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They are both perfectly fine editors but they don’t hold a candle to a proper IDE

I’m not sure what you mean by “proper” in this context. Every IDE I’ve ever used has seemed like a child’s toy compared to Emacs. An annoying child’s toy with cracks and sharp edges.

I also want to play some games that go beyond the production values of SuperTuxKart and Battle for Wesnoth.

Try 0 A.D. or FreeOrion.

Have you considered using GNU Emacs? Or even shudder vim?

There are plenty of free software games available: https://libregamewiki.org/

I want closed source apps

Ewww

ego death

I think perhaps ego death isn’t what you think it might be. It isn’t relevant to living with others, it’s an experience where there are no others and no self which could relate to each other:

‘Leary et al.: “The first period (Chikhai Bardo) is that of complete transcendence − beyond words, beyond spacetime, beyond self. There are no visions, no sense of self, no thoughts. There are only pure awareness and ecstatic freedom from all game (and biological) involvements.”’ – quoted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death

Buddha … taught unity, with … others

Umm… I don’t think the Buddha taught that?

The translate option is at the bottom of the sidebar.

Thanks but unfortunately I can’t see that because there’s a big grey box covering the bottom of the page containing some text in a language I don’t understand. I think its a cookie banner.

Use the translator in the sidebar to translate the page.

I don’t see a sidebar or any way to translate the page.

Pre-civilized societies didn’t let power-hungry individuals take over.

Pre-civilized societies were small.

The real question isn’t whether bad actors exist. It’s how we choose to deal with them. Do we build systems that make it harder for them to dominate others, or ones that practically roll out the red carpet?

This seems like a misunderstanding to me. The people don’t build systems. The people are subjected to systems built by dominating bad actors.

This mis-allocation of innovative capacity isn’t an accident.

It isn’t mis-allocation, it’s the correct allocation but those doing the allocating aren’t the ones the author thinks they are.

It’s the predictable outcome of allowing market forces alone to direct technological development.

Here’s the essential flaw with this article: the people are not the ones with the power to allow or disallow. The author thinks that with the right number of votes, democratic institutions will correct the direction of technological development. This is not the case. Instead, those with power and money dictate the direction of technological development for their ends. Which includes ensuring the ineffectiveness of said democratic institutions.

It’s the result of specific choices about how we organize our economy

It’s not “our” economy.

Vegan Outreach

Wrong sub. Perhaps you want !windows@sopuli.xyz ?

Rowling is transphobic, that’s a fact

This Vox article misrepresents at least the first of the events it lists. It says

‘this is notable because the piece made the basic argument Rowling continues to make today, namely that trans women are by default part of a “male-bodied” group who are dangerous to women and who should not have access to women’s bathrooms’

and this is partly true because the Medium article it’s taking about, which Rowling liked, is indeed referring to a “male-bodied” group, that group being males:

‘You have read our painful disclosures, our universal cries of me too! You have had a taste of what it might be like to try to navigate a male dominated world as a woman, and of how a socially conditioned fear of male bodies might ingrain itself.’

But in the tweet the Vox article quotes, they misrepresent the Medium article as referring not to males but to trans women:

‘JK Rowling hitting that like button on a “trans women are rapists” piece’

This is a non sequitur.

still don’t understand how you think meat eaters are being harmed by the poor psychological state of the animals while they were alive

Psychological state has a great impact on the physical body. Hormones, neurotransmitters, etc., can be released or suppressed depending on psychological state. When you consume part of an animal, you consume part of that system. Think of the rush of chemicals (cortisol, adrenalin, etc.) in an animal as they’re being slaughtered.

I could say more about subtle energy and karma but you probably get the idea.

Holy shiiit! Spain offering vegan school meals. I am astonished.

the beef which enters a person’s body won’t be harmful to them (the person) at all

I differ completely.

If you’re talking about the psychological state the animals are in while they are alive

Well there’s no psychological state when they’re dead :-)

more space and such,) which results as far as I know, in a better psychological state

Cows having more absolute space than chickens doesn’t imply that cows will have a better psychological state. What matters is how much space the animals have relative to how much space the animals need. I would expect farms to give animals precisely as little space as the farm can get away with, meaning the degree of suffering will be exactly at the point of maximum suffering while still surviving, for cows and chickens.

Regardless, I think there’s likely more harm to meat eaters due to the psychological impact of being slaughtered.

Generally, there’s no data on these issues so it’s all just opinion either way. Suffice it to say that to me, your position seems naive.

industrial cows are treated mildly better because it is literally impossible for a cow to survive in the conditions chickens are kept in

You seem to be talking about material conditions. What concerns me more are the psychological conditions and I don’t believe there to be any difference in that respect.

Do you believe that the beef which enters a person’s body will be in some way less harmful, all else being equal, than chicken? Solely because of the absolute difference in the material conditions?

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That red spot next to Ukraine makes me ashamed of my auburn hair :-(

Edit: curious why the downvotes?