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It was a fucking toddler trapped in the car you moron.

It couldn't be opened manually from the outside.

If a small group annoying you pushes you towards not caring about the climate, you never cared about the climate.

I'm sorry but when the Quran makes it out that the sun and moon both orbit Earth when that is very clearly false I can't take it seriously.

Copying from a comment I made on Reddit:

The Quran is considered the unchanging word of Allah passed down to Muhammed by Gabriel. But then what does it mean when the Quran is demonstrably wrong? Well, it means Islam falls apart as the "word of Allah" is disproven.

For example, I'm going to note a verse from the Quran which reveals the Quran's model of the solar system:

"It is not for the sun to overtake the moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day. They float each in an orbit." (Quran 36:40)

I've picked this verse because typically when the Quran conflicts with well-known, proven, modern fact and science, the defense from Muslims is that it's metaphorical in some way (how convenient). But here not even the metaphorical interpretation makes sense, so its a good verse to solidly disprove.

First, the literal interpretation:

The idea of "overtaking" and the sun and moon's inability to do so requires the two objects (in this case, the sun and moon) to be moving along roughly the same path/direction (or in the case of celestial objects, the same orbit), else the sentence makes no sense. Following this, this means that according to the Quran, the sun and moon follow the same orbit, an orbit around Earth (i.e. an Earth-centred solar system). This isn't true, and is easily proven nowadays.

The metaphorical interpretation:

If we take "overtaking" to mean appearing to cross over in the sky and not literal overtaking, well, that's still wrong. Because exactly that happens during a solar eclipse. The moon appears to overtake the sun in the sky, crossing over it and eclipsing it in the process. So the metaphorical interpretation is also incorrect.

As we can see, no matter which way we decide to interpret this verse, literal or metaphorical, it's wrong. The "word of Allah" is wrong, and Islam crumbles.

That word... I do not think it means what you think it means...

They have. Compared to this, it got barely any news coverage.

That is why they do this. Their only goal is attention, and they do that quite well.

The way they seem to operate is quite smart, actually:

• Their stunts get a lot of press and bring climate change to the forefront of people's minds, frequently.

• They're not a political party, so pissing voters off isn't a problem. They can afford to be unpopular to further the cause.

• Those who already care about the climate won't change that based on a small group they dislike.

• Those who call them "terrorists" are people who call anything short of licking oil company boot "eco-terrorism". They were never going to be convinced to care whatever the group does. Probably read the Daily Mail.

• Those who are apathetic about the climate are still going to be apathetic, with a bit of rage towards this group as with the others, but again, ultimately that doesn't matter as they still won't change anything based on a single group.

• A small handful of people will be inspired by them and their constant reminders of climate crisis, and be motivated to push for change.

The last bullet seems to be the target audience of the group. And they're the ones who will actually do anything.

You know what else will get into the cracks?

Rain. To wash it off.

many climate organizations have been infiltrated

Ok but:

1. you're talking about the US, JSO is UK based

2. It is a conspiracy theory because you have no hard evidence that JSO is infiltrated and having it's strings pulled by big oil like you claim

It distracts from the fight

No I'd actually argue it brings the fight to the forefront of people's minds, specifically the people who are actually inclined to do something. Those who do nothing but complain about climate activism were never going to do anything useful and so their thoughts on the methods are frankly irrelevant since the methods work for those who actually want to act.

We need these groups to be more self aware and create civil action to get people on board instead of making it unpalatable.

They've blockaded oil terminals and vandalised terrible offenders driving climate change, and still do. It was nowhere near as effective as their publicity stunts, which get people talking. They just ended up getting whisked away by police and largely ignored by the news. Pointless.

Whether you like it or not, the sort of quiet, non-inconvenient activism you seem to be proposing has shown itself to be useless.

"Silence"? How?

They don't make it harder to discuss climate change. People don't just go "a small group I hate cares about climate change so now I don't care". And if they do, well, they never actually cared about the climate. They cared about looking good and were never going to help with anything.

And stop with the conspiracy that they're funded by oil executives. The organisation of the granddaughter of an oil billionaire (who is dead) funds 2% of them. Because, children and grandchildren, believe it or not, can disagree with their elders.

"destroy heritage sites"

It's cornflour lmfao. It's probably been washed away by now.

Inspiring people to act against climate change.

This is a fine powder which will dissolve in water. It will wash out and honestly, if it doesn't, it's so deep in that its completely unnoticeable and doesn't matter. Much worse has happened to Stonehenge.

Love the hand-waving here to justify that if your "Allah" exists (he doesn't, there's plenty of plot holes in the Quran), he's clearly not so loving.

Most Wise, Most Loving, Most High (probably on weed)

The responsibility is on you to do your research before you argue about a topic.

The difference is I disbelieve because I've read portions of the Quran and found logical faults/inconsistencies which can't be made by an omnipotent being and you believe because... ??

This doesn't bring any of this to forefront of peoples minds.

If they didn't make headlines a lot less people would be talking about climate change at this moment.

This issue hinges entirely on getting voters to care. Yet, many groups and even you seem to dismiss them, saying "they don't matter." In reality, voters are the most crucial factor.

As I said earlier with examples for each category of people, almost everyone in this issue is not going to be influenced to change their opinion on a massive topic like climate change because of a small annoying group. Except those who'll be spurred onto direct action.

And in that quote I was referring to those who complain about any climate activism (see the comments on blocked oil refineries and painted jets YouTube videos). Not voters overall.

It makes sense that the idea of alienating the general public from climate action might be intentionally promoted by well-funded and organized entities.

This is a potential issue but as I've already said, I think what JSO is doing is quite clever for the cause and I don't think bad actors are involved. If they are, they're bad at their job.

to many believers that is the truth

No? Just because some people believe it doesn't make it true. That's like saying because many people believe you can see the great wall of China from space, that it's true.

