Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org
Joined Dec 2022
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RT @FearlessSon
@swordsjew @WabuuTheRaccoon I've heard it called "the calculus of hell".
If someone believes the stakes of not believing as they do are infinite punishment, then they have carte blanche moral utility to inflict whatever finite mortal punishment they want to enforce their beliefs.
And so they do.
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I think the saddest part of living in a country that upholds "Work until you drop or starve" as the standard is the notion that if you're unable to find a job that pays enough to keep you alive with a roof over your head, you're a loser. It doesn't matter if you can't find employment that pays a living wage. It doesn't matter how hard you try. If you can't, you don't deserve to be treated like a human being. After a while, it makes the victim of such an economy feel like they ARE a loser.
@djwfyi I will throw one other thought out there. When I was a small child I would sometimes ask my dad why some person (usually an older person) who hadn't been suffering from any known disease or condition had died. My dad would respond by saying they had just lost the will to live.
I always suspected there was something to that. The older we get, the harder life gets, but now it looks like we just might be about to go full tilt boogie into really terrible times, between the people who want to turn the USA and the rest of the world into a fascist state, and the insane rulers of nations that seem to be actually considering escalating whatever conflicts are breaking out. Can it be any wonder that some people - hopefully a very small percentage - maybe decide they just don't care if they get sick and die. They may have beliefs against suicide and may not be ready to take that step yet, but feel that if a virus gets them that's their get out of jail free card, so to speak. Of course if they are thinking that way they probably are not considering that they might pss the virus on to friends and loved ones; I doubt that even enters their thought process because they are not actively trying to die, and maybe not even consiouusly hoping to die, but then again they may not have much enthusiasm for trying to continue living.
Don't know how that would fit into your list but to me it's one of the few explanations for why some people refuse to get vaccinated or take any other precautions to avoid getting #COVID.
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There seems to be a lot of confusion about why there are so many less workers now than there were in '19.
Let me explain.
- A new sickness emerged.
- We ignored it for a while.
- We took it seriously for approximately 2 seconds.
- We let it rip.
- Lots of people died and are still dying.
- Lots more people became or are becoming disabled to mild or severe degrees, with no prognosis of recovery.
- We aren't sure what else will happen to the infected.
That's what happened and is still happening.
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⚠️ A sugar replacement called #erythritol — used to add bulk or sweeten #stevia, monk-fruit, and #keto reduced-sugar products — has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweetener-heart-attack-stroke-wellness
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Arizona Senate bill to ban ‘lewd or sexual’ books called unconstitutional by experts https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/022723_arizona_book_ban_bill/arizona-senate-bill-ban-lewd-or-sexual-books-called-unconstitutional-by-experts/
A bill in the Arizona Senate that aims to give parents more control over what books students read in school is unconstitutional, and critics say the bill’s language isn’t really aimed at protecting children but instead targets LGBTQ children directly.
#Tucson #Arizona
@Radicalfaery @atheistengineer Oh boy, I remember that line about the "god-shaped hole" - I think that came out of one of the big evangelical organizations (Billy Graham or Bill Bright or somebody like that) and it stuck. I wondered how they would have responded if someone, upon being told that everyone had this hole, had simply said, "Well I don't!"
The other thing that was weird as their belief that you could be "saved" right up to the moment of death, but not thereafter. So you could live your entire life in what they considered a "sinful" way, but as long as you said a "sinner's prayer" on your deathbed you were okay, but if you crossed over into the afterlife and immediately said such a prayer it was null and void. Only problem is that their holy book never said anything like that. Specifically, there is nothing that says your afterlife experience changes just because you say a particular prayer just before death. It does say that after you die there will be a "judgement" (or what near death experiencers commonly call a "life review", but of course the church had to turn it into something negative) but you aren't exempted from that just because you said a particular prayer.
So, basically, all their efforts to "evangelize" and convert people probably didn't do them a bit of good in the afterlife, but as we have seen lately it's turned a lot of people into terrible assholes BEFORE they die. Personally I think you would be a lot better off to never have said a single prayer in your life, but treated other people right to the best of your ability, than to have spent day and night in prayer but all the time wishing hateful things on the people you don't like (or have been taught not to like by those miserable excuses for humanity that pass thermselves off as preachers or ministers, but who are very much like the scribes and the Pharisees about which Jesus had not one good word to say).
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Bad beliefs: Misinformation is factually wrong – but is it ethically wrong, too? The answer is yes.https://theconversation.com/bad-beliefs-misinformation-is-factually-wrong-but-is-it-ethically-wrong-too-196551 #criticalthinking @skepticism
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As LGBTQ book challenges rise, some Louisiana librarians are scared to go to work https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/as-lgbtq-book-challenges-rise-some-louisiana-librarians-are-scared-to-go-to-work
Getting harder to be a librarian, especially my public and school brethren (although I am sure they'll come for me in due time).
#censorship #PartyOfStupid #BannedBooks #Christofascists #books #reading #libraries #librarians
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An important story everyone must read: immigrant children are working long, grueling hours in the United States where hard child labor has been illegal for decades. by Hannah Dreier and Kristen Luce https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html
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"What Transparency? Twitter Seems To Have Forgotten About Transparency Reporting "
As of today, Twitter is still sharing with Lumen information from some of the takedown notices that Twitter receives, but this is really too bad for transparency generally.
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I’m open to the idea that not all media outlets have just turned into clickbait, but damned if that’s not going to be an increasingly tough battle…
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Want to catch up on the most recent FL attacks on higher ed?
Here's a good piece on the most recent FL/DeSantos bills. The piece makes the case that opponents need to take up the issue of "competence" and "expertise" since the free speech argument is getting limited traction.
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Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy's admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. But it's worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/02/when-low-tech-hacks-cause-high-impact-breaches/
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Why is it so hard to be a good maintainer?
I have worked on my open-source project day and night for several years. Probably even more than I should. I'm trying to satisfy everyone.
But then there is precisely the one type of user that takes the fun out of the project for me personally. These people love to discuss but have no insight when you try to explain to them several times that it is impossible and, in the end, you will be personally abused.
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A reminder for people in the back: The First Amendment says the government can't pass laws to stop free speech. Says nothing about there being no consequences for this stupid, racist, misogynistic shit you might say. Like, for example, your distributor dropping your comic strip like it was warm maggot-laden feces because you're a racist, misogynistic douchenozzle.
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Installation guide and setting up Python's own IDLE IDE in Ubuntu and other distros
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