lastweakness

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023
  • lastweaknesstopolitics •What is the "Mamdani Act"? GOP bill would ban socialists, Marxists from US
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    3 days ago

    It’s a bit weird in Islam. So some important context first.

    Basically all of Islam’s rules/laws and stories come from two sources: the Quran and Hadith. You probably already know of the Quran but it’s what they believe to be God’s words verbatim. Hadith, on the other hand, is basically everything the prophet said or did, as recorded by different people.

    The Quran was compiled almost immediately after Muhammed died. But Hadith was compiled 2 centuries after that.

    To get to the more positive conclusions, you would need to deny a very specific Hadith narrated by Aisha herself. But we only know that she said that because her nephew said so to his students, who then said so to others… So it’s a matter of the verifiability of that chain of trust. But if you believe that Hadith to be false, it would cast doubt on the rest of Hadith and people are not a fan of that idea.

    So instead, most Muslims just accept that he’s a pedophile but get offended when you call him a pedophile.

  • lastweaknesstopolitics •What is the "Mamdani Act"? GOP bill would ban socialists, Marxists from US
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    4 days ago

    I can shed some light as an ex-Muslim. There are a bunch of common, disgusting excuses: “times were different”, “girls used to mature faster”, “it was common back then”.

    There’re more interesting possibilities though. It’s true that it was a political marriage that was basically forced onto Muhammed. But an extension of that reasoning is that the consummation never happened either.

    It’s been a while since I looked at this stuff but I remember that there’s actually also a surprisingly compelling case against her ages being 6 and 9. But it would still be 13 to 16 IIRC. The historical side of this is pretty interesting (like how hadith was compiled vs the quran), but not really worth discussing here.

    Anyway, yeah, like every other religion, just a cult that grew too large. Anything but admitting that they’re wrong.

  • lastweaknesstoLinux@programming.dev•Distrodle - Linux Distro Guessing Game
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    10 days ago

    { “id”: “android”, “name”: “Android”, “paid”: false, “initSystem”: “init”, “releaseType”: “Rolling”, “parentDistro”: “Independent”, “packageManager”: “pm”, “difficulty”: “Intermediate”, “yearReleased”: 2008, “desktopEnvironment”: “Mobile UI”, “architecture”: “ARM, x86”, “category”: “Mobile”, “popularity”: “Very High”, “discontinued”: “No” }

    Why? How the hell does this make sense?

    Was kinda fun but a lot of fields don’t make sense for a lot of distros.

  • lastweaknesstoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•POV: M$ releases a new VSCode version
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    23 days ago

    Do you work for Zed or something?

    Nope. I do have a single contribution to Zed and an extension. No attachment to the community or project though. But I do see that they are passionate enough to walk back on decisions that their community tells them is bad.

    you’ll be happy Gram exists.

    That’s the thing. I don’t think so. Looking at its commit history, Gram is already significantly behind on features and more importantly, fixes. If/when enshittification happens, I’d rather have an up-to-date fork and I’d rather it be a fork for a more valid reason.

    Edit: to clarify: I’m not really against gram, i just don’t understand why it exists right now. It also seems like the dev is relatively new to rust. All in all, it just feels like something that should have happened a bit later.