Eeehhh, unless you read every paper ever, you are kinda trusting the process like a black box in most cases, aka, believing. The most papers you have read in your lifetime, the less true that statement is. There is also a whole section of philosophy about this topic.

I know what you mean, but this is a fun exercise. The opposite of a Rat King clearly is a Cat Peasant. The opposite of an ant mill is trickier, there is no such machine that recomposes flour to make whole grains again, reversing the milling process, but the next similar thing would be making bread, so I pick Thermite Bakery.

If cults need to protect their members and beliefs from society and laws to survive, and with religions both support each other, then the opposite of an cult would be a society that needs to protect their members and laws from beliefs, taking drastic measures to separate their members from said beliefs. I guess some sort of atheistic authoritarian state would be the opposite, on your scale. So, North Korea? It doesn’t feel quite right because those authoritarian states depend on a cult of personality. Maybe some technocratic AI state? I don’t know if there is something simpler I’m missing.

The other way of thing it would be, the beliefs organization growing bigger and shallowing the society in that third stage, so people need to protect themselves from the big theocratic apparatus, taking drastic measures to restrict their members and separate them from the big theocracy, living in communities, farming and reading philosophy and cultivating science, educating each other? This is somewhat similar to the setting in V for Vendetta. Also reminds me of what people do in some places dominated by Islamic theocracy, a very cult like way of gathering in secret at houses, sharing banned books, and literally risking their lives for even discussing such things at their homes.

But I agree with you, OP needs to define better the difference perceived between cults and religions, so we can extrapolate a better answer.

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I mostly agree with this comment. I want to emphasize two things:

• Your mom is now alone, and probably feels like you are choosing him instead of her. She must feel very rejected as a person, betrayal is not something you easily recover from, the more time they spent together, the harder it is to separate yourself from the situation. She will eventually get better, but take into consideration that she is desperate now.
• Depending on how old are you, I would suggest leaving your house, either to go with your mom (see above) or living alone/with roomates if you are an adult. Your dad bringing the woman to your house raises some big red flags to me. Something is not right there, I can’t quite put my finger on what it is.

That said, don’t cut your dad out of your life, but your mom is alone and betrayed, and your dad isn’t. If I were to support someone here, would be her, without cutting anyone from your life.

I expected the Turk mentioned earlier here, thanks

Think it more along the lines of Piers Morgan agreeing with you. It’s more factually correct and feels better.

It matters because when you try to build something new, you choose the path of least resistance. I’m not justifying it, I’m explaining it. Also, guess who doesn’t gives shit about E2EE? Average Joes.

I agree with you, but still your idea of garbage is not shared by the general population. Remember that telegram got traction because it falsely claimed that it was secure, or at least more secure than WhatsApp.

Their bot api is very easy to use. I have made some telegram bots because is so easy. Tried to do the same with WhatsApp and didn’t even get permission and api access.

Average Joes use mainstream things, if you want to do something accessible, these bots are the way. Ideally, you want them to download or use an app that does some hand holding. I’m all up to the fediverse but let’s be honest, it has some non intuitive things for today’s user, most were trained to understand and like centralized services. They vaguely understand and use emails today, and mostly for account creation of other platforms.

Disclaimer: haven’t tried to make signal bots, they are a thing?

There are multiple voices, one says “I” while the others respond with “you” if they are disagreeing, or “we” if they agree.

• I should shave
• Yes we should
• No, you shouldn’t. You look stupid.
• I think that’s right, I’m not shaving.

I kinda want to try it out lol

gender affirming hater

Short for mother and nother?

I wonder if a fediverse version of that would resonate with any of my friends and family. Seems like we are where we started with forums, just strangers respectfully taking about their common interests. Social media is indeed dead.

This guy knows. Of course you can get those another way, but marriage is the no questions asked route for most people.

Why do you think gay marriage is big news? Gays could always find ways around, but that’s the point, marriage is easier and you need to jump through hoops to get the same thing, it’s discriminatory and makes a difference between normal and not normal or acceptable ways of getting common ass rights and validations, absolutely useful for when you plan to spend more than a couple of years with someone.

Also, I think you confuse marriage with weddings, those are usually the expensive and stupid ones. Ceremonies are not required to be that stupid.

It will shift the orders from cables to starlink. Not the best idea tho, it sucks ass

Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s, the existence of these tracking codes became public only in 2004.

No fucking way

In 2005, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sought a decoding method and made available a Python script for analysis.

In 2018, scientists from TU Dresden developed and published a tool to extract and analyze the steganographic codes of a given color printer and subsequently to anonymize prints from that printer.

The scientists made the software available to support whistleblowers in their efforts to publicize grievances.

This article gave me the creeps, is awesome and terrifying

Foundation boards can are susceptible to bribe money in exchange for features or default things. Look at Firefox.

I’ll go and risk “shade of skin”. He is also smiling an looks a little less as a Bond villain, but I go with the shading.

I really want to downvote you just for the idea. Wow

I still say this to cable companies and other tv providers, is awesome and hilarious how they can’t continue their phone sale.