First the porn, now the techno hippies? Oh god, who’s next?

I never really liked “J” because he was a pain in the ass but he earned my respect for that.

Tough but fair?

Two options:

Mod games until you get better at those. Start small, replacing textures with minor changes.

Help manage a mod project and fill soft skills gaps that the team has. Don’t push the actual people working on the game too hard, help organise

So how did you get so exposed to very specific Turkish home cooking? Good holiday, friend or partner?

Sure and the history of all atheism everywhere is rooted in communism, because it was invented by Karl Marx himself when he wrote “religion is the opiate of the masses”. /s

Take this as an opportunity to learn something. Goodbye.

And just because other religions do it doesn’t justify the practice. It is still a practice that is rooted in the patriarchal oppression of women. It just goes to show that religion, all of them, is an oppressive institution.

As some who has lived in and is from a culture where it’s optional based on how pious you are, this doesn’t ring true. While some places have it as oppression, sometimes people do it because they genuinely want to be modest, or feel more religious. Some people spend most of the time without it, and use it only for religious occasions, and it’s not forced.

I’ve visited graves with female family members who don’t wear it during day to day, and they put it on when visiting the gravesite, or during prayers. No one forced them. I’ve had family members who didn’t put it on when visiting the gravesite, and nothing happened to them, because it’s not obligatory in my culture.

We’ve even had headscarves (not face covering) be banned for people attending university or working for the government, in the name of secularism. In other cultures related to mine,

Unfortunately for atheist edgelords , the truth is more subtle and nuanced. It’s not as simple as “It’s oppressive!”.

There ARE people who do force it on others, and the widely accepted religious teaching is that it should NOT be that way. But extremists gonna extremist. There ARE people who enact the bans as a show of harassment towards ethnic minorities, for example, in not allowing people to participate in sports or swimming in adequate and safe aquatic apparel, in order to prevent religious people from participating in activities in the water.

Specifically headscarf bans have been enacted this way in western countries, but also in secular countries with 90+ percent muslim populations, in an attempt curb islamists from taking a foothold within the country.

It’s not at all cut and dry. Have a look into countries that have heavy percentages of muslim populations and their application of secularism OUTSIDE of the MENA region, where they do take this shit too far. Places in SE and Central Asia for example. They have problems with authoritarianism, yes, but, not in terms of religious oppression.

Surely if you’re going for a takeaway in Middlesbrough you get a parmo?

yeah you do. But when you live there, you mix it up from time to time. The kebab , peppers and salami reminded me of hotshot parmos. Also the tandoori chicken as a topping.

I live in one of the places that frequently gets in the top ten best places in the country to live. Not sure I’d agree, but then I’m a country boy at heart.

I guess none of that reflects on the place you live. Still, it’s fun to call out Boro and its lack of luster. You can probably corroborate with your friends what it’s like to live there, and when I was there, it was a shithole.

time to deliver a pizza ball

it also doesn’t make sense.

“I want russia to win the war,that’s why I’m sending reinforcements to ukraine”

why the changes? what’s the idea?

Many people take issue with the face coverings because it’s generally seen as a restriction imposed on women by men.

I think it’s more that it upsets a norm : you see and identify the person you are interacting through their face.

The fun part is when it’s an excuse to oppress religious minorities, and isn’t just about covering the face, but any variation of the religious outfit, even when it only covers their hair.

Especially when you look at old portraits, and most of the non-noble women had their heads covered. You look at nuns, you look at the Virgin Mary, they all have their heads covered.

Religious Jews, heads covered.

When muslims do it, we have to end this horrid oppression!

her tweet is here:

ilhan

https://xcancel.com/IlhanMN/status/2021372148896682175#m

Haven’t been there in many years

holy fuck, it was a close enough guess for you to have been there.

I posted that because it reminded me of the takeaways up there, and that it’s been consistently a horrible place to be. In fact, it was called the worst place to live in the UK in 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7120486.stm

which one?

Abi biraz yavaş gel, “BEN TÜRKÜM” dile levha koymuş gibisin.

how is Middlesbrough? Is it still a shithole?

thinly slightly sliced zucchini & a little cheese

fucking california

yeah, no clue. but at least someone else might know

Moved my three laptops to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorrin. A week later I’m still dealing with issues setting them up.

dunno about zorin, but what’s the issues with ubuntu/mint?

And yeah, a lot of the time people will oversell the amount of progress made with linux for noobs, it’s come a long way and those OSes *should* be foolproof, but tricky and unsupported hardware be tricky and unsupported.

Doesn’t help that some things are massive traps, like dual graphics card when at least one of them is NVidia, removing support for existing things via early wayland adaptation, etc etc.

“But it works on my thinkpad! ™️” Well , not everyone bought a thinkpad/found one next to the trash.