On the other hand, discord is a great way to help organize a community wiki.

When you are trying to build a community

…Don’t use community software, got it.

I just know this n***a eatin beans.

We live in an unprecedented time of compromising pluralistic societies and international cooperation.

This guy: “lets go back to tribalism”

But Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014

I know this is pedantic, but that’s just not right. Amish and Mennonites are generally distinct.

Well, Jakob Ammann, who the Amish are named after, was a member of a Swiss Brethren church (now called Mennonite) who didn’t think his Mennonite brethren did enough shunning (a core principle of the Swiss Brethren).

So he formed his own church. Eventually members in his church (surprise!), shunned him over some different differences, as it happens when you join a group with all the cantankerous people. And it continued so on and so forth.

The distinctions might be in practical matters that arise over time–like fabrics used in their dress, use of buttons vs hook fasteners, or use of technology, or use of English vs German, but theologically they’re pretty much identical and these differences are just natural things that happen over time.

An Amish church split is really just two groups mass shunning each other. There’s no real difference.

And I’m aware it probably doesn’t seem like that closer up, because I’m speaking very abstractly. But I can’t see how anything you’ve said disagrees with what I’ve said.

And, I want to say I do appreciate hearing your experiences. For the record: I have a degree in Bible, did some post-grad study on church history, have some family members who are Mennonite, and grew up pretty close to a large Amish community.

Correct. Amish are Mennonites who shun other Mennonites. The elders of their church decide for the local congregation what is and isn’t appropriate conduct. If you disagree, you are shunned.

If the congregation down the road disagrees, those folks are shunned.

So you get very customized, local, specific lists about what is and isn’t allowable.

Really, it looks more extreme, but it’s no different than independent baptist churches or churches of christ ‘disfellowship’-ing with other congregations over doctrinal minutia.

In all cases you will get a few congregations thinking that only their congregation of 20-50 folks are the only ones in the world who “go to heaven”. 😂

So, all Amish might not agree what technologies are worth shunning over, but they all agree that some technologies are worth restricting their members access to, upon penalty of shunning.

Yes absolutely.

Blocks [email protected]

But they trusted [youtuber]!!!

Again, Wuhan is literally only linked to this story as the first place it was reported. No evidence at all places it in Wuhan first.

And this is how you can completely deny reality.

Because it appeals to furries.

Linus Torvolds and the folks at kernel.org work to continually improve the kernel and ready it for each release cycle.

Ubuntu and other distro maintainers take that work and make sure that they are shipping to you a compiled kernel(s) that dependably works with all other software on their distribution.

Maybe someone close to him has a hot glue gun.

Be the only user that can run code as root.

Microsoft and their “trusted partners” do not deserve closer access to my hardware than I have.

It’s the internet, mate. The world is your oyster.

Get friends that only game on linux.

Linux compatibility or I send it back!

“Debra”

Deb is short for both spellings.

Deb & Ian

There are soooooo many games.

ZFS? pf?

The tooling is just superior in some cases.