A millenium-old book which makes grand claims with no real evidence (and many things wrong!) to back them up so a pedo warlord could live a life of relative luxury with his several wives and conquer Arabia does not count as evidence by the way.

the butterfly effect for example why it is not possible

... The butterfly effect is well proven and very easy to see with simply a double pendulum.

Are you telling me what I can see right in front of me does not exist?

it is his choice, for how to exercise his love

Or to never exercise it at all clearly. Maybe it's because he doesn't exist?

Muslims believe that he is most loving so when we don't see it in this world the assumption is that we will get it in the hereafter.

Very convenient way of explaining away the fact that good things and bad things happen randomly and/or as a direct result of human actions, not as a result of "Allah" choosing how to "exercise love".

This world is not a place for justice and neither is it fair, for we get it in the hereafter.

How do you know that? There is zero real proof and any "proof" in Islam has been well and truly debunked. You can't just take an old book at it's word you know.

cannot say that this action is bad because you do not possess the ability

But Allah is infinite therefore he possesses this ability

What is "this ability" you're talking about? And Allah doesn't exist, sorry to break it to you.

That said, I feel for the families of the people who died.

What's annoying is the "Reject" button hidden on another page. That should be illegal.

Let that parasite rot in prison.

And can somebody split Meta already? Please and thank you.

Fuck that.

Download the .deb and double click it. https://mullvad.net/en/download/app/deb/latest

People seem to be making this a more difficult job than it needs to be. Yeah I get we're powerusers but can't we drop that for 2 minutes while giving advice so a new user can actually get a job done quickly? Windows EXEs don't automatically update either. Sure it might not be the best way to do it but it's fast and not confusing. (EDIT: Apparently this specific program actually has it's own auto updater)

Things take time to learn. Throwing all of the existing knowledge of repo management at a new user at once does not work.

Ugh. Why do keyboards have to have Microsoft logos. I hate it. I want nothing to do with them.

If you have something to say, actually explain it instead of the obnoxious emoji spam.

Come on, it is funny.

Let me guess...

"Hamas" in the playground?

Ah, so the transphobes so concerned with "protecting women" have caused harm to a cis woman, who they are supposedly protecting?

What. A. Shock.

So,

This is a proprietary and therefore untrustworthy terminal in a space where virtually all the competition is libre/open source.

It's connected to the cloud, therefore insecure and privacy-invasive as there is no reason for something as basic as a terminal to be connected to the cloud. Who wants their SSH keys leaked? Anyone?

They require an account but don't collect data? Sketchy to say the least, a unique account is the perfect tool to collect data and there is no reason a terminal, the most basic interface to the underlying OS should require an online account. It should be tied to the system. (After further reading, apparently they do collect data by default).

It has a built-in AI autocomplete, because apparently normal auto complete isn't good enough (just wait until it tells you to rm -rf /*).

Yeah, no matter how nice it is, I will never accept this terminal.

EDIT: They also forked Alacritty to create a "demo", they took advantage of a libre/open source project for their proprietary terminal and never did so much as thank the authors of Alacritty. That's scummy.

Do you want Facebook to do to us what Google did to XMPP???

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Source?

Not disbelieving, but I've never heard this before.

Yes. Yes it does.

It took them long enough.

Unfortunately, I think it excludes game consoles.

Experimentation... Using drugs tried and tested for decades?

I dislike TikTok but should you really be banning platforms you don't like?

Sanction them if they misbehave, yes. Prevent most of the population from communicating using it? Absolutely not.

Americans have weird priorities when it comes to freedom. The mental gymnastics I've been seeing trying to justify a ban of a platform to a massive population of people is nuts.

No, it isn't "actually upholding" freedom of speech to ban TikTok.

"Though there's a carve-out for games consoles" 🙄

Good on them for the rest of it, though, assuming it isn't total rubbish.

ext4 has been battle-tested for many years and is very stable. Doesn't have the same fragmentation and data loss issues certain other filesystems like NTFS have.

Regardless of whether they actively scan only with permission and only images, it still breaks the security for everyone as images are sent with the same security as text. And future governments might not be so kind with the ability to break into everyone's communications.

This is bad news.

Yeah, no.

It seems that these Americans have discovered that they can't just ignore the rule of law in other countries.

Let them deal with the consequences. Let them lose that American exceptionalism.

Nobody gets a free pass for breaking laws in America, so these Americans shouldn't get a free pass for breaking laws in other countries.

No freedom to choose

"Liberating"

Uh huh. Try thinking about other people. Just because you don't want freedom doesn't mean other people don't deserve it. You can always just choose to stick to Apple's crap if you really want to. But right now, people can't choose what they want because gaining control over their own damn device is so difficult by design. That's the point.

Why are people calling it "threadiverse"???

I've seen this quite a lot recently, and I don't get it. It's the fediverse, isn't it? This name sounds like it comes from Facebook's thing...

Yes yes, how dare they unbrick public transportation infrastructure.

Fuck off.

It's nice that you think Facebook will care about or be influenced by any input we have. They won't play nice, if you think they will, I have a bridge to sell you.

We only stand a chance if we cut them off from the fediverse completely. If we don't, they will throw their weight around and kill the rest of it.

Reddit and Twitter are massive, and we're becoming more and more relevant, even though they both still exist. One more service we aren't connected to won't exactly make us irrelevant, we have momentum.

I read it. Your points, especially about how they'll have to play by the rules, seem a bit naive. Theoretically, those points should have applied to Google and XMPP, but in reality, Google just threw their weight around and killed it anyways. It's very likely that Facebook will do the same.

Sorry if I seem a bit aggressive, I just don't want to see this thing we have die because of the influence of a megacorporation.