What shits me is Christians (and Jews and Muslims, but it’s mainly Christians who do this) who just handwave away the problem of evil. Like fine, I can accept that some evils might arise as a result of human decisions and free will. Things like wars and genocides are done by people. It’s difficult to swallow even that much with the idea of a god who supposedly knows all, is capable of doing anything, and is “all good”, but fine, maybe free will ultimately supplants all that.

But what I absolutely cannot accept is any claim that tries to square the idea of a god with the triple-omnis with the fact that natural disasters happen. That children die of cancer. You try telling the parents of a child slowly dying of a painful incurable disease that someone could fix it if they wanted, and they completely know about it, but that they won’t. And then try telling them that person is “all good”. See how they react.

I find religious people who believe in the three omnis after having given it any amount of serious consideration to be absolutely disgusting and immoral people.

My take is that there is no free will, but that this fact is irrelevant and we’re all better off just behaving as though we do.

Yeah…they cross-posted. It literally uses the same URL and the automatic cross-post detection picked it up.

I think the solution to the problem with quarters is to say “calendar quarter”.

If democrats in the US vote for stuff like Biden, then they’re not voting for any radical change

I don’t exactly know the details, but weren’t there accusations of meddling from the DNC that stoppered Sanders’ chance of securing the nomination, and a belief among some that he might have won the nomination if it had been a free and fair primary process?

In other words, it’s possible (though by no means certain) that your sentence above works if “democrats” means “the DNC and the establishment of the Democratic Party”, but not if it means “people who by-and-large support the Democratic Party”.

I’m confused. Americans are the only ones that do say “gasoline”/“gas”. For the rest of us, it’s petrol.

I will say, it definitely doesn’t feel as polished as major browsers. You have to go to a backend “about” page to switch between user profiles. You literally can’t set a webpage of your choice to open when you open a new tab (new window, yes, but not new tab, which is even more perplexing). It still has a separate search bar instead of the unified bar other browsers have had for a decade (this can be fixed, though it’s hard to find how to do it). But it’s easily good enough to switch to if Firefox is gonna enshitify.

WaterFox seems pretty good.

Also, as far as chromium goes, it’s trivial to use literally any other chromium-based browser rather than Google’s. Even Microsoft Edge hasn’t killed Manifest v2 (yet…not actually sure if they plan to do it or not).

We learned that if you make an effort to speak their language, most French people are very helpful. But if you just assume they’ll speak English, they’re likely to be offended and won’t help you out.

You’re not the first person I’ve heard this from. It seems to be a pretty universal experience, particularly in Paris.

Personally, as someone who took French in school, when I went to France I wanted the opportunity to practise it. And I found the French to be very friendly with it.

I think that’s showing a total score of 501, and that the screenshot-taker downvoted. So at least 502 people upvoted it.

Any web page can be printed. Any print can be sent to a PDF generator. It might not look super pretty, but it’ll get the job done. I recommend making sure you’re on light mode before you print though, because dark mode has grey text instead of black.

To be fair to JavaScript (I feel gross just saying that), it does have the ability to do some more functional-like programming as well. For example, many of its more recent array methods like filter, map, and reduce are pure functions.

Nothing wrong with classes in functional programming though. Just return a new instance of the class from your method, rather than mutating an existing instance.

Land Before Time was a big one for me. But even bigger was probably the documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs. Which is available to watch for free on archive.org!

Some of my favourite dinos:

I can’t believe that bit went on as long as it did and nobody suggested any modern birds.

I’m just going to point out that !ankmemes@sh.itjust.works exists, and !triceratops does not.

It is big tech. It’s just less big tech than Xitter and Facebook. And it at least kinda-sorta has some vague federation-like design. And it’s a “public benefit corporation”, which doesn’t mean much because it’s still for-profit, but it at least means they’re allowed to not put profit ahead of public good, unlike normal for-profit companies. Not as good as Mastodon by far, with its true federation and true not-for-profit status in the guiding entity, but it’s not nothing.

They are strong enough that they’re able to block increased defense spending together with the AfD

Does Germany have some rules that defence spending requires a 2/3rds supermajority or something? Linke and AfD cannot stop anything on their own if a simple majority is required. The Union and SPD have a slim majority between them, and add the Greens and you’ve got an extremely strong majority.

A little disappointing that Bluesky is on there as well, but pretty awesome other than that. And I guess even Bluesky is probably better than Threads, and definitely better than Xitter.

I’m particularly glad to see Pixelfed as the only Instagram alternative, because it’s a great space that could use more support.