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That said, the German government wants to get rid of renewables too.

Because they're maniacs feasting on and being pulled out of Mango Mussolinis Arsehole.

With our demographics though it's the government that was to be expected and - if there's no miracle waiting around the corner - might be the best government for many years to come. I'm so sick of this shit.

could we just like - tactically nuke them?

Historically it‘s exactly that incompatibility of both concepts that created a tension from which certain progress has been born. It‘s fundamental to our evolution as societies. It‘s only times when extremism takes over that either becomes destructive. And it doesn‘t really matter on which side you look - Religion only has a longer record of precedent.

Much of the hatred we saw throught the 19th and 20th centuries though was based on a fundamentally materialist framework. Nazis really thought they were up to something, they could scientifically prove their point and offer the „pragmatic“ solution. To themselves they were utilitarian. Racist ideology does the same. In hindsight it‘s all a big fuss - a net of false assumptions, flawed methodology and manifestation of biases. For the people living during the time it was science.

You see, my point is: It‘s not so much about religion or science, it‘s about trying to control narratives - to utilize them, to weaponize them against deviants. Science has learnt from that - at least a big part of it - even some religious institutions learnt from it. But that doesn‘t stop people from doing what they feel is their nature.

Love each other. Love god. Both are about loving God‘s creation - if you‘re into that kind of stuff.

That‘s the main quest in christianity - and as far as I‘m aware in all other religions. So „dismissing Climate change concerns“ because you don‘t want to trust people who are knowledgable about the matter, at least from my agnostic point of view, is about as contrary to those beliefs as it can get. Because you‘re so superstitious that you can‘t acknowledge the fact you might be biased, you might be uninformed, you don‘t understand, that you simply assume everyone else must be stupid or evil.

That guy they pretend to love so much is said to have said: „ Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?“.

But they comfortably leave out all the parts in the Bible that are purely about self-reflection, self-awareness and self-knowledge.

We, as a species, don't differ too much from our apish ancestors. We grab things. We hurl tings. We smack things. We crank things. It's in our DNA. We need that to function and be healthy. We're not Octopi. An octopus swipes.

This. I just once in a year get a bag of this stuff from Togo:

https://www.gebana.com/eu-de/schokolade-gebana-togo-zartbitter-bio-togo

Use it to make cookies and all kinds of stuff - or just to eat it as is.

I'm sitting on a vast library of games I barely touched - as well as classics I return to even after 20+ years.

I don't need to buy your shit. But you need me to buy it.

For Shoes:

Portugal, mayby most famously, as well as poland have very talented cobblers who make great quality shoes while not being nearly as expensive as some of the bigger brands (looking at you, doc martens). Unfortunately the best way to find out about them currently is etsy. But I‘d reckon there are other platforms where they are active. Maybe it‘s even possible to contact them for sales circumventing Etsy.

People need to get that with the proliferation of AI the only way to build credibility is not by using it for trust but to go the exact opposite way: Grab your shoes and go places. Make notes. Take images.

As AI permeates the digital space - a process that is unlikely to be reversed - everything that's human will need to get - figuratively speaking - analogue again.

I actually enjoy Battlefield 1 + 5 very much, and they killed it with their anticheat shenanigans. I am still salty about this.

Fuck EA.

The old testament - in many parts - as well as other ancient "religious" texts, is the passed down reflection of humans on the process of "civilizing" themselves during the late neolithic period. It's all there, beginning with the end of their life as hunter-gatherers and the emergence of diseases of civilization, the hardship and suffering that came along with the "gift" they got that is learning how to cultivate land.

It's been the complete loss of everything that made up human life for the largest part of our (pre-)history, suddenly gone, because we literally "tasted the fruit".

Your absolute monarch doesn't need those things. He'd proudly state "l'état c'est moi" if he was able to.