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It was implemented because, and I shit you not, due to a fear of roving karate gangs of delinquent youths, when Asian martial arts schools started rapidly popping up in America in the 70s. Needless to say, this fear was as realistic as the Satanic panic surrounding DnD the following decade.

I agree. That’s why religion and politics don’t mix. Someone truly spiritual is bad at playing politics, a politician can rarely be genuine. So then it just becomes a self sustaining system that doesn’t do or help anyone.

I agree.

Right now I’m just done for now attending anywhere and mostly with studying anything, aside from a few things like looking into Hinduism a bit, visiting with someone to a different sect of Christianity, stuff like that. I’d be pretty surprised if there was no intelligent design or greater purpose to the world. I do believe some form of spirituality is important to the human experience. I’m not married to any idea at the moment though.

Thank you, that’s more than anyone else said :) I haven’t lost her yet, but it’s just a matter of time. A few more years at most.

The oversimplified explanation: they are stupid/unwise/shallow. I couldn’t have said it better myself than your last sentence, that’s exactly the narrative purpose of the prequel Jedi order.

They have the correct words memorized, but they don’t understand what it actually means. Anakin is able to quote “unconditional love is encouraged, it is just attachment that is forbidden”. When he goes to Yoda after having nightmares of the future, he tells Anakin that he must learn to let go of the thing he is afraid to lose, since it is just a part of life. Is any of that wrong? Not particularly, but was Yoda unconditionally loving him? Or did he uncaringly spout dogma at him when he could clearly tell he was struggling. No questions of what it was about, no follow up, no kind words, no empathy, no nothing.

Then there’s the clouding of the Force. So, they could generally see the future before this point, and now they can’t. And they don’t think this is odd or concerning? They’re not on their toes enough to expect a trap or a plot twist? Mace floats the idea of telling the senate in episode 3, many years after it started. Just because they are the ones that presuppose they are always trying to do the right thing doesn’t mean that they will always have the answers, always be strong, or even not just fooling themselves into thinking they have an honest heart for the truth. Pretending otherwise led to the downfall of the free world.

Yoda can rattle off “fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering” in Episode 1, but that’s exactly what happened to them. They feared losing to the Dark Side, feared losing their influence on the Republic, so they integrated further with the government, making both weaker (which always happens when you mix religion and government), which caused Anakin to doubt because they were so transparent, then completely abandon the ideology because he saw no place for himself in the world after making a single mistake.

I am all too familiar with the mindset as someone who was raised very Christian. Jesus himself even criticizes the practice of “tithing the mint and cumin, but ignoring thr weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness.” Basically. the religious leaders of the time took the old law’s command to give a tithe (one tenth) of your income to God SO seriously that they’d dump out every slice on their spice rack into a table once a week, and carefully divide it into 10 equal pieces, and give a tenth to God. Yet they completely missed the point of religion, the concepts and real people that actually matter. Even for the small things, why did God want them to tithe their belongings? Not because he came down and grabbed it from the altar every night, but so it could go to people who needed it but couldn’t afford it. Yet the religious leaders neglected the orphans and widows in the community. The religious leaders wee “so good” by being “so dedicated” to thr tithing command, but guess whose job it was to distribute the tithes to the needy? Guess who actually kept it. They were too enthralled with the specifics (and their own additional dogma) that when God himself came, they killed him because they didn’t recognize his teachings as the same thing they “followed”. Whether you believe in the Bible or not, it is a universal truth about humanity, and unfortunately even so-called Christians have learned nothing from this.

Similar to Anakin, I left my local church of over a decade because my mom got cancer, and nobody said a thing about it to me. Nobody reached out after I left either. I called out one guy on it later, and he was basically like “yeah but she’ll go to heaven so no big deal right? I don’t know what you want me to say” Like yeah maybe, even if I fully believe that (which I’m not sure I do anymore) or in Buddhism where we all become a part of something greater, I still have emotions and it would sure be great if anyone cared enough to help me process them. If God gave us emotions, it was for a purpose, not to ignore them.

Yes but also no. Due to all the good Star Wars video games and the emphasis on dualism, we think of force powers as separate abilities unlocked on a skill tree, and you have to choose to use or not use them, or it’ll make your dark side points go up. That’s not really the case though. Everyone uses the Force for telekinesis. Force Choke is just telekinesis, except increasing the pressure specifically around the throat. Sure, you can kill someone and be “good” or Light Side, even specifically that way theoretically. But let’s be honest here: it was a way for Vader to torture or kill underlings that questioned him to assert his authority to aura farm. Not out of love, not out of any sense of “I need to do this to make the world better”. So it is a “dark side power” in practice, because of your intention.

