Zagorath @ Zagorath @aussie.zone

Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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I fucking hate these videos. Why are they always playing what looks like an old windows xp screensaver? I fucking hate the robotic voice. These are somehow even worse than those shitty upworthy links that just screenshot a Reddit thread one paragraph at a time with ads between each.

There are very good cases for decentralisation. But if you're going to have national elections whose results affect the entire country, the rules for them should be consistent and overseen by a nonpartisan national body, not by the highly partisan state legislatures of each state.

The pope's right hand man, for a long time, was a paedophile who for a time fled to the Vatican to stall facing justice. Eventually he went to face trial, and the pope was one of the first to publicly condemn his conviction, after the High Court decided it could ignore a jury's verdict and declare that he was not guilty.

People make jokes all the time about paedophile priests, but it's not something that comes out of nowhere or because of "a few bad apples". It comes from the former pope's former right hand man who, at the very least, systemically protected priests under his charge, moving them around rather than leave them to potentially face justice when they fiddle with the same child too many times. And who most likely was himself a paedophile. And the pope himself was complicit.

So yeah, he might have been progressive as popes go. But he was still an absolutely horrible man who helped further absolutely heinous actions happening directly under his leadership.

What if I told you the problems only materialize when people tell other people what, and what not to believe?

I disagree. The problems materialise whenever a person enters the real world and their beliefs affect how they act.

For example, a religious doctor choosing not to administer birth control, or not to perform abortions. That's a real-world problem caused by religious people's own beliefs impacting how they personally choose to act, and having a negative effect on society at large.

Pure belief and spirituality is critical for healthy evolution of humanity through personal growth.

Was. If you said was critical, I would agree with you. But certainly not is. We have no use for woo-woo and belief in nonsensical claims today.

I agree that imposing a test to vote is a dangerous idea that should not be done.

But it is worth stopping to consider that America's history is not the only way things can be done. As everyone is hopefully aware by now, America has a uniquely bad democratic system. Rather than taking the sensible approach of having a single, nonpartisan, national electoral commission, they have each state and even county run elections according to their own rules. That allowed the implementation of extremely hard tests in predominantly black areas while white areas had easy or no tests. Something a unified national system could not do.

Personally, I put that kind of woo-woo in the same bucket as religion. It's all belief in made up nonsense that is indicative of a lack of critical thinking.

I hope we see an update on this. Attack ads are bad enough when they're properly authorised so people can at least sort of decide for themselves whether to disregard on the basis of obvious bias. Illegal unauthorised attack ads are absolutely appalling, and I hope the LNP supporters who did this are seriously punished.

Because Elon wanted it. Vance doesn't have an ounce of initiative in his body. He doesn't need a reason other than his boss asked him.

The pope goes by AD&D druid rules. The new pope is the guy who killed the previous pope.

So it's J D Vance.

It’s a common practice in Northern VA for churches to hold worship services in schools on the weekends

For free? I'm aware of church organisations hiring out school halls here in Australia, but they're hiring them, for the same rate that a sports club or other hobby group would.

Aww she gorgeous!

That's me for about a week with any new device. Then I slowly get more and more lax, until eventually I'm the one on the right.

RES was around long before new Reddit and it does what it does based on what classic Reddit has in it, and what it gets itself. I don't know much more detail than that, except that the devs basically lost interest in doing more than maintenance of it after the redesign came out.

should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?

That's one way to look at it. I would pose it as

should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time providing the best user experience to the users who are on their platforms?

I'm sure RES doesn't have a sweetheart deal with Imgur. It must be possible without their agreement.

You don't need "deals" with YouTube etc. for videos. You just…do it. YouTube supports embedding natively. Imgur I'm pretty sure can be directly linked. Not sure about the others.

A bunch of pictures smooshed together? Like a collage?

I dunno about America, but Australia has the problems you listed, but we also have problems with tax incentives to investing in housing rather than investing elsewhere, which also helps push up property prices by increasing demand without affecting supply.

Yeah it was easy for me, because I recall that I first watched it in 2013, and binging all 4 seasons that then existed in a pretty quick timeframe. So I knew it had to be pretty close one way or the other. It ended up extremely close to that "less than half of a season", with 12 out of 25 episodes of season 1 being in 2009.

Community had less than half a season in the '00s, so calling it an '00s show sitcom seems a bit of a stretch.

Mine is primarily a sports watch. The smartwatch features are just an added bonus.