They all suck in different ways. But I actually think the Catholics are more chill in general, the fucked up shit their bishops get up to notwithstanding, the Catholic Church has mostly just stayed in the background since the early 20th century. Letting the world do its thing while occasionally calling something or another sinful (and only their faithful listening).

Contrasting with the influence Protestantism has in like. All of US Conservative Ideology, which trickles outwards to conservatives EVERYWHERE.

They may not have a pope to embody the face of their ideology (though Trump is in the process of becoming that, watch this space), but it is a consistent ideology, and its god is wealth, and poverty and deviance the greatest sins.

Yah pretty much.

Like. The Reformation broadly started as a decentralised movement against the Catholic Church’s authority in western europe. BUT the only reason the likes of Martin Luther and John Calvin weren’t killed for the shit they were stirring up (and/or forced to retract it on penalty of torture and death) –

– Was because they were being protected by the then-nascent bourgeoisie class, who loved the wild ideas that the two were putting forward, like Luther’s Sola Fide theology that said they would go to heaven as long as they believed in Jesus, even if they did every sin in the book and never performed one good act in their lives, or Calvin’s predestination theology that said people were already born bound for heaven or hell, and being wealthy/poor on earth was a sign of divine favour/displeasure.

You gotta remember people were a lot more religious then. So these merchant princes really liked these guys who were telling them “no no, it’s okay, the Church IS a bunch of cunts, and don’t worry, that camel-through-eye-of-needle thing in the bible is all bullshit and you being richer than a king is a sign you’re going to super-heaven which is better than regular heaven”

If you see shades of modern day American megachurch Prosperity Theology in this? Good, you should. That’s where it started.

Not to say the catholic church was ever nice (I just said they would have killed two guys if they weren’t under the protection of other powerful people), but protestantism was broadly boosted by capitalism, because it soothed and comforted capitalists.

I’ve met one, back on Reddit

He was one of the most insufferable people I ever had the displeasure of interacting with. Not because of this in particular but yeah.

That’s well and good but I COULD just play gzdoom mods and be entertained for years, if not forever.

You forget that protestantism was basically invented from the ground up to be “Christianity rewritten to be extremely capitalist”

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

Send them a zip-bomb.

Jars, eh?

As an anarchist who also loves the aesthetics of medieval royalty, this speaks to me.

Both do exist. But only the p2w whales can have the cool mounts. And as for legendary gear, it’s all rather underwhelming.

Reminds me of this tumblr heritage post

Large emotion

Marx also quite enjoyed Madonna

Madonna: “We are living in a material world, and I am a material girl.”

Marx: writing down his theories on historical-dialetical materialism

A penile salute to Mother Amaterasu

Don’t call me out like that ;-;

Land Before Time and its one bajillion sequels, which regularly aired on Brazilian Cartoon Network

Because I have the kind of autism that makes me enjoy explaining things, I will now explain the jokes. It won’t make them funny, but at least you’ll get them next time. 🤓

• System Deez Nuts – SystemD is a program that has become a central component of most distributions of Linux. It is a bit controversial (mostly because us Linux folk like to argue, see my other post on this thread) – But it’s just a Deez Nuts pun. The D in SystemD means ‘Daemon’, by the way.
• Average PulseAudio user – PulseAudio is the component that managed sound on most Linux Distros for many years (nowadays it is slowly being phased out and replaced by Pipewire everywhere). Some people have had problems getting sound out of it. So we get Xenia with earphones that make no sound whatsoever.
• lp0 on fire – Is an old message that Linux would spit out into its logs in the back-then times when something went very fucking wrong with the printer component of the system. It said ‘on fire’ because it was a dramatic message that would make the user go and look because it meant catastrophic type errors. So we get Xenia with a printer literally on fire.

Xenia is a character that lost a competition to be Linux Mascot in the nineties (to a chubby 🐧 named Tux), but was rediscovered by modern users who really latched onto her (of course they did, she’s a sassy furry hacker, crack cocaine for modern Internet users), so she’s enjoying a bit of a revival.

This piece of art is just some silly Linux Community jokes, using the character. (the lp0 on fire panel is so cyoot)

I like the Compies.

They’re just little guys

No, but I’ll try to answer anyway:

• SystemD is large, it is a dependency for many things, it sort of takes over managing the entire OS, and a lot of Unix Philosophy Purists hate that about it because it goes against the idea of “one program does one thing, keep it simple”
• SystemD is inflexible and things must adapt to its way of doing things, not the other way around, and again, people don’t like that because Linux Users all have “don’t tell me what to do” as their core philosophy (even I’m like that, I just have different priorities on what I don’t want to be told about)
• Some people argue it slows things down. I don’t know. I never cared enough to find out. I will keep it that way because I personally have no interest.
• … The head developer, one Lennart Poettering, is a bit of a jerk.

That fourth one, I feel, is the real sticking point. Much like Pulseaudio (same dev), whatever merits OR defects it has as a computer program are entirely 100% irrelevant, people are just mad because the head dev posted asshole things online and that means he’s evil and everything he touches is retroactively shit.