You really can’t see the forest for the trees. Reflect.

It’s only about you because you made it about you.

“Ghoul” is not a slur. You saying that seeing an unpleasant word next to a word that reminds you of anime is at all equivalent to a slur is frankly ghastly of you.

You’d almost have a leg to stand on if they changed it to “Captain Weeaboo” or something, but even then the comparison is a stretch. You’re showing up at somebody’s funeral to say “I scraped my knee, that’s bad too! We’re all equal as humans, so I deserve to speak”.

Grow up.

You’re drunk for thinking this is about you.

Go home, you’re drunk.

Fair point, but I can’t blame them for playing it safe here.

Sure, because the persecution of black people in the US is at all equivalent to the bullying of anime nerds, right.

The problem is not that thin-skinned people could do mental gymnastics to find reasons to be upset, it’s that ‘coon’ is straight up a racial slur that was historically a major tool of oppression.

Still extremely customizable, and peerless rolling release features.

You can mix and match stable and bleeding edge packages very easily and switch at any time.

When packages make breaking changes, Gentoo will warn you and guide you through the migration before you update and only if you have the affected package installed.

Not so! General binary support was added quite recently.

Sex is a hell of a drug when it comes to diversity.

Easymotion is the only plugin I need to be happy.

Jimmy may be a dick, but it’s nonsense to say he’s factually wrong. Impure sodium chloride is still sodium chloride.

I’m not really talking about belief so much as the fact that people need nourishment in unmeasurable ways: love, wonder, etc. I don’t think it makes sense to exclude that from spirituality. I have found that ‘spirituality = supernatural’ is unnecessarily reductive.

But, at the end of the day it’s just individual perspective as to what constitutes the spiritual.

You assume I mean spirits that physically exist separately from people. I do not. You have missed my point entirely.

Even the simple question of what the experience of color is like is totally beyond empiricism.

Not everything has a scientific answer, and that’s ok.

Keep deepthroating that boot.

How does that make the great firewall a good thing?

Correlating brain activity to thoughts is not the same as being able to distill love or emotional experience down to objective understanding. The difference is spiritual experience.

Oxytocin is a part of how people experience love, but it will never be possible to objectively assess whether someone is experiencing love by measuring it or any other physical quantity.

We can measure the wavelength of light and track how it stimulates cone cells and the brain, but we will never be able to measure the spiritual experience of color.

It is science that will always be chasing the ‘gaps’ in measuring spiritual experience. No matter how closely we can measure ourselves physically, the actual spiritual experience will always transcend it.

Trying even to describe spirituality at all is difficult because it’s an inherently nebulous thing. It can only be known, never proven.

I like that more behaves like cat when there’s less than a page of output rather than requiring you to press q to get back to the prompt even when it would just fit.

There’s probably a way to make less do that too, but more already does it without configuration. Overall I use less most of the time but I like having the option.

“the ability to control information flow”

Yay! What a feature! Tell me what I’m allowed to know, O lord.

“and now, the continuation”

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Spirituality itself, as with anything spiritual, is a know-it-when-you-see-it kind of thing. But that’s an unsatisfying answer.

I do think ‘the opposite of empirical’ is a decent shorthand. The less a truth can be objectively defined, and the less consistent the nature of a truth is across different people, the more spiritual it is.

Enjoyment of music and wonder in the face of nature / the cosmos are two more spiritual truths I think most people know.