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  • Not who you're replying to but its very easy to wish death (or the sudden thanos-ing) of objectively evil people.

    Don't believe Trump is objectively evil? Here's what the man stands for and its not even a comprehensive list.

    Trump stole money from kids with cancer [1] [2] [3]. Trump wanted to kill people despite evidence they were innocent [4] [5] [6]. Trump raped his wife and E Jean Carroll [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]. Trump lied about not knowing E Jean Carroll yet confused her with his wife [9]. Trump sexually assaults women [13] [14] [15]. Trump walked in on half-naked underage children [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]. Trump was good friends with known rapist and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] . Trump is a 34 time convicted felon [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]. Trump sowed distrust by refusing to release his taxes like every other recent president has done since the 70's [36]. Trump betrayed the country when he subverted the 2020 election by falsely claiming victory [37], attempting to delay the certification process [38] and demanding Georgia officials to "find" votes for him [39]. Trump incited an insurrection in an attempt to stop the electoral vote count leaving five people dead [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45]. Trump appointed his unqualified family to top administration roles [46] [47]. Trump withheld aid to Ukraine unless they found dirt on Joe Biden and his son [48]. Trump was impeached for abusing his presidential power by using the office for personal political gain (pressuring Ukraine to dig dirt on the Biden's) to the detriment of national security [48]. Trump sided with racists by calling them "very fine people" [49]. Trump imposed a "Muslim travel ban" [50] [51] [52]. Trump lied about his inauguration crowd size [53] [54] [55]. Trump doubled fees at his resort hotel after becoming president to profit from the presidency [56]. Trump has no respect for veterans and disrespected prisoner of war John McCain [57] [58] [59]. Trump appointed Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon, to secretary of housing and development [60]. Trump spread misinformation by suggesting vaccines cause autism [61] [62]. Trump lied by falsely accusing Obama of spying on the Trump campaign [63]. Trump cut pandemic early warning program which likely made the pandemic worse when it broke out 3 months later [64] [65]. Trump cut corporate taxes to lowest rate since 1939, giving the mega rich a break while continuing to take from the poor - like a reverse robin hood! [66] [67]. Trump had protestors sprayed with tear gas so he could attend a photo op and take a picture with an upside down bible. [68].

    Sources

    [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/

    [2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-s-how-donald-and-eric-trump-moved-money-from-a-children-s-cancer-charity-to-their-business/ar-BB1lcik7

    [3] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/eric-trump-funneled-cancer-charity-money-businesses-associates/story?id=47878610

    [4] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-says-central-park-five-are-guilty-despite-dna-n661941

    [5] https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jul/25/did-donald-trump-ever-apologize-central/

    [6] https://apnews.com/article/trump-guilty-verdict-central-park-five-b59498a04d148a65ef33df36a61aa668

    [7] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65502076

    [8] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

    [9] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65486437

    [10] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/nyregion/carroll-trump-trial-testimony.html

    [11] https://www.9news.com.au/world/leaked-donald-trump-tapes-dredges-up-1989-spousal-rape-accusation/9535192f-d04b-4dd0-9869-394cee45bec9

    [12] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-exwife-claim-he-raped-her-resurfaces-in-new-documentary-a6836151.html

    [13] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/read-donald-trumps-lewd-remarks-about-women-on-days-of-our-lives-set-2005-groping-star-a7351381.html

    [14] https://www.vox.com/2016/10/7/13206364/vox-sentences-trump-sexual-assault

    [15] https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-says-he-will-probably-attend-civil-rape-trial-2023-05-04/

    [16] https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-walks-in-miss-teen-usa-contestants-changing/

    [17] https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/26/trump-pageant-dressing-rooms/

    [18] https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/former-teen-beauty-queens-donald-trump-barged-in-on-us-changing

    [19] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/25/viral-image/no-president-trump-didnt-say-about-miss-teen-usa-p/

    [20] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-miss-teen-usa-contestants-donald-trump-walked-181823617.html?guccounter=1

    [21] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-former-miss-arizona-tasha-dixon-naked-undressed-backstage-howard-stern-a7357866.html

    [22] https://nypost.com/2016/10/12/former-teen-beauty-queens-say-trump-barged-into-their-dressing-room/

    [23] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-introduced-trump-14-ghislaine-maxwell-accuser-says-rcna7253

    [24] https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a32836718/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-friendship/

    [25] https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a32784116/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-connection-friendship-explained/

    [26] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/jeffrey-epstein-and-donald-trump-epic-bromance

    [27] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/epstein-documents-trump.html

    [28] https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-epstein-friendship-timeline-history-2019-7?op=1

    [29] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/nyregion/trump-convicted-hush-money-trial.html

    [30] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-is-convicted-felon-now-what-2024-05-30/

    [31] https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/30/trump-guilty-verdict-whats-next-00160814

    [32] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-05-30/trump-trial-verdict-voter-reaction

    [33] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/05/30/donald-trump-is-a-convicted-felon

