andyburke

sad and amazing how true this is.

to find anything worthwhile in Google search you often needed to add site:reddit.com

to find anything at all on Reddit you needed Google

well, glad I don’t go to those websites anymore…

The lack of religion isn’t a religion. What is so difficult about this for the religious to grasp?

I’m not sure who you’re arguing with. I was trying to make sure people aren’t handing out respect and trust willy nilly.

I guess I need to clarify that you give courtesy until and unless someone gives you an obvious reason not to. I thought that would be assumed and understood, guess that’s on me.

Courtesy should always be given. Respect and trust are earned.

Did you skip the second sentence of my comment?

Am I religious if I say there isn’t a marble at the table? Or a walnut? I don’t see one, I have no reason to believe one is there, based on how the world works elsewhere there isn’t anything there.

But you’re telling me I need to faith to avoid these beliefs in small generally round objects. I say it is you who is using faith to assume the existence of one particular type of thing there and you’re claiming I am the person operating without any evidence.

It’s ridiculous.

What you wrote doesn’t even pass the mildest smell test: there is ample evidence that forming babies hear and react to stimuli from outside the womb, for just one example.

But even if there were no evidence of a world outside the womb, I wouldn’t expect a baby to think one existed. Nor would I threaten that baby with damnation were they not to believe me without evidence.

Atheism isn’t faith-based. If you show me reproducible evidence for the existence of a god, I’ll change my tune no problem.

You are not clear on what faith is if you believe atheism to be faith-based. Atheism wouldn’t even exist if religion did not. Because religion and unfounded beliefs are so common, there is an actual name for not believing in a god. There aren’t a lot of specific terms for a lack of belief in other things without evidence.

Here, let me rephrase what’s written above:

Because an invisible pink sky elephant cannot be disproved or proved with any non-supernatural intervention, you must grapple with the imaginary to address the issue.

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That’s not how the world works. We don’t spend any time grappling with things for which there is no evidence.

“The West” is essentially the group of nations attempting to abide by a moral code. It is not always, or maybe even often, successful, but there is a vast gulf between their morality-based approach and what China, Russia, DPRK, and other fascist/semi-fascist nations are doing.

OOP was a lie.

My young friends are forgetting the days of IE where we really did almost lose the web. It’s been a constant struggle, always, against the corporate interests who only see the internet as a money printer.

I am more excited about the web today, with the fediverse for example, than I have been in a long time. Maybe since those days, when the future of any browser but IE was in doubt.

The pieces of wood shaped like slices of bread are disturbing.

Nothing needs an app.

same

I don’t understand the people who want apps.

I’m not looking for an argument - you do you. But I don’t understand your desire to install things.

Not exactly sure how to link federated stuff properly but here goes?

@snippets