationship, that produces children who aren’t autistic or disabled in any way,” etc. and, because it’s in person, they have much more power to ruin lives.

We see some of that behavior in online communities but people generally have much more ability to “vote with their feet” or even abstain online.

I had Instagram for five minutes before they started trying to share my account with acquaintances who didn’t know I was queer. (Which is a crime as far as I’m concerned but not relevant.) I immediately closed my account. Imagine that had been a neighborhood I’d just moved into. It might not even be possible for me to move before I faced months of the real life consequences of being forcibly outed by a neighbor.

There’s a veneer of politeness in meat space. Sometimes there’s more than a veneer to it. But often not.

I’m not sure hate is the right word. When you’ve got someone stabbing you in the back multiple times, is it really hate you’re feeling toward them? Or is it anger, fear, and danger?

I “hate” it in the sense that it’s built on theft and requires the exploitation of underpaid workers to develop and maintain it. I “hate” it in the sense that we’re living on a burning cinder with dwindling fresh water resources and “AI” is adding fuel to the fire. I “hate” it in the sense that it’s being used to further undervalue artists and writers. I “hate” it in the sense that it fills our spaces with crap that so often looks like it was cribbed off of Rapunzel, Wreck-It-Ralph, and some other things.

That’s a task that probably would be better served by purpose-built machine learning. Using “AI” for that isn’t what anyone means by “AI art” though.

Assuming that the person saying that is an American, I think that they don’t understand economics and probably aren’t as socially “liberal” as they might like to think they are … or they haven’t thought that hard about either topic. I think that based on the numerous people I’ve heard say that to me in the past.

It’s fine to not really have thought about these things that much. Not understanding economics isn’t a moral failing either. The people preaching about the economy usually have an agenda that isn’t well-served by accurately describing economics and it can be hard to know where to find good information. I would rather hear “You know, I think those are important topics but I’m not sure where I stand on them yet” though.

I use a correct horse battery staple generator to get inspiration for user names. I got “paid” (or salary or something like that) and “cheese” in one result. It was one small adjustment to get here. For personal reasons, the idea that I’m paid in cheese is hilarious to me.

No. If the versions of reincarnation where your placement in your incarnation is the result of your past deeds (or trying to release the sense of guilt over those deeds), the incarnation itself is doing the work. Making things worse for the person might clear up their “karma” faster (using that term advisedly) so the vengeance aspect isn’t satisfied by making things worse for them.

I don’t think vengeance (“punishment”) is justice anyway. I think it’s important that we let state level actors know what terrible pieces of shit they are in this life. This gives them the opportunity to make some recompense in a way that might actually help the victims. Not that making George W. Bush spend the rest of his life feeding orphans in Iraq could possibly make up for what he’s done (note: every U.S. president who has served during my lifetime has been a war criminal; I just don’t feel like getting into an unrelated argument).

Ensuring justice (reputational and restorative) in this lifetime also discourages shitty behavior from others.

Not necessarily my favorite TNG episodes exactly but some of the best demonstrations of the philosophy of Star Trek (among the ones that haven’t already been mentioned at this point):

• The Quality of Life
• Half a Life

I’ll second Darmok, The Measure of a Man, and Drumhead.