Public key cryptography and signatures are common technologies nowadays.

It is possible to build an age verification system, where you use your actual ID with a cryptographic process without any personal data. The technology has existed for decades now.

Yanis talking without shutting up while rolling sounds like a fun time.

People telling jokes around the at night seems like a very ancient human tradition.

I was wondering, if you were referring to Soulism. I first encountered it, when a Soulist instance was announced.

What you’re saying jibes well with themes I know from psychology, therapy, and occultism.

Contrary to materialist Marxist victim thinking, soulism seems to empower the individual to change.

Totally. Especially today people hole up in their tiny bubbles and echo chambers. Any challenges to their worldview and beliefs are rejected as woke, cultural Marxist, far left, fascist, racist, bigotry, etc. Being able to endure and process the emotions that come up, when you’re challenged is a skill people across the political spectrum have less and less. Emotions are endlessly validated regardless of facts, to the detriment of society and everyone’s wellbeing at large. The celebration of victimhood is toxic for everyone and keep them disempowered. It’s not just the left. The right has its whole „white genocide“ myth, and endless conspiracy theories about powerful evil elites.

It’s extremely prevalent here on Lemmy/Piefed as well. Actual discussion between opposing viewpoints is rare, and usually cut short by mods.

People should just talk to and more importantly listen to each other.

Yours is the most challenging and interesting reply to this post. Of course it‘s downvoted by the intellectual nepotism babies.

Could you elaborate a bit or share links for some reading?

If someone brings evidence, ban them for reasons of wrongspeak.

There are also many definitions of god, and Dawkins engages with all of them. Dawkins is much more strongly opposed do theism, than deism for example. He engages with philosophical ideas about god.

Dawkins argues that we don’t need god to explain the universe, life, or anything else. He further goes on to argue that religious belief in god trains people to be irrational fanatics, which damages society, progress, science. In the end Dawkins says, there’s no proof for the existence of god, and that we would all be better off without religion. However IIRC Dawkins recognizes that religious belief can have positive psychological effects.

The new atheists have become their own subculture with its own values. The online new atheist scene also attracts people who love to argue, provoke, and pick fights. Contrarians and skeptics are not the same, but can overlap.

There‘s also a pipeline that goes like this: new atheism > anti religion > anti islam > white nationalism

The issue here is that the left has abandoned its opposition to religion, especially regarding Islam, in the name of anti-racism and intersectional identity politics. So these people are rejected by the left and driven to the right.

Oh no, someone has a nuanced take! Downvotes incoming.

The issue here is the catch-all terms being used. „Progressive“ is a bit of a mushy term in the first place.

Young people tend to be more idealistic and radical, regardless of the specific political ideology. The young know little, have little experience, and don’t own a lot. That tends to change with age.

Real life experience changes this over time. You notice when ideology and reality don’t align. You notice how implementing an ideology disadvantages you compared to others in some contexts. The cost can become quite high, if you’re deeply ideologically invested.

E-Mails are also excellent, if you want to push through something unpopular. Send a long e-mail that will be ignored by most people. Repeat at least once. Then you can reference back to it at a later date.

Middle men all the way.

Zulip integrates with Jitsi, Zoom, and Bigbluebutton for voice and video chat. Looks like a sensible solution.

Call them cretins all you want, Discord in a great piece of software and very powerful. The usability is better than most others.

Yes, enshittification of Discord has started a while ago, and it’s becoming worse.

You can watch the Your Party conference and see for yourself.

This sounds like you actually want to win an election and not just look good to your ultra progressive peers.

Building a wide coalition and appealing to a lot of voters is the way to win elections.

Corbyn‘s new party called Your Party was founded a few months ago. It’s a sectarian leftist party, already split between woke activists, socially conservative Muslims, and communist entryists.

The leaders Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn hate and work against each other openly.

Some important members are jumping ship and go to the Greens.

read some guardian articles on it https://www.theguardian.com/politics/your-party

Watch the party convention to get an idea of the culture.

Big radish is behind this for sure.

She was extradited before the court order was issued.