This is great stuff, thanks!

Thanks a lot for the suggestions!

This comment alone is making me interested in Greek mythology. I’d like to know more. Any reading suggestions toward that end?

inb4: the God of the Abrahamic religions hurr durr

Clever meme lol

I have set up emudeck. Works for nes, snes, gba, ps1, Wii, and ps2 without issue. It’s only when I tried Wii U and ps3 that I ran into into problems. I do know it’s possible, but I got tired of tweaking

I’ve been trying to get Wii U to work on Steamdeck. I’m only intermediately tech savvy, so this gives me motivation to give it another go.

There are a lot of claims here, but I’m going to focus on one in particular. I don’t think we have any moral obligation to reach our potential as a “creator race”. Taking into account your initial starting point, consider the following argument:

1. Either intelligent beings were created or intelligent beings arose by chance (at least once).
2. If intelligent beings were created, then there is already a creator.
3. If intelligent beings arose by chance once, then it is possible for intelligent life to arise by chance again.
4. Therefore, either there is already a creator of intelligent life or intelligent life can arise by chance again.

If this argument is sound, then the possibility of intelligent life does not depend on us. To me, this weakens any suggestion that we are morally obligated to fulfill our intellectual potential.

Perhaps one could object to my argument above on utilitarian grounds. If we can create more intelligent life than already exists, then we will be increasing the total amount of good in the universe. We are morally obligated to increase the good in the world (however “good” is defined) and so we are morally obligated to create intelligent beings. But this is a non sequitur. It isn’t clear that the creation of more intelligent beings will result in more happiness than misery. In which case, on a utilitarian analysis, it could turn out that we are morally prohibited from creating intelligent beings.

I know this isn’t the crux of your post, but I wanted to engage philosophically since posts in this community often go unanswered.

Agreed, Facebook is terrible. But I’d say that Lemmy and Reddit are on a par (as regards users and mods). Perhaps Lemmy’s major upside is the decentralized structure, but then you lose out on the niche content that Reddit offers.

I don’t understand. If a mod from memes.world bans me from a meme community, I can still comment on memes.world from another instance? Or are you saying just go to another community on another instance that has the same kind of content? Because if it’s the latter then Lemmy’s userbase number problem comes into play. Even popular subjects only have like one or two big communities.

Kinda feels like the site isn’t developing much at all tbh. I know mods have been asking for more tools for a while now

better mods?

Does anyone have this meme template?

Hmm, I’ll check it out, but my field passes around Word files quite often. Might be a tough sale if the user can’t find a workaround. Still, can’t be mad at free software.

People use what they know. Are there better (free) alternatives?

Hey you, reading this right now. You just drank water didn’t you?

Don’t mean to make anyone feel guilty, I’m just venting based on my life experiences lol. Hypothetically, I could know three languages.

This is what it feels like to have bilingual parents that only teach you English.

There would be no religious wars, honor killings, more freedom, no religious leaders abusing their powers, no waste of labor and money on religious things, etc. It may seem that we would be more educated and have better understanding.

Removing the word religion from this excerpt wouldn’t remove any of these problems. We would still squabble over territory, resources, and ideological differences. To give a non-religious analogy: if a time traveler went back and killed Hitler, Germany would still retain all the problems from WW1 and the Weimar Republic that were ripe for a dictatorship.