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   Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 03:30:52 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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   @glynmoody I remember that years and years ago one of the copyright-extremists wrote that Spain is their entry into Europe. If they can get Spain, they can get all.

   So it’s no wonder to me that they focus there — it looks like it’s just a harmful long term strategy.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 12:41:09 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @Ponygirl

   > I believe the goal posts are moving here.

   There are no goal posts here, that would presume an adversarial attempt to prove you wrong or me right, I dont engage in those conversations. This is an exploration of the topic and I expect the "goal posts" on both sides to move in the sense that as we each learn from the conversation that we adjust our position to match what we learn.

   > Your original assertion was that atheism is faith-based and therefore a religion.

   Happy to explain what happened, there, and you are right.

   It will be more clear if we look at the two definitions for atheism:

   1. a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods

   2. a lack of belief in the existence of a god or any gods

   Originally I was using definition 1, which I am not refering to as non-agnostic atheism. I realized you were trying to assert exclusively #2, which I called agnostic atheism. Since I didnt care much to debate definitions and the substance of the discussion is more important I deferred debating which of those definitions were valid at all.

   So while I understand that may incorrectly look like moving the goal posts it was in fact simply an attempt to use better clarifying language and avoid any debate on definitions themself.

   > You can apply different shades of agnosticism to atheism all you want, it still is not faith-based

   You are certainly welcome to make that case, but so far you have not made a counter point to that assertion. Please feel free to make that case if you wish.

   > Also, have you ever heard of the concept that one can not prove a negative?

   I most certainly have, it is one of the most widespread fallacies/myths you will hear people state. I am a professional research scientist so "proving things" is kinda my whole thing (scientific journals are pretty

   Rather than get into all the technicals of why its a myth I will give you a very simple example that proves it by contradiction:

   present you with a box, I claim "there is no full size american quarter in this box", this is clearly a negative. You can easily prove the negative to be true by opening the box, looking, and seeing there is no quarter in the box. Negatives absolutely can be proven, and they are proven all the time.

   > I can not prove there isn't a teapot orbiting the sun. In fact, no one can.

   Your language is misleading here. We can not prove a teapot is orbiting the sun **right now**. The reason for that is because the space is too vast and our equipment not sensative enough to detect it, not because it is an unprovable concept. It is perfectly reasonable to think that once technology reaches a sufficient point it would be trivial to scan the solar system and in fact prove that a teapot is not orbiting the sun. This in no way suggests negatives cant be proven, again, we prove negatives all the time in science.

   @ryan

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 14:17:38 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @Strandjunker Trying to research this as it sounds quite damning... but the sources look highly suspect. For example the key cards not working, I only find the same source repeating this, some admitidly biased news source (progressive) and worse yet the primary source they claim is their own source is anonymous, so basically no source at all.

   So unless you have a reliable source that point looks like complete fiction.

   As for the presley button being missing, that was explained. She took over the office and had recently moved, the previous congress person she was taking the officer of had their officer marked to be cleared out. So it was simply a clerical error according to official sources. Which of course makes perfect sense since she had no special attachment to Trump and wouldnt be any more of a target than anyone else.

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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jul-2024 04:00:04 JST Laffy

   Just found out we get the keys to our new townhouse tonight instead of tomorrow! Weeee!

   On my way to the new digs now to greet our PODs delivery, via Podzilla! An amazing thing to watch if you've never seen how they do it.

   And tomorrow we spend the day unloading it all.

   So I'll be MIA unless a news alert pops up that's worth sharing.

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   Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 13:11:32 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

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   Employment is actually one of the clearer ways to understand our perpetual headwind.

   There are two companies. One company absorbs the other. It doesn't matter why.

   Afterward, the combined company has ALL these costs. All these children getting fed, all these pets receiving care, all these aging parents being supported.

   That's expensive. The company doesn't want that at all.

   So it makes a little spreadsheet and cancels as many obligations as it wants. Unilaterally.

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   Misuse Case (misusecase@twit.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 04:52:53 JST Misuse Case

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   @tillshadeisgone A formerly homeless organizer I work with told me that which party is in power in the state or federal government determines how much help poor people can get in terms of SNAP benefits, housing assistance, healthcare, extra support for their kids’ schools, etc. Or whether people in need can get those things at all.

   So I don’t really believe this stuff about “both parties are the same to people who are actually struggling.”