Any sexual representation of a child is illegal in the UK whether it looks real or not. In fact I believe it doesn't need to even be a child, it's a illegal if a reasonable person would believe it was depicting a child. This came up when adults who were into age play got into trouble distributing their images because it looked convincingly underage.

With about 12 years in my primary language I'd say my expertise is expressed in knowing exactly what to Google..

What short, catchy username did Musk's company change Hwang's handle to? @x12345678998765.

That's some really !funnyandsad material...

So, probably not quite what you meant but I find annoying nonetheless.. Bible translation

It's almost impossible to find an English translation that doesn't allow tradition to seriously skew how ideas are presented. And I say this as a secular scholar (and someone who recognises that the oldest greek text we have is very very very old). Messing with the translation just leaves it open to criticism unnecessarily.

Here are some examples...

An "angel" in the new testament is not a distinct thing. The word simply means "messenger" and was the mundane, every day, word for messenger. It was the word used if someone came from the next town over to tell you something in person. Without any of our cultural baggage added on top the angel Gabriel appearing to Mary is - on face value - Mary being surprised to encounter a man who told her things. Same for Zechariah (both in Luke 1). It's only when you get to the shepherds the field that the messenger is accompanied by a heavenly glow. But this idea that they're perfect beings clad in white with wings is completely absent from the text and, imho, promulgated by the persistent use of the word "angel" when it should simply say "messenger". (The NT itself goes on to say people have had such messengers as guests in their homes without realising, implication being they often look and sound like regular people. Hebrews 13:2)

Same for "baptism". This is also a traditional translation of the completely mundane word "immersion". It's translated that way to retain the idea of baptism as a distinct church idea. But the text literally says "John the Immerser" not John the Baptist. And he stood in the river Jordan immersing people. Which gives a very plain mundane view of what was happening - he was dunking people in the water as a purification rite - something that already existed in Judaism. The traditional translation is used so that churches can wedge in their own view of what baptism is - say, a delicate sprinkling of water from a font or some such.

Even the word "church" itself. The church in the new testament is never a building. It means "assembly" (of people). So the "church" can meet anywhere, and in fact met in houses or sitting on the ground in the temple courts. Allowing a special Christianised word like "church" to be used instead of the mundane translation "assembly" let's people think whatever they want to picture church as instead of what the text is directly saying.

While we're on that, Jesus' name is actually Joshua (if we want to be consistent) and his mum is Miriam. Names that are far too obviously Jewish and connected to the old testament, so we get a traditional rendering of "Jesus" and "Mary" and so on which makes them all sound a lot more white Anglo Saxon.

In a similar vein "testament" is just a weird translation of "covenant" which itself is just a religious way of rendering the word "pact" or "agreement". The old testament is a pact between God and the Jewish people made through Moses. When the plain meaning is made clearer then other meanings shine through more clearly, namely, the behaviour standards of the old testament "pact" were exactly that, requirements of a pact between God and the Jews. They were never universal requirements that the Jews were supposed to go out and make the rest of the world follow. This translation choice is used by the modern church to obscure the fact that the old testament moral codes were a distinctly Jewish thing - because the modern church would like to piggy back on Leviticus when it suits its narrative.

Finally, the word "Bible" itself doesn't appear in the bible. Bible means "library" or collection of writings. It doesn't appear in the any of the writings because none of the Bible writings are self-aware that they're going to be compiled into such a collection. The word "scripture" is used (literally "writing") when Peter's talking about things Paul's written but that's about it. When translated straightforwardly it takes the "holy" shine off things and it's clearer to see these are people making "writings" to communicate with each other or remember things that have happened. A far cry from the "inerrant word of god" that the church traditionally turned the new testament into.

I could go on, but rant over..

(Edit: to be fair the Greek new testament writes Jesus' name as "ee-soo-ss" which sounds closer to Jesus than Joshua but at any rate they're the same name and if old testament Joshua had been around he'd have been called "ee-soo-ss" too. No doubt about Mary though, in the Greek it's written "Mariam", that is, "Miriam", like Moses' sister)

Edit: Part 2 - https://lemmy.world/comment/12751501

Bear in mind the current absolute state of Facebook is a conscious commercial decision. Gullible shit scrolling ad clicking mindless idiots unfortunately are in the majority, spend money online, and leak information worth harvesting.

Utter state of the internet 2023... Should have stopped at usenet.

Just select yourself to chat with in Teams (top option in contacts) and put a battery on the delete key like a professional..

You will be elemmynated

Hi Firefox. It's been a while..

Plenty of enlightened gents hitting the thread here to rubbish the need for a women's category whilst simultaneously demonstrating the need for a women's category

I have never seen so much money spent on something so boring and predictable. Don't get me started on Avatar 2, that was a 3 hour water simulation that still somehow managed to be naff because of annoying cartoony characters.

My pet (very) silly theory is that both were a cover for military investment in fluid dynamics simulations and they had to hide hours of 3d renders and water simulations in plain sight.

Touchscreen basically being unusable in any kind of rain no matter how light

Amazon's cloud based Simple Storage Service (hence the S3). It is, in ELI5 terms, a file storage service like Microsoft's OneDrive or Apple's iCloud. A bit like a harddrive reached over the internet. You transfer files to and from it.

That's grossly oversimplifying of course. S3 has some important technical differences to a straight up "cloud drive". And it comes with a mind boggling array of options so it can be customised to be the storage of all sorts of very large real world applications and websites.

