On a scale of total novice to master, 1 to 10, I’d say I average about a 3. Handily capable compared to the layperson, but unremarkable compared to other hobbyists. I do have a lot of hobbies though

You can mostly opt out by bugging out to the woods to homestead. Taking advantage of the many amenities of society is opting in. “The state” is just your neighbors, and their neighbors, etc, extrapolated out to the whole country. Despotic governments don’t just appear from the aether, they are established and staffed by someone’s neighbors.

Think it was a guy in a gorilla suit, but yeah

How annoying was that? My last landlord claimed some pretty indefensible justifications for keeping our deposit (among other things, $300 to “sweep and vacuum the attic”) but I’m not convinced that I’ll actually wind up ahead if I’m missing work to go to court.

Both

I believe most religions started as good faith (no pun intended) attempts at roughly the same thing: contextualization of the metaphysical order of the universe.

Like the parable of the unseen elephant, God is a concept beyond true human perception, and every religion is like a man groping in darkness at one aspect of the bigger picture. When we approach the subject with a perspective informed by each of these outlooks, we develop a more diverse and comprehensive conceptualization of Order. Even better when we compare these outlooks to find overlap where most tend to agree.

Yeah I don’t browse Reddit anymore, but I still Google it for BIFL products and such. Lemmy just doesn’t have the content for those use cases.

They start out as discussions, but it only takes one party to turn that into an argument. Generally though, continuing the argument is more to convince onlookers than the argumentative party.

Yeah it’s reduction not elimination. Swearing all the time robs those words of their intensity.

First functional print in a little while, got tired of fiddling with silverware drawer trays that didn’t quite fit so I modeled one to fit the drawer and my utensils perfectly.

But siblings and nieces/nephews are generationally distinct. “-ibling” evokes to me a generational parallel. I would sooner accept it as a synonym for cousin. I don’t disagree with the utility of such a word, but I don’t care for that word used for this purpose.

Correct.

Scientists CAN prove unequivocally that the earth is a globe, there is no uncertainty and it is not an hypothesis.

Could be a weird confluence of spatial anomalies perfectly mimicking a “globe” to our tests. That’s not very likely at all, but it’s a non-zero uncertainty.

Science can’t “prove” anything. It is more accurate to say that it reduces the level of uncertainty of hypotheses, but that uncertainty can never be reduced to exactly zero.

Gaslight Obstruct (Mercator) Project

I generally don’t get haircuts before and during winter, but once it heats up again I keep it short.