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  • A friend of mine was applying for a job where they required “at least 5 years knowledge with Angular version X.Y.Z” (can’t remember the exact version, but they asked for all three numbers).

    He said “I’ve got 7 years of knowledge with version X-2 to X+2”.

    The HR person was like “But you don’t have 5 years of knowledge with version X.Y.Z, so you don’t fit for the job”.

    The real fun part was that version X.Y.Z had only been out for two years at that time.


  • Thanks for more insight.

    I’ve seen some AOC memes but didn’t really notice her beyond that. Again, European viewpoint. She doesn’t really make it into European news.

    That doesn’t mean the dumbass won’t try to pull some sketchy shit and I honestly wouldn’t put it past him to try.

    I read something about right-wingers trying to claim that the 22nd amendment only says that nobody should be elected twice, so if Trump gets into office without getting elected, everything is fine. So their plan is to get someone else elected in Trump’s stead and that person should then just appoint Trump as the new president, because according to them, that’s apparently possible. And with their surpreme pile of garbage that they call a court, that might just work.

    Scary times.






  • There’s no proof for or against God, just by the simple fact that God could just not care and not get involved, and such a God would be neither provable or disprovable.

    The only position that can be logically drawn from that is the agnostic one: “I don’t know whether God exists or not, and I don’t care. It doesn’t affect me.”.

    Atheists on the other hand are in a position that doesn’t logically follow from the evidence. They believe that there is no God. It is a belief, because it cannot be logically derived from the evidence. And there are lots of Atheists who live their atheism like a religion. They study their literature to build a belief system, to find evidence, to disprove others. They meet up (online or physically) to talk about their non-belief and to hone their arguments. They strongly defend their position in discussions. I’ve even met Atheist missionaries who stand on street corners preaching that God doesn’t exist.

    To respond to your quote: Not playing tennis would be agnosticism. Atheists are running around the field, following the players and shouting in their ears that tennis sucks. They are playing, just a different sport.







  • Read the linked source.

    the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or ‘nothing in particular,’

    Many of the unaffiliated retain religious beliefs or practices without affiliating.

    One fifth of the US public and a third of adults under the age of 30 are reportedly unaffiliated with any religion, however they identify as being spiritual in some way. Of these religiously unaffiliated Americans, 37% classify themselves as spiritual but not religious.

    Affiliation is about which community you are affiliated with. It’s not about beliefs at all, actually. Affiliated means “I would call myself an X”, and if you are not affiliated with a certain group, you are not affiliated, no matter if you are atheist, agnostic, spiritual but not religious or even religious but not strong enough to actually affiliate with one group.

    Remember, atheism is a belief in itself, contrary to agnosticism. Atheism is the conviction that no God exists, even though there’s no proof for an absence of a God. Agnosticism on the other hand is acknowledging that there is no proof that God does or doesn’t exist, so they just don’t care about it.

    Atheism is in many ways similar to a religion. There are communities formed around the shared belief that God doesn’t exist, they preach that God doesn’t exist, they study their literature to find proof that God doesn’t exist. They defend their faith that God doesn’t exist, like any religious person would defend theirs. There are even atheist missionaries who stand on street corners preaching that God doesn’t exist.

    To be an Atheist is to believe so strongly that God doesn’t exist that it becomes something like a religion in itself, and that’s rather rare.

    Agnosticism on the other hand is really wide-spread, even within religiously affiliated people. There are tons of religiously affiliated people who are socially religiously affiliated but are actually agnostic (“All my friends and family are X. I don’t really care whether God exists or not, I don’t really believe in the spiritual teachings of my faith, but I’m not that much at odds with it that I can’t live as an X, and denouncing the faith would lead to repercussions, so I’ll just formally keep being X, because it’s less hassle.”).



  • He shows everyone his hand, but in his hand he holds a royal flush, 5 black lotus, a Mega Mewtwo, and half a trillion dollars.

    The problem is that the cards are stacked so much in his favour that he doesn’t have to hide his hand. We see him allright. But what good does this do? Can we un-elect him? Can we impeach him? What can we do? Pretty much nothing.


  • The only people that will remain loyal to Mush are centrists/ politically disinterested people.

    What do you define as a centrist in that context? From an European viewpoint, most democrats are right-wing politicians, some of them even far right. Bernie Sanders is the only one that comes to mind that could be seen as center-left.

    And politically disinterested people don’t sound like a relevant political force…

    They have to be careful about it too, since they have propped him up and Trump is a megalomaniac who actually thinks he deserves to be where his and his base are rabidly, stupidly obedient to him.

    They created a quite sizeable cult of personality around Trump. Getting rid of him will at least hurt during the next election. That is, if there is an election and the magats have the mental capacity to remember what happened a year ago from then.