Yeah, rights are for people, not entrenched power structures arranged within semi-arbitrary lines on a map.

Islam used to be the forefront of scientific and mathematical discovery.

No, Islamic COUNTRIES did. They didn’t achieve excellence in science because Islam benefitted science.

They achieved excellence in science compared to Christian countries in large part because their religious authority figures didn’t stand in the way anywhere near as much. Not because religion helped.

Believing in god have nothing to do with science

Not true. They are polar opposites. That’s why scientists are disproportionately atheist and agnostic: the evidence based mode of thinking employed in science doesn’t mix with the superstitious and unquestioningly convinced thinking of religion without some SERIOUS cognitive dissonance.

it’s that irrational thought that make us human

No. That’s not being human, that’s being brainwashed and/or obedient to authority.

You’re right that it’s irrational and that irrationality is an inherent part of being human, but the SPECIFIC irrationality of religion is learned and enforced, NOT inherent.

I’m currently playing Yakuza 0 and planning on playing the Kiwami editions of 1 and 2 afterwards. Would you recommend going back to the 2009 Yakuza 3 for the intended story progression after that or skip ahead?

Edit: found out about the 3-5 remasters, definitely gonna do those after Kiwami 2. Guess I have a couple of hours of aggravated assaults and saving damsels left. Gaming too 😛

OMFSM YES! I’d forgotten all about that great game!

Rock Manager. It was very limited in scope and quite short, but it was a really fun game with tons of potential.

I’ve been unsuccessfully looking for games like it that are as good as it could have been or even as good as it was for over 20 years now.

Somewhat relevant xkcd

In a word? No.

In three words? No, definitely not.

In five words? Never Gonna Give You Up

I love to tell you, but I am aware of all that, which is why I’m happy to report that I followed your advice before getting it.

I’m efficient like that 😁

…banana? Who told you about my secret experiments?! haha how delightfully random!

Unlike the shysters at Raw Story, I never said that it’s important. Hence why it fits the “mildly” part of the community name.

I was just curious about the results before I realized what they were trying to do and then annoyed by their bullshit.

Malware is any unwanted thing on your computer that either you or your system has to deal with, whether in the form of software, emails, or pop-ups.

Besides, they won’t just give you spam in the form of emails. They’ll also give you advertising cookies.

Also, the tracking beacons only load if you let it. I assume you have your email client set to not load remote content. (If you don’t, you really should.) not sure what you use for email, but thunderbird (mozilla) does it automatically.

That’s besides the point. I use Proton Mail and a lot of Firefox privacy and adblock extensions to guard against this sort of thing, but I shouldn’t have to.

Not everyone is as savvy and aware and at least once a week, I have to use the computer of my mom who is the type who just says yes to everything and trusts that they’d never do anything too bad even though she’s giving them carte blanche to do so.

And yes, I’ve suggested that my mom switches away from gmail and Edge to Firefox and Proton or another better free email provider and offered to handle it and installing the extensions for her, but she won’t hear of it.

Spam IS a form of malware. Besides, if you think they aren’t going to also send a ton of tracking cookies to spy on you and sell your data, you’re being extremely naive…

You mean like this guy?

All I wanted to do was install and play a Windows game outside of Steam and I tried everything the documentation and people here on Lemmy (who swore up and down that it’s the easiest thing in the world, like every Linux advocate always does) recommended for TWO WEEKS without getting this simple task accomplished before reaching “fuck this bullshit” and switching to Tiny11.

Officially, but it hasn’t really been Skype for at least a decade and a half…

Okeydoke, fixed!

It’s stated clearly in the documentation that CORE can’t be updated and is thus only recommended for testing and not as a daily driver, which is listed as one of the differences between base and core.

Happy testing, though 🤷

You and me both 😁

Update: I checked and apparently they pronunciation is significantly different so that he doesn’t in fact just go around bragging about how big he is 😆