I did plan ahead, the plan was to get my jacket in between when everyone was walking out of the church to gather at the graveyard.

Also if we are nitpicking then everyone can talk to god in the catholic church, including the priest after he listens to all my sins, but god for some reason only responds to the prophets.

Anyway, those nuances are for the scholars, not for a teenage altar boy.

That is a very good point, but it only works of the world is somewhat open to immigrants. I migrated 3 times in my life, starting from practically one suitcase each time. I'm very lucky to have ended up in times and countries which allowed me to stay and to contribute to their society. Sadly that seems less and less a given.

Yes indeed, and it might still be OK, but the world moving to the right and the right being so against immigration I forse a future where permanent residency is not that easy anymore. Especially if you're not like me a white fairly well educated male from Europe. People like me seem to have huge privileges in many the parts of the world.

I was a altar boy in my teens. One time in winter we had to attend a funeral. First we were in church, so I put on the white rope stuff during the mass. But then we had to go out to the graveyard for like half an hour more and stand there in the cold.

I told the priest that I would just quickly put on the jacket underneath because it was freezing outside. But he forbid in and said I should have thought of it before the mass and had it on under the ropes in church all the time because now there is no time for that. He forced us out without jackets into the freezing cold.

Right there I started thinking what kind of a priest do we have who cares more about dead people and make it convenient for them instead of the living. And if the priest represents god here in our community because he talks to him and can forgive our sins in his name and so on, then this is also gods will. So what king of a God am I worshiping here?

Anyway, I think that was the start of me stopping believing in God. I stopped being an altar boy, later stopped going to church and started actively researching those deeper questions around organized religion and god. Over time it led me to became an atheist who hasn't seen any evidence for existence of any god.

Why doesn't he move to China?

Uhm it looks very odd, like you somehow have miniature wrists.

God would never use VPN, he has nothing to hide.

Nice, when they introduced the AppStore I was convinced that this would happen within a few years and as a developer I moved off Apple products and towards more open hardware and software. I was confused why - while they did it from the start on iOS - they kept allowing side-loading on their computers. In the end they just tried to cook the frog slowly so it wouldn't jump out of the saucepan.

1. They are to far away to reach us
2. If they have technology which would make it possible for them to travel faster than light, they have such high intelligence that they don't recognize us as intelligent beings like we don't recognize viruses as having any intelligence, so they would never think of visiting us and communicating with us.

Hm, Animals as leaders? But it's not very thrashy.

I was thinking of changing the gender after the fact but was to lazy to edit it.

There is a difference doing it on the farm where it's only up to some hours old and from the shop where god knows how long it was sitting somewhere without refrigeration.

What is the alternative?

A notes app for gnome and libadwaita which feels native with CalDAV as it's Backend.

That a win for the whole health industry, think of all the people you will now need to treat of Polio, measles, tetanus and so on not to mentions all the grave diggers! This is a job creation machine! /s

After coming back from a year of parental leave I didn't lose my job.

My previous project came to an end just before I went on parental leave and the company couldn't secure new projects locally.

But because I was involved ipartially in a different department before, that department secured a internal budget for me as a Subject Matter Expert.

Now I'm advising on that topic and was also brought in to a big internal project, so my job is secured for some time now.

For me it's extra difficult because I moved to a different country and have a really hard time learning the language, which is a must to get a different job here.

Oh man congrats!

I remember when mine told me she is pregnant, I was so happy I wanted to jump!

Just FYI; Twitter and Reddit had API usage available free of charge for more than a decade too.

Some ducks are born in Mexico.

I'm born in Poland to Polish parents, but all their parents were born Germans. I moved to Germany when I was 11 and when someone asked me then I said I'm German. But then I moved to Sweden for 15 years, while there I would also say I'm German. I got the Swedish citizenship but you still can hear that I'm not a native Swede, but only Swedish people can hear it. So once I moved to Korea 4 years ago I used my Swedish passport to get in to the country (it was not on purpose but random chance, I could have chosen the polish one or the German one too). Anyway, if someone in Korea asks me where I'm from or what I am I almost always say I'm Swedish. with one exception, if a German here in Korea asks me then I say I'm German.

I know it's a bit easier for me because I look like I could be from any of those countries, but my identity is not tied to some specific geographic area so I have no problem being a geographical-identity-cameleon.

Honestly I thought it was a fake story because of how they presented themselves while doing in on a very niche fediverse platform like Lemmy where practically only people end up who are very interested in technology, politics, freedom, etc. All topics which require quite a degree of abstract thinking and knowledge.

So even if this IQ number were correct, which I have a hard time to believe because if how eloquent they use language and how analytic they see their life, it probably has no base in reality but was a test fluke.

That's a weird scale.

Nobody becomes billionaire by working. You become a billionaire by exploiting others work.

Democracy is just the tyranny of the majority.

I think that most of the Americans want this, even if people on the outside do not understand. So in that sense they are right now winning back their country, as confusing as it might sound.

So you're saying if we kill the 8, we can double the wealth of almost half of the population of the world?

Perfect, this will finally lock out all the old people of their devices because they forget their bitlocker password :D

The lesbian woman got sterelized in case she gets raped so it doesn't result in pregnancy. That's ... wow.

Before I started university I already worked as a web and iPhone developer.

At university I failed some courses so I needed the points for three additional courses at the end of my studies.

Durin summer vacation I found online courses from a different university which would count towards my own points. So I registered for three of them. Web development, iPhone development and open source development.

When the courses started I waited until the weekend and then did all assignments and tests for all 3 courses during a single day. I started in the morning on Sunday at 10 am and sent in my last test at 11pm. So instead of half a year (one course takes normally half of a semester and I had three), I did it in one day.

I think those kiosks with the big touch screen and the mobile apps work pretty well already, I always rather use them and see a picture what I can order instead of talking to the person.

"Library of Alexandria had to be set on fire after publishers’ court win"

It reminds me of this:

I really don't get why so many people think the migration is their biggest problem instead of economy and especially demography in Germany. The industry is stuck in the 20th century, that's the main problem which needs to be addressed, not if there are some migrants here and there.

For me it's the other way around I wish there would be better CLI support for GUI apps.

But not Palestine's.

Will the camera look inside of your ear?

I wonder when they will start going after screen reader companies for changing how the page looks like for their blind users.

Same thing happened to my fiancés coworkers kid. The pipe sucked his arm in and got his head under water. They couldn't get him out so they needed to wait until all water from the pool was drained. It was their only kid and already 12 or so.

I use KeePassXC and use syncthing to sync the database to each devise I own. This way I always have the newest version if the database everywhere and don't need to worry about Internet access at all.

Nobody wants JFK Jr in charge of their health, not even Trump and they knew it from the start. But good to see.

I really want podcast apps to hook into SponsorBlock.

Right now I'm listening to very few English podcasts because of all the advertisement. I switched to German and Swedish because most of them don't have any advertisement in them.