Manmoth 2 months ago • 33%
Are you 14?
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
Manmoth 2 months ago • 66%
patriot act and seeing the continuation of right wing authoritarianism
The Patriot Act was an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 60%
You're just redefining terms. It's the same thing. If Twitter or Lemmy wants to block those things that's fine. I would agree that social networks should try to maintain some sense of decency on their platforms. The government shouldn't be involved though.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 33%
This is (mostly) a different point and I'm not going to engage with it. Suffice it to say that hate speech isn't a slippery slope it's the bottom of the mountain. If such a policy is ever enacted it will be abused and used to persecute people.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 13%
Teslas are impractical, cheaply made and expensive. That's why they aren't selling. Electric vehicles aren't selling in general because they don't make sense for the money. It's a forced meme by special interests.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 60%
While not pacifistic Christianity is non-violent. If someone claims to be a Christian and beats up a homosexual for "no reason" then they are sinning. This, also, is completely irrelevant to the argument I was making.
Everyone tries to enforce their views. You, I assume, want to enforce your world view of radical tolerance for [issue here] at the expense of someone elses ability to criticize it. Your neighbor might want to define hate speech as anything that violates Sharia law.
What we have now (which is no restriction on hate speech) is actually the best policy.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 33%
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The Orthodox Christian God is all knowing. Evil is the absence of Good. (e.g. darkness is the absence of light)
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Similarly this God is all powerful and has already defeated evil through the sanctification of man's nature through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. Faith and cooperation with the Holy Spirit is how man communes with God.
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Evil is the absence of good. So wherever people sin against God evil exists. Fallen beings exist as well because they too sinned against God but are eternally damned whereas man is redeemable.
God is indescribable and inconceivable. He created a church on Earth so that we can worship him. Worshipping God is good for us not just because God is good to us but because he literally is "good". In a world without God good and evil don't exist.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 7%
An army of leftists wouldn't fix anything
Manmoth 2 months ago • 17%
The proposals I listed are MUCH bigger issues.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 33%
Logic presupposes God. If God operates outside of time he can certainly operate outside of other frameworks we use to perceive the world. The human brain can fit in a bucket. Naturally understanding God is an impossibility.
The epicurian paradox presupposes false premises.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 33%
Define "good".
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Manmoth 2 months ago • 25%
Why doesn't he add term limits for congress? And make stock trading illegal for congress? And ban lobbying? etc etc. This "anti-corruption" bill is really ignoring the elephant(s) in the room.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 60%
My point is that it's a moving target that will be abused. The government should not and thankfully cannot regulate speech based on the grounds of "hate". Hate is also not illegal. (At least in the US)
For example, Christians are taught to love the sinner but hate the sin. Homosexuality, drag queens, transgenderism are sins in Christianity. With your new law Christians are now censored because their worldview disagrees with yours.
Whoever has the right to define that term has immense power and that power will be abused just like the other labels in the meme.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
The libertarians and social conservatives on the right are usually at odds with one another.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
Sweet. I'll check it out.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 50%
It should also include "disinformation", "hate speech" and "conspiracy theory".
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
I use it all the time for work especially for long documents and formatting technical documentation. It's all but eliminated my removed work. A lot of people are sour on AI because "it's not going to deliver on generative AI etc etc" but it doesn't matter. It's super useful and we've really only scratched the surface of what it can be used for.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 31%
It's a brand new, highly competitive technology and ChatGPT has first mover status with a trailer load of capital behind it. They are going to burn a lot of resources right now to innovate quickly and reduce latency etc If they reach a successful product-market-fit getting costs down will eventually be critical to it actually being a viable product. I imagine they will pipe this back into ChatGPT for some sort of AI-driven scaling solution for their infrastructure.
TL;DR - It's kind of like how a car uses most of it's resources going from 0-60 and then efficiencies kick-in at highway speeds.
Regardless I don't think they will have to worry about being profitable for a while. With the competition heating up I don't think there is any way they don't secure another round of funding.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
Cool I might get a test number to play around with before I consider porting my main one.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
A well deserved rtfm
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
How is the call quality?
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
An Fdroid version of the app? Awesome. I'll check this out. I started out on GV but left years ago when I degoogled.
Edit: How is the call quality?