I can't imagine what kind of a bad way I'd have to be in mentally to end up buying a Meta product...

Win + L to lock

Win + D to minimise all windows

Win + arrow key to snap window to half a screen

Brother invalidates its laser cartridges after a certain number of revolutions irrespective of how much toner is left. You used to be able to override this manually but they removed that in a software update recently. Am livid. If you know different do you mind sharing what model you have?

That would have gone to shit incredibly quickly. Would have been interpreted as a criminal gang attempting to steal a massive stock of vaccine.

Well... I look forward to using Unity's replacement...

Some others in the Anglosphere:

Fred Bloggs - no idea where it's from. Related to "bog" as in bog standard maybe?

Tom, Dick and Harry - is ages old. Even as far back as Shakespeare you can see the triplet evolving. "Tom, Dicke, and Francis" : Henry IV, Part I

With Apple it's just sunk cost fallacy / Stockholm syndrome. Maybe you like apple products, that's fine. But when you're later confronted with almost £1000 for a monitor stand the mind needs to choose between i) I'm a mug and these people have clearly taken advantage of me or ii) no, this is a superior product, I'm a superior consumer, those poor chumps just can't see it.

There isn't really an in-between.

So if most of these people decided to stop working at their current job and instead bring that those skills to a mutual aid network wouldn't they still get most of the resources they need because other specialists would be there to help them and also live a generally more happy life?

We don't live in small self sustaining villages though. That shear amount of manpower needs layers of managing (planning, distribution, logistics) to make it even remotely work. (Otherwise it would already "just happen" all by itself. But it doesn't because it's more complex than it looks). Those with the skill and wherewithal to fill those management type functions are not generally working poor in the first place because of the power (and compensation) those skills are able to obtain in the regular jobs market. So.. a chicken and egg type problem.

Salt (Angelina Jolie)

I thought it was a pretty decent film..

Had to contact support this week because (on top of an already infuriating week of marketing cloud bullcrap) an exit criteria in Journey Builder was firing when it shouldn't. Basically amounted to a string comparison of A = B? But one was from Contact Data and the other from Journey Data. And you know what their response was? "Yeah.. that won't work, you have to do B = A". I kid you not. What's worse is that actually fixed it! What a joke of a platform. How shit do you have to be at coding to end up making a string comparison non-commutative? Like..I don't even know how you'd screw up that badly accidentally. It's a veritable kaleidoscope of shitty infuriating bugs.

Ah come on, everyone loves to belt out that last verse!

18 years here. 'do not cite the deep magic to me...'

I've been pulling my hair out with the totally unrelated but also awful Marketing Cloud (owned by Salesforce). This article made me feel better.

Shrug silently

Three Amigos (45% / 67%)

I wouldn't put it past them to short their own stock while they make announcements then go long once things settle down...

Any of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

Like a real life Brewster's Billions

Small government conservatives: "get the government and all its "rules" out of our lives!"

School board: "you're right, each family should decide what schoolwear is appropriate and I guess people will have to manage themselves and their own reputation.."

Small government conservatives: "no not like that!"

What's next is Elon standing at a red light holding a piece of cardboard telling you to buy Twitter Blue or he'll key your car

There's nothing quite like buying a new one of some lost thing and upon deciding on the perfect place to keep it, finding the original...

edit: bonus ADD points if you find two originals there

A bit of nuance to what you say there...

LGBT people say gender (not sex, gender) is a social construct because the evidence points to this. How gender has been expressed has varied wildly over recorded human history (from customs to clothes to behaviours to jobs to everything else). In any given point of history someone's sex has been linked strongly to a particular gender expression, but the fact that those expressions vary deeply from culture to culture show they're socially constructed rather than purely biologically determined.

When you say they think they're not "important", I think LGBT do think gender expression is important. What's not important is squeezing into the two expressions that society traditionally had. Or welding yourself to society's expectations based on what genatalia you have.

History (for the most part) had two distinct gender expressions corresponding to the two sexes. But this itself was heavily influenced by society being tightly coupled to the biological reality and differences between men and women. Women had babies. Men were stronger. The gender expressions followed from that and you had to stay in the one society expected because that's what kept society functioning. Religion is a social construct that enforces this.

But as society has evolved we're no longer bound to these distinctions in the same way and the gender fluidity of people - which has always been there - is now able to express itself in more variety.

There are people born male who are far more comfortable living in society's 'female' behaviours and traits. And vice versa. There are men who are attracted to men and women to women. There are people born female who have deep seated psychological need for their body to be male. All these people have always existed it's just in the past they got sidelined as 'sinners' or divergent because society basically consisted of childbearing and hard manual labour.

Ha!

Worth saying though, even the "biblically accurate angel" meme (funny as it is) is generally wrong. The weird things covered in eyes are not called "angels" in the bible, they're variously called .. (deep breath) .. seraphim, cherubim, ophanim, chayot ha kodesh, erelim, or hashmallim. English translations generally call these "heavenly creatures".

Messengers ("angels") in the old testament look like regular people too.

That's what I used to be able to do. It was pressing the back and cancel buttons in some combination brought up a hidden menu where you could reset the toner levels. You can still bring the menu up on mine but now it ignores any reset you do.

including within registry and group policy

Sigh

But if we are entirely natural processes ourselves then what we think, feel, ascribe value to is the universe doing it. Just in a rather complex way.

What definition of radfem are you referring to?

Lol