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If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?
  • Let me start with the calendar because I actually had to look up the history of calendars (which was super interesting). The first person to use A.D. was a monk called Dionysius who used it around 525. In the Roman empire years were counted by the year of the current reigning Consul. Dionysius wanted to avoid using the calendar based on Roman emperor Diocletian who widely persecuted christians. This new system was adopted by the church only.

    Centering the calendar around nativity of Jesus was only adopted as an official calendar by Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne in around 1600, and the rest of the world changed over to it over time until around 1900.

    So the people actually living in 1 A.D. had no idea they were living in the year of the lord.

    As far as I know we only really know that Jesus was a real man in the Herodian Kingdom at the time and that he was in fact crucified around 33 A.D. (which would not have been called A.D. at the time). Weather we believe he was truly resurrected is more of a question of faith, relying on religious sources. So basically applying Occam's razor I would say that the resurrection was just part of the religious texts written by monks, not necessarily something that was 100% true.

    In maths there are definitely larger and smaller infinities. Take for example the set of all natural numbers [1, 2, 3, ...]. This is an infinite set. Compare this to the set of rational numbers, these can be expressed as a fraction of two natural numbers [1/1, 1/2, 1/3, ...]. There is already an infinite amount of rational numbers between 1 and 2, making this an uncountably larger infinite set. All this being said, the boulder thing always sounded a bit weird to me but it does raise the question of what we mean by omnipotence, and can we accept the existance of such a being, all of this gets very philosophical. (the paradox has several proposed resolutions if you are interested btw, some more satisfying than others)

    Which brings us back to the problem of evil. Let's say our lives on Earth are just a test to see if we are accepted in heaven. This explains why bad things happen as they are a test of faith. But this just raises more questions:

    Why does it take God our entire lives to decide whether we are accepted? What about babies that die during birth or shortly after? How can they prove their faith?

    Anyway, this got way too long. I'd like to reiterate that I think religion has very positive aspects: community, belonging, purpose, an answer to what happens after death.

    But I'd also say that historically, religion (especially Christianity) was a tool to keep the masses docile and subdued, allowing the church to hold power over hundreds of years but also kept believers somewhat safe, at lest from their own community - commandments like do not kill, steal, or even Jewish customs of not eating specific types of meat. If they had to make up, or embellish things to keep it going, that was a price they were willing to pay.

  • If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?
  • Well, not to get into a theological debate here but there are many logical inconsistencies and paradoxes with religion in general.

    Stuff like the "can God create a stone so large that he cannot lift it"; or just seeing all the suffering in the world and trying to justify why a benevolent, all seeing, all knowing, omnipotent being would allow kids to get cancer - either god is not capable to fix it or doesn't care, neither of which is a great outcome.

    Just applying Occam's Razor in general makes religion pretty far fetched, especially the more hardline old testament you go: God creating the earth, Noah and the flood, etc. There is just a much simpler explanation to all of it.

    I mean no offence to religious people in general, in fact I think religion can be very useful for some to find a purpose or belonging in their lives. I just find the cognitive dissonance of religion impossible to reconcile with reality.

  • Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening
  • This was also my initial take but look at these graphs with the Y axis starting from 0 Stock lost 67% value in the last year alone, and lost 85% in the past 5 years. Looks pretty dire to me. I would say this is undervalued but I have no confidence in the ubi leadership to turn it around.

  • [Question] Stremio alternative for iOS and tvOS
  • Okay, so I got it to work on an iPad the other day. You have to set up as usual on one of the fully featured apps like android or Windows and then log in on ios and select external player (vlc). You can also save the page as an app to your home screen.

    Guide for ios

    No luck on tvOs as far as I know though.

  • The iPhone 16, new AirPods and other highlights from Apple's product showcase
  • Not that I personally would ever switch to iPhone because there is still a lack of sideloading open source software; but could you just not use the chat gpt integration?

    It seems they are actually trying to not data harvest with all the AI stuff, there is quite a focus on privacy respecting server architecture and clearly defined conformations for the user for when something runs off device, or even off of Apple's cloud (e.g. Chat GPT). I believe they even made their backend third party verifyable (although I've only seen their claims about this, I haven't actually followed up).

    Anyway, plenty of reasons to dislike apple, I'm sure they still collect data, but why not just ignore the Chat GPT functionality?

  • Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
  • I have to agree with this comment. I'd probably just set up the router regardless (probably in WiFi AP mode) and not worry about it too much. No one reads the terms and conditions anyway. If someone comes to actually enforce the thing I'd obviously take it down. Hide the ssid if you want to.

    As others mentioned, there are ways to also hide traffic behind a single device, maybe connecting to a VPN on the router level would help with this?

    Back when I was in uni I had terrible wired Internet so I'd try anything. At one point I was using a jailbroken iPhone to share its 4g connection without having to pay extra to the wireless ISP (basically data plan was unlimited but tethering wasn't). It worked fine, I could use my data on any of the devices over wifi but it was barely faster than the wired network and it was a lot of hassle so I gave it up.

  • Concord is going offline beginning September 6th
  • It's interesting that they are so repulsive to almost everyone (including me). I wonder what the specific traits are that makes people dislike the cast, I can't quite put my finger on it.

    (Except maybe for the roomba/hoover robot, that one seemed kinda interesting as a concept)

  • Beeper Mini

    So there is this app claiming on-device iMessage functionality on Android. Seems cool but only has subscription based pricing. Does anyone know of a way to circumvent this?

    Edit: I found this but it seems a bit dodgy

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    Is there an extension to create tab groups for Firefox?

    I'm looking for something like the tab stacking from Vivaldi or just the way chrome handles tab groups.

    I've tried simple tab groups before but it was occasionally a bit janky and I was looking for a different UI implementation. Not really keen on using a sidebar either and the majority of extensions I found all seemed to be using the sidebar.

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    Code-compile and (de)compression are (kinda) valid android benchmarks scenarios now.

    I've been using Youtube ReVanced for a while now and noticed the great patches for other apps also available in ReVanced manager. If you are unfamiliar ReVanced can patch other apps with additional functionality such as blocking ads and correcting other annoyances like re-enabling taking screenshots.

    The whole process involves downloading, upacking, patching, repacking, and installing an APK file and it has shown the slightly aging side of my phones SD845 chip, as it takes a few minutes to complete with larger apps. Its not something that comes up too often, but when it does, it could go a bit smoother.

    I wouldn't mind seeing some numbers for this workflow when choosing my next phone.

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    Is there a way to check the posts you upvoted?

    Is there a way to see what posts you have upvoted? I was trying to show a cool thing I saw on lemmy earlier to someone but I can't seem to find a list of my past upvotes.

    I tried looking in Jerbora, Summit and Liftoff (still trying out the android apps), and also on the webpage of my instance, but none of these seem to have it.

    Sorry if this has been asked, Google hasn't returned anything relevant.

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    Is Twitter becoming part of the Dark Web?

    Just had a shower thought.

    As Twitter now requires a login and Google is apparently de-listing most search results for Twitter, it technically qualifies as a dark web website, something the media and Hollywood love to throw around as a scary phrase.

    (It seems users still show up in Google and also some tweets, I just wanted to hear your opinions)

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