There was a shortformvid clip I saw some time ago that stuck with me: You can only ‘believe’ in something that does NOT have evidence for it (or at least not conclusive evidence), otherwise you would KNOW it to be true. Belief requires a certain amount of uncertainty. Note that I am in no way religious and in no way am saying people should believe religious texts, just sharing an interesting take on the concept of ‘believing’
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they’re busy surviving an ethnic cleansing
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World News@lemmy.world•IDF uncovers Hezbollah weapons cache in Bint Jbail hospitalEnglish
2·3 days agoDoubt
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Games@lemmy.world•Starfield on PS5 Pro is the best it's ever been, but it's still Starfield | RPG SiteEnglish
4·8 days agoI played it with mods that forced me to construct everything from scratch. Super-enjoyable that way; created a multi-system logistics network that moved all raw goods to a single planet, than created a massive manufacturing base. Got bored and just played Satisfactory, which is apparently all I wanted anyway. Also, Eve online is way cooler.
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World News@lemmy.world•Quebec passes secularism law banning street prayers and prayer rooms in universitiesEnglish
229·13 days agoso, anti-freedom then? I can understand not allowing proselytizing, but this reads to me like de facto anti-muslim legislation.
Wireless everything. Its magic. RF magic.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunchEnglish
2·14 days agosaving this comment for when i dive deeper down the rabbit hole later. at the moment i think im only self-hosting jellyfin and owntracks, and I have a couple llm models in LM studio but haven’t messed with them in a while.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunchEnglish
12·14 days agoSounds interesting. I currently pay the 5$/month for the Kagi search engine and that works great so I’m inclined to trust them on their other ventures.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Having to work during the apocalypse sucks
41·14 days agoyou CAN effect change, major change. You choose not to, which is fine. But a single person can most definitely change the world.
Controversial posts that get engagement are probably thought-provoking and worthy of discussion. Discussion is much more important than karmafarming. Continue!
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News@lemmy.world•Army raises enlistment age to 42, eases marijuana restrictions
401·22 days agoPurpose: murder brown people and help steal their natural resources. Direction: drug-addiction and homelessness
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World News@lemmy.world•Iranian missile strikes injure 115 in Israel, officials say, puncturing air defenses and shocking the publicEnglish
1·23 days agoif you pay taxes you help build bombs.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iranian missile strikes injure 115 in Israel, officials say, puncturing air defenses and shocking the publicEnglish
7·23 days agosorry israel killed them all
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World News@lemmy.world•Why the world should worry about Israel’s nuclear doctrineEnglish
6·23 days agowhy would their neighbors attack them?
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Technology@lemmy.world•New computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy useEnglish
01·27 days agoCool tech but very much in infancy. Good for them on getting a hype article but this in no way affects anything about computing tofay.
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World News@lemmy.world•Anthropic AI safety researcher quits, says the ‘world is in peril’English
15·2 months ago¡El problema es al capitalismo!
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•*FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises*
3·2 months agojust cover your drones in mirrors ciattbabingboomdone


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