richieadler 🇦🇷

“Bye” is a simple word, I’m surprised you don’t know its meaning.

Well, if nonsense doesn’t give you pause, I don’t have much to add.

Bye.

The first doesn’t give me pause because it’s pretty engrained into virtually all of Western society.

It doesn’t mean that it isn’t nonsense.

The second… well that’s sort of the whole point of Catholic communion, isn’t it?

Not at all. The transubstantiation is supposed to turn the wine and bread into the blood and flesh of Christ, “really and truly”, in spite of the “accidents” (i.e. the material reality of the wine and bread), and that by ingesting them they receive “the present of Christ’s sacrifice”. They don’t “eat sins”; they accept the sacrifice that supposedly delivers them from sin.

Of course, I think that all of that is nonsense, but that’s my opinion of all religious beliefs. I only know a little bit about the Eucharist because I live in a Catholic country.

And the notion of sin, or of eating said sin, didn’t give you pause?

Curious.

Damn, we’re refining Fahrenheit 451’s “Families” already.

Common decency and skeptical thinking skew left. So forced equilibrium actually promotes evil.

Before that, try joining mas.to and using Tusky. I’ve never had an issue.

Until he also buys Bluesky.

You must understand that you are part of an infinitesimal minority.

Nah, they will celebrate.

News would be even more useless, for one.

In some places like Argentina they started earlier even without explicit allegiance to Project 2025. The ideology is pervasive and poisonous.

Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai

Nope. They just show how far away we are from true AI.

My preference is Nikola.

People riot

It depends on the country, I’d say.

over less

What is “less” for you?

That’s precisely my point: Reading more (specially fiction) gives you additional situations, context and ways to face different situations, as well as vocabulary, to help you express yourself when needed.

Dyslexia, anxiety, poor education, not being a native speaker, ADHD, etc.

That “etc.” certainly includes living in an anti-intellectual society full of emotionally stunted people who learned that men shouldn’t care about feelings and that reading is for dorks.

what if I can’t put my feelings into words?

Read more. Then, write more.

It can be very hard to find the right words a lot of the time.

That can be, in many cases, because you don’t read enough to have learned the proper words to express yourself. Maybe you’re even convinced that reading isn’t worth it.

If this is the case, you don’t have anything worth saying. Better stay silent.

You mean Forgejo?