This post makes a sweeping assumption Linux users would have women flirt with them.

I only act with the information you have given me.

Maybe this is simply a problem of world experience. You seem to have a view of religious scholars that does not align with reality, including not being able to comprehend why someone would want to receive a degree in religious studies.

It’s a lack of empathy and experience that drives you on this issue. Try to have a conversation with some of these individuals before indulging yourself

You lost track of where the conversation went. I am talking specifically about religious academics

Ok. That’s fine. Perhaps instead of viewing them entirely in ways that allow you to look down your nose at them you could instead try to understand them and find out what systems lead to religious beliefs - including religious belief in people who are objectively smarter than you are.

You don’t help anyone by treating them entirely in this sneering, beneath you way. It might make you feel better about yourself, but it doesn’t actually help any of the people you profess to actually care about.

I guess so. It’s still a bizarrely reductive and self serving viewpoint, but whatever helps you.

No. Many of them aren’t. I get the jab, but I think reducing everyone who has strange or perplexing, even illogical views to just being “an idiot or a grifter” isn’t productive.

Without getting too /r/atheism, it is funny to see the lengths many Christian scholars will go to try and justify that line.

“Oh, well they were probably actually referring to this giant arch that might have once been translated as “the eye of the needle”, meaning that they were saying it’s really easy to get into heaven”

Like what the fuck? What do you guys think is the point of the passage then?

And these aren’t like yokels and grifters. They’re like PhDs in Christian Theology. The religion at a point is just almost entirely concerned with making up translations and it literally always has been

That would be hard to balance around all the people who actually do work 8-12 hours a day

A software developer!? On Lemmy!? Say it ain’t so

Me thinks thou dost protest too much

Honestly I think we’re going to hit a wall where we realize we need about half as many “office drones” as we have in a couple years.

So many people with office jobs drive in, sit at a desk, and do maybe 2 hours of actual work in the entire day. Or they work from home and do the same. And then they collect their 95k/year salary.

I really dunno if people are prepared for businesses to start going “wait, what are all of these people doing?” And axing their workforce and replacing most of them with AI or existing other employees

No need to fight, I think both experiences are fine. I would just maintain that what might “appear” to be people invested in progressive, workers rights type issues, perhaps might not actually commit to those actions if it meant any meaningful sacrifice or change to themselves.

To break the parable a bit, imagine a lion that can somehow contort itself to feel like a housecat. A lot of people can touch it and say “hmm… feels like a nice little cat” - but someone who has had his arm chomped on by the lion knows there’s more beneath the surface

Everything about Lemmy makes more sense when you realize it’s user base is 95% people with good intentions and absolutely no fucking clue what they’re talking about or how life works outside of computers

Eh. Just recently I’ve seen a lot of people talk down upon like… manual laborers, tradespeople, etc.

Without being too cynical, I think this website has a lot of people who like to ‘roleplay’ as being leftist, but then when you get into any specific policy points everyone suddenly goes “well I think people should be paid more… but obviously laborers shouldn’t make as much money as people like… oh, I don’t know… middle manager data analysts” and then you look at their history and they’re like “as a middle manager data analyst…”.

Its a very “communism is when I make more money and maybe some other people can make more too as long as it’s not as much as me” approach to progressivism

Well… it is as long as you assume that every person on the planet is a programmer.

When you’re not a programmer in middle management…? Things get a lot…. Murkier…

Hey if you’d ask the people on this site, higher positions always entitle themselves to higher wages.

We really gotta have some kind of actual initiative to restructure wages around actual work lol

No I stand by my statement lol

I think you might be an idiot my man.

You’re going to have to tell me what oligarchs own NPR, C-span, and the associated press