This shit never ends. There’s always a new reason for genocide. I’m so very tired.

Oh shit, who knew the Amish had such a presence here and post so frequently?

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I’m interested to know if this was the case.

Totally secondhand info, but I used to have an ex-Amish friend who told me they often have a small shared outbuilding at the edge of their community that has a phone and a computer with Internet they can use in emergencies. She said some in the community were more liberal about the word ‘emergency’ than others.

(I’m a doofus who literally typed out ‘can any Amish on Lemmy confirm this’ then deleted it, though, so take my words with some salt.)

Hilariously, many of these companies already fired staff because their execs and upper management drank the Flavor-Aid. Now they need to spend even more rehiring in local markets where word has got round.

I’m so sad for them. Look, I’m crying 😂

In nature docs, outsider males usually kill cubs. Simba was often fucking about off by himself when shit went down. He knew the lore, and how to antagonise his uncle. Coy beneficent my foot.

Not spherical like a cow yet.

It is, though.

How could anyone have been alive in 2016-2020 and not know exactly what trump is?

I don’t buy these excuses. Do you hate the fascism you voted for? Fine. But we’re not having a real conversation unless you own that. You’re an adult, ffs.

‘Here’s an idea: let all those around you know your status.’

‘Revolutionary!’

It’s weird we haven’t already done this, but good.

There’s already a codebase for bursting from the ground in an explosion of lava. Everyone wants that.

You’re the first person asking for a scarf, and our system doesn’t even know what a neck is.

Or never let Windows touch anything. There are alternatives. Treat Windows like the virus it is.

If you’re concerned about privacy, fire nearly always works.

If you had a seizure condition, though…

You didn’t have to be looking for porn – it was super common to run across CP or beheading videos in random niche interest forums posted by trolls. So many times I saw something I did not want to see when clicking for a knitting pattern.

e: I have psychological scars from that Dan Pearl video – for a while in the mid-aughts, it was literally unavoidable unless you stopped using the internet entirely.

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Do you mean these?

They were part of a continuity ritual we performed before they installed cupholders in computers. You’d have to feed them to your pc one at a time when requested, often whilst entering an incantation in the command prompt. The meaning may have been lost to time, but we still use their icon to honour that ritual.

e: I can’t believe I found these so quickly. They were still on the same closet shelf where I put them in 2002.

Oh, yeah, the browser wars. As a designer during that time, having to learn 5 or more versions of css and JavaScript (which were sometimes competing and broke one another) before code pages were a thing was a nightmare.

And getting kicked off dial-up because someone decided to make a phone call when a large game download was at 97% complete after 5 hours before file caching was really a thing was infuriating.

I don’t remember it that way. To me, it was a minefield of viruses, popup ads, chain mail, and unexpected extreme NFSW content.

Everything improved a bit when browsers started limiting recursive popups and hidden executables on websites, but for much of the late 90s and early aughts, every click was risky. And oh my god the design of things. I was so happy when the <blink> tag finally fell out of fashion.

You clearly don’t know what I mean, since I’ve said repeatedly that other people’s claims or beliefs don’t constitute evidence.

I asked for actual evidence. If you have none, you could have said that near the beginning of this conversation rather than whatever you’ve been doing.

You also clearly don’t know what I mean since you’ve been attributing random meanings to me that have been wrong every time. I don’t have nefarious purposes, I actually just want the actual evidence you claimed to have, and I don’t put stock in people’s stories, because people are often mistaken for many reasons. For evidence to be taken seriously , it should not rely on subjective accounts.

So it sounds like you don’t have evidence, you have stories.

All right, let’s start again with no more assumptions about what you think I might possibly mean.

Literally, you said there was evidence of Jesus’s existence.

I literally only asked for one example of said evidence.

Your claim.

I am not asking for books or videos, but the mere mention of ONE piece of the evidence you claimed existed. Not opinions, not historians saying they believe it, but actual evidence. That is all.

Jesus Christ, I never asked you to transcribe a video, what are you even on about? YOU suggested that. Stop ascribing your batshit requests to me.

I asked for ONE thing:

Give me one piece of evidence to support your claim.

That’s all.

It’s simple, and something a child could understand.

For instance, we know Australopithecus existed because we’ve found bones.

It’s that simple.

‘We know Jesus existed because we found his grave.’

Or

‘We know Jesus existed because…’ [insert the evidence].

How is this hard?

e: it’s become very clear you can’t do this one simple thing, yet you can’t stop talking, trying to move on to the next thing as though you already have, but nobody reading this is dumb enough for that to work. That’s what makes you a troll – your inability to address the point as you try to distract from the actual topic. I’ll not move on from the original point until you address it, so this tactic will not work.