That I have a nice phone number.

Racist against the mankind.

I don't buy much clothes but I'm in need to order some new ones. Zalando was great because of the vast selection of brands - despite them making it harder to filter on environmentally better options already several years ago. Now I don't want to use them any more. Any suggestions for good, ethical and preferably environmentally friendly online stores for Sweden/EU?

It doesn't have to be a person or an entity or deity.

I haven't been nerdying on religion for much long many moons but AFAICR Buddhism has this core idea that "yeah we have symbols and chants and icons and totems and rituals and we pray but the more we dedicate ourselves we understand that they are just there for us to see beyond them into the nothing and the everything". In Buddhism this has evolved into place, so it would be interesting to see if it was possible to kickstart straight into some sort of non deity centric anti religion without the animistic precursory heritage.

I'd prefer not to. I'd like to make it Buddhist philosophy inspired non-religion if possible. But people seem to have this need of something to gather around and have rituals and festivities and believe in so religion is still useful. I'm thinking it would be easier to get everybody pulling together early on in a theocracy though the deep teaching aims to dissolve itself.

The teachings would promote (or demand) something of an egalitarian society with food and shelter and healthcare for everybody and encourage learning and education and culture and arts and own responsibility and critique and discussion and questioning the whole shebang in orderly fashion with ongoing goals of improving it for everybody.

First steps would be to create a religion with all the usual "be kind and caring and patient and forgiving and nice in general to others and yourself" and then "do not be an asshole unless the others were an asshole first and then you may respond in moderation with an appropriate pinch of extra salt" and the ritual of an Aztec pyramid with slice and dice and flush them down the sewage sacrifice of any billionaires and power hungry totalitarians and corrupt public servants. Every year that do not require any sacrifice pleases the gods. But any year it is needed, the gods are content that required action was taken.

Idk, I think people are showing their needs of belonging more than in a long time, be it nationalistic or political or ideological or religious or social media cliques or influencer following or family or heritage or skin colour or sports teams. Because these are dynamic times, so the tribal Us vs Them is way ahead in the front before other primal urges and basic needs.

Here in secular Sweden with the probably most inclusive state church in the world, they have found that young people are showing interest in religion more than in generations, except they don't want the all-inclusive "woke" church but prefer more traditional and fundamentalist flavours.

Biological programming goes a long way.

It goes hand in paw with being instinctively scared of things that can potentially kill you and other species evolution with patterns and markings that make them less likely to become a succulent meal, Chinese or not.

Some preemptive advice if you're in the market of integrating TTS for some customer or service:

Do not ever use any "humanisation" tweaks. Having a computer voice stumble on a word or fucking cough is uncanny valley and how to make people feel manipulated in one simple trick.

Just don't. Everybody hates it.

Marknaden löste åter sina egna problem att maximera vinsterna utan hänsyn till något annat.

If I've got it, I'd lend my long time best friends up to €1000 without question. I would not really expect them to pay it back. I trust that if or when they can they will. If they can't, they can't. People that are not my besties? No.

Another twenty plus years Linux server and devices admin and user that found last year that Linux is finally mature and stable enough to replace my desktop too without having the fiddle with it every once in a random update. It was a decision that I can accept making workarounds for legacy windows software and l can live without other eco system. Yeah, there are plenty of reasons that people are still running Windows and keep doing so.

Don't make being user of an operating system your identity, people. It's just as annoying and unnecessary as those Apple fanboys we all know and dislike.

I have an Asustor that is running Debian. It's just a PC in a NAS enclosure so why should it not.

Sennheiser?

Uh, you do know that according to Judaism, Jesus what not the Messiah? That is sort of what sprung off this entire Christianity thing.

Companies go out of business all the time and others decide to sunset systems in use so customers are required to upgrade despite it is still working. So yeah, be realistic about expectations for any external service you decide to invest in.

Edit; and some things like smoke detectors do in fact have a life span after which they are degrading. Ten years is normal for a smoke detector.

This is how >!you lost the game!<

Well, yeah. Once you see it is obvious. At least my mind struggled for a bit at first to comprehend if it was a street outside a window pane or what.

Because people know Firefox by name and it is good enough for most people. It is better that they use Firefox than not. Mozilla is way more trustworthy than both Google and Microsoft. Not everybody needs to get The Best©® by Nerd Standards™.