The way it made me really think about how truly expansive space and time are really made me think that “that’s not impossible to think that there is a 11th dimension being that has some agenda that we cannot understand.”

Absolutely.

But that’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m talking about making the leap from recognizing that such a being could exist to believing that such a being does exist. That, to me, is so bizarrely irrational that I can’t even work out how it is that people apparently actually do it.

This seems like a weirdly unnecessary way to not quite manage to duplicate what lemmy has been designed to do.

How do I make it just work with just my original account?

You go to the community list for your instance and do a search on the URL of the community you’re interested in. Then (assuming that your instance is federated with the other one) your instance will create its own mirror of the community, and you’re done.

Yeah - I don’t even really understand how all of that works. I see that people apparently sincerely believe, but I have no idea how - what it is that goes on inside their brains that allows them to make that leap to actually believing.

I don’t know that it does, but I can see how it could.

One way that neurodivergence can manifest is as a relative inability to simply assume things - a relatively outsized need for clear evidence on which to base a conclusion. And religion is notably devoid of actual evidence.

Digital, no contest.

I’m an old guy and I’ve been buying and reading books for most of my life. I own thousands of them, filling up shelves and stacked on tables and cluttering everything, and that’s even with the bulk of them in boxes in my garage. I love them and I love being surrounded by them, but they’re a chore and a burden.

And I have a collection of almost as many ebooks, all in a few GB on a tablet.

So ebooks win on space and convenience.

As far as the actual process of reading goes, they’re pretty close to the same, but ebooks have a bit of an edge. I have no issues with a screen, so words on a screen or words on paper are pretty much the same. Physical pages though are bound along one edge and flexible and generally at least subtly curved, while a screen is perfectly flat and evenly lit. Also, on a physical page, I’m stuck with whatever typeface is there, while with an ebook, I can scale it to whatever I want or even change the font or colors or whatever. so ebooks win there too.

And while I’m reading an ebook, I can search the text for any term or character name or phrase, so I can refresh myself on things or find a particular passage or whatever without laboriously thumbing through the pages, and I can switch over to a browser anytime to get background for anything or just look up a word.

And when I finish or drop an ebook, I can just tap the back arrow to go to my shelf, or switch over to an app or browser and go online, and find another one.

So… yeah. I really don’t think there’s one single thing that physical books do better than ebooks, other than serving as decoration - filling space on shelves.

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No surprise there. He’s a middle-aged teenage edgelord - what else would he do other than play video games and shitpost on used-to-be-twitter?

Three different impressions of which was which in four pages - that was a neat trick.

I would guess that if there’s a romantic winner, it’ll be Mei, since Mimiel technically isn’t even human, and has bigger goals. And neither girl can lose - they’re too sympathetic - so the only way I see it ending with a romantic resolution is if one of them willingly cedes to the other, which would work out with Mimiel, since that would be her understanding not just her love for Ren, but her love for Mei.

Mostly though, I’d expect it to spin its wheels and keep the focus on gags and fanservice. And I’m okay with that - they’re both quite well done.

I thought of that too, then realized that that’s undoubtedly why she has that sort of bob hairdo instead of the more stereotypical lacquered mass of gyaru hair.

Just spent the last hour or so catching up with this, and I’m still not sure what I think.

It’s a fan-servicey gag manga about a fallen angel boke who sort of alternates between quoting scripture and being innocently provocative and charmingly ignorant, the long suffering high school student tsukkomi who’s been roped into taking care of her, and assorted friends, classmates and neighbors.

It’s… not quite like anything else.

I have no idea how this is going to go, but I thought it looked promising.

This is adorable.

Thanks for sharing such a cogent observation.

I was mostly just observing that it was relatively tropish. I understand the role that tropes play in storytelling and don’t have a problem with it, as long as the author does something interesting and/or entertaining with them.

But I’d never before considered the particular need for them in oneshots, and can see it now.

That was pretty good - a bit too tropish (and the loudly desperate friend is one of my least favorite tropes), and the self-defeating internal monologue reminded me a bit too much of Hikigaya, but the leads have some potential chemistry.

I don’t spend any time on Mastodon.

Why? Are there anarchists on Mastodon? Or is this some kind of sarcasm I’m not getting?

I do have a Mastodon account, but I never use it. I much prefer forums over microblogs.

We’re dumb animals, not much different from other dumb animals.

If squirrels had news media, they could have a story that says, “Thousands of squirrels are lining up to try to cross busy streets in front of cars.”

And some number of squirrels would read that and think, “What the hell is wrong with them?”

The implication here is that anarchists are relatively common on the fediverse, and if so, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen this idea expressed.

But the thing is that I am an anarchist, and I’ve been keeping my eyes open, and I haven’t seen any other anarchists here. LOTS of authoritarian leftists, ranging from naive social democrats to full-blown “submit or die” tankies, but not one single other anarchist.

So are you actually trying to say that anarchists are common here? And if so, where are they?

It’s funny, because I’ve often wondered just how it was that Germany came to be dominated by the Nazis, because it just seems too insane to even be possible.

And now I’m watching the same basic thing play out in the US, and I still don’t understand how it’s happening, and it still seems too insane to even be possible.

Technically, no - there has never been a truly communist society. They’ve all really been communist in name only.

In order for the society to be truly communist, property must be communal - that’s the fundamental requirement.

And in order for property to be truly communal, all must have an exactly equal right to it, or more precisely, an exactly equal right to share in control of it.

The moment that hierarchical authority is introduced, control over the society and its property is tied to that authority. The right to exercise control over property is vested not in the people communally, but in the system by which authority is designated and exercised - the state. And that means that for all intents and purposes, regardless of any claims to the contrary, all property is actually owned not by the people, but by the state. And that is not and cannot be communism.