    [34] https://variety.com/2024/politics/news/trump-verdict-new-york-falsifying-business-records-1235994884/

    [35] https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns/index.html

    [36] https://time.com/6243071/trump-tax-returns-history-house/

    [37] https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/politics/donald-trump-election-2020/index.html

    [38] https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/gop-michigan-results-trump/index.html

    [39] https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/03/politics/donald-trump-brad-raffensperger-call-washington-post/index.html

    [40] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437

    [41] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/11/full-transcript-donald-trump-january-6-incendiary-speech

    [42] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56004916

    [43] https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-final-report-trump-bcfea6162fe9cfa0d120e86d069af0e4

    [44] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/01/us/trump-indictment-jan-6

    [45] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/20/judge-says-trump-incited-insurrection-other-judges-have-come-close/

    [46] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/11/facebook-posts/fact-checking-how-many-trump-relatives-and-friends/

    [47] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_appointments_by_Donald_Trump?useskin=vector

    [48] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39945744

    [49] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/donald-trump-and-his-allies-are-trying-to-rewrite-the-history-of-charlottesville/

    [50] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769?useskin=vector

    [51] https://immigrationhistory.org/item/muslim-travel-ban/

    [52] https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084565893/five-years-after-trumps-muslim-ban

    [53] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/22/trump-inauguration-crowd-sean-spicers-claims-versus-the-evidence

    [54] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited

    [55] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jan/22/sean-spicer/trump-had-biggest-inaugural-crowd-ever-metrics-don/

    [56] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/mar-a-lago-membership-fee-doubles-to-200000.html

    [57] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/04/donald-trump/yes-donald-trump-did-call-john-mccain-loser/

    [58] https://time.com/3963612/donald-trump-john-mccain-military-service/

    [59] https://apnews.com/article/id-cde31d2fa3a244d29de77b31a59b799a

    [60] https://archive.curbed.com/2020/8/17/21372168/ben-carson-hud-housing-trump

    [61] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-vaccines-autism-links-anti-vaxxer-us-president-false-vaccine-a8331836.html

    [62] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/andrew-wakefield-anti-vaxxer-trump-us-mmr-autism-link-lancet-fake-a8331826.html

    [63] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39167110

    [64] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/trump-scrapped-pandemic-early-warning-program-system-before-coronavirus

    [65] https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html

    [66] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/corporate-top-tax-rate-and-bracket

    [67] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43790895

    [68] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/cnntv-bishop-trump-photo-op/index.html

  • Signal, originally known as TextSecure, worked entirely over text messages when it first came out. It was borne from a different era and and securing communication data was the only immediate goal because at the time everything was basically viewable by anyone with enough admin rights on basically every platform. Signal helped popularize end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and dragged everyone else with them. Very few services at the time even advertised E2EE, private metadata or social graph privacy.

    As they've improved the platform they continue to make incremental changes to enhance security. This is not a flaw, this is how progress is made.

  • I would recommend this product from Shelly https://www.shelly.com/en-us/products/shop/shelly-h-and-t-gen3-1

    Doesn't no app or hub requried, works via wifi or bluetooth, has an e-ink display to conserve battery. I've had it since October and its been running without issue. Uses 4 AA batteries which I haven't changed at all and are still above 75%!

    There's a newer generation (I have the previous one) so I can only imagine its even better.

  • A hypothesis requires no evidence.

    Correct

    It’s then tested through repeatable controlled experiments

    repeatable controlled experiments are only one aspect of evidence gathering to falsify a hypothesis. Here are a few other methods:

    • Observational Astronomy
    • Modeling and Simulations
    • Indirect Experiments
    • Lab Experiments
    • Historical Data Analysis

    By combining these methods we can still falsify a hypothesis, thus allowing "science to happen".

    The events leading to the Big Bang have no evidence.

    Correct! There is no evidence for what lead to the big bang because we can't gather any data before it started. But we have mountains of evidence that all point to a "big bang" happening - down to a fraction of a second shortly after it started! [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] .

    If science can hypothesize, why can’t religion?

    Science is willing to discard ideas that lack evidence or aren't falsifiable. Is religion ready to stop preaching because faith, by definition, is a lack of evidence?

    Have you read string theory? It’s no different than Spinoza’s god.

    The difference between string theory and Spinoza's god is the falsifiable part. String Theory, being a scientific theory, makes predictions that should be able to be tested through experiments (although testing will likely be a challenge much like Astrophysics and will instead depend on other scientific methods to gather evidence for/against it). Spinoza's God is a philosophical concept and not directly falsifiable through scientific methods. Spinoza's god is the equivalent of me claiming I'm friends with a telepathic unicorn from another dimension, both useless and irrelevant.


