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  • Beings are possible together, in turn, when they do not enter into contradiction with each other. For instance, it is logically possible that a meteor might have fallen from the sky onto Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s head soon after he was born, killing him. But it is not logically possible that what happens in a given world (e.g. that Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia) also does not happen in the same world (i.e. that Jimmy Wales did not found Wikipedia).


  • too_high_for_this@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldKDE wins
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    3 months ago

    Another reason why Linux fanboys are so silly.

    It’s just whether you grew up / are more comfortable using Windows or Mac.

    I grew up on Mac OS. My first laptop was the classic translucent blue clamshell iBook running OS X Cheetah. So when I first tried Linux, I used Gnome.

    I switched to Windows when I got into gaming. But then when I got a Steam Deck, I decided to finally make the change. So now I’m much more comfortable using KDE.

    QED.







  • Right, but other people in the thread were jumping to the conclusion that the tweet was referring specifically to killing children. It’s not, and if it was presented as such, a bad actor could argue, as I did, that the guy’s not a child murdering Nazi because of this metaphor.

    It’s bad enough that they’re using an ancient book to justify genocide. No need to sensationalize everything, it just weakens your argument.



  • Not trying to defend Israel, fuck 'em all to death, but there’s a whole lot of metaphor in both the biblical plague of the firstborn and this tweet, and neither are talking about murdering children.

    First of all, firstborn didn’t necessarily mean children, it just referred to a families first son who would inherit their wealth.

    The author of Exodus used “firstborn” figuratively to refer to both Egypt’s upper class, who inherited and upheld the system of slavery, and the Israelites, as God’s chosen people. Pharaoh wouldn’t set God’s “firstborn” free, so God kills Pharaoh’s “firstborn”. Eye for an eye biblical morality.

    Also, the plague before that was three days of darkness, so he’s making a legit reference, not just randomly threatening to kill babies.

    Also also, none of that stuff happened and the Israelites were never even in Egypt! themoreyouknow.jpg