they stop people from following the order in the Quoran which states that people should educate themselves.

That’s the beauty of the major world religions. When you have power in your hands you can pick and choose what you want to honor and make it public policy, and there’s nothing the plebs can do about it.

Not all religion is bullshit, but there is a lot of crossover between religious teachings and bullshit. That’s why they invented the word ‘faith’, because they are self-aware of the incredulousness of it all.

Like the utter bullshit in this article, as if 7th Century teachings have anything to say about VPN’s.

Respectfully, you think I’m denigrating Islam because it’s different from what I believe?

No.

I’m simply pointing out what, to anyone who wasn’t raised in it, is obvious stupidity.

Really wish our species could evolve past this moronic, religious bullshit.

Yeah, that’s always the argument on the part of corpos: “This regulation is killing our profits, waaa waaa waaa.”

Europe is also leading the world in terms of progressive AI laws, something we’re not likely to see in any meaningful way for some time here in the US.

Agreed. It’s silly.

I like Mastodon. It’s like social media from 2010, chronological, only seeing what you want, great curation tools, and no ads or stupid algorithm. Moderation is also way better on Mastodon, though it can vary by instance.

I haven’t used BlueSky, but I imagine it feels pretty familiar, which is what a lot of people want, and that’s cool too.

They can both be good things.

I really want to admire this guy’s courage, but with everything that’s happened in Haiti, it feels more like stubborn stupidity at this point. I hope things change and he comes through this okay, because he sounds like a pretty rad human being, all things considered.

I think the lack of correlation between public opinion and government policy is more than satisfactory to demonstrate how much our federal legislators care about your phone calls, yes.

LOL

Sure they do.

Deleted mine two years ago.

Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

That too.

I can only assume BlueSky feels more familiar.

Mastodon requires a bit of effort, lacking an algorithm to drive content toward users, so you have to do a bit more yourself.

The Dems lost approximately 10,000,000 voters this time around, and Trump ended up winning by approximately 500,000.

Seems to me the Dems are the idiots for thinking they could fail to follow through on their promises and people would continue to vote for them. You don’t get to punch people in the face and then pretend it’s their fault when you broke your hand, after all.

Sounds about right.

Even after 2016, the Dems haven’t figured out what a bad idea it is to double down on their way of thinking, even in service to self-interest.

There aren’t any ads on Mastodon. :)

You just search hashtags or set up a column so you have a feed giving you everything under a given hashtag, though it may be those communities are so niche there isn’t much on the Mastodon instance you chose. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a specific instance for Buddhism itself, though, given that it’s such a massive world religion.

If *anyone were really worried about the nuclear family and abortion, they would make it so that a family could live on a single income again.

FTFY

You’re comparing apples to oranges.

But that’s okay.

It’s objectively a healthier option. All for it.

Having a parent in charge of programming instead of an algorithm makes a world of difference.