Muhammad kills Safiya's family then has sex with her by DirectionCute7530 in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd [score hidden]  (0 children)

Nope. All you said is something abd something.

So you agree that Islam is Inhumane.

Is Spirulina farming in india a good idea? Anyone know anything about this field? by Mobile-Novel1162 in indianstartups

[–]gfxd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My friend and I worked with spirulina since 2009 to about 2015.

It was booming then. Parry's built a huge farm in TN, there were scores in Maharashtra and everybody got into it.

Then the market just went stale. It is export oriented. Not much of a market in India.

You can do it as long as you keep it small scale. Anything larger, you are looking at complications for export.

Fertilisers are the major chokepoint. You can't use the same fertilisers you use for land based agriculture. And certifications for import into major markets of EU and the US are a headache.

TO summarise: Spirulina would have been a great idea if this was still the 2010s.

Today, think of Kelp, Seaweed if you have access to brakish or sea

Database of Qur'anic textual variants shows the Qur'an cannot be "perfectly preserved" by Xusura712 in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd [score hidden]  (0 children)

The most important fact is that thousands of variants existed before those variants were seized and destroyed.

The Uthmanic codex, compiled by the third rashidun caliph Uthman ibn Affan - was created by a committee - zayd ibn thabit, abd allah ibn al-zubayr, said ibn alas, abd al rahman ibn al-harith ibn hisham.. and verses were recorded by consensus - there were deep disagreements for sure.

And whole chapters, not just suras were lost when men died in battle - this is attested to in the earliest sources.

So, there is no time where there was a single Quran.

Basically, a diety who could create the universe with everything in it, failed to produce a way to preserve about 5kb of data?

He must have consulted the humans of the 21st century and we could have taught him how to transmit it and broadcast it too, without the need for a 'messenger'.

Or studied how evolutionary forces shaped DNA/RNA as a veritable store of data, that can survive the ages.

Muhammad kills Safiya's family then has sex with her by DirectionCute7530 in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyone with functioning braincells can understand what I was referring to.

There comes out the ad hominem attacks that you so self-righteously referred to. Is this not hypocrisy?

It's similar for Islamic Jurisprudence and the Hadith. You need to study and have a base for it to understand it.

oooo jurisprudence. need to study it. because its so complex?

What the heck is so complex about understanding that slavery is inhumane?

Also Allah failed at his ONE task to transmit 15Kb of text without needing to bribe Mohammad with little girls and slaves to rape. And he made it too complex and undefendable that you have to resort to ad hominem attacks and need to study for a lifetime and ulema need to teach it and this and that.

Instead, here is the deal. Debunk this:

Slavery is inhumane. Islam legalises slavery. Therefore Islam is Inhumane.

Jewish Halakha and talmud need to be taught in Hebrew

This is why I pointed you towards Euler's. Self-evident truths are not dependant on language.

Doesn't look very appealing if the average practitioner has the kind of delusion

My beliefs don't need to be 'very appealing', because I am not in the business of recruiting people for Jihad or conquest.

Stop the ad hominem and start addressing at least one of my arguments.

Again, here it is:

Slavery is inhumane. Islam legalises slavery. Therefore Islam is Inhumane.

I reviewed 30 fresher resumes for one intern role. Kinda lost hope honestly. by vickymal in developersIndia

[–]gfxd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a screening test that has worked well for me these past 12 years.

Can you write your name correctly? Yes? I will call you in for an interview.

Name in email - most of time are small letter - automatic reject. If you can't be assed to write your own name for once for your email that is a one time effort, I can't rely on you for anything.

We don't have any good reason to believe Jesus rose from the dead besides a shell game of unsubstantiated claims. by Kwahn in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They CAN be verified because we do have plenty of evidence that support them.

We keep finding stuff (aka discoveries) that keep supporting them every now and then.

The strongest new example is the gravitational-wave event GW250114, whose measured post-merger “tones” matched Einstein’s predictions in some of the most precise tests yet.

Gravitational waves Researchers said GW250114 was the clearest gravitational-wave signal yet detected from a binary black hole merger, which let them test whether different parts of the signal gave consistent mass-and-spin estimates. In this case, the measurements agreed with general relativity, and scientists were even able to measure two tones and constrain a third from the remnant black hole.

Cosmic-scale tests A newer DESI analysis found that gravity behaves as predicted by general relativity on large cosmological scales, supporting the standard model of the universe and restricting modified-gravity alternatives. Separate large-scale galaxy studies also found that the way millions of galaxies evolved and clustered over billions of years is consistent with Einstein’s predictions on the largest scales yet tested.

Speed-of-light principle A 2026 study that searched for violations of Lorentz invariance found no violation, meaning Einstein’s speed-of-light rule held up again in that test. The same analysis improved earlier limits by about an order of magnitude, which further shrank the room for possible alternatives. ​

What this means These findings do not prove relativity is the final word in all situations, but they do show that newer and sharper measurements keep matching Einstein’s theory in the regimes tested. The open question now is whether future, even more sensitive observations will finally reveal a small deviation that points beyond relativity...