    [1] Gravitational Waves: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-cosmic-discovery-could-be-closest-weve-come-beginning-time-180950109/

    [2] Redshift: https://socratic.org/questions/how-does-a-redshift-give-evidence-to-the-big-bang-theory

    [3] Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/cosmic-microwave-background-proves-big-bang/

    [4] Abundance of Light Elements: https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_tests_ele.html

    [5] Expansion: https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_tests_exp.html](https://www.space.com/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html

    [6] Olbers' Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27s_paradox

    [7] Quasars Existence: https://www.astronomy.com/science/60-years-of-quasars/

    [8] WMAP Survey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkinson_Microwave_Anisotropy_Probe](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wilkinson-Microwave-Anisotropy-Probe

  • Are you familiar with Baruch Spinoza? His take is fascinating. His higher power did not concern itself with the fates of mankind, but is responsible for the lawful harmony of existence. It also does not discount or displace science in any way.

    That's basic deism but I would disagree and say it does conflict with science. Science is evidence-based, if you claim something exists you must present evidence to support it. I can't just claim there's a 5-ton diamond in my backyard and say "trust me bro". Nobody would believe me, so why should anyone believe in any god without evidence?

  • Germany, there's a time and place for everything. This is like supporting a "sovereign citizen's " right to freedom during a murderous rampage. It's giving "blue lives matter" during George Floyd's murder.

  • What do terrorist holding hostages have to do with the indiscriminate murder, displacement and starvation of innocent women and children? Genuinely curious. Cops don't kill innocents when there's a hostage situation, why is Israel allowed to commit genocide in this situation? Can you explain?

  • Continue to support policies (thus Politicians (i.e. Democrats)) that want to give everyone access to healthcare, regardless of economic status. This would mean never voting for Republicans as they are opposed to this.

  • Here's gemini's attempt:

  • Offline/internal network installs can be handled with flatpak create-usb - https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/usb-drives.html

    One can distribute flatpaks along with their dependencies on USB drives (or network shares, etc.) which is especially helpful in situations where Internet access is limited or non-existent.

    Cache/mirroring would be great for those who need it.

    Edit:

    Thinking about it, I wonder if there's enough "core features" with 'create-usb' that its just matter of scripting something together to intercept requests, auto-create-usb what's being requested and then serve the package locally? If a whole mirror is required, it may be possible to iterate over all flathub packages and 'create-usb' the entire repo to have a local cache/mirror? Just thinking "out loud".

  • Here are a few reasons people believe:

    • Meaning and Purpose: Religion can offer a framework for understanding the universe and our place in it. It can provide answers to big questions about life, death, and morality.
    • Community and Belonging: Religious communities can provide social support, a sense of belonging, and shared values. This can be especially important during difficult times.
    • Comfort and Hope: Religion can offer comfort in times of grief or hardship. It can also provide hope for the afterlife or a better future.
    • Tradition and Identity: Religion can be a core part of a person's cultural heritage or family identity. People may feel a connection to their ancestors or cultural background through their faith.
    • Ethics and Morality: Many religions provide a moral code that guides people's behavior. This can be helpful in making decisions about right and wrong.

    I don't believe, but I can see why people stick with it and don't look beyond it. You can get all these things without religion, its just not something that's taught/passed down in the same way as religion is. Additionally, deconstructing is very difficult. You're raised to believe something to be real and you're expected to just drop it and step out of Plato's cave? You'd look like a madman to any friends/family who aren't willing and ready to step out and look around.

  • Science tests hypothesizes and never claims they're true until there's mountains of evidence to indicate so.

    Religion on the other hand takes a book written by bronze age goat herders and claims it to be true, damn the evidence stacked against it and contradictions within.

  • Like it or not, people who went to prayer house or religious gatherings socialise more than people who stay indoor and only interact with limited amount of people.

    While this statement is true, its also true even if you're not religious. I was not raised religious at all but always got together with family/cousins/friends nearly every weekend.

    ... they tend to be happier considering the fact human are social animal and the feeling of loneliness due to lack of human to human interaction is the build-in alarm system to warn us against solitude. It’s this reason religion is so success because it’s enforce togetherness and make you feels like you’re part of something.

    Kinda. This study [0] of 3,942 19-year-old in Sweden put it best:

    ... religion and religiousness per se have little impact on happiness. In particular, we find that social networks tend to be positively associated with happiness, and that this effect is driven by co-organizational membership among friends.

    So while religious upbringing can force people to socialize, that doesn't mean the lack of religiosity will have a negative impact as the lack of religion does not dictate that you will not congregate/gather with peers/friends/family and feel the same level of "belonging" to a group - even if its not a well defined group.

    If we’re going into a utopian world where human doesn’t need to work anymore and social security is guaranteed, religious will be something even bigger than today.

    I'd say this claim is unfounded. Why must we turn to religion? There are clubs, groups, meetups, friends, events and niches of never ending categories that easily fulfill the need of "belonging" to a group - it's actually one thing humans are really good at - forming "in" and "out" groups.

    Source: [0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275143707_Faith_or_Social_Foci_Happiness_Religion_and_Social_Networks_in_Sweden

  • Seriously! Maybe he's trying to play the honesty card in hopes that people see it as being transparent and we should trust him, but this is admission of guilt and willful negligence that lead to death. The guy should be charged and locked up.