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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • As a background watcher of more true crime than I’d like to have watched, you’re completely right. In addition, the investigations the police do are often unbelievably terrible and have at times led to decades of the wrong people in jail or under suspicion because they’re racist, xenophobic, or just plain lazy and bad at their jobs.

    I watched one that I found particularly sickening where they spent lots of time investigating the dad of the victim and coersing a confession out of him when the paroled, actual perpetrator left a shoe with his name on it at the scene of the crime, and the victim’s young brother said that his dad didn’t do it and saw someone else take his sister.

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




  • I am even to the point now where I no longer believe certain people need religion anymore. They need community and a sense of belonging and religious leaders like to highjack that basic need for their own selfish interests.

    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.



  • 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.








  • The goal here isnt to have personal devices run the shitty vibe-coded apps, it’s to lease time in datacenters to have them run it for you and stream it to your device for a monthly fee.

    Sure but there are deep seated problems with this: (1) the shitty vibe coded apps are so bloated that they can’t run their client side code without thick clients, (2) optimizing code is something nobody wants – or in many cases knows how – to do, and (3) Internet access is still spotty in many parts of the US and will likely stay that way due to other digital landlords seeking rent for fallow fields.