There is some debate about how Palpatine’s master (have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?) was able to extend life. But at least one popular books says that it was by literally sucking the life energy out of someone else to extend your own life, increasingly having to kill more to extend your life by increasingly shorter periods. The same book states that this is how Vader survived and why Padme mysteriously died “of a broken heart”. Palpatine killed her to save Vader, as well as a bonus for him to have full control over him by severing his last connection to his old life. So yes, defying the laws of the universe of life and death, and using life itself (the Force that is a part of us all and we are all part of it) to inflict suffering, pain, and death, just to extend your own life (“you” really just being the Force too that exists for a small period of time, think Buddhism) is definitely a corruption of the Force for evil purposes. But if you were able to do this to sacrifice your own life to save multiple others, or even to save one person who can serve a greater purpose, perhaps that wouldn’t be seen as the Dark Side.

Lucas himself kept it pretty simple. From interviews and the movies themselves, his narrative is that the dark side is a corruption and abuse of the force. Think like burning through natural resources, instead of using renewable energy. The Force is not a finite resource in that way exactly, but corrupting the Force can have wider effects psychologically and sociologically. This may seem overly simple at first, but I don’t think it is when you consider just how evil the Sith actually are.

But you know, death of the author and all that. The expanded universe saved Star Wars in my opinion, and gave it a lot of much needed depth. There was a lot of info about lessons Luke had to learn about accepting all parts of himself, and learning how fear, even of himself, leads to the dark side. He hesitated using powers like force lightning or mind manipulation because of how evil it seemed. But he learned that it isnt an act itself, but the intention behind it that matters, as well as the reasoning/wisdom behind it. Dominating another’s mind to aura farm or assert your authority is not the move, but a Jedi mind trick to save lives is acceptible,for example. This was expanded in more in the EU by those that walk a middle path, the Grey Jedi. Who were not all that different than Luke ended up being, though they were more fixated on the whole “duality of man” thing.

The Prequels reinforced this by highlighting how imperfect and ultimately impotent the Jedi order was at the time of Palpatine’s rise.

While I don’t believe the discourse online that Anakin killing all Jedi and Sith WAS the balancing of the Force, the Jedi Order DID need to be reworked. Just like how religion in real life isn’t perfect and needs reform kn a regular basis, but we do need people to tell us to be nice to other humans and form a certain kind of worldwide standard of social accountability, and religion is a useful form of that. We certainly DON’T need an equal, “balanced” amount of people whose religion is mass genocide and “might makes right” to the degree that they kill their teachers (often guardians that raised them) as a rite of passage. Also, Jedi=/=good the same way religion=/=good. The Light Side is good. The Jedi, and religion, attempts to achieve goodness, but does not always succeed. The Dark Side, whether Sith or Dark Jedi, is fundamentally a rejection of accountability, the concept of goodness, and respect for the natural order of the universe. This so-called binary, ironically, comes from the idea that anything not approved by the Jedi order’s dogma is the Dark Side.

This overly emphasized social pressure is a big reason Anakin fell. In his mind it was “well I did x so I’m not a Jedi anymore, so that means I have to embrace the complete opposite of everything I once stood for because I am now officially Bad™️”. And while Anakin is responsible for his own actions, the Jedi Order is not “good” either for setting him up to fail like this. He seems like (and is) an idiot who was easily fooled and manipulated. But like, Padme was the only one who fully accepted him for who who was, even after he admitted to thr Sand People massacre. She never even looked at him with fear or judgment. Palpatine was similar. And that’s a powerful thing.

But none of this means the Force decided “we need some more genocide and less people who care about trying to be good. Send in the chosen one.” That’s just dumb.

I’m not going to pretend there was any subtext to the sequels since there isn’t even a main text.

Source: used to be WAY too much of a Star Wars nerd.

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In the scene you mentioned, Yoda warns him not to take his weapons, which Luke ignores. When Luke asks what is waiting for him, he tells Luke “what you bring with you”. Bringing weapons/violence to “win” at his training is missing the point of what Yoda was trying to teach him. Obviously violence IS sometimes necessary, some people are too far gone, and Yoda himself later tells him he’ll need to defeat his father. But the lesson is this: when your main tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Luke learned the lesson, and by committing to the bit while staring death in the face, was able to save even Vader.

