Sorry I can’t hear you Randy. I am playing silksong and after that, I am doing another BG3 playthrough.

They have better idle efficiency, but if your PC is not on and idle 24/7 for some reason, AMD is more efficient.

As is the electoral college, lack of term limits and the whole concept of voting districts for national representation.

Just for interest. Why did you buy Intel in the first place. I don’t know about many use cases where Intel is the superior option.

The problem is even when they lose in the general election, the DNC still looks after them.

Better to have the DNC ratfucker you can remove later, than the GOP pedophile you have no control over.

Vote blue no matter who, because as bad as the DNC is, the GOP is much worse.

But Primary these DNC bastards every chance you get!

She is doing it wrong!

The correct way to burn Qurans is to pack it interwoven with an equal number of bibles. Then you tear up some Tora’s for kindling and a block from the book of mormon as a fire starter.

Natural stupidity, enhanced by artificial intelligence.

That’s the scary stuff

Incorrect. They just know that the fake financial system is not linked to anything fundamental. That is what is going to collapse taking retirement savings with it.

It might be worth making a bid for legislation that requires that the public give up privacy to the government, those in government must make the same information public.

If they can read my messages, I should be able to read theirs.

Anyone who has played Civ 1 knows when you reach the edge of the map in the east, you get teleported to the west.

Bitlocker is a good thing that should be the default for windows users.

But not telling the user, not giving them the choice and switching it on without their knowledge, is super scummy.

I wonder if there is a genetic component to keeping fire for recreation or comfort.

I think all societies have a cooking on fire aspect.

The use of fire seems to play a much more active role in societies in cold climates. It seems to play a less prominent role in the tropics with warmer nighttime temperatures.

Very good explainer from Tom Scott.

https://youtu.be/Is_wu0VRIqQ

Yeah, I was pulling the conversation all over. Apologies for that.

Getting back to the original points, I agree with you that Colonialism and imperialism are major factors to the current situation in Palestine.

The original point I was making is that religion is being used to perpetuate the conflict and makes the populations vulnerable to manipulation. Something that is used to perpetuate oppression around the world.

I take you point on Language being important. A lot of things get misunderstood due to different definitions in different circles. I don’t disagree with the definition as you explained it

In terms of human rights, you only need to look at the correlation between level of religion in a country vs the personal freedoms. There is also a distinction between what the laws in a country prosecutes and what society prosecutes. Child marriage and arranged child marriage is one example. most countries make it illegal, but its still very common is highly religious societies.

Another example is Woman’s rights:

I don’t have enough specific knowledge about what is happening in Egypt right now. What I would expect to see is a similar pattern of other countries in the world after regime changes. One religious group uses their influence in the government to crack down on other religious groups. or the Government uses one group to go after another group to keep people divided and focused on each-other, rather than against the government. Something like what we saw happen in Iraq under and after Saddam, Northern Ireland, Balkans.

In terms of examples of countries economic outcomes, the economic picture is less clear cut because of a lot of factors, so you need to isolate as best you can for those. You could equally compare look at Europe, point a Greece and say its an example of Europe weak economy. Best to look at the region overall. So using the Malaysia example, you also need to look at the region including Thailand, Indonesia, to compare those examples. The de-fanging example I had in mind, was the fall of religious monarchies in Europe resulting in the renaissance. Individual rights and economic prosperity for the average person only really started in Europe when the people became less religious and their Monarchies lost power. You could say the same thing for places like Japan and its Emperors.

Note that when I say Islam, I am referring to the religion, not using it as a replacement of the distinct cultural groupings of muslim and Islamist. Much like Orthodox and Catholic are distinct cultural grouping, but both are still part of the Christian religion.

Similarly when I refer to Judaism, I am referring to the religion, not the culture referred to as the Jews.

In terms of human right oppression, i am referring to the religion’s effect. That is present in most of the Islamic countries.

It’s not just islam. Look of christian evangelism has been leveraged by the republican party in the US. Look how Catholicism is used by the right wing in Poland.

Everywhere you see human rights retreating, your see prominent religion alligned with those forces.

You are correct that there are Islamic extremists as well that are not satisfied, often because they think the government is not being extreme enough. Just like the far right evangelical Christians supporting the Jewish occupation of Gaza, becuase they want to end of the world to happen.

Countries that have managed to defang their religions have much better economic and social outcomes. Countires who have had them creep back in, like in the USA are getting much worse.

Thanks for contributing information.

So when I demonstrate knowledge that does not support your views, your response is to dismiss it?

Are you simply unwilling to engage and provide the necessary information to be convincing, or are you simply falling back on projecting your own ignorance on me?