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God damn that’s a great game. At the same time, I think they did this knowing that folks would die all the time, so they didn’t want each death to be super punishing.

Thank you for sharing this. I had no idea of this practice. I can easily see how this form of monasticism can be beneficial and harmful.

It’s far more than just looking to one set of scripture when it comes to the charedi movement in Israel. They’re reading in thousands of years of Rabbinic Judaism, most importantly the idea that the sacrificial cult of Ancient Israelite Religion (A.K.A. Torah) is the way God wants people to engage in worship. It’s using thousands of years of anti-Semitism as a cudgel to state “we can’t be oppressors because we were oppressed.”

My hot take is that one reason for a strong connection between the U.S. and Israel is that Israel is a settler-colonial, white supremacist, patriarchal, theocratic apartheid ethnostate. There’s a non-insignificant portion of the U.S. populace who wish the U.S. had the same kind of government.

I came in here to say just this. I’m a Jewish clergyman, so I deal with this kind of shit a lot. The term isn’t just brainwashing; it’s actively seeking to erase Judaism as part of Christianity. It’s shit like this, combined with Christian Nationalism, which makes me jumpy at first when someone identifies as a Christian.

I’ve been seeing a number of people talk about this laptop on Lemmy, and I can see why. I have dreamt of building out a laptop like my desktops, and these folks seem to be able to make it happen.

That made me lol

I’ll chime in with my vote for NewPipe as well. It’s served me very well, and does so much.

I think for a number of us it’s nostalgia, like what @Tosti@feddit.nl was saying. I too was there when the old memes were formed. And I think you’re on to something too, OP.

I love that site! I’ve gotten so many books from there. Thanks for making sure more people know about it.

I recommend pairing that with Calibre to manage all the ebooks you get, and to convert them into useable formats for your device(s).

Social media as already fostered multiple genocides and destabilized democracies. It does not surprise me that this would be added to the list.

If no one was telling them it was broken, why fix it? That costs money, a cardinal sin against capitalism.

I don’t expect the people running a company to have morals, because moral behavior is bad for business.

Well, this is terrifying. Just what I needed today.

I’m a huge fan of Evolve, an idle game played in the browser which only requires a network connection to start up. Saves are text that you can export and load to a file. There’s lots of strategy, all kinds of ways to play, and makes for some funny stories.

Leave it to the U.S to use and export munitions banned by ~120 other countries because they’re practically a warcrime.