Nougat

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 20 points 7 months ago (8 children)

This is not a "Roku data breach."

This is a use of compromised user credentials, with Roku as the target.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 20 points 7 months ago

... $90 trillion great wealth transfer in the coming decades ...

This only counts if your deceased parents have any wealth to transfer.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Short term is all that matters. Business fails? Start another one, and now you have a bunch of people that you made unemployed creating downward pressure on labor prices.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m sure that’s what execs are talking about.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 63 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Say execs. You know, the people who view labor as a cost center.

They say that because that’s what they want to happen, not because it’s a good idea.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh I so much love that you think you know me.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

... you could instead try to understand them and find out what systems lead to religious beliefs ...

Been doing that already a long time, thanks for assuming I haven't.

... including religious belief in people who are objectively smarter than you are.

Isaac Newton is a wonderful example. Absolutely brilliant in so many ways, and absolutely wrong in others. Just because someone is "smart(er than me)" doesn't mean that they're always right and I'm always wrong.

Somebody wants to be religious, have theistic views? That's fine, I don't care. I think they're wrong, but I don't care. I believe that people who put so much into it that they get accredited (why?) degrees in their beliefs (ones that I think are wrong, as previously mentioned) are well beyond just "being religious" and deep into fantasy indulgement. I also believe that there is a great deal of overlap between such people and those who want government to adhere to a specific set of religious rules or laws.

You don’t help anyone by treating them entirely in this sneering, beneath you way.

I sense some projection here.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

We're not talking about people who have an academic interest in Christian mythology in the way that there are people who have academic interests in Egyptian mythology or Norse mythology. We're talking about people who believe the myths as divine truth. It's like if I had a PhD in Norse mythology, and I thought I was going to Valhalla, a real place.

In the US at least, and elsewhere for sure, Christian nationalism partnered with fascism is on a very steep rise. This is a "bad thing," and I experience exactly zero shame in standing against people who are already trampling the rights and agency of so very many people based on religious views.

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