adespoton

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Religion has to do with habits and practices. So someone can brush their teeth religiously.

Christianity is a religion, but it’s also a faith-based belief system that incorporates alternate planes of existence. Some people eschew the religion part but still have the belief system, and some people play inside the religion without actually believing in the spiritual side of things.

I like to explain Christianity as the belief in a multidimensional being who defines the dimensions we can observe and has done a bit of mucking around in a way that was measurable by us. Angelic appearances? Most would call them aliens, as they’d be extra terrestrial intelligences. Spiritual possession? A different dimension that has an effect on the ones we inhabit, but is currently beyond our capacity to fully understand.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Chinese ambassador says trade is set to treble, so we’ll be seeing a lot more of these shipments.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Land ownership is already a fiction in Canada.

If I buy a book, it’s mine to do what I want with, for as long as I want.

If I buy real estate, the government still gets to say what I do on/with it, and can take it away if they decide they really want it, or if I stop paying them property taxes. That doesn’t sound like ownership; it sounds like a rental agreement.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Next up: no more license plates for their cars, and all the windows can be tinted.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Why am I getting the correct headline but a totally different article at that link?

It goes right into:

GOPer Joins Dems in Calling Out Trump Over Lack of Boat Strike Info

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Tricky chicken/egg problem, compounded by people like me who do their own bike repair.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

The writing was on the wall when Serif sold the product to Canva. We already knew Canva used a rent seeking model at the corporate level, so it didn’t really matter what promises they made about what they’d do with Affinity.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This frustrates me so much.

I paid for v1 and v2 of the suite precisely because I’m willing to pay for a tool that works for me, predictably and reliably and with no compromise in goals. Now I’ll have to switch platforms yet again, because they’re going to monetize somehow, and if it’s not by taking my money, it’ll be by taking something else.

Is Inkscape a reasonable replacement for Illustrator yet? Is there an equivalent for InDesign?

I don’t want to get stuck in a Canvas walled garden, and I’m not going to pay rent to use software.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No taxation without representation.

A shut down government isn’t representing anyone. So it should come out of taxes.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I just checked; mine has a screw in the hole, and looks like it’s designed to come apart.

So I guess they aren’t all the same.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 month ago

Well, they weren’t working anyway. China currently has full access to the US network with no ability to fix the situation beyond ensuring all content is encrypted and over LTE.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

How long did your battery last?

I bought a Sonicare around 15 years ago, and it’s still on its first battery and working fine.

I was planning to do what you did to replace the battery when it finally goes, but I still get about a week’s charge on the current one.

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