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Not trying to be argumentative, but can’t Meta and governments already scrape everyone’s RSS feed in the Fediverse? It’s open; that’s the point.
Not trying to be argumentative, but can’t Meta and governments already scrape everyone’s RSS feed in the Fediverse? It’s open; that’s the point.
Porque no los dos?
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We have an article by Kaspersky Labs about why Kaspersky Labs’ software is just fine and totally not used as a back door by the Russian government.
Was the Kremlin spokesperson not available?
And a booger.
*ghoti
Did you mean a long slog, or a long schlong?
Not judging, but there’s a big difference!
“It’s not climate change. It’s Antifa Water!”
They let you tickle your girlfriend at the office? That’s pretty progressive!
Right. Do they have a manager assigning them work? And then after a couple of weeks of mouse-juggling, no assignments done.
It sounds like poor management, too, aside from the mouse-jiggling.
Or more likely, Jesus was an eminent rabbi of the era, that oral stories expanded for hundreds of years, until he became a literal avatar of a god.
Or maybe he was a fraudster like another magician of the time - Simon Magus, who is mentioned in the Bible. Simon was an escape artist, and had a levitation illusion. That’s not far from water to wine or walking on water.
I feel really bad for their children, of course, but I can’t stop them from where I’m sitting.
It’s worse than that, because if you warn them that their stupidity is dangerous to them and their family, they will dig in their heels and want to do it even more. They are intransigently stupid.
Why don’t they skip the middle step, and just suckle off the teat directly? It’s healthier that way!
It’s a conspiracy! Big Cow is getting in the way!
I’m not voting for Hunter Biden. He’s a convicted felon!
So, we’re now prosecuting all gun owners who have done drugs in the past?
Shout-out to all you 2nd Amendment bros.
Sorry I was being a bit facetious, for the Streisand Effect.
Show me 12 guys that experience something absolutely world changing, and none of them write anything about it for decades and then tell me they were factually motivated
Literacy and writing were uncommon then, though.
I agree with this and do not dispute it.
However, I think there is value to the human mind in performing ritual, meditation, and positive thinking. We can think ourselves into feeling better. The placebo effect works, even in you know about the placebo effect.
Jesus didn’t know about these things 2000 years ago, but the stories about him make him seem like a worldly rabbi. He might have seen evidence of people getting better from disease through the power of prayer. (Never amputees, though.) The human body can fight disease; it can never regrow a limb.
The human mind also tends to remember positive experiences, and tends to ignore things that don’t seem to work. This is how fake psychics and cold readers work. You send out a bunch of guesses, and get a couple of “hits”, and the client remembers the hits. We all remember the hits. It’s harder to remember the misses. (Side note: I experienced a palm reader at a party and experienced this first-hand, and despite knowing their techniques, I still felt it a little.)
All this makes me believe that our brains are generally susceptible to a construct like religion. And that there could be some value in meditation, ritual, and positive thinking. However religion is frequently a grift and makes people do bad things - it doesn’t have to be, though. Being quietly spiritual is ok, which is what Jesus taught.
Ah, I didn’t understand how the app worked. Thanks!
Let’s make it easy for Joe. He doesn’t have to counter everything. Just say, “Everything my opponent said is a lie.” “Again, he’s lying. Here’s the truth”. And then ignore it. You know T**** is going to lie. It’s a given. It’s a trap to try to refute, so just call it a lie and move on.
That might free up some mental power to focus on proper messaging and not melt down.