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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 12:19:07 JST Aral Balkan

   AI and religions both spout plausible sounding bullshit and make a tiny group of asshole men richer and more powerful but at least the medieval brand of artisanal bullshit wasn’t also competing with our species for the world’s available freshwater supply.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 12:44:50 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @aral Owning and controlling access to rivers and other bodies of fresh water was a pretty common right claimed by Tudor era monasteries. So... everything old is new again?

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     Ooze 𓁟 (ooze@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 20:15:24 JST Ooze 𓁟

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     @aral This is the kind of sweeping statement that only serves to reveal your ignorance of religion as a phenomena.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 20:15:24 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Ooze You’re right, I’m very ignorant of religion as a phenomena but very familiar with it as a thing that subjugates women, gay, and trans people, and rules with the threat of immediate violence and eternal damnation should you not believe the revealed truths and obey the strict edicts of the ignorant men who concocted them in a time before widespread literacy, electricity, or modern medicine.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 20:16:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail Good point. There was a limit to what the monks could drink though. And the fuckers at least made some good beer.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 23:24:38 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @aral Oh for sure, and the control of the freshwater bodies was more about fishing than water. Just having a laugh at the overlap.