I’m a simple man. I see a cute dog, I upvote.

God damn that’s a great game. At the same time, I think they did this knowing that folks would die all the time, so they didn’t want each death to be super punishing.

Thank you for sharing this. I had no idea of this practice. I can easily see how this form of monasticism can be beneficial and harmful.

It’s far more than just looking to one set of scripture when it comes to the charedi movement in Israel. They’re reading in thousands of years of Rabbinic Judaism, most importantly the idea that the sacrificial cult of Ancient Israelite Religion (A.K.A. Torah) is the way God wants people to engage in worship. It’s using thousands of years of anti-Semitism as a cudgel to state “we can’t be oppressors because we were oppressed.”

My hot take is that one reason for a strong connection between the U.S. and Israel is that Israel is a settler-colonial, white supremacist, patriarchal, theocratic apartheid ethnostate. There’s a non-insignificant portion of the U.S. populace who wish the U.S. had the same kind of government.

My straight edge dad, a doctor, would comment there are a number of very useful drugs. “Drugs Are Really Excellent” was his interpretation.

I came in here to say just this. I’m a Jewish clergyman, so I deal with this kind of shit a lot. The term isn’t just brainwashing; it’s actively seeking to erase Judaism as part of Christianity. It’s shit like this, combined with Christian Nationalism, which makes me jumpy at first when someone identifies as a Christian.

I was long distance with my wife for over a decade before we started living in the same place. We stayed committed the entire time because we care deeply for each other, and wanted each other to get the education we needed. Did it suck to be apart that long? Damn right. But to say that it’s human nature to cheat when not in the same place is BS.

Someone say ROCK AND STONE?!

I’ve been seeing a number of people talk about this laptop on Lemmy, and I can see why. I have dreamt of building out a laptop like my desktops, and these folks seem to be able to make it happen.

That made me lol

I’ll chime in with my vote for NewPipe as well. It’s served me very well, and does so much.

Neither did I. I needed this.

I think for a number of us it’s nostalgia, like what @Tosti@feddit.nl was saying. I too was there when the old memes were formed. And I think you’re on to something too, OP.

As I said in a different comment (on an account from a different server), moral behavior is bad for business. No way these executives are negotiating in good faith, because to act in good faith prevents someone from being an executive.

Social media as already fostered multiple genocides and destabilized democracies. It does not surprise me that this would be added to the list.

If no one was telling them it was broken, why fix it? That costs money, a cardinal sin against capitalism.

I don’t expect the people running a company to have morals, because moral behavior is bad for business.

Well, this is terrifying. Just what I needed today.

I’m a huge fan of Evolve, an idle game played in the browser which only requires a network connection to start up. Saves are text that you can export and load to a file. There’s lots of strategy, all kinds of ways to play, and makes for some funny stories.

Thanks, bug! What a cool fact!

Definitely an Afrikaaner word. It’s also the name of an elevated bridge in the Kirstenbosch botanical gardens in Cape Town that goes through trees. It looks like and is named after the snake!