The weakness of science is its vulnerability to sophistry and its demand for trusting evidence over what sounds right. The strength of science is that no other framework has ever come close to it in ability to draw practical conclusions about reality.

I love the eyebleed aesthetic of it I’m just now skilled enough to get that on something like fedora or Debian. And these days what I want is for more things to work easier which puts me out of the arch sphere. If garuda hadn’t committed hard to the aur I’d probably love it but the aur does everything 3 ways 1 of which may still be maintained and it leaves you just wanting the actively maintained flatpak.

Like I don’t hate it, it was the right distro at the time for me as it was noob friendly and had plasma 6 when few others did. But I don’t need the bleeding edge anymore.

As someone who tried it for a few months then switched back for several years before returning permanently two years ago: Linux has long had the problem that it’s completely ready for different people at different times.

In 2017 it was in pretty good shape if you weren’t a gamer, didn’t mind tinkering a fair bit, were prepared to learn a completely different two ways of installing software, and didn’t rely on proprietary apps (I couldn’t get Netflix to work). I was only ready for the tinkering. Also I’d used Ubuntu and gnome just added more changes.

Five years later a lot had changed. I wasn’t using Netflix (especially not in the app) for one. But Proton had come around and made gaming just work. My wifi drivers just worked unlike before. Years of mobile app stores and a few months of lemmy had prepared me for repos, even though it still took some getting the hang of to switch from just downloading and double clicking an exe file. But also the software options are increasingly available rather than having to learn to use old school wine while in the middle of a massive change. I still think I should switch away from garuda at some point as I dislike some of the choices it made (no flatpak support for one), but I love aspects of it. And all throughout that time that Linux was getting more accessible to someone like me who isn’t a coder, but was tech nerd curious, windows was increasingly getting in my way and becoming anti user.

I think adoption will continue to increase as Linux continues to get easier for more people

It’s really nice for emudeck integration

Also I recently installed a decky app to allow flatpak updates from deck mode

The word for R Studio fan is “scientist”

Oh that one’s because he goes nuclear when they do. He funded the killing of Gawker because they outed him.

Does Thiel not have more money?

It’s Activision-Blizzard. It’s the same megacorporation

Your continent gets proboscideae! Your continent gets proboscidae! Everybody’s continent gets proboscidae!!!

Alternatively 8 months of 5 weeks of 9 days with 5 days spread between them. 3 days off each week. Each month begins on a solstice, equinox, or halfway between them.

We can go as crazy as we’d like

Lincoln but he really likes what he’s hearing from that Marx fellow over in Germany

They treat most of them as suggestions

Also genesis describes the soul entering at the first breath.

So you definitely don’t have education on Christianity in a theological or religious studies capacity. To begin with: it’s absolutely certain that none of the gospel writers met Jesus. They compiled stories of him into cohesive narratives. There were other gospels floating around (including Judas’s, but that’s highly unlikely to have been written by Judas Iscariot). Hell, Paul of Tarsus who wrote a lot of the epistles never met Jesus. The creation of biblical canon was a difficult process and to this day Protestants use 7 less books in their Bible than Catholics (the deuterocanonical books). The orthodox have even more deuterocanonical books.

These books aren’t just curiosity. They contain some of the fundamental disagreements between Protestants and Catholics, such as purgatory, angelic/saintly intercession thanks to prayer, and the idea that salvation may be possible through good works. And this isn’t getting into sola scriptura vs Tradition, but that’s also huge, as Catholics believe that formalized beliefs and practices passed down through the centuries can be just as legitimate as scripture (in part because what counts as scripture is also passed down in that way).

So let’s say that a person asks this app what Jesus would say about what’s going to happen to a good friend who is a deeply moral person but just doesn’t believe in Jesus. The protestant answer would be that if they don’t accept him as their personal savior they’re going to hell, though they may get a final chance as they die. The catholic answer would be that if they’re a good person who lives a life of minimal sin there is reasonable hope for their salvation, but even if not they’re likely to spend time in purgatory as the sin is removed from their soul so that they can eventually belong in heaven. It may then give some saints to ask for intercession.

These are wildly different answers and it’s not touching on orthodoxy or the writings on Jewish ideas during the rabbinic age (Jesus was Jewish and therefore would have opinions on the religion he was a part of). Or on different protestant teachings. Protestants who believe every word in the Bible is literally true, and have no disagreement on what passages are in the Bible still schism with each other. Then there’s translation. The Bible was written in several different languages. The various translations have different proponents and they’ll fight over it. The very popular King James is apparently beautifully written and poorly translated.

Then there’s the other crux here: what did and didn’t Jesus say and what did he mean. He came not to abolish the old law but to fulfill it, so can you have gay sex (see also translation concerns), foreskin, a cheeseburger, shrimp, or mixed fiber clothing? He didn’t say shit about abortion, but a lot of Christians have pretty firm opinions on that issue (and many protestant denominations changed their mind on it in the late 20th century).

Biblical scholarship is scholarship, and it’s difficult and controversial scholarship a lot of the time. There’s a reason you need what amounts to an advanced degree to just an ordinary advanced degree in a relevant topic to become a pastor in some Christian denominations, yet in others you just have to start preaching.

Also if someone asks Jesus what he thought of when he first arrived in America you’re gonna find out really fast if the creator of the app considers Mormons Christian.

A lot of Christians think the pope is a Satanist

Famously simple and uncontroversial thing to do, interpret what Jesus would say in response to any question.

Also loling at Satan not giving evil advice in a Christian app

Thoughtful and disciplined are exactly the adjectives we think of when we think of leaders of tech companies

Spam them regardless. You want them to stay where they are and to argue firmly. Especially coming from Germany when talking about the evil of the surveillance state.

Ooh that’s completely unnecessary to my use but looks amazing and if I had a big enough place it would be something I’d seriously consider

Keep in mind Costa Rica and him are both ok with him being sent to Costa Rica