If I’d already had a Lemmy account I’d probably have just stuck with that but yeah Piefed has more features. The combined comments from cross posts are really nice.

Depends on if you’re talking about actual woke, ironic woke, or Trump 2.0 era woke.

Actual woke is opening your proverbial third eye to see what’s really going on around you, making you based.

Ironic woke is jokingly calling someone/something woke that is clearly not woke, but think they are woke. In reality, the person being referenced is probably getting their opinions from the hive mind of public consensus like most people, but a different hive mind that makes them THINK they’re enlightened and woke.

Trump 2.0 era woke is “anything the most diabolical far right supporter doesn’t like or makes them slightly uncomfortable” which is just about everything.

Politically correct aligns closest to ironic woke because it relies on consensus on what is deemed “unprofessional” or “offensive”. It’s not inherently a bad thing though, generally it comes at least partially from a standpoint of wanting to express oneself in a constructive and respectful way, such as avoiding outdated terminology like “negro” or “retarded” which we should all do at this point despite them being the preferred politically correct term at one point. For this reason it ranks slightly higher on the morality scale than ironic woke, which is often motivated by acting morally superior and smug. But political correctness can go too far, and often leads to it being politically incorrect to criticize certain groups at all, which is not actual woke.

Being actually woke is aware of REALITY, even if it is controversial to bring up certain things, and therefore ranks the highest.

Trump 2.0 era woke is meaningless as a term, since Trump supporters have no sense of either reality or irony, and is thus impossible to rank.

Not saying this is OP specifically or anything, but I have long suspected that some fellow humans just aren’t as…conscious/sapient as the rest of us. Like literal NPCs. It would explain a lot. No I’m not talking about anything race or eugenics related, not going there at ALL. Just sometimes I’ve met people and wondered “…did we grow up on the same planet?”

Most Japanese titles are like that. Sexy subtitle? Intriguing name? Nope, you get Gun Shooter 4. At least they’re extremely clear about what you get, like the anime I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job (that one is real)

Originally it meant what it sounds like: to be awake and alert about what is really going in around you, and not being pulled into a false sense of security or fooled by propaganda. This is as old as the 1930s, then got repopularized by Eryka Badu in the 90s. There were some minor Menes about it like “wake up sheeple!” poking fun at truthers, or “woke vs broke”. Sometimes a meme, sometimes legit messaging.

Broke: Racism is over bro, and slavery was a million years ago.

Woke: Racism has gotten more hidden and insidious. There have been systematic changes to keep racial minorities in the poor parts of town with lots of crime, the FBI introduced crack cocaine to inner cities in the 80s, and then fake post racism truthers glorified gangs and the drug trade and praised it as “black culture”. Then they proceed to have private prisons and have young black men perform slave labor in jail when they are inevitably arrested, as a way to get around traditional slave labor."

Then the state of high budget media devolved into what it now is: pandering, fake “woke” garbage with race swapping popular characters. Inevitably this rage baited a lot of people, even minorities that are supposedly being “represented” now. So “woke” became an ironic term to mean “fake woke”, rainbow capitalism as one example.

Then this ironic use got way out of hand and just means “any positive messaging about anything remotely progressive” or “acknowledging that nonwhite males exist sometimes” or even “something that I don’t like”. In a way, this in a way is back to the original meaning. Reactionary conservatives hate anything that breaks them out of their fragile bubble and makes them consider reality for what it is.

Both original meaning and ironic meaning is somewhat usable still, but only if I have already gotten to know someone and where they stand politically and ethically. To have someone I don’t know well bring up the term unprompted in a non joking way throws up red flags.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

If I’m going to avoid paying the devs directly what they are worth, I’ll just pirate. Paying for keys just wastes money and risks getting your account banned. There are a few multiplayer exceptions but again, I’ll just pay the devs then. If I HAVE to play a multiplayer game I will probably get my money’s worth out of it.

I used it extensively while flirting with a Mexican girl who eventually became my wife :) I understand Spanish a lot better now though I sometimes use a translator if she sends a wall of text because I’m lazy.

It’s not perfect, nothing really can be, particularly slang/idioms. It translates pretty literally, it’s a machine. Puns you’d have to pay attention to yourself, thr translator is not going to go “BTW did you notice she said x and then x? Clever!”

