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Zephyr

@ Zephyr @sh.itjust.works

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  • Gemini in Chrome can now see exactly what you’re looking at on screen

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  • I used to use WebKit based browsers like w3m and terminal based browsers like lynx. Also used a lot of terminal based apps for things, not really for security but because my netbooks single core atom chip sucked. I noticed though that I essentially avoided cookies, ads, and trackers by accident. I've been thinking of going back to a thermal based life. Now I'm wondering if there are terminal based apps for Lemmy and mastadon.

  • "That Mamdani is a menace!"

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  • This is almost as tragic and horrific as Obama's tan suit incident. It is a day that will live in infamy.

  • "influencers" are setting us back

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  • Why don't we structure our political systems around the scientific method? That is all of the policies are testable and the goal is the optimization of the HDI, GDPPP, and environmental impact. Why employ policies based on beliefs or feelings when we can just test them.

  • Is anyone afraid of our future?

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  • You're not wrong but maybe not completely right. Someone has thought the world was about to end since at least the beginning of recorded history. Famously the first Pope Saint Peter was strongly convinced the rapture was within his lifetime, 1960 years later, the world is still spinning.

  • TIL That the government's mass surveillance programs operating under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, have never stopped an act of terrorism.

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  • Terrorism is mostly a scam to justify a lot of things sane and informed citizens would never support.

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    Yes, yes they are

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  • Those in power want to maintain power which is much easier if the people are divided, particularly on subjects not involving the people in power.

  • Every fucking time

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  • I kinda miss grocery stores. Where I stay now there isn't a single store like that, just many small shops. You get used to things maybe being there, maybe not.

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    Yes, yes they are

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  • There are a few forms or levels of racism. There are people who really believe the narrative, some who question some of it, and others who are aware it's bullshit but accept it because it benefits them or going against the narrative could be harmful for themselves. In short humans will craft whatever story they need to justify behavior they want without any concerns for logical consistency. You can see this behavior in racism now and of course many other aspects of society and human behavior. Humans are storytellers, more so than logical beings.

    Funny enough Benjamin Franklin has a short story on this. He as a vegetarian was lamenting his compatriots catching, killing, and cooking fish, listing all the reasons it's immoral until he begins to smell the delicious fish and then starts writing about how maybe it's not so bad, is fine, is even his god given right to eat the fish. The moral being humans can and will justify whatever they want to do. Also I'm aware of his own connection to slavery and inhumane practices.

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    Do you think that the Illuminati is still a thing now?

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  • But the royals reference him more than normal? If so then we definitely might have something in common.

  • Shoutout to my selfhosting homies with a partner, kid, and cat(s), with these storage prices. T_T

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    Do you think that the Illuminati is still a thing now?

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  • Do they reference the stand-up comedian George Carlin a lot?

  • Can you relate?

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  • Is it just normos or everyone including the non-normos?

  • Can you relate?

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  • I wonder if there's a way to balance it so there's some care but not too much or too little generally. A lot of things about life seem to be a balance and not absolutes.

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    Do you think that the Illuminati is still a thing now?

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  • Seems more like a placeholder. I think George Carlin got it right in his stand-up, you don't need a secret society when multiple individuals desires naturally converge. Wealth and power typically dissipates after a few generations so for a family to stay wealthy and powerful drastic measures must be taken. So if you have a wealthy family who has substantial control over media and one over political processes and another over manufacturing or refining their goals to maintain wealth and power naturally align without any rituals needed.

  • World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US

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  • Who's to say the issue was necessarily with the server. Dishes being dirty, or the food having issues wouldn't be their fault. Also your assumption does really depend on the restaurant and how they manage tipping.

  • World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US

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  • My issue isn't with the service staff, it's with business owners who are increasingly abusing their workers by offloading their pay onto tips. I mainly fight this by just not eating out or eating out at places where tipping isn't customary. Also for what it's worth I only stay stateside a portion of the year, where else I stay tipping is unusual, not unheard of but definitely not a common thing people do. So in the end instead of 15% they get 0% because I didn't go out to eat and of course the business owner gets $0.

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    Funny how religious people can say anything to your face but any retort back is religious prosecution

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  • Yeah what's external from the body and mind of an individual is a whole other story aka the society in which they are in. It's sometimes a dangerous perspective but I do tend to see issues more so as technological issues. With this circumstance it's not an issue I see with an individual that they feel they don't match their body but that our technology is so limited that we can't change form as easily as we change clothes. The illness or lacking isn't an aspect of the individual but in our current technological abilities as a species. With sufficient technology any will should be unbounded so long as it is not causing needless and avoidable suffering to another sentient being. If for instance we can upload a mind and inhabit a virtual space then we may achieve this sooner than we think. In what we consider "actual" or "physical" reality, it's going to take a lot more time and effort.

  • Sometimes it be like that

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  • There's an idea that all permutations of energy exist and there's only one singular conscious mind inhabiting each life generally unaware there's only one mind.

  • Good point

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  • That's how this is typically dealt with. Someone encourages the same treatment for other religious texts which then pisses off the Christian folk so then they repeal the whole thing..