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  • [Video] Ben Affleck schools Bill Maher and Sam Harris on their blatant Islamophobia

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  • Not that I know of.

    It doesn't seem like a sensible question to ask Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists, or Taoists.

    For Christians, hundreds of years ago: yes.

  • [Video] Ben Affleck schools Bill Maher and Sam Harris on their blatant Islamophobia

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  • [Video] Ben Affleck schools Bill Maher and Sam Harris on their blatant Islamophobia

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  • A discussion based on facts, if the statistics come from honest sources?

  • [Video] Ben Affleck schools Bill Maher and Sam Harris on their blatant Islamophobia

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  • Both Maher and (more recently) Harris have been failing to sufficiently admit the horrors being committed by the West, trying to defend it and other vile things; but they weren't wrong in what they said in the video: they both think religions are very bad ideas - that religions are fairytales based on lies and the rejection of reality. Pointing out that compared to other popular religions, the percentage of believers in Islam-majority countries who agree with e.g. the death-cult behavior of killing of apostates is vastly higher than in other countries/religions.

  • Its Over 😔

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  • If both are extraverts, then not initiating contact possibly means that person doesn't want to be friends anymore. Which is fine, sometimes it's better for a friendship to end.

    If one is an introvert, then them initiating much less might not mean anything.

    If both are introverts, then not getting messages or calls about banal things may be preferable for both, making them ideal friends.

  • It really does

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  • So to save billions of small creatures like birds from being tortured, disfigured, and/or killed; we should do what to cats?

  • Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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  • To prevent the script from spreading further, all Wikimedia projects were set to read-only for about 2 hours, and all user JavaScript was temporarily disabled.

    The NoScript extension in Firefox makes the web so much nicer. It turns out sites that don't require JavaScript tend to made by vastly better humans than sites that do. More so for sites that require cross-site scripting and cookies to just show text.

    Can't search on google.com without allowing JavaScript, but it turns out Lite.DuckDuckGo does, and for me at least gives vastly better search results.

    Wikipedia can be read and edited without allowing JavaScript, and I personally don't like the crap that the scripts provide. It's also usable without cookies, tho the idiotic UI options column on the right is a hassle without cookies.

  • smart people can admit mistakes and apologize

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    1. wouldn't start more wars,
    2. bring on more debt, and
    3. release the Epstein files.

    Does the "wouldn't" apply to 1 and 2, and not 3? If so then a "wouldn't" should be added before "bring".

    Also, 3 is partial.

  • Just don't...

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  • Isn't the high ground a bad place to be in a sword fight?

  • is this even possible

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  • The UK also has 1st-past-the-post voting, yet polling is showing that people are rejecting their 2 big parties: Labour (liberal capitalists) and the Tories (sociopathic capitalists), in favor of Reform (psychotic capitalists) and the Green party (ethical environmentalists).

    "It is infinitely better to vote for freedom and fail than to vote for slavery and succeed." - Eugene V. Debs, Appeal to Reason, 1900-10-13

    "Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact." - Eugene V. Debs, The Socialist Party and the Working Class 1904-09-01

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • If Firefly is about the little people, then Serenity is about James Bond.

    Lots of people liked Serenity, but I think it was like a studio-made sequel: more, bigger, more, for no good reason.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Yeah Firefly is amazing, even for people who don't normally like its genres. Avoid the movie Serenity tho.

    Occupied, a Norwegian show about Norway trying to stop being a petrostate.

    Already mentioned: Chernobyl, Deadwood (avoid its movie), Six Feet Under (the finale is amazing).

  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • Whatever live Linux distro you test, make sure to start with one that has a desktop environment called "Xfce", "Cinnamon", and/or "KDE".

    Other desktop environments (the user interface) like "GNOME" are kind of Mac/Win8-like, which some Windows users dislike.

    Warning: after using Linux for a while you're likely to not put up with crap anymore, causing you to jump to another Linux distro if your current distro does anything stupid. When Ubuntu started using GNOME3, I jumped to Xubuntu. When Xubuntu started with the Snap-nonsense, I jumped to Mint+Xfce.

  • The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

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  • Selfie cam: oh.

    Personally I've never seen the advantage of my or others' faces in calls/conference-calls.

    LLMs: are there open-source ones, not built from stolen text?

  • U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

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  • Wouldn't it be better to make a new redacted book that removes all the psychotic verses, and name yourself after this new redacted book rather than the original fairy-tale book?

  • U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

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  • Do Torah Jews reject the quoted parts of Deuteronomy 20 and 32, and the other blood-thirsty commandments in mostly Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?

  • The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

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  • and a 32-megapixel selfie shooter

    Do the people who want a Linux phone that isn't Android, also want a selfie camera? Those 2 things don't seem to go together.

    the new Jolla Phone won’t have any AI capabilities at launch, Saarnio says an integration will be an option users can enable later this year.

    Again, Linux and LLM?

    I personally don't like the phones/software targeting the privacy-demographic, because of all the pro-crypto and LLM stuff. Anyone have suggestions for phones for people who care about privacy, but care more about ethics? So no: LLMs, crypto, Russia/Chine/USA components?

  • U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

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  • The perversion of religion maybe. None of the abrahamic texts justify this insanity.

    Have you ever read any of the Abrahamic texts?

    Deuteronomy 32:40-46 40. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. 44. And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. 45. And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46. And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

    Quran 9:111 Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the Garden will be theirs: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain. It is a promise which is binding on Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur'an. Who fulfilleth His covenant better than Allah ? Rejoice then in your bargain that ye have made, for that is the supreme triumph.

  • U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

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  • The scary thing is not just that commanders may be saying this, but what an extreme outlier the citizens of the USA are when it comes to not being able to differentiate between reality and fairy-tales: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0316/Do-countries-become-less-religious-as-they-get-richer

    Even when the specific fairy-tales oppose these actions: quotes from Jesus according to the gospels:

    "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." Matthew 5:39

    "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you," Luke 6:27

  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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