Transcription: Four-panel Gru’s Plan meme. 1st panel: “Decide to make a Gru’s Plan meme.” 2nd panel: “Come up with a sick punchline.” 3rd panel: “Make the last two panels different.” 4th panel: “Get lots of downvotes for some reason.”
I don’t think you maintain free will in heaven. You just worship God all day for eternity. It’s like the hive mind trope in sci Fi. When people get infected by the hive mind they seem happy and convince you to give in. You won’t find grandma in heaven, y’all are both too busy worshipping all day.
Either way, Christianity doesn’t seem love based, it’s fear based. You don’t do good things because you love God, you do them because you fear he will banish you to damnation.
Some balance does exist that not even the right fight for. Violent felons, sexual felons, and sometimes domestic abusers lose their right to bear arms even after they’ve done time served.
It’s also an extra penalty to be armed while drunk (maybe it’s just DUI?) or while trafficking drugs.
There was a reddit post that claimed that, and it was debunked in that same reddit post. Some website made a “news” article about it, citing said reddit post. Bigger news orgs made articles about it citing that website.
There are so many “news” websites that basically don’t do any fact checking and use social media as their sources.
My other pet peeve around social media “journalism” is when someone writes an article about a hot take on a political topic and their source is some tweet with like 2 likes and retweet. Like, that’s not a radical opinion many people share, stop making it seem like this is a common sentiment amongst the left/right.
So, I recently moved about 6 months ago. Have only given my real address and name to the DMV, Phone Company, Internet, and rental property(obviously knows my real address)...
USPS shouldn’t be considered a business that has revenues and expenses. It’s a service provided by the government.
Selling stamps and postage is a great way to subsidize themselves, but shortfalls should just be covered by the government. Wish they didn’t engage in that but there’s this perception that the USPS needs to be profitable to survive.
Just to give some context on how numbers can be misleading, a 40 / 60 split is only 10 away from 50; however, even though that 10% margin is small, in reality it that means there are 50% more people in favor of something.
For every 40 people that don’t want something, 60 people do.
For every 4 people that don’t want something, 6 people do.
For every 2 people that don’t want something, 3 people do.
3 divided by 2 is 1.5, or 150%.
So, in this 56.6% versus 43.4% split, 30.4% more people are in favor of this bill.
But percentages are still weird. So even my example can be misleading. It’s all about how you interpret it. For instance, a 95 / 5 split would mean 19x as many people want one outcome. So the gap is 90% in the ratio, but 1800% more people are in the 95 camp. (1800% more implies 1800% over 100%, so 1900% total, or just 5 x 19)
Another way to look at the data of the 43/56 split.
If 10,000 people are against it, then 13,040 people are for it.
If 10,000 people are for it, then 6,960 people are against it.
To add to this concern, centralized currency has its pros. Because it’s centralized, it can be governed. If I wire some money to an unintended target, sometimes that money can be recovered. There’s plenty of stories of people getting unexpected deposits into their bank accounts from their payroll company and everyone tells them to report it and not touch it.
Then there’s the Seth Green incident where he got phished and someone stole his IP rights to his bored ape. If the ape NFTs were centralized, Seth could have reported the fraud and had it returned.
How would this work at scale? Imagine if a company like Apple got their keys leaked and someone siphoned millions of currency away from them. Does Apple just take the loss? What if your grandma gets her account stolen, she just loses her retirement with no recourse?
I’m quite happy that the legal system backed by the police and military are backing up my fiat.
My favorite bit of irony is how spez was throwing shade at third party apps for having the audacity to “profit” off reddits’s work for free, when that is reddits’s entire business model.
I stopped using reddit regularly when sync for reddit went down. I was curious and checked to see if sync came back, maybe the API war subsided, but instead I saw sync for lemmy.
So this is day 2. Haven’t figured everything out yet.
Seems like you use /c for “community” (?) Instead of r for subreddit.
No subversion of expectations here (lemmy.sdf.org)
Transcription: Four-panel Gru’s Plan meme. 1st panel: “Decide to make a Gru’s Plan meme.” 2nd panel: “Come up with a sick punchline.” 3rd panel: “Make the last two panels different.” 4th panel: “Get lots of downvotes for some reason.”
So unrealistic (midwest.social)
Non-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?
E.g. abortion rights, anti-LGBTQ, contempt for atheism, Christian nationalism, etc.
I hate chromium (fanaticus.social)
Feeling like Privacy is a lost war.
So, I recently moved about 6 months ago. Have only given my real address and name to the DMV, Phone Company, Internet, and rental property(obviously knows my real address)...
Ohio Republicans Refuse To Accept Election Results, Claim Abortion Bans Will Remain (www.meidastouch.com)
Days after Ohio voters passed Issue 1 and codified abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution, Republicans are not accepting the election results....
Gonna be a great day! (lemmy.world)
if you were wondering how well reddit is doing (lemmy.ml)
Question to the ones that fully left Reddit
How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?...