Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • 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.





  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlThis was from 2017.
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    4 days ago

    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 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.



  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    12 days ago

    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.