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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Around 5 years ago, still in reddit I did a comparison between US and EU crime rates. Despite my prejudice against the US most crimes were fairly similar (robberies, burglaries, assault), it was homicides where the US goes batshit insane.

    I believe it must be the availability of guns (even on the defending side, making the criminals more aggressive) that makes a homicide happen alongside a robbery where it does not in EU.



  • I am aware of the ‘knowledge destroys innocence’ claim of christianity. I do not subscribe to it, whether it’s knowledge in general or sexual ‘knowledge’.

    You take a major split from most christians when you say this knowledge will be the one that liberates (what exactly does liberate mean for you?) you. Christ’s sacrifice also need to be re-contextualized.

    For them salvation (sometimes called liberation) is achieved through acceptance of christ explicitly (an oath of fealty) as well as trying to return to innocence (especially sexual innocence). A core part is that you cannot succeed in returning to innocence since you are mortal thus you need christ to forgive your sins.

    Some believe you will be actively eternally punished if you fail to do so, others that will simply miss out on afterlife. Both are incredibly harsh and disproportionate punishments for even murderers let alone people who just are sexually promiscuous and not sorry, or perhaps simply do not believe in God.

    Unfortunately most people don’t leave christianity, ironically you seem to have gone quite afar yourself. Your beliefs seem to be a bit less hateful and harmful, though I can’t be sure how honest you arr or if you are just engaging in apologia.









  • It’s even called the European “Union”, you know, like how the States are a Union (pst, it’s in the name, the UNITED states).

    Except they are not the same. One is and has been a federal state, with the majority of it’s constituent states not having ever been independent/sovereign states. Almost all have been part of it since electricity at home became a thing.

    The other is a confederation of independent (for example, they can leave the union) states, all of which have existed as non EU members. They have also been either independent of part of different countries for centuries. They 've been electrified way before joining the EU.

    However with the relatively low lifecycle of electrical appliances almost all plugs and devices are compatible, either being ‘true’ shuko or fitting in them. The exception being Ireland and the UK in the past.



  • Hmmm? They seem pretty unhappy here

    As Apple says, "a 7-inch, low-resolution tablet primarily used for reading is graded on the same scale as a professionally oriented, 13-inch tablet with performance rivaling laptop computers. "

    Which is bollocks, efficiency is efficiency, you don’t say that it’s unfair to judge an SUV/pickup truck as more inefficient that a compact because they are more capable or ‘professionally oriented’. Which also is bollocks because Apple’s tablets are targeted to the mainstream and not just professionals.