What is something that should have died out a long time ago?
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my self-preservation instincts
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Young earth creationism
What I hate so much about that, is all the "evidence" just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.
And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.
Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how "the last two people" could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.
They were just outside of walking distance.
Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that's probably happened a bunch. Hell, we've had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.
We don't know shit about 250k of those years.
From what I understand (and as a Christian), it's those Christians that take a literal reading of the Bible, not understanding that those parts of the Bible aren't meant to be read literally but are about the WHY of creation rather than the HOW. It's about WHO God is rather than how He did things.
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and with that you need a smartphone, with a google-approved operating system and with it half of the factory bloatware, or otherwise you are barred from paying online, right? that sounds such a good idea.
no.
I said nothing about the OS on the phone, why would you assume that I like Android?
I am an iPhone user, but that is beside the point, if Swish and BankID could run on an open mobile plattform, I'd be happy with that.
My point it to separate the main computer from the payment system while still being convenient.
I am a bit confused as how you missed that...
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I'm no expert on the subject, but it's my understanding that mobile networks are being deployed much more widely in the global south than wired telephone lines, and they're usually internet-capable.
wait, you're right. not sure what i was thinking of... then i guess it's an easy way to get a unique human-readable subscriber identifier?
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Did you say “meow?”
wrote last edited by [email protected]Did I say wHat, meow?
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Charlie Kirk
On that note, Ben Shapiro as well.
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Did I say wHat, meow?
Love the H
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IPv4! Hail IPv6
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From what I understand (and as a Christian), it's those Christians that take a literal reading of the Bible, not understanding that those parts of the Bible aren't meant to be read literally but are about the WHY of creation rather than the HOW. It's about WHO God is rather than how He did things.
Either that or Genesis is just an explanation made up by a people group that had little to no idea how anything in the natural world works lol
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Did you say “meow?”
MEOWMROWMEOWMEOWMEOW
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Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.
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Love the H
Heroin is a hell of a drug.
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Blockchain. It was an interesting poc, but it has yet to have a useful implementation apart from scams.
Tamper evident logs are a good use case for blockchain.
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Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.
Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we've backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.
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Religion
Easy to say, but I'd argue it's baked in.
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
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Religion isn't necessarily the problem, people (as usual) are.
No, it is directly a problem. Believing in bullshit because someone in a higher position than you said it with zero fucking evidence is how MANY of humanity's ills have come about and persist. Religion feeds that idiocy.
No, it's not the only route, but it is a HUGE component of people believing things without evidence. That is, unequivocally, an actual, literal, direct problem.
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Young earth creationism and flat earth
What's weird is the young Earth thing is relatively new. Before the 1850s or so, you would be laughed out of the room. As ignorant as we were, naturalists were having a hard time trying to figure a world that was millions, or 10s of millions, of years old. Churches, of any stripe, sure as hell wasn't preaching it.
And here we are, with the flat Earth idea being even newer.
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the republican party in the us.
I'd extend that to conservatism in general.
If there was ever strong evidence of humans generally being just as fucking stupid as the rest of the animals on this planet... It's conservatism (the political ideology, not the act of conservation).
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my self-preservation instincts
Name checks out.
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Tamper evident logs are a good use case for blockchain.
Point to an implementation where this has done anything useful.
