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whotookkarl whotookkarl @lemmy.world

you're high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere

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  • Red 5, standing by

  • Myths, lies, delusion
  • Faith is belief without evidence, and I have evidence everyone who has lived so far has died and the rest of us have enough in common that would cause us to die for similar reasons as those already dead. I don't need faith to believe we're all going to die, faith would be needed to believe someone won't die because we have no convincing evidence for any immortals yet.

  • Do animals feel love and emotion?
  • You may be interested in a paper Thomas Negal wrote about 50 years ago called "What is it like to be a bat?"

    https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf

    It's not just about emotional states, which we can observe the behavioral states of but don't know what it is like to experience as other animals. It's about experience and consciousness which I think speaks to the underlying question of when other animals experience an emotional state if we can relate it to our own phenomenology for similar appearing states.

  • Leading US imams and scholars urge Muslim voters to snub Kamala Harris over Gaza
  • You can't just look at the total numbers and %'s because not every vote has equal weight, the way the electoral college is set up and fptp elections means votes in contested states and districts count for much more than if you're from a highly partisan area.

  • What's an experience that is unique to your country of residence?
  • Not just humility but literally poverty as a virtue too

  • four little weirdos (comic by Will Santino)
  • He should check out what Merlin did last time he overindulged, common wizard mistake

  • Kamala Harris signals she'll go further than Biden on marijuana legalization "we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior"
  • Last year Michigan received about 290 million in weed taxes, around 90 went to municipalities and county governments, 100 million to schools, and 100 million to roads.

  • Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse
  • I used to be kbm exclusive but there have been some pretty good controller improvements made over the years, things like hotkey layers in Skyrim UI mods or the final fantasy MMO giving dozens of unique hotkeys on a controller, and new hardware with back buttons and shoulder buttons that keep both thumbs on the thumbsticks. Can't beat mouse for precision, but there are tradeoffs for that.

  • Russia: Under a proposed new legislation, comments defending the decision not to have children could be fined by up to €50,000
  • Gross weirdos, too fragile to even have a conversation without making rational arguments illegal.

  • Try It
  • Power, they wish to conserve any power they can for themselves and their in-group at all costs to maintain the order of using the government to privilege nepotistic wealth concentrated to as few individuals as possible at the top of a socioeconomic hierarchy.

    Historically though, before the Trump cult and the reactionary neoconservatives, conservatism was to preserve the authority of hierarchies under traditionalism and started around the time of the French and American revolutions.

  • Are there any occupations you uniquely oppose the existence of?
  • Company stooges seems a more appropriate department title than human resources, also who the fuck wants to be called a resource I'm a human being not a number.

  • In Africa, Moscow battles against LGBTQ rights, side by side with U.S. religious conservatives
  • Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International, an Arizona-based conservative lobby group ... spent the past quarter-century working with officials from Africa, Europe and the Middle East to oppose abortion, gay marriage and sex education not centered on abstinence ... She said Family Watch has never supported anti-LGBTQ legislation in African countries and wasn’t “responsible for the treatment of homosexuals under African laws.”

    Get the fuck out of here, advocating against human rights and brothers & sisters in humanity for decades has consequences!?

  • Need a lift?
  • Classic gorilla heist mistake, always let them drive

  • Man Who Bought Twitter for $44 Billion and Can’t Stop Tweeting Republican Propaganda Criticizes Google, Microsoft Over Political Donations, Alleging Bias in Tech Giants
  • If you put a mirror in front of Musk do you think he'd be able to recognize himself, or would he just start making threatening gestures thinking it was another male ape invading his space?

  • Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
  • When my insurance carrier stopped mailing cards they added a request to send the updated cards, pain in the ass but pretty sure most insurers are doing that now to cut corners because they aren't legally required to send them.

  • The best hill of them all.
  • I prefer voice controls to either, but don't have a strong preference between physical or digital because I end up looking either way. Subscriptions on the other hand can fuck right off.

  • Anxiety Tip
  • I had a friend who got pantsed in middle school on a field trip, pretty sure this is for him.

  • What is your favorite movie or TV show director's commentary?

    Been listening to a few lately, a few John Carpenter's, Mayhem was pretty out there, looking for more that are interesting or wildly off topic or entertaining.

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    www.cbsnews.com World Press Freedom Day: Over 100 journalists killed in Gaza

    More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in any other war, according to the Committee To Protect Journalists data

    World Press Freedom Day: Over 100 journalists killed in Gaza

    "In these times of darkness and hopelessness, we wish to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists who are covering this crisis in such dramatic circumstances. As humanity, we have a huge debt to their courage and commitment to freedom of expression," said Mauricio Weibel, Chair of the International Jury of Media Professionals.

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    Tips for living an advertising free/minimal life?

    Just trying to live with as little advertising as possible and curious what tips or tricks the community has aside from moving out to a cabin in the woods.

    I can't really get away from road side advertising for now. Public sporting events are completely infected, and for the ads I am forced to see I try to make a conscious effort not to buy their goods or services. I won't subscribe to a streaming service if they have a sub+ad tier, if they're separate free with ads or sub no ads I'll support it.

    Not really for any moral stance, but ad blockers are good at avoiding malware and some services are basically broken if you have to wait for an ad network, and I just feel mentally healthier in general without the extra propaganda.

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