What is something that should have died out a long time ago?
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If you squint real hard, Genesis is a tale of stellar and planetary formation. Then comes evolution. Give the first bits a read! Yeah, evolution is mixed up a little, still surprisingly on point for a bunch of Bronze Age sheep herders.
Then there's a second tale, in the same short book. What a clusterfuck. But I can still see some real history in it. If I squint real hard.
Squint so hard your eyes are closed, maybe. Any overlap between biblical verse (translated through at least two languages) and modern scientific understanding is coincidental.
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In reality, it's not purely about race. Most racism isn't between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Lol
Speak of the devil and the ones equating skin color with culture will appear
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Squint so hard your eyes are closed, maybe. Any overlap between biblical verse (translated through at least two languages) and modern scientific understanding is coincidental.
Like a prophecy referencing cities burning being reimagined as a nuclear exchange instead of, you know, a fire.
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We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.
We should address it again, and fix the way a ton of words have been Anglicized at the same time, but we're far from alone. French is loaded with needlessly silent letters as well, just as the first example that springs to mind.
(actually, can we just switch directly to the International Phonetic Alphabet?) (This is a bad idea for reasons that are probably obvious, it's a lateral move at best)
wrote last edited by [email protected]We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.
What do you mean? The Great Vowel Shift happened well before any standardisation of spelling I'm aware of. And there's plenty of problems beyond just the vowels.
French is probably number two on the shit list, but there's at least a consistent pattern there.
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Lol
Speak of the devil and the ones equating skin color with culture will appear
Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.
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Does smartcard and wireless actually have an encryption layer of some kind?
I'd assume so, but more importantly, for both, there's a cryptographic signature being performed by the card. The credentials never leave the card --- there's a private key on the card, and what goes out is a signature on the transaction, which is useless for doing other transactions.
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Religion isn't necessarily the problem, people (as usual) are.
That's essentially the same as saying guns aren't the problem.
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my point that it doesn’t matter which religion
idk man saying it doesn't matter what religion you're talking about sounds like you think they're all equally bad to me.
Also idk who's beliefs you think I'm making a strawman out of but I was refering to my own beliefs that help me to actually go into nature as I can at least 4 times a year to help with my depression, maybe I'm more open to it because up until a few years ago I was studying to become a conservationist but it's certainly better than back when I also thought that anyone who believes in something is a dumbass
Your personal religion is not an established religion that has done things theoughout history... So again... good job strawmanning your own argument.
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I'd assume so, but more importantly, for both, there's a cryptographic signature being performed by the card. The credentials never leave the card --- there's a private key on the card, and what goes out is a signature on the transaction, which is useless for doing other transactions.
That's not true for all cards, at the very least. Skimming wirelessly by RFID is or was a thing. The whole backbone of the credit card system is designed to expect the number.
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Your personal religion is not an established religion that has done things theoughout history... So again... good job strawmanning your own argument.
I'm leaning more into druidic paganism personally but paganism has had a massive impact across the planet through it's different forms.
Vikings, Celts, Romans, Greeks, ancient Egyptians, native Americans and aboriginal Australians all practiced / practice some form of pagan religion. If you genuinely believe that not a single one of those culture groups have done anything throughout history then you clearly need to learn some things yourself before you criticise people for believing in any religion.
But I guess I shouldn't expect someone who can't even remember their own arguments to actually understand anything about the world outside their basement.
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Most types of industrial scale pollution, but it's cheaper to bribe some key people than actually care about the environment
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Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Mhmm, the nuance of racism and "it just being biology/tribalism/instinct," haven't heard that before.
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I wouldn't say I heap them in together. At times in my life I have rejected a belief in anything 'higher', which fits your definition of atheism, although perhaps my mindset was closer to an agnostic atheist stance, which to me is more along the lines of 'I don't believe, but I can't be certain as there's a limit to my knowledge', as opposed to being a strong proponent of the belief that there is nothing beyond death.
Fair point. No one can be sure about there being anything after death. For me it's like the safest and most logical bet that there won't be anything. All other 'options' come across a lot like wishful thinking. No one is going to believe in anything that doesn't fit their own narrative.
Personally, I would not be able to believe Santa Claus is real, so why would I believe in anything supernatural? I'd rather find answers in science.
Also, the idea of there being eternal life after death would just terrify me. It would be the most boring and useless way to spend time. It is the notion of my time being limited that gives it value. When time is unlimited, everything loses meaning. -
Really? Both my home internet and my mobile phone internet give me ipv6 addresses.
My cellular yeah, though I don't consider them an isp since most throttle or deprioritize data after ~50 gigs. But both isps I've had, and all of the friends who I've helped with networking stuff (basically all of them), IPv4. Sometimes, some janky 'conversion' at the modem that leaves them with just v4 anyway. That was with their isp-supplied hardware...
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Me. I feel like I shouldn't be around anymore since quite some time
Aw, dang. This was gonna be my answer, too.
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A better understanding will flow from knowing that federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour.
So there is specific legislation in place to abuse restaurant workers, restaurant owners take full advantage of this.
Here, the minimum wage for servers is $17.20, same as any other worker.
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English orthography. It's like this close to being random.
Other languages have reformed theirs (or theres or they'res) to make sense at some point since the dawn of modern literacy.
wrote last edited by [email protected]fykst yt for ÿu
Inglyš orþografi. Ic laÿk dis klows tu biyņ random. Aðer laņgwajez hav riformd derz (or derz or derz) tu meÿk sens at sǎm poÿnt syns de don ov modern lyterasi.
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Lol
Speak of the devil and the ones equating skin color with culture will appear
equating skin colour with culture
Not equating. They said that people of an ethnicity are often also of a culture common among those of that ethnicity.
I'm in Costa Rica, and people are likely to (correctly) assume that I'm a foreigner here because I'm white.
It's not equating. It is, however, a way to tell what is likely.
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We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.
We should address it again, and fix the way a ton of words have been Anglicized at the same time, but we're far from alone. French is loaded with needlessly silent letters as well, just as the first example that springs to mind.
(actually, can we just switch directly to the International Phonetic Alphabet?) (This is a bad idea for reasons that are probably obvious, it's a lateral move at best)
Adopting IPA would be wrong because it would require that everyone talk exactly the same way.
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fykst yt for ÿu
Inglyš orþografi. Ic laÿk dis klows tu biyņ random. Aðer laņgwajez hav riformd derz (or derz or derz) tu meÿk sens at sǎm poÿnt syns de don ov modern lyterasi.
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