Not really. They were certainly white supremacists and hated Jews, but Christianity didn’t really play a big role in their ideology. They spent a lot more time supressing local churches than going on about how christian they are, and many of them were very interested in pagan religions.

Second quote sounds like a huge strawman. Did anyone acutally say anything remotely similar that anon heard or read about?

That said, I can kinda see it. SM64 looks super weird if you’re not used to the style, and it adds that “early 3d graphics” weirdness to it that younger people might only know from horror games. And TBH Mario games have always been kinda trippy.

I’d say it still counts as diurnal, unless you’re actually sitting completely in the dark (and yes, the screen counts as a light source) Ü

Also, as someone who also is awake most nights, I get the impression that it’s not particular healthy, i.e. is in conflict with our biology.

All other things being equal, eyes specialized on daylight activity will just be better at the kinds of intricacies needed for shaping the tools, collecting the right materials etc., mostly because night vision is pretty much greyscale for mammals. And would humans even be as likely to start using fire if they could see in the dark? It’s obviously still useful for preparing food, but IDK that I’d choose to place a beacon of light and smoke (smell) in the night if I could see without it.

I’d assume that humans used tools long before they started using fire, because making fire is far more involved than using simple tools. Though this might actually be worth looking up.

recent conviction of initiating physical violence

Which is pretty easy to get if you attend protests and the government intents to effectively ban leftist activists from having legal access to guns. Wrongfully charging protesters with resisting arrest is already commonplace in many EU countries, and “the protesters started it” is standard fare when people ask why the police attacked a peaceful protest. If activists started arming themselves, they would definitely use these, especially if they took them to protests (though that would be illegal anyway in my country).

So what you’re saying is, we basically can’t have strong gun laws until our political systems are deeply changed in one way or another?

15 year old cars. I don’t believe in throwaway culture. Plus I hate new cars so there’s that.

When you put it like that, I can actually get behind that. New cars are absurd with all their electronics and non-fixability.

But you can’t start your scenario from after there’s already a fully placed authoritarian government in place. If you’re starting from there then there’s no actual law about anything at all anyway, guns or otherwise.

Fair enough. I guess it depends on how authoritarian and anti-progressive you think most western governments were before they started to tune into the Trump bs; it’s a completely different conversation if you think that we need a revolution before enacting strong gun control laws.

And secondly, you’re arguing as if strong gun control laws means a gun ban, which aren’t at all the same thing.

It’s really easy to declare someone who belongs to a political movement or politicized minority as ‘not fit for gun ownership’, the further away from the current political center the easier.

The issue with strong gun control laws is that they would definitely be leveraged by authoritarian governments against the interests of the common people. I’m not really a fan of complete gun ownership freedom, but even in the not-quite-as-overtly-fascist past of US politics, it’s been conspicuous how often state gun laws were tightened when minorities started arming themselves, while the ‘white men shooting up schools’-issue is pretty much being ignored.

Tool use and being nocturnal are kind of a bad fit, so it’s hard to believe that humans would have evolved in a recognizable form if they had been nocturnal.

Damn, a lot of people wouldn’t have learned a reasonable lesson from that interaction …

I think all the inter-instance drama on Lemmy shows pretty well that people don’t need money to enter filter bubbles. I don’t think you can even see this comment lol

Western politicians have become increasingly mask-off. I remember back in the early 00s, national politicians in my country stepped down because they used frequent flyer miles from flights for official purposes for private purposes. Nowadays, they get exposed for blatant corruption, power misuse and even serial rape and just carry on.

… why do you have 3 of them?

If we’re free to redefine “religion” as we see fit, I declare breathing a religion.

I want to note that none of this was valid science, the results were worthless because they prioritized torture and didn’t document their “experiments” and their results properly. Same for medical Nazi “research”.

Though it’s true that you don’t need religion to do evil acts.

Idk why we’ve reached the point where anyone saying they’re anything but an atheist has to specify that they aren’t a bigot

Most “spiritual” people adhere to one of the big organized religions, and those kinda suck in general and are rarely content to leave nonbelievers in peace.

Is this based on real, reliable statistics or just newspaper headlines?

Neat, thanks!

Examples? I feel like I could probably script more window manager-related things in my current setup, but I don’t really have any ideas what to script.

I recently checked out KaOS’ new iso with niri. It did look neat, but it had exactly the issues I just described. The window management shortcuts were unfamiliar, it took me like 15 minutes to figure out how to change keyboard layouts (in part because the general presentation suggested that there was probably a GUI method, but there wasn’t), I couldn’t even make dark mode work easily.

I could probably make niri work for me if I really wanted, but it’s a lot of work for no real benefit. I’ll probably just end up moving to sway in a couple of years when it becomes really unreasonable to keep using X11, since that one is actually designed to feel similar to the window manager I’m currently using (i3).