Since I fully transitioned from Windows for personal use, and moved to MacOS and Gnome, every time I have to work with Windows 11, I just find myself swamped in UI garbage. It's not even the intrusiveness, it's literally just how messy and confusing everything is. I suppose with some effort I could learn to navigate around more efficiently, but why the hell would I?

The Romans exiled most of the Jews from Palestine after the failed Jewish uprisings between 64 and 132 CE (encompassing multiple revolts). After that, even before the Edict of Milan in 313CE, the region became a major Christian center, but after the Christianization of the Roman Empire it was overwhelmingly Christian. When the Muslims invaded the region in the 7th century CE, there weren't a lot of Jews in the region, and it was majority Christian.

And just to tell you who the real enemies of the Jews were, when the First Crusade made its way to the Holy Land, the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 led to the savage butchery of Jews and Muslims in the city. After the loss of the Crusader kingdoms in the region, it was Turkish territory, and while the Ottomans weren't always terribly nice to Jews, they were a helluva lot better than the Christians, and there was a steady flow of Jews back into the area during the Ottoman period.

And there were most certainly people living in Palestine, as there was resistance to Jews who began building settlements. It was not, as later claims would have it, an empty land. Most of the owners of the land were absentee landlords, but that is not the same thing at all.

But no, the Muslims did not displace the Jews, that was the Romans, some 1700 or 1800 years before Jews began returning in significant numbers.

You mean economic migrants, highly motivated people that are often far more productive than the people who live there, whilst simultaneously being the targets of moronic bigots.

The North American metric is "Free time??? Clearly we haven't given you enough to do..."

In other words, you made it up.

Oh noes!!! We have to treat people with respect again! How fucking awful! Why can't we just be openly Nazi sympathizers and want dark skinned people arrested by masked soldiers, and kick the odd trans around for giggles? Sociopathy is sooooo great.

Let's be very brutally honest. If a child is molested, the odds are most likely that it will be a close relative or friend of the family. It's fathers, sadly, who are by far the most likely perpetrators of sexual assault on minors.

I'm an atheist, so in one sense I have no horse in this race. But while there's no denying the Church hierarchy protected pedophiles, and for a lot longer than even many Catholics would like to believe, it's not a central tenet of the Catholic faith. The Trinity, the Immaculate Conception, the Theokotos, the Ascension, Papal Infallibility when speaking ex cathedra, and the soteriological nature of the Church, those are core tenets.

And so is Matthew 7:5, which is in Catholic and in most Christian traditions the very heart of Christian ethics.

You're making a claim identical to the one made during the Satanic Panic against D&D and heavy metal. If you have some evidence that ChatGPT is any greater facilitator of the mentally ill than FM radio or orange juice, do please provide it.

Imagine being downvoted for posting "judge not lest ye be judged."

I'm having a hard time parsing what about my post you have object to.

You mean the way people have been entering the US since a pack of religious fanatics showed up in Plymouth Bay. And just what problems does this cause in your view and how are those problems worse than, say, climate change, ground water contamination and over extraction?

It's all down to the Lunar DEI hires. In fact it's DEI that killed the dinosaurs.

They said that about D&D and Judas Priest when I was growing up. You see, people a fucking idiots and easily frightened, so are easily convinced that playing a wizard in a dice game or listening to Rob Halford sing will cause young folks to kill babies and drink their blood.

Did I mention that people are fucking idiots? I don't think you can say that enough times.

A moral panic just wouldn't be complete without invoking Satan worship.

Or, as I like to say, people are pathetic fucking morons who get scared of pointless, ineffectual and in some cases non-existent things, while actually tangible crises unfold.