Ooooooh. Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah I guess I just meant like… logistically?

Ports of entry don’t move, and shipping containers are huge. I’m probably just not thinking flexible enough.

is that even possible?

Two things started the slow 10ish year journey to atheism for me. I can’t remember which happened first.

Some Mormon lads doing their mandatory missionary work knocked on our door when I was home alone. I decided, screw it, kill them with kindness. Maybe I’ll convert them! After I got them some ice water, they started the spiel. It was so stupid, how could anyone believe this? Then I thought, wait, how is what I believe any more believable? That was an unsettling thought that I could never really shake.

I also challenged myself to read the entire Bible (NIV) front to back (which I did, thankyouverymuch). I already had a lot of apologetics for the pentateuch warfare, slavery, etc. but in Psalms there’s a verse that basically goes, “blessed is he who dashes the babies on the rocks.” And like. What the fuck is that. In what possible circumstances is killing babies okay, let alone with God’s explicit endorsement? That also stuck in my head ever since.

There was a lot else in between, but years later I stumbled into a copy of The God Delusion. “Know thine enemy, right?” So I read it on lunch breaks at work. While I now know the book has a reputation for kinda bad philosophy, by the end it had tidily dismantled the last vestiges of the purely “rational” arguments to believe in God I still had. So I sat there, an atheist for the first time in my life.

Jesus fuck me

I like this idea, but I don’t know how you build a site to facilitate that without also being super appealing to children and pedos at the same time.

Oh yeah I first saw that on a miniminuteman YouTube short. At first I thought, no way, then he played the clip in context. And uh. Yeah. Woof. That’s a Nazi salute alright.

You misunderstand. This IS Trump’s chosen stooge. FTC Chairman Carr.

He’s complaining about tech companies “censoring” conservatives for “speaking their minds”, aka being hateful bigots and spreading misinformation during a public health crisis.

I’m unfamiliar with the context for most of these. Plenty don’t look like Nazi salutes. To me, anyway.

But literally every word that has slithered out of that moldy potato’s mouth for the last two decades is all you need to know he’s a white supremacist.

About two or three months ago. It’s not for all content, but their more in depth stuff, How X did Y articles, and other writing that’s more analysis and opinion than reporting on facts usually goes behind the new paywall. Anything you’d care about for news or breaking stories is still free, which is about 75%+ of the content on the site.

Okay that gave me a hearty chuckle, thank you.

Probably not in the sense that the average American uses the word “communist”, which is more about their remembered history of authoritarian regimes of the USSR and mid 20th century China and those sorts. Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the atrocities thereof.

Linux is communist insofar as it is open source, and therefore less affected or tied up in capitalistic practices. Capitalists still use and contribute to Linux, but often those contributions go back into the commons of the open source code.

You probably know all that, I’m just feeling long winded.

I don’t know what peanut butter is like in other countries. In Japan it was very different, a lot sweeter.

What’s yours like? Have you ever been able to compare it to something like JIF?

I don’t quite follow what you’re saying, but I think I largely agree?

The Hitler salute is a “Roman salute”. The Roman empire is a big inspiration for Nazis. And Rolling Stone seems to be very aware of that in the article.

I was going to disagree, but I realized you said “complacent” and not “guilty”. Yeah. He was certainly complacent as far as I know.

So that’s “getting shittier” but not “enshittification”. The latter is explicitly a profit-motive driven phenomenon, coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023. Here’s the original post he made about it: https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df91979

Don’t have this issue myself, but usually when people complain about crows it’s because they are getting into trash cans, dumpsters, etc and just making a mess of things. Presumably they think it’s fun?

I… think we are saying the same thing with different words and emphasis.

The problem then was the immaturity of Linux for gaming. Valve has done a shit ton of work to make that possible and focused on a specific experience with the steam deck for several years. Now they’re just expanding and building on that success, which is awesome to see.