was in 1990s tv too

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-mean/

Imagine letting yourself get emotional about ghe “asshole community” of a “tiling compositor”.

Anything can get to you if that can.

While by Wikipedia’s nature, nobody can precisely claim to speak or act on behalf of the site as a whole, Gerard comes about as close as anyone really could. He’s been a volunteer Wikipedia administrator since 2004, has edited the site more than 200,000 times, and even served off and on as the site’s UK spokesman.

…in addition to volunteering as a Wikipedia administrator, Gerard is the system administrator and owner of the Twitter account for RationalWiki

Wikipedia ties with RationalWiki is a cause for concern

they invented those too afaik

Bloke

No, because it’s circular logic.

It is, and that’s inherent in the problem under consideration, the problem of the ‘uncaused caused’ or the ‘first mover’. Logic can either be A) circular or B) not-circular. Any not-circular logic must explain each element by referring to a prior, but then you’ve got an infinite regress. So you’re trapped in a dilemma: do you want the circular logic or the infinite regress? Liebniz’s choice was to say that God was inherently existent, like when Lao Tzu said 道法 自然

There’s no reason for a necessary being to exist before it does

Correct. It is necessary: it is self-causing. It does not stand upon a ‘reason’, unlike everything else in conditioned existence.

to exist before it does

You’re assuming it is subject to the laws of linear time and causation, and point out how that assumption leads to a contradiction. But Liebniz’s God is not subject to the laws of linear time and causation. Which is the whole point of positing it: because if it were subject to those laws: infinite regress.

and no evidence that one does in the real world.

Well the world exists, so all this existence must have some cause. That was the starting point of the conversation: Why is there something instead of nothing?

Well Liebniz said it’s because of a necessary being bearing the reason for its existence within itself, if that helps.

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Why is there something instead of nothing

Cool story

But at what cost???

stackexchange will probably give you a better answer than lemmy (that’s me trying to be helpful with good advice)

“Civil without censorship” 🤨

“Decentralized Moderation” 😄

It’s back

what does “pull a Digg” mean?

Did this just happen within the past hour or two?

Free as in free beer?

the title says it all 😀

The title says almost nothing

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