Religion is not the source of our social bounds and morality rather a parasite of control left over from ancient times.
Not the person you’re replying to, but I’m an atheist or an agnostic and even I’m not so sure about that.
When given the idea that there is no retribution or reprocussion for their actions, many people become nihilistic and act terribly.
I agree that it’s weak to need a “sky daddy” to act properly, but many people are weak.
Canned green beans are disgusting. The frozen or fresh versions are like a completely different thing in both taste and texture.
We moved fast and broke things.
Nobody came back later and fixed things. We were too busy breaking other things.
What is your native tongue?
Spanish has a pretty wide array of accents and dialects, but I think for the most part Spanish speakers understand one another.
Oh, I didn’t mean it ironically at all.
Sorry about your sisters dog, that’s heartbreaking.
Not my sister’s dog, my dog’s sister / littermate but yeah still not great.
Yes, just like most things you vaccinate against it’s possible to have a breakthrough infection, but the immune system is still more equipped to fight it after vaccination.
This guy just didn’t vaccinate her at all. Vaccination can be the difference between having a breakthrough infection and getting better in a couple of weeks and dying from or being permanently disabled by a disease.
Great thread for adding to your blocklist.
My dog’s sister died at age two or three because the owner didn’t vaccinate her. I think she died of kennel cough.
Nah you’re essentially washing the washcloth every time if you load it up with soap before using it, which is what I do. I usually switch it when I switch towels, which is like every three or four showers.
Edit: oh and the utility is that they scrub better than your fingers…
Wash cloths exist for a reason.
Yep they inadvertently put their whole missionary /crusade / colonist mentality into the “art”.
It’d be funny to have a movie that’s the opposite, where someone is super pro-Christmas at the beginning and then winds up changing religions or something. Similarly, there should be a movie where someone discovers through the magic of Christmas that rural life sucks and moves to the city.
It reminds me of the quote, “if I had more time I would have written you a shorter letter”. Terse code is often better, because it is often developed using a process that only adds necessary things or was created by trial and error during the development process that isn’t included in the final output.
Lengthy code is often written because a person coded their misunderstandings, their ambiguities about the problem space, and their early failures at solving the problem into the code.
With emojis in it for extra flair!
I feel like streaming has led to things being more fragmented, both because you need to be subscribed to the one service that carries the show and because there’s so many more shows being made.
I’m not who you were originally replying to, but I think two seemingly contradictory things can be true at once.
Yes, there is definitely more content nowadays, and less people watching the same things at the same time because of all of the variety of services and content and platforms, etc.
But that content tends to still be homogenous. The settings and costumes of the shows might be different, but most content cannot pass, for instance, the bechdel test.
For all of the emphasis on “eradicating woke” in the last few years, there really isn’t a whole lot of actual diversity in most media. I could probably only name a single show that expresses, for instance, communist ideas, and I think it was cancelled in recent years alongside scores of lgbtq characters in shows.
Plotlines are typical, production values are stepped up but there’s a large amount of, for instance, ideological consistency among all media produced nowadays.
If you’re looking for a variety of typical genre shows, yes, you’re spoiled for choice. But when you’re looking for something that breaks the mold even slightly there are really only a handful of things from which to choose.
And that’s leaving out how much derivative media exists. Vince Gilligan in recent interviews even lamented how he was one of only a few people that could get a new show with a new concept even started in the industry. Many shows are set in “universes” that are decades old. A lot of “new” movies are reboots or sequels of old movies.
There’s a thread of choiceless variety that used to apply mainly to things like groceries that has now infected much of media as well. Whole political movements now push to eradicate the little diversity (ideological and character identity based) that exists.
All of this leaves out what happened to music btw, which is becoming so algorithm-driven that it’s hard for those using streaming services to even tell if it was produced by a person.
I’ll just leave this here as well:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
Edit: I realized after a while that the easiest way to summarize the homogeneity you see in modern media is that it is supply-side oriented. Shows, movies, and music are made (or not) primarily based upon how easily the corporate marketing apparatuses think they can shove it down the public’s throat.
Nobody wants to wear dork goggles to watch TV.
Bought a lifetime Plex pass a few years ago so this doesn’t affect me. It’s honestly worth the cost especially over time.
Dude containers are often easier than running the underlying programs.
I think I agree with basically everything you’ve said here and especially this conclusion. The problem is that for many the only type of these things they can find is couched in religion. As a child-free atheist, I basically have no sense of belonging nor a community.
In addition, some people’s only exposure to even the very concept of morality or ethics comes through religion.