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TL;DR: approval down 1% from 45% to 44% over 6 days. Was at 47% on Jan 20. Disapproval up to 51% from 41% though since January.

Spirituality and religion are different things. Spirituality is basically an attempt to find meaning in life by identifying with something that transcends the self. Religion can be one way to try to achieve that, but is just a set of norms and myths used to try and understand existence and our place in it.

Spirituality can be secular and is by no means a bad thing. It doesn't even have to be irrational or unscientific. Asceticism is a spiritual practice adopted by many religions and is thought to help one focus on spiritual enlightenment. Lent is an ascetic practice.

Imo this is very much a case of "to each their own" and, as long as it isn't hurting your brother or anyone else, then it may help him find more meaning in his life.

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Not mutually exclusive. People need to see messages like that to understand the link between their actions and those actions indirectly helping to cause the thing they wanted to stop in the first place.

As a socialist, it is frustrating seeing people take a correct stance: the genocide in Gaza is bad and we should put pressure on the political establishment and turn it into "so we'll become politically disengaged, serving the interests of fascism to teach the liberals a lesson while making no meaningful progress toward stopping genocide".

Grab em by the vespussi

You can either use AI to just vomit dubious information at you or you can use it as a tool to do stuff. The more specific the task, the better LLMs work. When I use LLMs for highly specific coding tasks that I couldn't do otherwise (I'm not a [good] coder), it does not make me worse at critical thinking.

I actually understand programming much better because of LLMs. I have to debug their code, do research so I know how to prompt it best to get what I want, do research into programming and software design principles, etc.

Wait but i thought a vote for kamala was a vote for genocide and trump was going to not do genocide

It's almost like communication platforms shouldn't have profitability as their main goal... maybe they could be... distributed... like some sort of... federation. Yeah. That's it. Then everyone would follow along like... lemmings or something

All is dependent on what instances your home instance is federated with. Federation/defederation by your home instance determines what you see in All.

Szmer.info is federated with lemmy.world, so you would be able to see [email protected], which has US politics. Unless you've filtered things out of your feed, but that's different.

Whoa that's really odd. You might submit an issue on github, if you want: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Huh. Comments shouldn't be affected, as I understand it, just posts from defederated instances won't show up. For instance, .ml is defederated from any and all porn instances - so porn doesn't show up in my feed. I wonder if it could be a delay in the comments showing up, not actually an absence of those comments?

Either way, plenty of good instances to join that are less defederated than .ml

The particular instance doesn't matter too much as long as it hasn't defederated from other instances you care about & vice versa - since you can still see, post, & interact with content from other instances. I made accounts on .ml and .dbzer0.