Seigest @ Seigest @lemmy.ca

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Now what happens to a religion that is, for the most part, now separated from capitalism?

I wouldn't be shocked at protest over Walmart not selling 20foot glitter crusted crucifixes or whatever. But I think most know the difference between defiance of religious values and non-compliance. I'm for up north though so there's a little less zeal.

Also shooting up a Walmart probably ain't the best move. Folks there are likley armed to the teeth and itching to shoot back.

I'd call that the shock period. But imagine that would be temporary and less bad then we think.

Eventually I'd hope for less stores that only open for the holiday season and only hire for the rush. Things could just spread out more and we'd all be less dependent in revenue created from one event. We could focus our buying power on useful things and less cheap plastic crap bought to appease old rituals.

All very optimistic and unrealistic thoughts though

It pretty subjective I don't know much about Thanksgiving as a Canadian we have we have a differnt one then the US. I never understood what ours was even about other then turkey. So if it's religious then I honestly had no clue.

As many others have pointed out. If we strip all meaning of these events and just make the entirely commercial then it doesn't much matter if they where intended as religious events or not.

With that in mind I wonder if separating the events from capitalism might actually empower them...

No worries. It was shocking relivent for a wrong post.

Also the complete lack of context to why I'd ask the question. I could be a writer, this could be some nefarious data scheme, or im just dumb and curious. Doesn't really matter.

Really I'd just been watching somthing like Defunctland and hearing about cool ideas that failed because they where not profitable enough.

I wondered what if that happened to religion. What might that look like. How many people whould it take to stop giving a crap about Christmas for companies to just be like "yhea lets just not do that anymore". And without Christmas would the rate of those engaged in Christianity just fall slowly? Whould that be all it takes?

Probably not. But figured I'll get some alternative perspective.

I mean that's possible but whould they even need to? If one company had a "Christmas sale" and other had a "boxing week blowout" will folks even care, or will they just go to what place has the better deals?

Thanksgiving and black Friday are not religious so they'd stay I imagine.

After 30 the pain is still there, you're just to tired to scream

These are great. Keep em comming.

I mean I just get headaches when games do it too much.

I 100% agree with accessibility features. This includes some of the newer considerations.

• no-strobe mode
• normalized volume mode (makes it so sound doesn't spike up suddenly, sudden loud noises are not nice)
• greater setting for subtitles, size, color, descriptive vs transcription. And keep ui elements out of the caption zones!
• documentation written in simple language for ease of readability.
• read back for all written content. Not just the first damn word of a text box. (Seriouly a lot of games do this now its this is just annoying!)

I once saw a thing where a DM (D&D) had an anonymous survey of common sensitive topics. He'd gage what his players where comfortable with prior to starting a campaign and adjust the story accordingly. Games just need this.

Once was plenty enough to learn the lesson for me.

I figured it be smart to not wash it down with water or dilute it. To really let work on the stomach. Burned like hell but I was heartburn free.

I cannot over empathize the horrors that occurred in my lower regions the next day. My body made some new and loud noises. I can only be thankful I work from home.

The gummies are not bad all though, if used as directed, and still decently effective. Just be sure to wash them down with a lot of water.

I found the trick with the reflux is those apple cider vinegar gummies every night. I had to cut calcium heavy things due to a blood condition but these gummies work pretty well.Just don't swap them with a shot glass of apple cider vinegar. Ive learned you will get a terrible case of shits.

A great classic for sure.

I told a poop poster I didn't think thier memes where fresh and instantly got mass down voted on every post I've ever made.

Has lemmy.studio defederated from lemmy.world? Otherwise this should work. https://lemmy.world/c/homestuck

Hello. I invite homestuck@lemmy.world I promise it's improving. But we still need more active users.

I think surface level info is fine for an explainer video. That's kind if the point. He could do a little more to push people towards more detailed sources of info but he's not worse then most other explainer and he seems to be sourcing things decently.

I watch some of his stuff but I wouldn't blame anyone for choosing not to. The guys presentation of the research is just annoyingly pretentious and he seems to have a bit of an ego.

I get it his shtick is that he's a hipster journalist referring to your audiance as "guys". Its just not working for me.

Ah that makes sense. I was just reading about that same kind of issue affecting commercial pilots. Both jobs have extreamly high training/education cost then leave students in low paying jobs for a long stretch of their early careers. Both jobs also have foreign countries paying way better then what we are offering. (The documentary was about the US but I assume we are not better off)