I personally don’t bother worrying too much about things we can’t prove or disprove like that, but it’s important to remember that just because we can’t prove something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. My philosophy is that if there is some sort of beyond that whatever is out there is similar enough to ours that they’d be able to empathize with the decisions I make and judge me accordingly, assuming there even would be some sort of judgement process. I’m at peace with it. I was raised evangelical, and lots of my friends were. One of my atheist friends used to have nightmares about an eternity in hell. I don’t think anyone who loves us could do that. And if whatever is there is different enough that our decisions don’t matter then it’s arbitrary anyways and there’s no sense worrying. It’s not about “being okay with an amoral god.” It’s just an acknowledgement that the idea of a reality we can’t prove further than our own could exist.

But anyone making definitive statements about something like that shouldn’t be trusted. Which rules out pretty much all religions because many make claims like that.

Plenty of people do. Whether they should or shouldn’t and whether they should claim it’s objectively real is different. But plenty of people believe in those things without proof.

It doesn’t mean that there’s no soul, god, or after life, just none that we can prove in any meaningful way.

I think a lot of forms of ads are ableist because of this. You are not alone. They’re so distracting. It’s infuriating.

I am obligated to comment on this due to my profile picture. 💜

That’s me!

I used to had linux mint in an old computer and for some reason the wifi didn’t work.

To me this implies it isn’t their primary computer. It’s not “manipulating and humiliating” someone else. It’s just saying, “you’ve been saying you’d fix this but it hasn’t worked, I need to use this computer for something.”

And no need to feel sorry for my wife. We’ve been together over half our lives, married for over a decade, and extremely happy with each other. My wife has done things like this to me. It’s not toxic or manipulative. Sometimes I overestimate my own skills and/or get distracted with other things.

Alright, they do call the notes that, but calling that gun “the murder weapon” is inappropriate. It robs Mangione of his presumption of innocence.

Police searched Mangione’s backpack during the course of that arrest and found a 9 mm handgun and a notebook with potentially incriminating entries, among other items.

I have a much bigger problem with calling that gun “the murder weapon” anyways. That’s the bigger issue of the two.

How do you know it’s the murder weapon? Why do you think the notes are likely incriminating?

Why? Imagine your house’s door doesn’t work so you have to make a long trip through the back. You keep asking your partner to fix it. They insist they’ll get the door working. Either they can’t or don’t, doesn’t matter, but you have the money and are willing to pay for someone to fix it. Your partner insists they can fix it. I think it’s reasonable to say something like “if it’s not fixed in two weeks I’m paying someone to fix it.”

you’re the only ass here

Says the person who is still going through my comment history and down voting things. Every accusation you’ve made is a confession.

I have empathy. I am not trolling. Just having a discussion online. Tone doesn’t always come across well oger text. Just thought it was important to share that I really really don’t think people who say things like this are saying empathy is bad.

And I’ve met plenty of people who can pick up on people’s moods and know that people who mock others’ misfortunes are cruel without calling themselves empaths.

For what it’s worth, that’s essentially how Wikipedia describes it:

Empath (/ˈɛmpæθ/; from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia) ‘passion’) is a term for people who are claimed to have a higher than usual level of empathy.

In parapsychology, the mechanism for being an empath is said to be psychic channeling; psychics and mediums say that they channel the emotional states and experiences of other living beings, or the spirits of dead people, in the form of “emotional resonance.” Studies of such claims have found them to be the result of mundane empathy and charisma, with no actual supernatural capabilities involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empath

And I’m saying that’s not what I typically think people mean when they say they’re an empath. I mean they mean something more than that.

It’s so infuriating to me that there isn’t a way to just encrypt traffic without verifying it’s part of a chain. By all means, give a nag warning in browsers, but ugh, I think that ship has long since sailed. Plus, realistically, you’d need just as many scary warnings to deter the average user that they might be getting MITMed.

It’s always been my understanding that the term empath implies some sort of higher sense that not everyone is capable of. Similar to some extra sensory ability. Though I may be incorrect. I’ve never read anything jabbing at “empaths” as jabs at empathy as a concept.

Edit: Phone autocorrected “empaths” to “empathy”, oops.

Can you not issue your own certificate? I guess it depends on how many devices and what types of devices need to connect. It’s be a one time effort per device (importing your own self signed cert) versus one time effort per service per X days.

The article is from December 2nd, though maybe the conference is from much earlier, so barring that… The fucking UN said on September 16th that “Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip.” It’s absolutely infuriating that people are still viewing this as something controversial or debatable. I was naively hoping that once the UN used the big G word (genocide) that more moderate politicians (being incredibly generous calling them moderate) would finally start acting like it’s a genocide.

Source: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

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If the community moderator acts in it before instance admins see it then they don’t see it, right?