i am not sure what’s the difference there. why is one an endpoint, and the others aren’t?

isn’t a ‘higher power’ just kicking the can down the road?

personally, i don’t get, like, at all. i don’t care what nonsense folk put their faith in, so long as they don’t use it to justify being a dick, or try to justify others being a dick. maybe they get some pity/sympathy from me, to a point, cause they probably got brainwashed when they were a child, or otherwise in a vulnerable state, and maybe some amusement depending on how ‘out there’ their counterfactual beliefs are.

i generally get on well enough with my religious friends, but it’s not a topic that comes up much in real life.

i don’t usually care for organized religion, but that has more to do with my anarchism than my atheism.

this all goes equally whether we’re talking about conventional religions, modern conspiracy theories, new-age mumbo jumbo, or what-have-you.

judging from the weird void on july 4th, i am guessing it is based on data from the US. probably based on census records.

that’s a good point! nobody wants to do labor of either kind on xmas.

here’s a chart!

what’s fascinating to me about this is how people are clearly using medical science to avoid giving birth on certain holidays.

imagine if they had waited to invent lemmy until after reddit had shat the bed with the whole API fiasco. it’s better to have a backup ready to go.

i definitely watched it when i was a youngun, but i’m always surprised to hear it’s still running tbh

well, whether by bow or by vat of acid, i’d probably choose to spare my friend over some random celebrity. though i’d naturally rather not kill either of them.

is this like a joker dilemma where they’re both dangling over vats of acid and i only have time to save one?

is this new on iphone? as far as i knew, that’s been a thing for most videos for ages on android, excepting only most music videos.

probably ant man, as well as any film that prominantly features ant man as a character. the sci-fi nonsense justification of his powers is just way too stupid for me, and it taints everything it touches.

i think:

• WEF = World Economic Forum: an international organization that features prominently in a ton of conspiracy theories these days. here’s a sample platter of such nonsense.
• IYKYK = “If you know, you know”

i like my laptop cause i already have it, and have gotten to know it quite well over the past 16 years, but i wouldn’t recommend it. it would be nice to have more than 4gb of memory these days, cause i can’t have too many tabs open on firefox without it bogging down.

just a historical factoid that a lot of people don’t realize: the luddites weren’t anti technology without reason. they were apprehensive about new technology that threatened their livelihoods, technology that threatened them with starvation and destitution in the pursuit of profit. i think the comparison with opposition to AI is pretty apt, in many cases, honestly.

my first os was windows 95, but my first linux distro must’ve been whatever version of ubuntu was current around 2007/2008.

right now, job hunting, but as soon as i can stop job hunting, my answer will change to working.

trying to start any kind of art as an adult sucks because inevitably by that point, you’ve got a fair head start on your art appreciation skill, which makes you perceive your initial attempts at art creation as particularly heinous. if you start as a kid, you’re less capable of recognizing how bad you are, and you aren’t having to compare yourself against peers who’ve got twenty years of experience on you.

why dost thou speakest in riddles, fair traveler?

i may or may not have a tanksona, but that doesn’t make me a tankie.