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  • Hogwarts Legacy Sequel Seemingly Confirmed By Job Listing

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  • Live service games are not necessarily bad. It's just most of the live service games releasing are bad games.

  • A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived

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  • A long time ago, as teens, we used to go to the movies quite often. Ofc we didn't buy the local overpriced popcorn but brought our own snacks, smuggling them, all sneaky like. One day the guy who was admitting us in was like "you should just be honest guys - no need to hide them". Of course this was not forever but for a couple of months we could bring inanything because we were not tied by the snacks being hideable.

  • EU rejects request from Hungary, Slovakia for consultation over sanctions introduced by Ukraine on Russia’s Lukoil transit

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  • Sadly, they will spin it in a way that makes EU even more evil but oh well. Orban and Fico reap what they sew.

  • Europeans can save gaming!

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  • I'm doing my part

  • White Dudes for Harris Founders Blame Elon Musk for X Account’s Suspension

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  • I can't imagine anyone being pushed by anything if they weren't pushed away until now

  • How to deal with being bald?

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  • I understand your feelings, as living with great hair and liking it and going to bald must suck. Take comfort in fact that it is temporary.

    But as a bald man - being comoletely bald is fucking amazing. I can't compare with having good hair - had short haircut all my childhood, decided to grow it longer in my mid teens (wanted to be a bit morr stylish) - and that's about the time I started loosing my hair. So had to go to shorter lenghts so it's not that obvious and went full bald around 17 when I had a visible bald patch anyway. So can't compare but it was the best decision I made - both at the time and for the future. I shave once a week and everything is easy. And I was blessed with a great skull shape so looks good.

    Much more salty about me not being able to grow decent facial hair though. That beard and bald look would be sick but oh well. We have to play with cards we were dealt.

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  • Piped and other different frontends are not really Youtube alternatives. It's just alternate ways to watch Youtube. They are still priceless

  • TV nerds: what should I watch

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  • Lots of good recommendations already. I especially second Last Kingdom since you liked Vikings. There is the series + one movie that ends things. Also seconding Peaky Blinders because it is fucking amazing.

    I will add His Dark Materials (based on YA novels, but really good) and Carnival Row (can't vouch for 2nd season yet as haven't had the chance to watch it, but 1st is great).

    House of the Dragon too, since you liked GoT (again, can't vouch for 2nd season yet).

  • TV nerds: what should I watch

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  • I will be bold and say Stargate Universe as well. One has to keep open mimd to a completely different vibe especially in first season.

  • Do you think the world would have been a better place if there were no religions?

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  • I can see why you have that position, and it is absolutely valid. What I reacted to is the idea of it being faith vs religion - but if you have faith/believe in a deity or something divine, that would by definition be a religious belief, no? But this doesn't necessarily mean it's an organized religion like Christianity. This is what I was getting at with my poorly worded comment.

    The underlying issue for this kind of conversation is that when people say "religion", most people think highly organized religions like Christianity or Islam and such. But what if a person has their own or (for lack of a better term) a "non-traditional" belief system that includes some sort of deity/deities? Is that not religion? Maybe i see the word with a wider definition that is wrong, idk,

    Anyway, as other commenter said - religion can be absolutely used as a tool for power, or to have excuses for terrible behavior. Thing is, the people that do would just use another tool if no religion existed.

    As for the scientific argument - we don't know (or at least I don't) but Greek philosophers and scientists didn't live or work in non-religious environment. There was religion present and yet they built important foundations for science today. Same with people in Arabic world, afaik. Hell, there were scientists that were Christians as well. It boils down to one thing - if there is organized religion with people at top who use it as a tool for power.

    So to summarize - no, I don't think religion in general is inherently bad. It's about what people do with it. And the problem starts at a point where you want and need other people to conform to your religious beliefs.

  • Do you think the world would have been a better place if there were no religions?

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  • You really nailed it. I'll take it one step further though - religion as a concept is not the problem. Having gods, holidays rites and rituals - that's all good.

    It's religion as an organization, when it gives people power which they can misuse when we start having problems.

    Your way of saying it is way clearer though.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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  • That's what I figured, but I'm not expert on how things work so wanted someone who knows more chime in. Sad times

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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  • Since it is server side, will this effect the alternative front ends?

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  • Depends on the place I guess. I'm pretty sure some are updated

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  • And once you are finished you can probably start over to stay up to date

  • What to do with an Android spare smartphone (no sim card)?

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  • I think OP has better idea wit reusing it first before recycling. No point in recycling a functioning phone when you may have a use for it still.

  • Using OsmAnd~ navigation from Google Maps Web search

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  • I tried MagicEarth for navigation and quite happy with it. It is not open source, but should be privacy respecting (not seen anything as of now that would suggest they don't mean it). Even has trafic info (though not as reliable as Waze/Google). A middle road for when you want to degoogle but also have some convinience in places where OSM is not as up to date.

    Though I don't think it has additional details for the businesses and such like Google Maps, it's purely for navigation.

  • How did gravity worked on the Death Star?

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  • It's manned by military personel who should expect not having comfortable 1g all the time (either way doesn't matter as Star Wars has magic gravity anyways)

  • How did gravity worked on the Death Star?

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  • Could still establish orbit and adjust spin in a way so they are tidally locked