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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The terms cult and culture have the same problem(s) as sect and religion. There is no one clear-cut definition, but many competing definitions, most of which are kind of vague or ambiguous. Both sect and cult are usually used in us versus them narratives. If you pick a random person and try to discuss if and why something is a cult/sect or culture/religion you are almost guaranteed to run into unresolvable conflict because you'll likely have different definitions in mind. The obvious solution is to settle on a common definition beforehand, but that will just cause the next conflict because there are so many and there is no obviously correct one.

People often bring up an aspect of control as the defining characteristic of cults/sects. Does that make all states cults? Does that mean every major Christian denomination was a sect 200 years ago?

Another common definition is that of a new group splitting off from the established group. Does that mean the entirety of Christianity is just a jewish sect?

Most definitions, when applied rigorously, imply that every culture/religion has been a cult/sect at least for some time in the past. And here comes the trouble: Most people from some culture/religion will provide you with a definition for cult/sect, when arguing about it, but will not accept when you apply it to theirs and point out that by that definition it either is a cult/sect, or was 200/500/1000 years ago. Because most people use those terms to denote otherness possibly even in a pejorative way.

In an academic context (for example anthropology or history) the distinction between cult and culture or sect and religion can be useful when a definition is given in the context and it is applied consistently. Outside of academia those terms aren't very useful beyond instigating people against each other or minorities, solidifying circle jerks, or starting flame wars.

My nonprofessional take on it:

Every culture started out as a cult and all cultures are or have been horrid given the opportunity.

Every religion started out as a sect and all the sects' and religions' fairy tales are equally ridiculous when observed from the outside.

The distinction between cult and culture, and sect and religion, has no net positive benefit outside of academia and should be avoided outside of fiction.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Never knew it was such a common nickname. TIL.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ha! My name is also Kevin! But my friends call me Fuck Off!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personal Computer in the Cloud. Poster child for oxymoron.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering how many tests Brave does not pass, I'd say that page looks pretty balanced and fair. Also it is consistent with independent studies where Brave came out on top of the list.

My impression is that most opposition against Brave is largely political. And then people try to find technical reasons after the fact, which simply isn't justified in comparison with other browsers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

As other comments have pointed out, I'm not convinced the premise of your question is correct. I'll throw in Slimbook to increase the sample size:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, aber steht das jetzt irgendwie im Widerspruch zu dem was ich gesagt habe und ich sehe einfach nicht wie?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm going two second the Discworld Novels. I started reading them when I was 9 or 10. Though, what really cured me from religiosity was reading the bible from cover to cover when I was 11 or 12. Story time:

My mother read the bible to me (/us) every friday evening. First she would get slightly irritated when I pointed out contradictions or nonsensical stuff. Then she would progressively get more angry when I did it, until she said: "Maybe you should read it yourself!". And so I did. I read it from cover to cover within something like two weeks (if my memory serves me right). It was a grueling exercise in boredom and idiocy. But, I pulled through with it and it made me a very firm atheist. I didn't even catch half the contradictions and absurdities at that age, but it is beyond me how people can read that and remain believers. I suspect most Christians don't actually read the bible, at least not in its entirety. What would have made it much more pleasurable (or rather much less unbearable) for me, would have been the Skeptic's Annotated Bible: https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/

I'll give you just one excerpt and you should get the size of it:

(2.19 b) “God … brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them.” After making the animals, God has Adam name them all. The naming of several million species must have kept Adam busy for a while.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Die Zahl ist zu niedrig. Die Freien Wähler und deren Wähler sind jetzt auch nicht unbedingt die hellsten Kerzen auf der Torte, Und für die CSU ist das mindestens höchst diskutabel.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how you do not address most of what I said ... so, disingenuous it is.

Regarding optional features, I more used them as a ~~segue~~ red herring into the last three links

ftfy

Nothing good will come of this conversation, so I'll stop it right here. Have a nice day.

 

Boost will sometimes scale images in a weird way, making them look like low resolution renders without antialiasing. This behavior can be observed in this post: https://lemm.ee/post/10597386

The image looks fine when opened in the web view: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a8f1dd3c-6474-4000-9cf1-c1d76ef4c25d.jpeg

In boost it looks like this, even when zooming in:

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi there. ~~The community [email protected] seems to be unmoderated. The only registered moderator @[email protected] has been inactive since ~2 months. I'd like to be added as a mod to weed out blatantly racist and other unacceptable content like this: Lol! So true..~~ I've been a regular in r/linuxmemes, have switched to lemmy, and would like [email protected] not to become a shithole.

Edit/correction: Looking at the mod log, @[email protected] is still moderating (even if not commenting/posting). Their last mod action was 4 days ago. I've written to them with a link to this post.

Edit2: the mod is still active. Due to some bugs it looked otherwise to me.

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It was my home to my account. I didn't catch any announcement it would be going down. 2 weeks ago the website started throwing errors (50* internal server errors) and since a week it is completely unreachable. There are still DNS records resolving the domain, but the site seems completely gone.

 

First of all, thank you so much for doing Boost for Lemmy. Boost was what made reddit nice, while their app and web ui went down the drain. I am super happy to now be able to use Boost to access lemmy! The app already seems to be quite solid (haven't seen a bug, yet). The only minor issue I have is that Boost for Reddit and Boost for Lemmy have the same set of icons and are quite difficult to distinguish: Though, that can be easily worked around by changing the icon for one of them via settings. Maybe the default icons + a small super imposed logo/mascot of the respective platform would be a nice idea (there might be copyright issues).

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