Libgen and scihub have done more for science than any of those shitty journal publishers.
Libgen and scihub have done more for science than any of those shitty journal publishers.
Effective how? Reddit went through with everything they had planned. It could have been an effective form of protesting if more mods had actually been willing to leave the site or at least their modding job for good.
Never have I ever as much as tried anything you can smoke (cigarettes, joints, shisha...).
Trump suggested that restraint would be unfair since his Democratic critics are “getting personal all night long.”
This shows why it was paramount that the Democrats left the "high road". Trump has no clue how to react when someone finally hits back at the bully.
And this is only like, the fifth weirdest headline I've read about the guy.
Low energy.
It seems like more and more internet spaces are being taken over by bots. At some point the internet will just be AI talking to itself, while humans will return entirely to offline communication.
Voting for the felon and sex offender because the other side is amoral is... weird.
Yup, like the time they broke into a house and shot the girl sleeping on the sofa with her grandma.
Only interesting if you're romantically attracted to women, though.
Still my unchallenged #1 favourite event of the entire Trump trainwreck saga.
From what I've seen of the guy, I feel the only reason anybody knows him is his name.
I think strategically it's smart not to focus on concrete plans too much. People vote according to their feelings more than according to actual policy, and Harris is doing very well right now on the feeling front.
Old School Runescape.
Also, I'm really confused as to why chess doesn't have an active community on Lemmy. Online chess has seen a big boom in recent years, and the demographics of chess players and Lemmy users should have a lot of overlap (i.e. the nerdy IT people), but for some reason the chess community here is more or less dead. Only anarchychess is active, which is great, but I'd love to have an active replacement for r/chess.
I can crack the knuckles of my big toes at will (only moving my toes, no hands involved).
Wait wait, are you telling me the US (the Americas?) don't have hedgehogs??
The Village
O Brother Where Art Thou
Amélie
Pride and Prejudice
Shutter Island
to name a few.
I know this applies to the French and to Germans, but does the rule hold for Ukrainians?
Wait, even as a child? Where are you from if I may ask?
Lol... That's one way to admit Harris won the debate.
Pretty much any version we know now has taken very liberal translations to change the meanings.
That's not true. Bible translations differ wildly on the approach they take, but there exist many (at least for English) that are focused on offering a rendition as close to the original meaning as possible. Also, Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic as well as Koine Greek have been deeply studied over centuries and are well understood, so accurate translations are possible with the exception of a small percentage of rare vocabulary. Obviously, perfect translations aren't a thing, but that's a moot point and not exclusive to Bible translations.
Most scholars agree that the translations were not accurate.
Which scholars? Which translations? These blanket statements make no sense. Again, many translations have been made or reviewed/proofread by scholars of the Bible's languages, making your claim dubious at best.
Then on top of that entire books of the Bible were debated and thrown out, the gospel of Mary magdeline is the most famous. They picked and chose what message they wanted.
It's no secret that settling on a canon was a process that took centuries both in Judaism (for the Tanakh) and in early Christianity (for its New Testament), and was never really finished in the latter case, considering the different canons in use in the major Christian churches even today.
That said, I think this process was a necessity. In early Christianity, there were hundreds if not thousands of Jesus-inspired texts floating around, so if the new church was to have any sort of guiding document(s), they had no choice but to pick and choose. Of course, if you think a text (like the Gospel of Mary you mention) is an important witness of the early church, or a more accurate reflection of early Christian thought than are the New Testament writings, you have every right to make that argument. But I don't think it's fair to hold it against early Christians that they "picked and chose what message they wanted", because that's kind of the whole point of founding a new religious movement.
Even if you love couches, you should know who to vote for at this point.
That's so interesting! Changes my perspective on an animal that has always felt like a perfectly normal neighbour everywhere I've lived (though seeing them is still kind of a rare thing).
You're gonna have to explain that one.
Welcome to the Fediverse! I've been here since the 3rd party app shutdown and haven't used Reddit ever since. Niche communities are still lacking here, but it gets better as more people join. Also Lemmy servers and apps have gotten more stable over the past year. So I hope you'll enjoy it here!
Haha, I see. Good on you!
I mean it makes some sense as memes take less effort to post (they can also just be copied from r/anarchychess or similar places) and lead to some quick upvotes. I'm still confused about chess@lemmy.ml having so little activity though.
Thanks for the link, I was too lazy to look for it. Note that all charges were dropped in that case. I.e. throwing a flash grenade into an apartment, then breaking in and shooting a 7 y/o sleeping in her grandma's arms is A-OK in the US.
That was the second-to-last I watched. :)
Yes, I very much agree that such explanations are helpful.
Yes, of course.
Both of these things need defining before anybody can answer your question.
"Censoring", the way I understand the word, means that there's some kind of institution charged with overseeing and removing parts of a text. So I wonder at which point in the development of the Bible you believe this has occurred.
I've argued in a different comment that it's no secret that certain texts were picked and chosen by the early church as part of its canon, but that (in my opinion) is a very different thing than censoring. To give an analogy: If I was an editor and had to choose the "100 greatest novels of the 20th century" for a book, I would not be "censoring" those I didn't choose. Therefore I'm asking you what exactly you mean by censoring, and if you can give examples of censorship happening in the development of the Biblical texts.
Secondly, "original Bible" is not at all easy to define. The (Christian) Bible is a collection of texts of diverse genres, by a multitude of authors, in three languages, spanning at least seven or eight centuries in their development. None of the original manuscripts have survived. Instead, for every part of the Bible, there exist different copies which sometimes differ slightly, sometimes starkly. This is the reason textual criticism of the Bible exists as a field of scholarship. Most notably, the (older) Septuagint version of the Book of Jeremiah is about one eighth shorter than the (later) version of the Masoretic text.
All of this means that if you're going to talk about the "original Bible", you have to tell us what you mean by that. Do you mean
Hehe
King James notoriously removed mentions of the word tyrant in his English translations.
AFAIK this is an urban myth. But even if true, it's hardly a case of "censoring", but more a (questionable) translation choice. (Because "tyrant" is not a word that appears in the original Hebrew or Greek, so it can't have been censored in that sense.)
Was my last movie too. I really enjoyed it, and even though some would say that it's slow/not much happens, it left a stronger impression on me than any other film I recently watched.
Tbh I think I can understand why people do it. For some using various substances are a quick and simple way to relax/numb unwanted emotions/etc.. Some start because of peer pressure. For others it's just learned behaviour (you're more likely to become a smoker if your parents are).
Personally, I've never as much as tried cigarettes because it just never appealed to me and I had mostly non-smoking friends and family. But I definitely have other bad habits I shouldn't have gotten into and have trouble getting rid of, so I get the feeling.
What do you mean by censored? Do you have examples of censored "chapters and contents"? And what do you mean by the original Bible?
I keep hearing about that hillbilly book of his and how it's supposedly such a good read. But all I've seen and heard from him I find really lacklustre and uninspiring. It's just the usual redpilled mAsCuLiNe Qcumber nonsense. So what gives? Did he write a great book and then turn dumb? Or was the book bad to begin with?
Ok granted, that may be true. I wouldn't be able to tell as I left in June '23 and never looked back. But from what I read about the protests back then, I seem to remember that only few subs had to have their mod team replaced by Reddit. I think if more mod teams of big subs had been willing to call it quits as a team, the disruption could have been bigger.
In the end though, I don't know if any form of protest can be effective in this kind of situation as Reddit holds all the cards, and if they are dead set on enshittifying, nothing will stop them. What mods and users should do is just walk out.