@Blurry Moon

The main beef I have is cultural, including religious ideology. Some cultures simply aren't compatible, and if they're living together there either need to be strongly and uniformly enforced civil laws which prevent conflict (and curtail some cultural habits), or it's gonna go badly. I think that's becoming more and more obvious to most people in the present day.

@lain

Except he's a bit of a snowflake.

https://youtu.be/ajYsC9-poLw

@nprofile1q...

If you really think about it, we require comfortable temperature, air, water, and food. Without each of those things, we're not alive for long. So there's no separating us from the biosphere as a whole. We tend to think of our lungs as a bodily organ, but without the vegetation which produces the oxygen, lungs do us no good. So in effect the trees are as much an organ of our body as our lungs, and the sun and shadow of earth is an organ of our homeostasis, and so on. The separation between us and those outer organs is no different than a blood cell floating around freely in our arteries and veins. It's just an illusion of separateness.

Similarly every cell of our body has it's own walls and boundaries which could be likened to the outside of our body on a macroscopic scale. Each cell signals the cells around it and the body as a whole when it's needs aren't met. What we call "the self" is more like the central computer on the bridge of the star-ship enterprise. When we eat too much chili-pepper, our stomach signals the brain just as though it were Scotty shouting over the intercom that there's a fire in engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holon_(philosophy)

@nprofile1q...

seems like another veiled attempt to build a nation wide surveillance database under the guise of "wutabout the childrenzzz?!?!" I'm all in favour of paternity tests, but I think this is something which should be voluntary and protected by privacy laws (ie. protected evidence for court proceedings, not aggregated en mass in a government database).

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Forest fires do that. When the wind blows north we get the same shit from 'Murica, except in our case it's usually industrial pollution, not wood smoke.

@Blurry Moon

Why not just include a static string (eg. "miniapp: {name}") in the front-end of posts so users can configure a filter?

@Blurry Moon

Oh. I didn't mean you. There's already a filter option available in my account settings. Assuming it actually works, I was just thinking I might need to add a filter string "Open Farm Game" so those posts are automatically hidden/excluded. But maybe if there're a tonne of different games/apps with this behaviour and no common static string to filter, then a separate setting might be good.

@Blurry Moon

Probably gonna need to add a filter to tune that out then.

@Blurry Moon

Looks kinda neat, but I'm dreading that my timeline is gonna become one long stream of "I planted XYZ in Open Farm Game."

@Blurry Moon @YBG pern

Absolutely. Personally though, my agenda is to bring people back to a more nuanced and historically grounded understanding so they can shed the pervasive delusions which occur when sacred narratives like that end up in the hands of the uninitiated and then virally promoted to/by the gullible and superstitious on behalf of `spiritual` grifters. That's why in my view Christinanity is and arguably (according to Tacitus, Suetonius, Porphyry, Julian, etc) always was far more a superstition than a legitimate religion.