rainynight65 @ rainynight65 @feddit.de

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I have the same problem with monarchy. The only thing that disturbs me more than the existence of royals with their archaic rituals and inbred lines of succession is the fact that there are so many people who love that shit.

Monarchies are also deeply intertwined with religion, which makes it extra problematic.

If Jesus ever does come back, he won't last ten minutes before they nail him to the cross again. Today's Christianity is so far out of step with his supposed teachings, they might as well exist in different universes.

Ah yes, that sense of 'community' that only manifests when they all sit in their church, and vanishes the moment they all get back home.

I get more of a sense of community out of my model railway forums and my live steam club.

I am in favour of both age and term limits for politicians. For one, if regular people are supposed to retire at 65ish and realistically often struggle to find work once they go past their 40s, there is no reason why politicians should be allowed to stay in their jobs through their 70s and sometimes 80s.

And I am in favour of term limits because it would keep the career politicians out of the game. Very few of them are any good.

Uh, no. It entirely depends on the station. My wife has radio stations in her car that sound almost 100% prerecorded and edited together - I can never tell if someone is actually talking now or if it's just a snippet from a previous recording. However, if I listen to a very specific radio station from my home country, which I can only get via internet stream, it still feels like listening to the radio. The way of listening has nothing to do with it, it's all in the station's programming.

Do you mean dogwhistling? Whistleblowing is something else.

Scalpers are absolutely the worst.

Smoking is one of the very few things everyone is better off not doing.

That's about 450 more than the market ever needed.

What about those who eschew multi monitor setups in favour of an ultrawide?

For me it's the opposite. I don't get usable mobile signal in most of my house, to the point that our phones are set up with wifi calling, and if the internet goes down (like it did for 45 minutes the other day) there's not much I can do. But if I lie down comfortably on my bed, I get a usable two bars of 4G, enough to make calls and do a bit of internet browsing.

In twenty years, the only people who will remember that you worked all the time are your children.

Oh, this guy wasn't joking. He just thought that his own standards, which he wants to force on others, didn't apply to him, and was completely unapologetic about that fact becoming public knowledge.

This is also know as hypocrisy.

Oh, so you mean the cable that was included with my phone was overpriced, and somehow my phone would have been substantially cheaper if it hadn't been for the cable?

The one and only.

It's because it's never about religious values, it's about power. The power to force your values on others but push back on other people's values applying to you. The power to be just that extra bit above the law. The power to claim tax exemptions while sitting in piles of wealth. The power to abuse children and get away with it.

It's strange how these people always and consistently fall short of the values they're trying to force on others.

There's one of those dropkicks in the Australian parliament. One of those staunch conservative, deeply catholic people. Was dead set against same sex marriage because 'it devalues traditional marriage'. One day it came out that he'd been cheating on his wife and the mother of his four children with a woman half his age (he was nearing sixty at the time). Not only did he get his mistress pregnant, he also set her up with a cushy job in parliament.

His response when questioned about all this in relation to his claims about gay marriage: "I never said I was a saint."

Strange how I've had lightning devices since 2012 and never bought one of those 'overpriced accessories'. But I've lost count of all the USB-C-to-something-else adapters I've got floating around.

I have Lightning cables that are five years old and still as good as they were in the first day.

Oh stow it for crying out loud. Lightning was absolutely superior to the alternatives that existed when it came out, which was 13 years ago. It was faster, more robust and easier to use. So technology has evolved. Big deal. How long has USB-C been a thing on mobile phones? Not for 13 years, that's for sure.

But now we get all those edgelords who think it's classy to hate on a perfectly adequate technology. Just get some perspective. Lightning-equipped devices will be sold for at least another year if not more, and will be around for much longer than that. So those cables are neither obsolete nor are they going to disappear in a hurry.