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Absolutely. Anything you can contribute would be an improvement. If you see a shop that's not on the map, and you don't have time to add anything but a point showing that it's there, add it anyway. An approximate point in space with a name attached to it is good enough to get directions to, and getting directions is the reason I open OSM like 90% of the time. And it can always be expanded on later by people with more time and specialized mapping skills! Don't be discouraged by the massive effort some mappers go to, just add what you can because everything you add is useful to someone

salarua @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

I'm not sure how techy @Kewlio250@lemmy.zip is, and Distrowatch can be pretty overwhelming, so here are a couple of recommendations from someone who's tried a bunch of distros:

Linux Mint: Very close to Windows 7 in experience, with some modern touch-ups here and there. What I'd recommend for longtime Windows users.
Elementary OS: Gives off a lot of macOS vibes for all the right reasons, and while it's not very customizable, a ton of care has been put into the experience. Ideal for someone with basic computer needs that wants something that just works. (The website asks you to donate; if you can't or don't want to, enter $0 as a custom donation amount to get it for free.)
Fedora Workstation: Genuinely different experience from Windows and macOS. It reminds me of the experiments in the early '10s in creating a "convergent" interface, but this is stable, functional, and mature. Really shines if you have a touchpad.

salarua @sopuli.xyz 11mo ago

The reason the shadow is gray is because light is bouncing off the other surfaces in the environment. The shadowed area isn't receiving direct light, but it is receiving reflected indirect light.

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 11mo ago

In the video game Helldivers 2, ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ is the code to summon a 500kg bomb, one of the most destructive weapons in the game.

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 11mo ago

The issue is that Mormons and other Christians seem to have differing views on who counts as a Christian. Most Christian sects use the Nicene Creed, which includes the basic set of beliefs all (or almost all, depending on your view ofc) Christian sects adhere to. Mormonism diverges from the Nicene Creed:

they don't believe in one God (Mormons believe that humans have the capability to become Gods, and that God was mortal at one time and had His own God),
they don't believe that God made the universe (they simply believe that He organized it),
and they don't believe that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one substance (they believe that They are three distinct beings).

Mormonism, on the other hand, seems to believe that Christianity is simply accepting Jesus as a prophet sent by God and the Bible as holy scripture...but by that logic Muslims would also be considered Christians.

salarua @sopuli.xyz 11mo ago

Neopagans, Zoroastrians, Jews, Middle Eastern Bahá’ís, Muslims outside the Middle East, followers of indigenous religions, Sikhs:

salarua @sopuli.xyz 12mo ago

Not necessarily; try Bottles first and see how that works for you.

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 12mo ago

The response I gave was not necessarily for you; it is for anyone who is genuinely interested in answers to the questions you posed. This is a public forum, after all, and God knows I've struggled with some of those questions before. I would be happy to discuss these questions from my Baha'i (not Christian) perspective in a good-faith conversation, but if you are not interested, I will not bother you.

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 12mo ago

I'm afraid I don't understand some of your questions, so I'll attempt to answer the ones I do understand.

…why do you believe in any of your statements?

I don't know what religion YappyMonotheist subscribes to, but I can confidently say they believe in the God of Abraham so I'll provide some supporting citations from the scriptures of the Abrahamic religions.

Why would god [...] favor the righteous?

Believers in God believe that God is the source of all good (James 1:17, Qur’ān 4:79, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh 26:2). Being righteous brings you closer to God (Hebrews 10:22, Qur’ān 41:30, The Hidden Words (from the Persian) 69).

Why would he care that you live by the ever subjective moral code of an age and culture?

Consider the influence of religion on society, and how fundamental its ethics are to our culture's ethics, even if we're not aware of it.

Being endowed with something means being given, I assume you means created with?

"Endowed" can mean "created with", as in Article 1 of the UDHR ("They are endowed with reason and conscience..."), and it is used this way here.

I am sure your god cares about your personal growth...

God created us because He loves us (Ephesians 1:4-6, Qur’ān 2:29, The Hidden Words (from the Arabic) 3). As a being that transcends physical limitations, space, and time (1 Kings 8:27, Qur’ān 2:255, Prayers and Meditations 69:1), why would He not care about every one of His creations personally?

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 12mo ago

Playing devil's advocate here: most websites are generated by programs, so it's possible it could be a coding error. That said, for it to plausibly be a coding error in whatever generator they're using, they'd have to store the Constitution with each paragraph in a separate file. That's the only way I could possibly see a "coding error" exclude the stuff that was excluded.

Edit: That is to say, obviously it is not a coding error. The text of the Constitution would be stored in one file because 1. that makes sense, and 2. storing per paragraph would add to overhead. And stuff in the middle of files doesn't just get deleted by a coding error.

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 1y ago

(Autistic person here, working on expressing my emotions too) You could try a feelings wheel. There are a few different designs that work on different principles, but the general idea is that they show the relationships between different emotions. I attached a few here so you can see which one works for her best.

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 1y ago

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 1y ago

TREE is an extremely fast-growing function in set theory. TREE(1) equals 1, TREE(2) equals 3, and TREE(3) equals a number so large that its lower bound easily dwarfs Graham's Number.

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salarua @sopuli.xyz 1y ago

What neurotypical people don't get is that autism affects literally everything about us. From how we perceive and interact with the world to how we experience emotion to how we think to our self-awareness and self-perception. To cure autism would be to cause a death of personality. We would be fundamentally different people, if we remained at all

salarua @sopuli.xyz 1y ago

Maybe try going into the settings and forcing a sync? That happens occasionally with the app on my phone, and I just hit the force sync button to get everything back

salarua @sopuli.xyz 1y ago

I'm not a Christian or an atheist, but I am a practicing Bahá’í. I'm not going to pretend my perspective is unbiased or definitely applicable to your situation; I offer it in the hope that you find it helpful, but I will not be offended in the least if you choose to disregard it 🙂

It's a good sign that you're troubled by the behavior of your fellow Catholics. You have a conscience and you know that they are disregarding Christ's teachings for...what, really? A sense of fleeting satisfaction that comes from having an enemy they can try to feel superior to? True faith is not looking to other people for what to believe, but reading your scripture and learning the teachings of your religion for yourself. Jesus Christ preached love for all people, no matter what. You know this, and you know that the behavior of the other Catholics you know is in direct conflict with what they claim to believe, and that's why you're posting here.

Bahá’ís read their scriptures every day so that they can come to their own understanding of Bahá’u’lláh's teachings. I personally read scripture in the morning after I wake up, when my mind is still clear and I haven't gone full tilt into the day yet; and at night before I go to bed, so that my subconscious can think about it while I'm asleep. Perhaps this is something you might want to do: read the Bible for yourself, critically and without preconceptions, and come to your own understanding of what Christianity means to you, so you may make your own informed decision on whether you want to stay a Catholic, or a Christian in general, based solely on your own conscience. You can stay Catholic and practice on your own, if that is what you want! What matters is that you find the way to practice your faith that feels right to you, and you find people that share your values.

Someone else in this thread mentioned Unitarian Universalism. Before I converted, I spent some time with my local UU congregation, and if you're concerned about finding community, it might be good for you to meet your local congregation. Unitarian Universalism is not really an organized religion, but a community around a shared set of principles that include unity in diversity and the responsible search for truth and meaning. In my experience, though the services were quite...general, the sense of community and camaraderie that you would find in a church (or a mosque, or a temple...) was very much there. If you end up deciding to look for other places to go, a UU congregation is a good choice, at least from my experience.