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  • The consensus among reputable historians is that he was in fact a historical figure. The details of his life are very much in question, the evidence that he did in fact exist is pretty sound and not widely disputed. This is a simple objective statement on the state of current scholarship. I am an atheist, so whatever else anyone wants to claim about Jesus doesn't hurt my feelings at all.

  • This is just another reason why the left continues to lose the working class. Poor working people are not going to react well when you are fucking with their livelihoods. I've seen it first hand as a union organizer.

  • There are ways to be smart about how you do it. I live in Portland and the way Antifa did it here was singularly successful at turning a majority of the city's population against them and their cause.

    And keep in mind that Portland is very much a left-leaning city who's voters would otherwise have been quite sympathetic to the cause of police reform.

  • The word has different meanings in different contexts. That said, unless you're a complete moron, it's usually very easy to figure out what sense of "liberalism" is intended based on context.

    What I have no patience for at all are the insufferable idiots who insist that only one definition is correct, and oh by the way, it just happens to be their definition.

  • Many comments don't deserve any effort beyond a downvote. Whether you like it or not, it's how the system is designed to work.

    In this case I downvoted you for being a condescending piece of shit in your edit. Otherwise I probably would have ignored you and moved on.

  • I think it's way worse. At least on Reddit you can find smaller niche subs that are full of serious-minded, intelligent and well-informed users who have no time for pure amateur hour bullshit. R/askhistorians would be the premiere example, but there are a lot of others.

    It's only on the big lightly-moderated subreddits that your signal-to-noise ratio really goes to shit, whereas all of Lemmy seems to be awash in teenage level discourse.

    Hopefully it gets better as its user sse expands and diversifies into more tightly-focused and heavily-moderated instances.

  • Merlin is similar but for birds. Also feeds all of the data you give it back to Cornell's ornithology lab, which I'd normally be against, but in this case it's for a great cause.

    You can also troll various bird species by playing their calls back to them. Most will at least come in for a closer look, some will straight up strafe your ass depending on the season.