Swordgeek @ swordgeek @lemmy.ca

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WTF do you mean?

Good!

Fuck Rogers, fuck Bell, and fuck Telus. In that order.

We can have it RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. Nobody is censoring you, but you refuse to engage in the debate you claim you can't post about.

You keep demanding an answer to your question, so I will give you one.

I am not aware of any instances that allow or encourage discussions based on a position of bigotry and intolerance.

To be clear, you present your question in bad faith, and demand good-faith responses only. You claim that calling bigotry is censorship, and that intolerance is a valid stance in a discussion. You also repeatedly refuse to acknowledge that we are in fact having the discussion right here about your opinions on transgender issues.

EDIT: In fact, you are actively refusing to engage in the discussion you claim to be impossible. Pretty clear now that you're just a troll - an oblivious troll.

Glad to hear it.

I'm tempted to add Red Dead Redemption 2 to the list, but it's too new for me to decide yet.

I think it belongs. It was the greatest storytelling game I've played in a decade or more.

• Portal 1/2 of course.
• Grim Fandango. (Flawed yes, but absolutely a masterpiece)
• Psychonauts.
• Fallout New Vegas.
• System Shock (the original).
• The Longest Journey.
• Mass Effect. Maybe.

None in isolation.

CBC is a pretty reliable go-to although they're more than a bit pandering these days. BBC is similar. Al Jazeera is pretty reliable for things not related to Islam and Palestine in particular (although they're not as biased as they could be). AP is fairly neutral. Aside from that, it's non-legacy Canadian sources like the Walrus and the Tyee, which all have their problems but are good at exposing reality.

I said go there for some reliable sources.

You want evidence of the historical Jesus, that article contains almost 300 references and about 40 external sources.

The existence of Jesus of Nazareth is widely accepted. If you believe otherwise, you need to provide extraordinary evidence for your extraordinary claims.

No. In fact, I'd say hardly ever.

We have books that are thousands of years old. Without explicitly copying and translating formats, media, etc., I wouldn't count on any digital format to survive more than a century - and probably be undecipherable at the end of it anyway. Some scholars have suggested that we're in the midst of what will be a digital dark age because of this very reason.

Let's also consider the sort of degradation that can creep in. I've got a 110 year old document I'm deciphering at the moment, and there are parts of letters where the ink has faded or the paper has torn. I can usually make out from the remaining bits what the letter should be. You've probably done this on old letters: "Is that an 'a' or an 'o'? On the other hand, if I have a lower-case f in UTF-32, its binary representation is "00000000000000000000000001100110." If I have minor data corruption, one or more of those bits will flip (1-->0 or 0-->1). Since it could be anywhere in the sequence, I could end up with something totally unrelated to an 'f' either in character shape or alphabetic proximity.

Then there's the reading, indexing, and searching abilities in a physical book - no "add a bookmark" feature compares to sticking a finger on the page you want to flip back to, or comparing a few pages side-by-side. Physical bookmarks, stickies, or earmarking (noooo!) are all ways that people reference books which don't translate well.

Visually, lit displays are harder on our eyes than paper books in good ambient light.

e-books of course have some advantages, especially for technical material. Being able to hit "ctrl-f" and search for a single word or phrase is incredibly valuable. Constant updates of product documentation means not having to throw away books whenever a new version of the item/software is released. Linking to references (e.g. dictionary lookup) is much more convenient than going to get another book out.

But for just sitting down and reading, the tactile experience of a real book rules over everything else in my opinion. Sitting in a coffee shop with a book in hand is a profoundly human experience. Walking through the endless aisles of books at a library is both inspiring and humbling.

So in short, yeah - there is HUGE doubt that e-books are superior.

No, not true. Go read Wikipedia for some reliable sources on the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth.

There is actually a hell of a lot of evidence he did.

You can read a capsule summary with references on Wikipedia, but it is accepted fact among historians - not just religious scholars - that Jesus of Nazareth was born in Judea under King Herod, was baptised by John the Baptist, and was cruxified under the orders of Pontius Pilate.

Here's a fun excerpt: "There are at least fourteen independent sources for the historicity of Jesus from multiple authors within a century of the crucifixion of Jesus such as the letters of Paul (contemporary of Jesus who personally knew eyewitnesses), the gospels, and non-Christian sources such as Josephus (Jewish historian and commander in Galilee) and Tacitus (Roman historian and Senator)."

I'm an atheist, but a historical Jesus almost certainly did exist.

I absolutely love Star Wars - I saw the first movie four times in the theatre back in 1977/78 as a kid.

But let's be clear: Star Wars is "cowboys and indians in space." (Yes, that's a dated and culturally inappropriate comparison - it is also perfectly appropriate for the era.)

Technology has never played a significant part in it - light sabres are magic swords, FTL travel is a well-worn convenient trope that 'just happens' (unless it doesn't). Droids are servants.

Basically, tech has never been a core aspect of the SW world, mostly because the show has never been science fiction.

"We still love you as much as ever" said senator Tim Kaine.

And we love you as much as ever - but it has never been as much as you think.

Canada and Canadians have always harboured a quiet, seething resentment towards the US - even as our snowbirds have flown south in the winter and we've greedily bought crap on Amazon. As proud as we are of Canadian musicians hitting the big time, we're slightly bitter that we spend more time listening to American content.

I think it's fair to say that we've always - at least in my 50+ years of awareness - felt the pressure of living next door to a ten-ton behemoth that fills our every waking moment just by merely leaking across the border.

And now the dam has broken. Trump has made things so unbearable that we finally have the resolve to break free. It's going to be tough, it's going to hurt for a number of years, we're going to suffer financially in the short-mid term, but I'm confident that we're going to do it. We will not allow ANY country or trading partner to control our destiny as much as the US has done since 1959.

So thanks for the love, but I'm afraid we're still getting out of this toxic relationship.

Everything from Grim Fandango.

You need to get out more.

The song is a masterpiece on its own.

I rather set the car on fire

That would probably make the car safer than a CT tune-up.

A Nazi.

Hoekstra is a Nazi, just like his boss, just like his peers, just like Musk and the rest of them.

It was TEN YEARS AGO that he said "“The Islamic movement has now gotten to a point where they have put Europe into chaos. Chaos in the Netherlands, there are cars being burnt, there are politicians that are being burnt … and yes there are no-go zones in the Netherlands," and he has only gotten more extreme.

Fucking Nazis. We need them gone.

IT'S NOT A "STRATEGY" FOR SUCCESS!!!

It was NEVER designed to help the US, to make things better, to bring manufacturing back onto US soil.

If you were the Russian government and wanted to destroy the US from within, every single thing you would try to do is exactly what Trump is doing.

Either he's a committed Russian agent, an incredibly hapless stooge, or we're looking at the biggest coincidence in human history.

The world really has to stop reporting on Trump's garbage as anything but deranged ravings of a demented lunatic.

Because you love in the US.