How do people avoid smelling their own farts? Do they run away?

Principally because I don’t know who those bitches are.

That’s still pretty normal. People (think they) feel how others do. It takes effort & practice to dissociate and try not to feel.

Not necessarily. It usually means somewhat selflessly feeling or understanding how they might feel enough to care about their wellbeing & treat them compassionately.

If you’re selective about the recipients of your empathy (eg, only those you care about or near you), then you’re not really an empath or a good one. Buddhists had empathy & compassion figured out. Jesus stated it, too, with love your enemies. I’ve frequently seen people try to wield empathy as a cudgel and miss the point.

You just described abilities within the normal range of interpersonal skills: reading emotions. That doesn’t imply feeling them.

OP was ridiculing the projection of emotions people don’t necessarily have but that the subject arrogantly assumes they do.

Yep, they’re special.

Same point in saying anything online: none. That’s social media.

Lemmy is great place to say shit about reddit that reddit won’t let you say because it’s a moderation hellscape.

if you come in guns blazing and condescending people will shut you down no matter what facts you have

I love that approach, but then I’m not trying to change minds of those who lack the wisdom to prioritize the truth & objectivity over themselves and should know better. Merely trying to vindicate a neglected consideration for cooler minds. If someone’s ready for it, then great, and if not, then we can admire & ridicule their folly: reality doesn’t care. Defending truth & rationality is reward enough & those too foolish to appreciate it can find their own way there.

It’s pretty much acknowledging

you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

It’s good enough to point out the water & even be insolent about it: the horse only prolongs its dehydration by not drinking, & there are better horses. I’m not a horse trainer.

People who do that lack basic sense/information literacy not to get Darwin’d out of existence, which is for the better.

While I agree the UK law is nuts, and its citizens either need to revolt or kill all their children & stop breeding (probably for the best) to comply with their law, I’m just writing about principles for robust web content like don’t just post an image of text

1. the disabled can’t read &
2. that’s vulnerable to failure for any number of reasons including geoblocking due to insane laws.

Text alternatives are resilient to failure & provide richer features (usability, accessibility) than images.

Another great argument for text alternatives such as link to text-based (archived) sources: graceful failover & accessibility.

Cybercrime isn’t “research”?

OP thinks security researchers don’t understand how to properly serialize data for correct deserialization. OP also thinks they largely use CSV.

Spay & neuter them?

Your claims lack links to supporting references. At least I provide them & link to multiple distinct passages that all seem to converge to the same conclusion. As for the translation, we’re not about to learn ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, & Greek to refer to the earliest texts. This is where linking to a more faithful translation would come in if you can do that.

refer to the pagan concept of an afterlife

Not pagan: the Torah refers to Sheol as either (1) a metaphor for grave or (2) a bleak netherworld where all the dead reside (comparable to Hades). The Tanakh (Daniel 12:2) mentions a general resurrection & afterlife. This made its way into the Old Testament.

The Pharisaic school, which became Rabbinic Judaism, claimed to keep an explanatory Oral Torah for the written Torah, which they eventually codified as the Talmud. This started with the 2nd Temple period before & concurrent with early Christianity, thus influencing its scriptures. The Talmud refers to an afterlife in terms of Sheol, Olam Ha-Ba, Gehinnom:

• Olam Ha-Ba: a place of reward for the righteous
• Gehinnom: a cursed valley identified in the Torah that also refers to a place of 12-month punishment/purification for the impure before they may proceed to Olam Ha-Ba. (The utterly wicked may not proceed.)

Cultures evolve & acquire ideas from exposure to other cultures. Their traditions & mythological texts are no exception. Judaism & early Christianity likely adopted ideas of duality of good & evil, free will, resurrection, an afterlife, divine justice from contacting cultures.^[1]

in line with Pharisaic Judaism

The word in question there is “gehenna” which carries a very specific meaning that does not, in any way, infer an afterlife.

They claimed the contrary: see earlier mention of Gehinnom (the Hebrew name for Gehenna).

the unrighteous are destroyed

In all translations, the famous passage in Matthew about sorting the sheep & goats to different sides specifically mentions eternal punishment for those who don’t get eternal life. Moreover, resurrection is a life after death, ie, an afterlife. None of this is consistent with lack of punishment.

As I wrote before, the Bible is inconsistent, so even the Bible you claim is mistranslated indicates you’re right about the absence of an afterlife & the absence of hell. They both do & don’t exist!

We’re both right. We’re both wrong. Welcome to inconsistency: you can read absolutely anything into the Bible.

I checked before writing the last comment, and it’s mentioned a few times. Nonbelievers are punished in the afterlife.

Only “born-again”/baptized enter heaven

and believers should not perish, but get everlasting life.

As for those who do perish, that happens in hell.

Nonbelievers are denied entry.

This all appears in the New Testament.

The older, Jewish scriptures don’t mention hell. However, Deuteronomy 13 is all about Moses instructing the Israelites to murder heretics. Moral bankruptcy.

The Bible is an inconsistent mess that people can read anything into. Referring to it is an exercise in cherry-picking. It has good Jesus parts, but there’s the whole rest of the morally bankrupt nonsense with evil god shit:

• vengeful god who
  • commands genocide, demands worship, & creates evil
  • punishes disobedience with curses, plagues, cuckoldry, cannibalism to eat your own children, slavery, infighting
• endorses genocide, killing innocents, slavery, selling daughters to sex slavery, rape, forced marriage of victim to their rapist, inequality of women
• weird purity codes against pork & shellfish; mixing fibers, crops, animals; particular facial hairstyles; tattoos; body modification; etc.
• an afterlife that punishes nonbelievers who do good

all while claiming to be the final word of god. Arguing for good while referring to the Bible requires willfully overlooking all of that: it isn’t good.

Aka: Custom ROMs, or at the very least, root access (which requires bootloader unlocking)

Nah, only “certified Android devices”, ie, those certified for and that ship with Play Protect, will block apps unsigned by a verified developer, and Play Protect can be disabled. Standard.

which requires you upload your government issued ID (and $25 payment)

Nope on cost: free for personal use.

Moreover, installs over Android Debug Bridge bypass verification entirely.

Will Android Debug Bridge (ADB) install work without registration? As a developer, you are free to install apps without verification with ADB.

If I want to modify or hack some apk and install it on my own device, do I have to verify? Apps installed using ADB won’t require verification.

Enabling developer mode for that isn’t a big deal.

This all seems like a huge nothingburger by people who don’t read.