No real need. They could just bury it at worst, dig it up again as soon as they can use a spade

I think it’s the book of Job, God says something like “you could not possibly fathom the purpose or meaning to the world, even if someone tells you”. I think in much the same way a Turing Machine simply cannot process certain tasks or achieve particular ends, our brains are limited to a certain subset of understanding. Still mightily impressive what we can imagine/devise/understand IMO. In Islam, this is more readily accepted dogma: you can’t even imagine or picture God, so even attempting it is doomed to failure (or delusion)

Cos I’ve done drugs, and experienced heightened states of love, being, appreciation for nature and humanity, states that feel magical yet real, even if only temporarily.

The very fact those states of mind are achievable at all gives me a certain emotional grounding and inner certainty that reality has purpose, or at least meaning. As opposed to just being a happy accident of atoms and energy arranging themselves in this miraculous way to create life. That’s just a logical explanation of how, not why.

We’re almost all driven to look for meaning in life. Even if it’s just to “find your own purpose”, that journey presupposes you have one to begin with.

I guess I feel a belief in god without having much idea of what god is, or even what they want. But I don’t believe at all that logic, science, reason etc. are things you have to choose instead of religious belief. They’re things you have as well. You can’t square the two - the Rubik’s cube of logic doesn’t twist that way.

Good good. Last time I tried installing a few years ago, it would only give that choice if I installed to the primary

When you install to a secondary, does BIOS automatically give you the choice of which OS to load, or do you need to change boot order each time?

Friendica is more like Mastodon tbh. A lot more functionality than Facebook, but honestly that’s a bad thing. Too confusing and too many options for the average user.

And boring shit too, but at least it was human-generated boring shit

Link if you can find it pls :D

Pretty much that entire blog was golden. Real shame it’s gone. I used to re-read pretty much everything once a year

I met three women on Twitter between 2010 and 2016. But really, almost all the people I know in my city I met via the one schoolfriend I actually knew when I moved here. I now have my own friends, but they’re basically all within 6 steps of separation away from him, even if he doesn’t know them himself

Probably Brazil in the 1600’s. Women there were sexually liberated, and threw themselves at foreign sailors, thinking they were demigods (or nearest cultural equivalent).

You’d need a translator, and probably a bunch of inoculations first.

Possibly Ghengis Khan too. And a handful of Roman Emperors and European royalty.

It would require being couched in some kind of international law, and there really isn’t one that applies to all countries

It’s been tried before, usually as a joke. Kids magazines that say “not for sale to adults”. Gaming mods that make you pledge your first born to the developer. To work, the laws of the country the user is in will apply, and will have to be enforced.

Well… in my experience it never went well. Every teenage couple where one or both went to Uni ended up breaking up before the year was out. SMS was relatively expensive in the 90’s/00’s, as was broadband - a lot of folk were on dial-up internet, which was also paid by the minute. So if money was a factor you’d go online, download your emails, disconnect, then draft all your replies, reconnect and send.

In fact, email was probably the preferred non-urgent medium between my peers until 2008 or so. SMS was more of a “hey, we’re headed to the bar now” kinda thing.

Letters were getting rarer and rarer - but one particular friend I exchanged actual postal letters a few times a year until 2012 or so.

As for family, my mum called me every week, and I never went more than 6 weeks between visits back home. Still don’t.

Downside with this system is if your birthday was o. a tuesday, it’ll always be a Tuesday. Having the occasional Saturday birthday is a good thing imo

As long as it’s small chunks, not whole rings

If you can remember how to disable this, please let me know

So… by giggling at farts I’m not masculine? :(