tried to read 1984 recently and had to stop because the main character is an incel.

Back the truck up, buddy.

Seems like a great way to ensure that a lot of goodhearted people commit suicide while a lot of assholes get promoted.

I wouldn’t use humanity as a measuring stick for goodness. Our greatest achievements are more proof to the contrary.

There’s a logical problem to a language-based religion, in that even a literal interpretation is still an interpretation. Your understanding is not infallible, and no one on Earth likely believes The Bible, 100% verbatim, yet many claim to.

If the source material is always fuzzy then who is to say what a real christian is? Who is the authority? What is? The book itself isn’t sentient and Jesus isn’t here to break any ties.

But then, you’ll get people who say they know God, that they talk to God and it would seem as though their belief and participation is, from their perspective, at least, beyond the limitations of the Christian source-code. They allegedly know God via dimensional speed-dial via… vibes. I don’t believe he does, but they do, so, rules of engagement, I temporarily have to believe he does until I’m done speaking to the person with mental health problems.

Living in the American south is like having multiple gears of belief to swap into like a 6-speed transmission based on who you’re talking to. Alright, what flavor of kool aid is this person drinking?..

At least?

This implies there are levels or grades, here. What’s at the top of the pyramid?

There’s always Counter Strike if you’re on the side that the terrorists are the good guys

A small fraction compared to the indie games and puzzlers, or are you one of those just shut the whole thing down so nobody is happy kind-of people?

I love open source, but people kinda assume you have unlimited time to sink until this stuff.

And if I have to listen to one more person try and explain to me why I have the wrong router, mdns, multicast, IPv6 settings, etc, I’m gonna lose it. One person is like, “buy Uniquiti, that plays nice with Apple Home and never use your ISP router”. The next person is like “you idiot, why would you think Ubiquiti + Apple would ever work stick with your IPS router”. Even if they’re right, it’s a failure of Apple to design a system that requires an IT person to setup.

Maybe if you had more time to sink into your Apple problem…

I’m three years out of being divorced after 15 years of marriage.

It, yeah, um… yeah, dude. I got the same treatment. People’s immediate family and lives all take precedent.

I basically took gasoline and a match to my life predating 2022 and went scorched earth in retaliation. Now I’m mostly family, or fuck off while I keep my head in books and hobbies.

People imo are the ultimate letdown, held up by the idea that humanity means something. It doesn’t. Pet a cat.

Played until I was helping the cops and symping for corpo life. Aren’t we supposed to be punks off the street? The fuck are we helping cops for? CDPR can’t write.

lol, buy?

Because of proprietary garbage, copyright law and enshittification. Sony wants you to use the software its bribers pay it to support, another symptom of our dystopian, profiteering world.

I sometimes think Jellyfin gets on Roku devices because none of the little snots at Roku’s corporate office have taken notice, fallen through the cracks and forgotten about.

If it’s any benefit to you, the Android box being Android allows it to sip power at an LED bulb’s level of efficiency when it’s idle.

“sup, name’s Jesus, you guys into 40k?”

There’s as much evidence to support a dude named Jesus lived in Nazareth, as there is that a guy named Sam lives in current-day New York.

A few hundred to a few thousand Jesuses likely lived in Nazareth.

I haven’t really heard that Jesus of Nazareth didn’t exist as an argument against Christianity,

The big reason for this is that the name Jesus is interpreted and thousands of men came to and from Nazareth.

Can anyone disprove one of them wasn’t “Jesus of Nazareth”?

$30 Android box solves this

I can’t imagine what an Apple TV can do that a $30 Android box can’t.

I can imagine lots of things the Apple TV can’t do that the $30 Android box can.

It isn’t bait, more of a reminder that no matter how many indie games run on Linux, Fortnite, the most popular shooter on earth, doesn’t, and it will forever be a band-aid of cope to say “stop playing shit” every time someone brings it up.

People are basic and dumb, they love shit.

No shit? Guess I’ll stay with Windows.

Who knew people so used to shit would want to continue enjoying it?

How much better does Linux play Fortnite?

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“Do you care that anyone you speak to might be Ai?”

Yes - Lemmy

No - Line does a loop and goes back to Reddit