I think it’s the book of Job, God says something like “you could not possibly fathom the purpose or meaning to the world, even if someone tells you”. I think in much the same way a Turing Machine simply cannot process certain tasks or achieve particular ends, our brains are limited to a certain subset of understanding. Still mightily impressive what we can imagine/devise/understand IMO. In Islam, this is more readily accepted dogma: you can’t even imagine or picture God, so even attempting it is doomed to failure (or delusion)

Last in-depth thing I listened to was this podcast from February 2025. Essentially, an independent body of experts was looking into it. No definite conclusions yet, but pretty damning about the whole ward rather than just her

https://audioboom.com/posts/8659622

Cos I’ve done drugs, and experienced heightened states of love, being, appreciation for nature and humanity, states that feel magical yet real, even if only temporarily.

The very fact those states of mind are achievable at all gives me a certain emotional grounding and inner certainty that reality has purpose, or at least meaning. As opposed to just being a happy accident of atoms and energy arranging themselves in this miraculous way to create life. That’s just a logical explanation of how, not why.

We’re almost all driven to look for meaning in life. Even if it’s just to “find your own purpose”, that journey presupposes you have one to begin with.

I guess I feel a belief in god without having much idea of what god is, or even what they want. But I don’t believe at all that logic, science, reason etc. are things you have to choose instead of religious belief. They’re things you have as well. You can’t square the two - the Rubik’s cube of logic doesn’t twist that way.

Good good. Last time I tried installing a few years ago, it would only give that choice if I installed to the primary

When you install to a secondary, does BIOS automatically give you the choice of which OS to load, or do you need to change boot order each time?

Friendica is more like Mastodon tbh. A lot more functionality than Facebook, but honestly that’s a bad thing. Too confusing and too many options for the average user.

Often, a local school will have a PTA that’s also a charity. Budgets have been cut so much that many can’t even afford coloured pencils for younger kids to draw with.

Not exactly saving lives I know, but a few quid a month can buy a new book, a new football, all kinds of stuff they can’t afford

Same. Even with a LOT of lube I think this is going to sting

And boring shit too, but at least it was human-generated boring shit

Link if you can find it pls :D

Pretty much that entire blog was golden. Real shame it’s gone. I used to re-read pretty much everything once a year

I met three women on Twitter between 2010 and 2016. But really, almost all the people I know in my city I met via the one schoolfriend I actually knew when I moved here. I now have my own friends, but they’re basically all within 6 steps of separation away from him, even if he doesn’t know them himself

Probably Brazil in the 1600’s. Women there were sexually liberated, and threw themselves at foreign sailors, thinking they were demigods (or nearest cultural equivalent).

You’d need a translator, and probably a bunch of inoculations first.

Possibly Ghengis Khan too. And a handful of Roman Emperors and European royalty.

I think i get about 20mins free. After that, I start burning without protection. I tan pretty well over a few weeks though.

My old gf could not tan at all, apparently. Pale or Sunburnt were the only options

Zach de le Rocha’s lyrics are betraying his age a bit

And I’m Chevron Maccoll

It would require being couched in some kind of international law, and there really isn’t one that applies to all countries

It’s been tried before, usually as a joke. Kids magazines that say “not for sale to adults”. Gaming mods that make you pledge your first born to the developer. To work, the laws of the country the user is in will apply, and will have to be enforced.