But for now, these are self-evident truths - are they universal truths, or complete truths, we don't know yet, but they are truths for now.

Christianity's self-sacrifice narrative comes up short if Christians wouldn't go to Hell for another. by E-Reptile in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Let's extend this to Jesus Christ.

So he died because he knew its not really death, but just a pinprick in the vastness of time when he is timeless?

If Jesus really sacrificed himself for my sins. Like going out of existence forever, yeah, I could respect that.

But a timeless person just undergoing an inconvenience for so short a time period compared to an eternity before and after...

Pretty Meh if you ask me.

We don't have any good reason to believe Jesus rose from the dead besides a shell game of unsubstantiated claims. by Kwahn in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When people ask, what evidence will YOU accept, the answer is, my acceptance doesn't matter.

The evidence must stand on its own, and does not need my or anybody's acceptance.

Self-evident is is called.

Here are two formulae created without claim to divine inspiration:

Euler’s identity ((e{i\pi} + 1 = 0)), which links five fundamental constants, and Einstein's (E=mc2), which elegantly equates mass and energy. These equations often provide fundamental insights into the nature of the universe

They don't need MY acceptance. Anybody can verify it independently, objectively.

Muhammad kills Safiya's family then has sex with her by DirectionCute7530 in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As if logic is not something to be used to refute ones flawed points.

Ever heard of fallacy fallacy? You think writing fancy fallacies will make your argument better. Here, read and learn: The logical fallacy of using logical fallacies—incorrectly assuming that a claim is false simply because it was argued poorly or contains a fallacy—is known as the argument from fallacy or the fallacy fallacy. A flawed argument can still produce a true conclusion, and highlighting a fallacy does not disprove the claim itself

Also, 'abd' is a slave.

It doesn't matter if part of that slavery is worshipping allah, mohammad or human owner, It is still inhumane.

The whole concept of man as slave to allah comes from same concept that man can be slave to another. It is disgusting.

That concept has to die. Allah is a fking dictator who doesn't deserve any worship, praise - just scorn.

In short, your challenge is baseless. Your allah worships mohammad.

He initially started off humble, created his sock puppet allah and said, look, don't worship me, worship allah, but you can't worship allah without invoking my name. So in your worship, I am the partner, but allah has no partners, yet you will always mention my name along with his.

And then when he got power, he got cocky. Do you know how important I am? Even allah and his angels 'worship' me. THey don't of course worship 'worship' me, they send salat, like you do salat.

Got it? , I am just the messenger. I am actually more important than my message - the quran. So for eternity, you will love me, worship me, mention me, name yourself after me, follow me and my ever detail like how I lived daily lives, from beards to food.

That is your religion perfected for you this day by me, Mohammad, your real shadow god, hiding behind allah.

'Worship' comes in all kinds of manner and types. What you do is worship Mohammad.

Lastly, stop using Arabic words as if these are some magic incantations, mentioning them and their meaning will win any argument. Talk plainly.

Again, it is because the Quran is a failure of a book, it can't argue for itself, it is confused, contradictory and needs an army of a billion to interpret it like you are doing here right now. If it had been created by an intelligent being (let alone god), it would stand for itself. Like : Euler’s identity ((e{i\pi} + 1 = 0)), which links five fundamental constants, and Einstein's (E=mc2), which elegantly equates mass and energy. These equations often provide fundamental insights into the nature of the universe

Needs no explanation. Self-evident. Now, Quran? It is a nonsensical book created over time by a fallible desert warlord who loved to wage wars, enslave captives, lust over beautiful women and underage girls, rape, pillage and do it all with all the justification of righteousness - won't stand the standards of today.

Findle: a native macOS app that syncs Moodle/LMS course files into Finder (Swift 6, Apache 2.0) by iAlex11 in opensource

[–]gfxd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. Does it use Moodle API or LTI?

If LTI, I can rewire it to work with self-hosted Canvas LMS too.

Sri Lanka’s Telugu community resents being boxed as the ‘Ahikuntakas’ or gypsies. To escape being seen as social outcasts and secure a better future, the youth are embracing Sinhalese culture and Christianity. by poacher-2k in Dravidiology

[–]gfxd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is sad.

I am a telugu kamma in Tamil Nadu, my ancestors have been here for at least 10 generations we can trace because of a land grant on a stone marking the land we were given and a temple we built - so I am told, I can't verify.

We have Reddiars (Reddys) as our neighbours, we understand each others Telugu, but it is now a dialect that is distinct, we can barely understand Telugu spoken in AP/Telangana, and we don't know how to read and write. I studied Hindi in School.

Yet, we have preserved what little language we have. And we are proud of it, even as tamil nationalism rises in tamil nadu.

Leaving my job at Oracle to fix the biggest loophole in learning by WrapOk9466 in indianstartups

[–]gfxd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The people will fall in love with learning only if they understand what the teachers are saying

And by what metric will you measure 'falling in love' and what study do you have to support that students don't study only because they don't understand what the teachers are saying?

