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  • Proof of a powerful entity is just proof of something we haven’t seen before. If it can be observed directly or indirectly it becomes something that exists, which is why nothing is supernatural.

    The concept of a deity can’t exist alongside proof, as they are no longer a deity.

    I’m an atheist as far as real life goes but absolutely love deities and the supernatural in fiction/role playing games like D&D, media, etc.







  • Sub moderation and site administration are two different things. Site administration wants engagement numbers, mods want to reduce their workload.

    Popular subs are run by moderators who don’t want spammers and trolls with new accounts so they put in the karma restrictions so the smaller subs can get those users first. They also have what they think is ‘spammer and troll behavior patterns’, which looks the same as a new user who wants to post in a specific high traffic sub with a karma requirement It is stupid, but they have fewer comments to moderate in their very busy subs so they consider that a win. They want long term users who have a history they can use, because they are popular.

    Most reddit subs not run like that.

    But the reasons that lead to that end result are wanting engagement numbers to increase shareholder value as the other two printed out. That is also reddit administration doesn’t seem to do anything significant about bots posting slop, because it inflates those numbers.












  • snooggums@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSome things don't change
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    A lot of sciences find core assumptions were not complete or based on the wrong thing. Health practices that have been around for millenia, like like food safety and sanitation, were successfully implemented using the wrong causes because they addressed the real causes. While they were not called science, they still used the same practices of comparing outcomes in the ways available at the time.

    Bloodletting was originally to let out evil or something, then was used in formal medicine successfully but the cause it addressed was incorrect. Now we have much better ideas of how and when it helps to make it even more effective, but the underlying reasons and the methods changed completely.