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  • I think you’re under thinking this.

    The primary focus of Trump since coming to office has been securing natural resources. Greenland, Canada, Ukraine all have rich mineral deposits. Even the Panama shit is about controlling a geographic “resource”…the canal.

    This rename is about making it sound like it belongs to the US. What’s there a lot of here? Oil. And it sits under international waters.











  • It’s one of the most basic messages in the Bible. It is clearly anti-racist. It promotes helping others above all else. And somehow modern Christians seem to miss the point completely.

    I’m pretty anti-theist. However, if religions were just a bunch of ideas on how to live your best life (like this parable) it would be generally fine. The problem is a lesson as simple as “love thy neighbour” fails to make it through because it would undermine the organisation. Without “them” there is no “us”, and without “us” there is no organisation.

    I don’t think people consciously take on this “us” / “them” thinking, but they fall into it and it feels safe and comfortable. In this case Jesus was literally telling his followers to do what felt uncomfortable — to help people outside of their own faith. To not let labels get in the way.

    Be spiritual. Hold a faith. Just forgoe the organisations that corrupt that faith.









  • It was fine when rendering (esp. text) was server side and not client side like it is now. At least LAN (10MB ethernet) was basically transparent. Internet was shit mainly because everyone was on 56k modems.

    GTK and Qt do all their rendering client side and transfer bitmaps to the server requiring much more bandwidth.