In your example it is up to you to interpret the meaning of an exaggeration. That’s pretty much exactly how you’d say it in English or Spanish in that situation.

Lastly I recommend Offline Translator by David Ventura these days. It is based on Mozilla Firefox’s tech, FOSS, no trackers, and is on F-Droid. It doesn’t take up too much space and is faster since it does it offline instead of sending to Google’s servers. I am trying to De-Google my life due to privacy concerns. Some people on this thread recommended DeepL, which I do not. The accuracy is pretty top tier, but it has an even worse privacy policy than Google.

Is it bad if I say I don’t remember?

I would say it gets more praise than hate. It is often recommended as a beginner friendly distro, which is why you get the backlash, because it hasn’t been in a rock solid position for a long time. It started off pretty promising, using a much more end user centric version of GNOME, which morphed into their own DE, Cosmic. But Cosmic took forever to come out, so GNOME nor the base version of Ubuntu Pop is based on were updated for multiple years. The Pop Shop was kind of garbage, though Cosmic shop is much better. Nowadays, Cosmic the DE is shipped by default but is barely out of alpha and thus has glitches. I do think Linus is a lying asshole who specifically planned to break the OS for more views, but it does have problems. Also it uses systemd-boot so you can’t dual boot from separate drives easily or have GRUB themes and stuff like that. They don’t have Secure Boot either. As much as that isn’t a HUGE issue, it seems like a significant oversight for such a popular distro.

Ultimately, Pop does a lot right by having a version bundled with Nvidia drivers, having macOS-like desktop that is intuitive by default, GUI focused with an app store, a good tiling manager, and possibility for customization. But it is a little bit frustrating to some people that it is so heavily recommended because it isn’t as stable as stable distros, and not as updated as rolling distros or just more modern distros like Fedora. A lot of distros do what Pop does but better, so why recommend it? Even with the extra features you get on a System76 machine and ease of use for non tech people having it preinstalled, Tuxedo does that better and cheaper even with import taxes being higher. Combined with the video glitching, selling this as one of the best new user friendly distro when it isn’t particularly true could cause people to bounce off Linux.

I don’t hate Pop or System76. I WANT to like and enjoy it because I respect their ethos behind the project and like the look and features. I just wish it was faster at fixing some of their issues. People have been saying “Pop is going to be the next big thing once they do xyz” for 5-6 years ATP. They really need to hire more devs or make the project more community ran.

iOS has better security than anything besides Pixels. Apple isn’t exactly stellar when it comes to privacy, but certainly better than stock Android/Google in general. They’re often the “good enough because there aren’t many better choices or it’s annoying to set up those other choices” choice (Apple TV, Apple TV+, macOS, iOS, Apple Watch, pretty much everything to varying degrees). iPhone is prioritized for third party apps a lot of the time. Hardware is great, not that Android isn’t, but Apple is a bit more consistent. Their cheaper tiers are still good in the important ways, whereas Samsung’s A series for example isn’t. Even gaming is getting better on iOS. Not so much for emulators but official purchased titles or streaming. Android is still better but I might be able to get by on iOS. Google is getting a lot better with consistent design choices with Material Design, and many third party devs have been following suit. But it’s no secret that Apple has routinely kicked everyone’s ass in terms of Ui usability AND aesthetics for decades. Continuity of devices and the general ecosystem helps a lot. This is replicable in some ways with Windows Phone Link or KDE Connect, but Apple “just works” as they say.

I use GrapheneOS & Linux which is by far the best option for privacy & security, and I prefer not to have any accounts that identify my devices, let alone using continuity features. But I’m not ignorant to other options or that people prioritize different features.

Depends on the business I am running, how otherwise qualified they are, what their supposed crime actually was, their side of the story, and general demeanor. I’m going to be honest though, it’s mostly the last one. You can usually tell real fast by how someone acts if they had trouble with the law because they’re an uneducated degenerate or a con man. It’s not impossible to manipulate me, but most criminals are not geniuses. If it really seems like they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they have learned from their mistakes if they admit to it, that’s a different story.

I was friends with a murderer for a long time actually. He got blackout drunk, woke up, some dude was dead. He used to have a drinking problem. Doesn’t remember it, but is positive it was him. Was in jail a long time, used the time to read a lot. He was significantly older than me and would give me and others advice on how to not be an idiot like he was. His words. I doubt the family would forgive him but shit happens. He told me once sometimes he wished he’d gotten the death penalty because it was hard af to turn his life entirely around, but it got better once he had a daughter. I’d still be friends with him if he didn’t become annoying and stubborn over the years. He wasn’t always wrong, just mildly an asshole sometimes.