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
I'm not a programmer but I've been using linux for over 20 years. It's crazy to me that someone who develops software for a living would not just run Windows but have never meaningfully ran linux. 🤔
Manmoth 2 months ago • 21%
Everyone who disagrees with me is a russian agent.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 50%
'Lol' Three simple characters. "FLOSS software? Ridiculous. So DUMB." He says to himself. Finally a single tap and his snarky comment begins it's instantaneous travail through countless GPL licensed unix systems to reach his victim - an ignorant commenter on an open-source, federated lemmy instance.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 40%
I don't like it and wouldn't buy an HP as my next printer for software reasons alone. I'd suggest supporting another company or getting a used HP for free or next to nothing and buying refilled cartridges from aliexpress or amazon for 30-40% of what HP charges (this is what I do). It's a shitty practice but it doesn't make me want to get daddy government involved.
"Right to Repair" is different. If I buy a printer and the ink chassis breaks and I'm capable of sourcing a part and fixing it myself then I have a right to do that on my own because it's mine.
Edit: As an aside if we explanded my initial proposal to encompass FLOSS hardware as well as software this wouldn't be a problem because companies would be tripping over themselves for the government contracts.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 9%
You're right he's super dumb and not a threat at all. It's only his handlers.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 50%
What we need to do is: Make it illegal to run a business
Twitter doesn't owe anyone anything. Kamala could go post anywhere else but she's not even though the left hates Elon.
The idea that we should pass laws to force twitter to show certain info and expose endpoints to support third party apps is ridiculous. It's their data and they aren't putting a gun to anyone's head.
Passing a law forcing the government to use only FLOSS software for day-to-day activities solves this problem, actually makes sense on a principle level and isn't a ridiculous overreach of power.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 5%
Underestimating your political opponent
Clearly a student of Sun Tzu
Manmoth 2 months ago • 5%
Actually you're right. Don't worry about Trump. He's senile and doesn't stand a chance. Kamala totally has it in the bag.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 96%
It provides a false sense of security for the left even though they should still definitely be worried. The past week is reminiscent of 2016 when everyone thought Trump was a joke candidate and Hillary was going to crush him.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 2%
Trump is old but he's got all his marbles. Sorry. You just don't like him and want him to lose which is fine.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 9%
The objection to Biden was his infirmity and obvious mental degradation. People were saying he had early onset dementia in 2019. Trump has neither of these issues. He can stand and talk for hours. He was shot and got back up. He's healthy.
Manmoth 2 months ago • 50%
Commenting so I can look this thread up later
Manmoth 2 months ago • 100%
...so it's like it was during the hunter biden laptop story and covid?
Not sure why the YT images stopped loading. Inlike this channels thumbnails.
I don't agree with everything in this video, particularly about the denominations objection, but it's otherwise a pretty good apologetics scattershot of atheist objections. Obviously any single objection would require more than a 10 minute meme video to really explain.
Pt. 2 - https://youtu.be/bZfkVvcyrQc?si=5dhkC4lycIZ8ne-h
Metropolitan Jonah (ROCOR) gives an informative lecture on the history of Russian Orthodoxy in America. Ever wonder why there are so many overlapping jurisdictions in North America? American bishops were at a synod in Moscow when Lenin's bolshevik coup started. The bishops were murdered. This decapitated the Orthodox church in America and prevented the fulfillment of unifying differing jurisdictions into a larger body. The results are still visible today. The communists murdered over 250,000 clergy and 20 million Christians over the course of the Soviet era. As a result ROCOR is perhaps one of the strongest anti-communist organizations in the United States today.
"Grandfather Dobri" was a beautiful philanthropist beggar who gave everything be had to the revitalization of churches throughout Bulgaria. While the editing is a bit hokey this documentary tells the story of a powerfully humble Orthodox Christian who truly gave his life over to God.
Sharing an image that outlines the key dates, themes and participation how-to's as we approach Pascha this year. Glory to God!
Posting this as we commemorate the feast of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox church who were murdered and tortured by the atheist, communist regime of the Soviet Union. Over 30,000 have been glorified. Holy New Martyrs of Russia pray for us.
I think the old moderator deleted his account. Kind thanks 🙏 Here is a link to my previous request from November: https://lemmy.ml/post/7916142 And September: https://lemmy.ml/post/5314512
I think the mod deleted his account. Thanks! 🙏
True faith.
This talk is long but great. Fr. Freeman has great material on understanding and dealing with shame and often offers poignant anti-modern critiques. In this video he focuses on what it means to be human, the illusion of control and being tolerant. Seriously worth a watch (or listen!) For the skeptics, I encourage you to watch the video in it's entirety before downvoting or criticizing.
I think the mod deleted his account. jayknight@lemmy.ml requested the community as well. I don't care who gets it as long as the mod is active.
I listen to this video when I need a reminder true repentance.
I think this video is relevant given the recent negative post about Orthodoxy. I love this channel because it's honest. In this case it's honest about how the church isn't free from the flaws of humanity and how converts can be driven by non-Christian motives.