Your best is good enough. :)

I just assume everyone is a child and it makes my brain hurt less.

Time to declare war on Shaman Hussein.

Religion is a tool and was one of the first forms of government, a proto-government. States are also a tool, do the same shit (resource control) and now that god is capital. Many modern religious folks do more mutual aid in their community than the average terminally online leftist and I don’t blanket blame others for seeking meaning when lives are complicated and messy. People need social safety nets and now churches are fallbacks when states fail in different areas. Be kind to individuals and ruthless to systems. States are just continuing where the schism with religion left off. Religious institutions managed surplus extraction, states took over that function (often incorporating religious legitimation), and now capital operates as the organising logic with its own quasi-sacred justifications. New Atheist attitudes often miss the forest for the trees and function as a reactionary sentiment not grounded in materialism. It treats religion as a causal prime mover rather than as an institution shaped by and serving material interests. I have book reccomendations if you are interested in this. Note, Christianity is really interesting case sudy, but that is a whole seperate conversation.

You are mistaken. I see your point, I just disagree with it.

Vietnam was about oil, do not blame religion they knew what they were doing. It’s always class warfare.

I opened 12 years of birthday gifts this week. 🥹

Teenage me is so happy.

It really, really bothers me…

Rip John Redcorn

Kagi plus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/content-farm-terminator/

There’s also https://marginalia-search.com/ and https://wiby.me/

Tried and true. :)

• https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

• https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

• https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

Build a community about something you love! It takes little effort. :) Then when you browse Reddit occasionally, you can steal memes. In fact, do that anyway if you end up browsing and post them here!

I am so thankful my mom is still just a stoner that likes high fashion, pun intended. I am so sorry you all have to go through this. It is mind boggling the change that the poison propaganda has brought. I lost some other relatives to it, but it’s nothing like a parent. Hugs for all.

It’s a zombie, you’re gonna have to try harder.

The plugins are open source at least, and the notes it makes aren’t proprietary. It’s just an app to interact with them. Been using it as a trapper keeper for years and it’s been able to keep up with my changing needs. :) !obsidianmd@lemmy.world There’s thousands of plugins and the discord is a huge resource.

If you change your mind: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-obsidian

You can do all this with Obsidian and plugins. I just saw a nice keep like interface one. You’ll have to play around a bit but it’s definitely doable.

I use debian for my ancient media server. It’s great.