customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org

@freemo@mastodon.acm.org What's the general project being worked on? Hopefully not the Beast of Revelation?

@45b35521c312a5da4c2558703ad4be3d2e6d08c812551514c7a1eb7ab5fa0f04

And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”

But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”

So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.

Judges 6

@RoboftheVolcano

Will the workers of iniquity never learn?

They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD. There they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is in the company of the righteous. You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter. Psalm 14:4-6

@chic_luke @thelinuxEXP @slimbook Only by actually shipping a preinstalled linux distro does a manufacturer discover what hardware is problematic (proprietary interfaces).

@freemo

1. "sentient" means "feeling", this would include mammals, which feel like us, and even plants, which undergo hormonal responses analogous to mammalian emotions.

2. "intelligent" means "choosing between". This is presumably what is meant by "will". Intelligence (free will) is incompatible with a materialist universe - where every event stems from a chain of causation.

3. "suffering" - this is the primary means of human and animal learning. Parents, government, dog trainers, all inflict measured suffering ("chastisement") to attempt to curb destructive behaviours.

4. This is a nice objective criterion - but not exactly a moral argument. It does imply a moral argument from authority. In Genesis 1, God puts mankind in authority over the rest of creation. Even while tending your garden, you end some plant life to enhance other plant life. In Genesis 9, this authority is extended to include ending an animal's life for food, and ending a human life for murder ("whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed").

@thelinuxEXP @slimbook There is no official laptop. Whenever any company (before Slimbook there was Lenovo) offers preinstalled Fedora as an option - the project celebrates that. It hopefully helps the company be rewarded for developing the option (which is not trivial), and the Fedora project gains visibility.

@freemo @louisrcouture Prison was originally for restitution (actually paying back the theft) - which is rehabilitative. Somehow that morphed into punishment. Probably because of morphing the death penalty for murder into prison time.

@freemo One of the tithes in the law of Moses was a contribution for food distributed to the poor and administered by the Levites. It also doesn't say anything about qualifying the recipients. And indeed, most people would rather have more say in what they were eating - but if the only other option is starvation...

How do these institutions handle famine? First come first serve? Serving size limits? We had (government caused) famine in America just 100 years ago - but everyone has forgotten what it is like.

@mzan @freemo @VoxDei @ihavenopeopleskills
> Guns are effectively banned in certain local govts in the US. (Although recent SCOTUS decisions have been reducing the extent of local restrictions.) It would be instructive to see where those US homicides occur (and being careful to exclude justified homicide, i.e. self defense). As a cherry picked example, Chicago is known for both gun control and homicides. An actual survey would be more instructive.

@TruthSandwich
Cuba ✅ (forgot that one)
NK ✅
China ❌ Totalitarian yes, but very capitalist
Laos - I'm ignorant on this one, I'll take your word for it.
Vietnam (N?) - I'll take your word, seems likely given NK. S. Vietnam is not Communist.

US - not for long, as govt nationalizes more and more industries. Even worse are govt controlled industries like Big media, health care, Big agriculture, etc, etc as that moves us toward classic fascism.