🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@farooqkz >"I don't like to discuss this further...."

Black resigns.

For the rest of you, here's how it plays out...

If farooqkz says that the guys in my toot above are not Muslim, then Islamic law does not apply to them, so what's the problem?

If farooqkz says that they are Muslim, then people can be Muslim and still believe that gay sex is fine, in which case the issue is a choice and farooqkz is saying that his position is his choice -- he is choosing to be homophobic.

@freemo @BobKerns @tonic

I'm not discussing this with you anymore. I will never agree with this made up nonsense.

@Corfiot

I agree, I cannot fathom your mental gymnastics on this.

My guess is you are refering to organized religion, and specifically the organization part and not the religion itself at all.

You have three levels

1) Religious Canon (the texts themselves)
2) Religion (The texts coupled with a specific interpritation)
3) Organized religion (A group of people that practice and enforce a specific interpritation)

@matrix

I wonder what it would take for the #GOP to finally disavow #Trump.

Like maybe you think he's an immoral person, maybe you don't. But over the past year alone--a time period in which he has done precious little save begin his 2024 campaign--it's pretty obvious that he's out of touch with the #GOP base, and furthermore, he isn't tethered to truly conservative ideals.

It can't be described as much more than blind idolatry when you have a camp who believes that #Trump is the messiah while also believing that #COVID19 vaccines are the mark of the Beast.

The absurdity is starkly apparently when typing this out...this is ridiculous man

@Clementulus @freemo Hah, it's fun to deconstruct the words we use. A friend of mine is Jamaican, a Rastafarian. He won't use the word "understand". It makes no sense. He says "overstand" instead.

@freemo
Prosidering would be form a thought by looking side-eye at a bunch of data points without "considering" what they mean when brought together.
And to quibble about latin: it should be exversing and suffix technically XD

@freemo The ones that are nice are nice. They cite their religion as an affirmation of what they do right.
The ones that are not nice cite their religion as an affirmation to be not nice.

It changes nothing. People are what they are. Religion is like the foreskin of the worker's class. The party. If it gets hot, it retreats.

@farooqkz @Pat @BobKerns @freemo @tonic I would differentiate how you say it. You can say about yourself whatever you wish, and i would not bat an eye.
Example: "I believe people eating strawberry icecream is wrong."
Fine.

If you however say people should be stopped from eating strawberry icecream, you are starting a fight (with people that did not do anything bad to you, so no defense there) and i believe you deserve all the backlash such a thing provokes.

@freemo thanks again for providing this server for me to lurk from. You and the other admins have been doing a good job for my experience on the Fediversr

Outsult
Noun
1. An insult applied by someone that actually reflects badly on them, outing them in some way.

My favourite recent outsult was being called a "thesaurus trying to impress people by looking intelligent" because I know what words like "hyperbole" and "sardonic" mean.

No, little dude, this is actually just how I talk because I'm well read and literate. Good to know where YOUR bar is, though.

Please boost even if this isn't for you. On Mastodon, favoriting is not like 'liking' on the other site. All it does is it tell the writer you liked it, there is no algorithm.

Trying to reach #KidneyVerse people on Mastodon

#KidneyDocs and #KidneyResearchers

Consider submitting your #KidneyResearch to #CJKHD (Canadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease)

We have a policy of supportive review. Here's the piece we wrote about the central role of kindness in peer-review

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/…

We aren't here on Mastodon yet but working on it. @CanJKHD at the other place.

#KidneyKindness #Kidney #KidneyVerse #AskRenal

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Like practically every other man, and every other human being regardless of gender, I'm strong in some ways, weak in others. Saying "strong men are ..." anything in particular is part of the problem: it carries with it the implication that men must be strong, in every way and all the time. Well, I feel good when I'm strong, but I'm trying really hard to learn not to beat myself up about weakness. That does nobody any good, not me and not the other people who want me in the world.

Same for other men: our ruthless enforcement of arbitrary rules of masculinity has a lot to do with why we have much higher rates of alcoholism and suicide. I went too far down that road once in my life. I'm not doing it again, and I'm not pushing anyone else down it either.

The older I get, the more I believe there's no real difference between "good man" and "good person who happens to be a man." Good *people* are protective and loving—when they need to be, and also capable of acknowledging when they themselves need protection and love. Good people also, of course, refrain from abuse and spite. When they feel themselves going in that direction, they try to understand what's driving their anger, and open up to the people who love them. The alternative is bottling it up until they lash out, at which point they're no longer good.

Mr. Aleczander's heart is in the right place, I'm sure. I don't criticize him or any man for struggling to reconcile ancient ideas of manhood with overall human decency. Let's all just try not to repeat the same mistakes.

Speaking of handwriting are there any AI handwriting generators that go beyond being a font? I know of some fancy handwriting fonts with many built in joins and combinations of letters— but can we get something that generates stuff like this:

I’m imagining a program that would suggest swooshes and looptiloops and swoops as you write by hand on a tablet.

Can you write in cursive?

@freemo This is my dream.