Controlling your emotions simply means that you do not immediately react the way your emotions would take you, and that instead you act appropriately to the situation. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have emotions, or that those emotions cannotir should not influence your resolve towards the line of action you decide to take.

I also don’t see how it is related to the rock question (or my favorite alternate, could God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it). There is not a paradox between being powerful and having emotions.

Just for fun, as a stab at the paradox: yes, God can limit his own power or prevent himself from doing stuff because he said he would. Like for example in the Christian religion Jesus came as a human and that severely limited himself. At one point he really wanted to not die but couldn’t do anything about it because that was the path he set for himself and he can’t lie. Same principle applies even if Christianity isn’t “the one”.

I think where people tend to get tripped up with this paradox is that things cannot be simultaneously true. God could make the sky totally purple, but he didn’t, so we’re here with the sky being totally blue during the day. He could make it half purple and half blue, but didn’t do that either. That’s not proof of a lack of power. He could make the rock too heavy, and then he could make the rock not too heavy later, kr himself stronger. This doesn’t disprove anything about theoretical omnipotence. And lastly, presumably things are explained to us in a way we understand. Perhaps God does have some sort of hard limits to power, but as far as we are concerned it may as well be infinite. There’s not much of a point in semantics. The very question betrays our human way of seeing things, God probably does not usually have a body to lift things. Does levitating it “count”? Does moving the earth down count? Does asking someone or something else to do it count? It’s an interesting question that has persisted for a long time, I just don’t think it ultimately means much once you break it down.

Having power over somebody does not exclude you from having emotions. Superman is nearly invincible and a great guy who always does the right thing; but his feelings can still get hurt if people are mean to him, and he still gets angry when people are cruel to each other, such as a human murdering another human. God would be above a superhero, but the same principle applies.

If you are God, the point of creating humanity is because you’re alone, and want to love and be loved. If you spent a lot of time and effort to raise your kids and they grew up to hate you for no discernible reason and did terrible things just to act the opposite of how you raised them to be, you’d be pissed too. Do I have “power” over my kids? I guess. I’m bigger than them and even if they’re adults, you can always pull out a .22 and shoot them if they don’t obey. But that doesn’t solve anything and it’s not very loving is it? I want to raise my kids to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do, but also because it benefits us all to act that way reliably, and makes us all happier.

If everyone obeys God just because they have to fall in line or die/be directly punished every time, that defeats the point of making humanity because they won’t love you. Yet maybe it would be necessary to step in if they’re harmful enough to the rest of humanity, hence the smiting. But most religions have an idea that God is trying to move us past the point where he has to step in, or has already stepped back permanently. Maybe God punishes evil after death to facilitate us getting our act together. Or perhaps he simply rewards the good and doesn’t reward the evil. Maybe he experimented a little in the past as to what actually works. Maybe he knew he was justified to punish evil, but didn’t realize the toll it would take on him by hurting your own children until it happened, and that’s why he doesn’t do it anymore.

Don’t @ me in the comments criticizing some specific version of God you have in your head. There’s a million different religions that say a million different things. This is theoretical, answering OP’s question.

NewPipe: original. no sponsor block or dislikes

Tubular: NewPipe but with sponsor block, dislikes. Relies on upstream updates from NewPipe, so takes slightly longer to fix whenever Google routinely breaks something.

PipePipe: same features as Tubular, and additional accounts/sources such as PeerTube. it is also a hard fork from NewPipe that doesn’t rely on upstream updates and will likely change more over time. also that bug where it stops playback due tk an error and you have to close the video and reopen it happens less often on PipePipe, and can sometimes be fixed just by pressing play again. I use this one as of right now.

Invidious and Piped are both websites that proxy YouTube traffic. they aren’t separate apps, but some apps can use them as a source instead of scraping YouTube directly. Materialous is one that uses Invidious.

There are other apps in FDroid tk choose from too, they usually have a different Ui than NewPipe related ones. I also use Metro List for YouTube Music specifically.

Do you often get charged per call by your carrier in Europe still? If so that’s really too bad. Most of the VoIP services I’m familiar with is NA only but I know others exist, you’ll just have to do your own vetting.