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Eh, that is kinda the appeal of Reddit, and its alternatives. Finding smaller communities of likeminded individuals that you can group into a tailored feed.

I always say the magic of this model is that it's not just a firehose of every possible interest, it's more like a shower of dozens of tiny handpicked jets. It just happens that on Lemmy, the "All" feed is still reasonably tailored to the main demographic here. That being tech nerds who dislike Reddit's recent decisions enough to make a change.

Legally responsible, for one.

I.E. If a federated instance hosted pedophilia, that content would be copied to, and served by, your instance's infrastructure, which is obviously legally problematic.

Mine is still that (on Mac, at least) the only way to update Apple apps is by updating the whole system. Work requests we don't update our macs, and now I still can't edit texts from my computer.

Oh, what an interesting idea! I like this, on Monday I'll test out switching to this as my main search engine for work and try to report back how it goes!

Surprisingly legible, but feels like I can only read it with momentum, flitting past it and letting my subconscious tell me where the word breaks are. The moment I get confused and look more closely, it becomes almost impossible to read.

So true, I have to do this with some predatory mobile game or another every year or two. Sometimes one of them just gets you.

Ah yeah, there is some of that? Not totally unfounded, although my understanding is more that Angels know God is there, and always have, so they don't have to have faith, and they don't have the "sin nature" we do as a result of Adam and Eve eating that apple. Basically they don't seem to have that natural selfishness we do, so their relationship with God isn't as personal, and obedience to him comes much more easily. We are more "like God" ("made in his image", in Genesis terms). As such, those who do follow God will "rank higher" than angels, whatever that actually looks like.

That said.... it's a bit ridiculous to assert that they don't have any free will, because a bunch of them rebelled against God. It wouldn't surprise me if Catholic ideology disagrees with me here though, although I don't think there's much of that in the actual text of the Bible.

Happy to help! I like studying this stuff, and it's fun to share it when I get the chance.

Honestly, I suspect the "demons torture humans in hell" probably originates from their seeming to want to torture the possessed.

Because in the biblical conception of hell, it's very much not "demons torture humans" it's more like a lake of fire to torture the demons, which unfortunate humans are also thrown into. There's no organization or structure whatsoever. Also, nobody is currently there, humans are just... dead, or in purgatory/Gehenna, a sort of neutral waiting place, waiting to be raised back to life at the end, and sorted then.

Their role biblically seems to be just... acting against God, out of spite for being kicked out, perhaps? They seem to act to tempt humans not to find/love/follow God. Not much is given as to their motivations though, the Biblical authors truly aren't that interested in them, besides as a warning about temptation. A shame, as they're obviously just... fascinating to learn about, but it's not a priority for them to write about.

They also aren't given much credit, either. Rather than the "epic struggle of God vs Satan" we like to characterize, it's more like... Satan and demons are permitted to roam about, but are absolutely beneath God, and can/will eventually be rounded up and thrown out very quickly. They're characterized as accidentally playing a role in Gods plan, and given tentative leash for that reason. Satan apparently is even still allowed to visit heaven, and argues with God? See Job. Him getting locked out of heaven permanently is one of the kickoff moments of Revelation/the biblical apocalypse. Again, not much detail on this relationship, and honestly some of even this much detail is speculation.

The modern conception of "hell" is quite interesting, as it's mostly just imaginative fiction, likely heavily inspired by pagan cultures that merged with Christianity as it spread across the world.

Surprisingly, a lot of the creepy media is fairly accurate, though extreme. Demons aren't prominent, we know they are angels who rebelled with Lucifer, and were cast out, so that would be their appearance, but in reference to possession, we basically have those that Jesus encountered and a few his apostles drove out in his name later on.

And what we see are people behaving almost like animals, screaming, shouting, with an inhuman strength to break chains or whatever locals have tried to contain them with, and inflicting a lot of self harm. There's a woman who would throw herself into fires, a man who had 100 demons in him (where "I am legion" comes from") who would throw himself onto rocks and off cliffs and cut himself, etc.

The more manufactured elements are the head twisting, anything to do with pentagrams, and honestly a lot of the hostility to others. People usually steered clear, but demon possessed individuals generally did more self harm than harming others, with cases where Jesus would meet them within cities, and they weren't surrounded by dead people or a panicking mob or anything. They also don't "haunt" or hunt people like they do in movies, but are usually extremely obvious.

Anyway, that's my experience purely from biblical account, off the top of my head, I'm sure others can add more detail or examples.

Exactly, my wife mentioned just last week that she doesn't like her AirPod 3's due to the fit, and that she's considering asking for a new pair of 2's this Christmas instead. Glad to hear they might be going back on that design change, for her sake.

Honestly, I think the situation was handled excellently. Feels like a miracle that I've not heard any stories about the new guy getting death threats, after the reaction to Charles not voicing Mario in the movie, and the love for him in general.

Oh, fantastic! Glad you used some of the quiet time to get some work done without us all breathing down your neck lol.

I've still been kicking around on TestFlight, both out of laziness in not wanting to test and find something else, and hopes you might return, so this is wonderful news!