Also a great hack to lower your personal rate of inflation.

Socialis

We called them streaming services. Calling them stream-ers sounds like the media is trying to make them sound cuddly and non hostile.

Yeah I noticed that.

I just checked, there are 40 downvotes (78 upvotes). That’s wierd - I checked other posts and they don’t seem to have anything like that - I saw none in the double digits.

I might just have to keep a separate account for posting politics which is sad but necessary so that my posts/comments are ranked according to utility and not just downvoted by angry nerds. I’ll probably make a post about this somewhere too.

I think some idiots/bots from another instance to do with a political topic did it lol. They’ve done it to a few comments. We haven’t left reddit apparently.

Do you think lemmy admins could see the downvoters and check if they’re using bots?

And UK.

In his own words lol:

To re-iterate PDF is a really, really bad format to use as input. If you absolutely must use PDF, then be prepared for an output ranging anywhere from decent to unusable, depending on the input PDF.

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/conversion.html

Others are recommending Calibre which I’ll try, even though I share your pessimism. Have you ever tried it?

Good post. Butlerian Jihad when?

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We see your handle, bear.

Same, I used to eat it in very small amounts.

Hope these posts will age and the dearth of new content will bite.

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Very marxian.

But I’m talking about ‘new athiests’ a specific cringe, backwards and reactionary movement from around the 2010s. Not atheism in general.

Have you seen this? https://youtu.be/tmk47kh7fiE

If the issue is that old school atheists kept their mouths shut, while new atheists are out and proud, you and I are not going to see eye to eye.

If you think ‘new’ means modern, as in present day, then you’ve been arguing with me for hours for no reason. Because ‘new atheism’ refers to a specific movement, around the 2010s. It’s not simply ‘atheism’ now.

I don’t care about shouty atheists or quiet atheists, it literally doesn’t matter to me. I am wary of people congregating around easy targets like broadly religious people, when religious people can mean anybody. It can be a white supremacist American, or it could be a Yemeni Muslim getting genocided by Saudis using American and UK bombs. And I don’t see that very important distinction made when those low iq anti-theist posts are spammed on c/all.

Are you a child?

You appear to be somewhat progressive from your other comments, but you have a wierd blindspot when it comes to religion. You apparently defend black people but don’t realise that minority religious groups can and often have been racialised and attacked in similar ways to how a minority group would be. This is strange behaviour.

It’s like you’re proud of being ignorant of history.

New atheism cringe is different to being pro abortion, women’s autonomy, and advancing marginalised people’s rights. Completely different.

If you specifically identify with new atheism and the thinking of Dawkins and his brigade, I’d seriously reconsider.

When I say easily avoided I mean that I literally don’t see them very often. Whereas new atheism seems to be seeping into the feed wierdly often.

This reminds of when people go to toxic subs on the old place, to shit on fat people or something. The end result of these low iq hateful subs is that you grow a base of angry, preaching anti intellectuals who think they’re right and who are ripe for a right wıng bot army and bad actors to brainwash them, and ultimately afflict cancer on the space.

That said, I am on all too often.

Japanese women are not particularly free compared to similar wealthy nations.

But you are forgetting history - those countries had their own brands of capitalist expansionism within living memory. They both had periods of time pre-World Wars where they homogenised themselves: Germany formed a nation state out of smaller states and kingdoms, while Japan did similarly, as well as forcefully assimilating it’s Ainu ethnic minority groups. As a result of this, a powerful centralised state was able to direct the development of the economy as well as their respective society. Initially fascists exploited this. Then as the US, Soviets and other Western powers repudiated them, they were made to adopt the liberal capitalist model that they’d been on the path towards pre-World Wars.

The Middle East on the other hand has been under the boot of european puppet masters. Iran’s democratic PM was couped (1953), in Afghanistan the Taliban was funded by the US against a secular progressive leader, and in Saudi Arabia, their royal family were puppets for Europeans (UK) and for decades now, the US.