“Atheists” who make themselves, or the State, a swap-in replacement for God(s) are not much different from purely religious authorities who abuse their positions. It is apparently a common kind of power-seeking Dark Trait.

The Leviathan theory of the state – the Motherland who is greater than us, who we would die for as cells die to preserve the body, and whose Exegeses come from the Great Leader/Supreme Council/President for Life.

It’s exactly the same play on faith and credulity and servility that religions use.

Bingo.

I have way more respect for ravers at Burning Man who OD on Ecstasy while dancing naked and copulating for 14 hours straight.

At least they enjoyed their completely unproductive dalliance

Atheists don’t need to disprove theists any more than they need to disprove Leprechauns. The burden of proof is on the one making the positive assertion.

$ gsettings get org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions 
['apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com', 'window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com', 'gtktitlebar@velitasali.github.io']

I can’t believe apps-menu and window-list are not the default behaviors. gtktitlebar is just so I can claw back a few precious pixels of vertical screen space.

Geez Donald wouldn’t it be awesome to have kickass fighters like that on our side?!?

No cardboard, no cellotape, highest quality materials

May I introduce your barbaric uncivilized ass to the ideas of “voting” and “education”

However it divides up, I want to be on the side that has scientists and vaccines

I’d echo this. Syncthing is widely used because it Just Works in so many weird situations. So if it is Not Working, swapping out Syncthing might actually make the problem harder to solve.

People who care about privacy use Monero specifically

It plays to his anti-intellectual base: “See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades.”

(You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f’ing cancer research)

Depends on what kinds of new narratives and role models they find to latch on to. They are currently in an information bubble created largely by Russia, China, and Iran. I’d love to see a liberal democratic media machine to counter Putin’s Agency

Maybe he could start having rallies in Pennsylvania

Matbe this time everything lines up correctly

Looking eagerly forward to June 14 #nokings #ungovernable

I’m ready for that possibility

Monero

This. It’s not so much your IP address that identifies you; it’s your browser fingerprint

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

TBH if the economy crashes HARD for the next 3.5 years that may help wean some MAGA away from their FOX/OAN/RT propaganda bubble

AlphaFold is built on a transformer architecture. It’s essentially an LLM just trained on genetic / protein language instead of Reddit posts

Crypto didn’t unlock the entire proteome

Learn about what actual researchers are doing with AI before you proudly and ignorantly declare “it’s all hype”

You don’t need to be in the USA to fight.

The fight was won by Russian troll farms operating in Iran. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html