Not all beliefs are equal. If you hold by a holy text that says that women can (and should) be bought and sold or are otherwise ‘lesser’ than men, or you revere an imbecilic demagogue who claims that all immigrants are rapists, murderers and gang members, then yes, the “culture” of your group will have a higher probability of any given person being an asshole than a group of randomly-selected Humanists, for example. To equivocate that all belief systems are equal from a moral perspective is deeply naive.

ETA: I am not a humanist, because I believe that there is a point at which violence is necessary and justified to protect other lives and the rights thereof.

Don’t do my man Schrödinger dirty like that. I’m sure he had a perfectly normal, non-fascist asshole

Solar thermal generation, 1913

Forget 1954. Try 1914. Solar steam generation which can drive a dynamo.

Also, solar thermal generation was viable a hundred years ago, but nobody invested in it.

I always appreciate another name to add to the block list. Get thee gone, thou vitriolic waste of bytes, thou fallacy-made-manifest, born of what can only be an unloving and deeply stupid progenitor.

Did you forget to close your sarcasm HTML tag? Can’t tell if Poe’s law applies here.

Which community? I’ll spend my unbanned account posting that you’re over here on Lemmy.

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Welcome, sibling! I came over in the rush after the reddit API debacle. Some things I’ve learned in the last year:

We may not have Sprog here yet, but get to know the environment, including colorful fauna such as:

• Cephalopods that have Colonized the Skies.
• The embodiment of the habitual movements of a space captain.
• People that are kind-of like ossified remains.
• People whose entire self identities revolve around draconic coitus (and all the controversy this brings).

The vast majority of posts are made by, like, ten people, and I’m pretty sure they never sleep. I’m currently unconvinced that Flying Squid isn’t just a full colony of Humboldt Squid, constantly ramming into a giant submerged keyboard.

As far as controversies: Avoid the “tankies”. You will find them on Hexbear, Lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad. They will not be going away, since the original creator of Lemmy is, apparently, one of them, and seems kind of mad with power. They treat with no man, and are willing to do anything to convince you that authoritarianism is good, as long as it calls itself “socialism”. One would think they would have learned their lesson from “National Socialism”… They apparently have not. Not everyone from those servers is a tankie, but most tankies are on those servers. Think of Tankies as the lemmy subspecies of those trolls you shouldn’t be feeding.

Contribute to discussions! Especially on a place as small as Lemmy, lurking actively harms the community! Unlike most places, it’s generally fairly easy to figure out who’s being disingenuous and arguing in bad faith, and most people are very reasonable! (As long as you never say anything bad about Linux. Be forewarned. Do not engage unless your autonomic nervous system runs Arch)

Welcome!

I’m sorry, who said Meta was ever the good guy, let alone its shitstain of a CEO? Implementing too-little-too-late consolation fact-checking for a little bit doesn’t excuse waving the flag as THE vanguard of misinformation-as-internet-discourse in mainstream social media.