If you're asking why a Satanist would want you to believe any particular thing, I think a significant majority of Satanists would agree: nobody wants you to believe anything in particular. Proselytism is something Satanists probably tend to hate about other religions.

But if you're wondering why Satanists believe it (or at least why the Satanists who believe it believe it -- though I expect that's a very popular belief among Satanists)...

It's kindof the whole deal with the left-hand path. The way left-hand path sort of folks will describe it to you, the right-hand path is about trying to get "closer to god" by being more "holy" to get more in god's good graces. The left-hand path is about becoming (a) god (or perhaps to recover from the right-hand-path-originated delusion that you're not a god already). To claim/own power oneself rather than to supplicate to another being. (Mind you, there are left-hand path practices centered around working with entities, but even those have as their goal to request the assistance of said entities in order to be(come) a god oneself.)

Honestly, if there's one belief more widespread among folks who identify with the "left-hand path" label than that they either are or ought to become a god, I'm not sure what it would be.

Oh, one more thing I'll say. It's probable, at least in my estimation, that a certain fairly sizeable percentage of Satanists out there may "believe" the statement "I am a god" more as an affirmation, goal, self-fulfilling prophesy, or some such than as a tenet.

Yeah, I think auzy1 is trying to be nice. Heh.

But yeah. There's no question who he's talking about.

Yeah, I... might still have a little bit of hope for Ladybird, but I'm really concerned about it. It seems like a) it may be pretty AI sloppy and b) they seem to be pretty in-bed with FUTO. Both of those seem like huge red flags to me.

I dunno. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised, but I'm worried.

I love Mesecons. Every now and then, I get a hankering to just go build a counter-and-seven-segment-display or some such using only "wires" and logic gates (none of the fancier nodes like the microcontroller one or anything). I've only really ever used Mesecons in creative mode, but maybe some day I should change that.

You definitely do want to be careful with it on public servers, though. The "command block" can do arbitrary admin commands and if not locked down can be used (I almost said "exploited" but if you just leave that open, is it really an "exploit"?) by any user who can build one to run any admin command. I don't remember if there are any other blocks that can be used to similar ends.

And here I thought @[email protected] didn't engage with /c/linuxsuckssucks any more.

Madthumbz owns /r/linuxsucks101 on Reddit. And even on /r/linuxsucks it's commonly known that he's a dumbass troll.

@[email protected] Did you come to Lemmy because everyone on Reddit calls you a troll?

I didn't ask specifically about smooth or chunky. I just said "nut butters" and she said that wasn't a good idea. Maybe I should have pushed back a bit. 🤷

I guess technically "smooth" nut butters still have chunks, just much much smaller chunks, but yeah. It does make sense that a smooth nut butter would probably be much safer.

Actually, I had a root canal not terribly long before I had the periodontal surgery. The tech there said not to eat anything sticky (listing "bubble gum" as an example). I asked about "nut butters" and she said "I don't know what that is". Lol. I had to specify "like peanut butter". And she said "oh, right. Not a good idea."

So, honestly, when I asked the periodontist about nut butters, it seemed like a long shot in my mind even before I asked, just because the endodontist had said "no" on the nut butter thing. Might have made me less apt to push back and ask something like "even if it's smooth?"

That shell script looks like it'll run really slow.

Candygram.

The right image also needs to be screaming at the top of their lungs at 6:30am.

I sometimes have trouble keeping my weight up to healthy levels, and so I eat cashew butter almost every day.

But I recently had periodontal surgery. They told me a bunch of dietary restrictions afterword (soft foods, no straws, that sort of thing) and I asked specifically about "nut butters" to make sure that was ok. To my dismay, they said that nut butters had chunks of stuff (nuts, specifically) that would not be good to get into the healing sutured wound.

I lost a bit of weight that week while floundering for something high-calorie that I could eat to make up for the lack of cashew butter in my diet. (Plus, eating was more of a PITA than usual given how much extra thought I had to put into my diet before I started preparing myself a meal. "Oh I can have thi- no wait, it's got chunks of jalapenos in it. How about... no that won't work either." That kind of thing.)

What I finally settled on to hold me over until I was healed enough eat cashew butter again was: half-and-half. It's super high-calorie. Worked quite well. I had like one or one-and-a-half cups of it a day.

Now, that I'm more healed, I'm still glad to be back to eating cashew butter, though. Half-and-half was fine and all, but not as good.

MAGA tears have what plants crave.

As a miser myself I've never heard the word used to mean anything but cheapskate/stingy.

... obviously?

(Archive to get around paywall)

I think he's confusing bond markets with Bond... James Bond, the guy who keeps defeating villains like Trump in all those movies.

Standard human nutritional portion #729.

Yes, but we aren't descended from modern apes living in Africa or in zoos in 2026.

I think it's time we start thinking seriously about reducing our reliance on browsers (without increasing our reliance on proprietary clients).

Put them all together and you get the Green Lantern franchise. (The comics more than any on-screen media.)