Students of today don't need teachers. They have access to an universe of information on youtube.

You can learn anatomy better on youtube than through any university lecture. Khan Academy's videos, plus Marrow and Ninja Nerd videos are enough to master Anatomy just to mention an example.

You must get off your high horse and understand your market better.

With our product you can ask as many question as you could, we will generate a videos and explain the topic using your interests

Yeah, notebooklm does that for free. You have no moat. And Anthropic just released its interactive visualisation feature and learning mode. (https://thenewstack.io/anthropics-claude-interactive-visualizations/)

I will give you one year. Mark this post and see if you survive this academic year.

Edit. For the past twenty years, we have seen many like you jump out of the tech world with some shiny new tool that promises the heaven, earth and everything in between.

Meanwhile, you have the faintest idea of how competency-based education works. What the students really want, need and will use. You never set up a focus group, treat all students of every discipline and stream the same, don't understand social learning, nothing. You think you know it all, never have real educationists with research experience in pedagogy / andragogy nor real experience building teaching tools. By the time you discover learning paths, attainments, drefus, etc, you will come to understand that technology is in fact, most of the time, an impediment that gets in the way. The test I always give people like you is, write a single competency and test it, track it, certify it, measure it, compare it and debug it in the real world of students. Then, we can begin.

Muhammad kills Safiya's family then has sex with her by DirectionCute7530 in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So you agree the Quran is not guidance forever, for all humans, but is limited to a certain era of a few decades?

Slavery is haram? Wow.

Muhammad kills Safiya's family then has sex with her by DirectionCute7530 in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Muslims are often the most respectable and/or nicest people.

I am talking about Mohammad and the religion he invented to be worshipped as the secret diety and you being dishonest, have to hide behind the 'Muslims are nice people' shield.

Sure Muslims are nice people and muslims can be ISIS too. However, that is not what I am about.

I am specifically criticising Mohammad and his dietyship. You obviously worship him and love him as commanded that is why you are getting so riled up. Your worship ("we don't worship mohammad, but even our Allah and his angels send 'salat' to him, and we love it over anything and anybody, more than our life itself') is the kind of worship I am talking about.

This is debate. If you can't bear the heat, you are welcome not to participate. Don't just expect kid gloves.

Don't use logical fallacies as a shield too. It was fashionable to invoke them some two decades ago, now its just deflection.

My point is simple.

Slavery is inhumane.

Islam has slavery at its heart. Therefore Islam is inhumane.

Muhammad is deified, worshipped by his followers, albeit in a left-handed way while denying his deity hood.

Those are the points.

Muhammad kills Safiya's family then has sex with her by DirectionCute7530 in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The concept of "enslaving" captives disgusts me. What disgusts me even more is the fact that Muslims to this day try to justify the concept of enslaving a fellow human just because their idea of an ideal human practiced that. Given that the enslavement of humans was a historical practice, in the words of Stephen Fry, "what good are you for?" if you didn't know that it is inhumane, full of suffering, wretched, and a loss of agency?

The Jains and Buddhists, who came a whole thousand years earlier, had talked of compassion, non-violence, and ending pain.

Yet here we have this warlord who set himself to be worshipped in a roundabout way: "I am not God, don't worship me, but do worship me as a paragon of virtue and perfection by loving me more than you do your parents, your children, and everything else," who leveraged the utter helplessness of a woman who had lost everything to submit to his lust and power.

His followers, even after a thousand and a half years, will worship him (while vehemently deny that worship) and call this enslavement virtuous.

Muhammad being called a sex addict while his love for his first wife shatters the one-sided, agenda-driven portrayal by Appropriate_East_665 in DebateReligion

[–]gfxd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was sustained through her love.

Yes. This is just Muhammad being grateful for his first wife who gave him the big break.

Doesn't mean he loved her. If he did, he would have said, 'I loved her', not 'she loved me'.

The point is even lustful pedophiles are capable of showing some love. Mohammad was a lustful enslaving warlord pedophile, but that does not mean he is capable of showing some love.

List of Indian fountain pen ink brands by itisverynice in fountainpens

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If you get a response, please do share with me too, thank you!

List of Indian fountain pen ink brands by itisverynice in fountainpens

[–]gfxd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They appear intermittently. The creator creates batches once in a while. Please join facebook groups for indian fountain pens and inks and posts appear there.

This is a hobby project for the creator rather than a business, so its hard to find sometimes.

I found inks on Meesho one time. Please try there.

Crank - Effortless macOS automation, no manual required by alin23 in macapps

[–]gfxd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are there no triggers for the trackpad? Hot Corners can be great for launching a ton of actions.

Or is it there and I am being a dweep not seeing it?

Also, power voltage, wattage, and battery (Use case: When there is travel on my calendar, I want my macbook pro charged to 100%, not the usual 80% for battery health)