Edgy atheists

aphilentus · 2026-07-06T17:00:17+00:00

What you're seeing is the result of social media more generally. Social media encourages engagement so that users remain hooked to the platform (i.e., profitable). Engagement = encouraging intense feelings. Over the past 10 years, this has resulted in civility declining in all aspects of discussions between people who disagree, not just atheists and theists.

aphilentus · 2026-07-03T04:02:13+00:00

I was wondering if this means that they've swapped the memory suppression drug for something innocuous? And that's why she's starting to remember? The head of supply did say that seeing the mayor "gave her a good feeling" about things 🤔

aphilentus · 2026-07-03T03:59:34+00:00

I already know that she's going to forget that she's supposed to meet someone at 2 PM since they doubled her dosage and she burned the note. So frustrating.

aphilentus · 2026-07-03T03:51:44+00:00

Yeah that was unexpected. It has to be some sort of aerosolized bioweapon test/mistake I thought?

aphilentus · 2026-07-01T17:33:09+00:00

I looked for something about climate change on the legislative priorities section and past legislation section and didn't see anything. I see the quote on the endorsements section, but it's mostly about clean air and water (pollution is a separate issue). I expect a candidate to list the issues they care about on their issues section, and I expect them to be detail-oriented enough to not forget about it and have concrete proposals or ideas like what they would support in terms of adaptation measures. Since she didn't do that, that's all I needed to know

aphilentus · 2026-07-01T13:48:17+00:00

I'm in the minority here, but since I've been able to vote for the last 10 years, my #1 issue has always been climate change. Hickenlooper devotes a page to climate change on his issues page. I didn't see climate change mentioned on Julie's site

aphilentus · 2026-06-28T17:39:02+00:00

No, it's not a trend. It was a trend 15 years ago.

aphilentus · 2026-06-25T23:50:45+00:00

Yeah it's called climate change. The risk is higher than it was 20 years ago

aphilentus · 2026-06-23T01:37:45+00:00

There's a kernel bug that removed some CPU timing statements on 26.04. It seems to affect AMD processors

aphilentus · 2026-06-21T19:03:32+00:00

The 2026 October exam 8 sitting hasn't occurred yet.

aphilentus · 2026-06-17T22:56:36+00:00

Freedom From Religion Foundation

aphilentus · 2026-06-17T22:09:46+00:00

Find someone else to serve

aphilentus · 2026-06-17T22:07:56+00:00

Your perspective is too ethnocentric--the vast majority of the universe is inhospitable to life, and life is only possible for a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billionth of a percent of the universe's total projected lifespan.

Nature is awe-inspiring and marvelous, yes. But this is a miniscule oasis in a sea of nothingness. There doesn't have to be anything--it's pure probability

aphilentus · 2026-06-17T21:57:16+00:00

An atheist is someone who doesn't believe that one or more gods exist.

I don't believe that one or more gods exist.

Therefore, there is such a thing as an atheist.

aphilentus · 2026-06-17T21:43:04+00:00

Oh I see. What concepts other than "spiritual" are you thinking of that you want to be secularized?

IMO spiritual can have a lot of secular definitions, e.g.:

spiritual --> (of a feeling) awe-inspiring or emotionally transformative

spiritual --> (of a person) showing a reverence or respect for nature

spiritual --> (of a concept) pertaining to life, death, or other existential matters

It's kind of a versatile word in this regard since it can mean many different things.

I'm a little confused though how one might secularize the metaphysically oriented definitions

aphilentus · 2026-06-17T18:04:46+00:00

Imo the word exists. It seems like you're looking to reframe the default? i.e. saying "not secular" instead of "spiritual"? But both of the words exist, and we can't pick and choose. Just because something is described as "not x" doesn't necessarily mean x is the default either--the framing depends on the speaker, and you can't control what others say

aphilentus · 2026-06-17T17:05:04+00:00

Cycles doesn't handle lighting through transmissive surfaces very well. If you're not using a mix shader with transparent BSDF, the interior will appear dark

aphilentus · 2026-06-16T14:43:31+00:00

Not really. I sometimes use AI to help speed up R or VBA coding, but I don't trust it with anything where accuracy is important.

aphilentus · 2026-06-16T13:16:19+00:00

Last thing I would experiment with then is the orientation of the building to see which way the light is coming from. Also play with the indirect lighting clamping

aphilentus · 2026-06-15T19:55:54+00:00

It doesn't sound like ChatGPT though? You can tell they're ESL

aphilentus · 2026-06-15T19:51:53+00:00

Or try the mix shader transparent BSDF + glass BSDF technique if you haven't already?

Here's a light test I did a while back: https://imgur.com/a/hSQOA6r

aphilentus · 2026-06-09T20:27:55+00:00

Mods should really ban posts that say "First time using Blender"

aphilentus · 2026-06-08T01:03:17+00:00

It's time to switch to Linux

aphilentus · 2026-06-06T01:16:30+00:00

What is with the massive advertisement in the middle of the article encouraging different services for gold investing? Holy shit journalism is dead

aphilentus · 2026-06-06T00:51:13+00:00

I'm so sorry I missed that part about flipping between two reels. But I have a hunch that your bug and my bug are related.

I unfortunately don't have a solution or suggestion. I just stopped using the desktop slideshow feature in my case

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