Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought they were saying that there are not other holidays observed by secular folks
Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought they were saying that there are not other holidays observed by secular folks
Not necessarily, there are a lot of secular Jews who still celebrate chanukah and passover, and even Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Many cities have some type of religious council. It may be helpful to reach out, as they may have some sort of list maintained. Alternatively, maybe contact the main school district. The superintendent’s office should have such a list for their scheduling purposes.
In either case, these lists should be pre-negotiated. The local religious leaders have already determined which key holidays should be recognized.
Calendars are arbitrary. Rosh Hashanah is on the first of Tishrei every single year. Not my fault that Pope Gregory the 13th came up with some ridiculous contraption that doesn’t even follow the moon in the 1580s.
What a silly thing to cling to.
Without regular access to the phone number, WhatsApp will not work. I know it’s a couple months (from long term travel), but not longer. I set up an account for the landline at work, but it fails every few months and has to be re-established
If you like Lemmy.World, why not set up the account on Mastodon.World? It’s the same admin/ops team.
I second moshidon, although I’ve just started using phanpy, which has some cool innovations. There is not nearly the wealth of Mastodon apps that we have here on Lemmy.
Woodworking or restoring old appliances and tools.
There should be at least 6 more ducks this time.
For sure! History is the scientific study of the past using all available evidence. If new evidence showed up, we should absolutely use it.
Take the Dead Sea Scrolls. They are a huge cache of texts, many over 2000 years old, containing biblical texts and fragments. The Vatican tried to buy up and conceal them, thinking that they might contradict existing manuscripts. They only let approved researchers have very limited access.
To help the research, some of the scholars created a concordance - basically a list of words and how many times each appeared. A copy was leaked. It became the world’s largest Wordle puzzle and some scholars were able to essentially reverse engineer it into the original text. They published the results, even identifying some of the speculated variants. It was so accurate that the Vatican ended up releasing the original scrolls for study. There was no longer a point to concealing it.
Although the discovery was tremendous for the field, it didn’t end up ruining anyone’s religion. It just offered new insights into the composition and development of the Bible. Pretty cool.
I haven’t seen it. Can you explain where you see it? I find the Amazon Container Addon pretty helpful, and you may also look into site-specific permissions, such as blocking microphone, camera, and location sharing on certain sites. If it is a certain element that show up, you may be able to block it using a custom setting in your ad blocker.
Or “in Soviet Russia, television watches YOU.”
I think that’s one of his.
Here are a few books I found about the lives of the super-wealthy.
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live–And How Their Wealth Harms Us All
Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent
And here is an interesting 20-min interview with the second author:
What’s It Like To Be Rich? Ask The People Who Manage Billionaires’ Money
I highly recommend the Hidden Brain Podcast.
Most civilized people put a big chonky case to protect the phone anyway.
Honestly, not checking in on each other.
There are a lot of stereotypes in this thread, and some I’ve encountered, some I haven’t. But I do know that there is an epidemic of loneliness among men, and it is very real and sometimes deadly.
By that I mean that communities can and do migrate away from bad admins. They also can and do start their own instances. The structure of the fediverse means that whoever runs the server holds the ultimate power on their own server, but they can’t really weild much leverage over the users.
This is true and I’ve seen it happen. Lemmy is fundamentally controlled by server-admins, but it belongs to the community. It’s also pretty easy to become a server admin (although difficult to be a good one).
It’s called squatting and is generally frowned upon. Sometimes people just love being in charge of lots of communities even if there is no actual community.
On the other hand, sometimes it is aspirational, in the sense that the creator hopes that having a place for people to post will lead to discoverability. One day someone may come across it and decide to post just because it is there.
I guess the two paragraphs are not mutually exclusive.
Sorry, swiping right or left on the spacebar in this case.
I’ve been using Kagi for the better part of a year. I find it removes about 2/3 of the time and effort between search and goal. There are a lot of very simple quality of life things that every search should have (and would have if not for user tracking).
Some people have fairly said that paid search is inherently privacy unfriendly. You have to log in to use it. That doesn’t really bother me, and if it doesn’t bother you, it’s great to use a quality search where you are not the product.