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thecoolcats 🌟

a silly programmer on the internet

17 followers 15 following 102 posts 72 Posts 10 Reposts 20 Replies 300 likes 0 muting 4 muted 0 ⚝ tags 0 ✕ tags 
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-02 21:33 🇨🇦
At it's simplest, libertarianism is the philosophy that an individual is wholly in control of their own life, and have freedoms thereof, so long as they do not infringe on the aforementioned liberties of others. Unfortunately, libertarianism, despite not necessitating a particular set of fiscal views, has become increasingly associated in some places with right-"libertarianism"; which neglects these ideals by extending said liberties to corporate structure.
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-02 16:49 🇨🇦
Libertarianism, to me, means freedom from corporate control just as much as it means freedom from government control.
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-02 16:45 🇨🇦
Fiscal policy is irrelevant. Control is control. I don't care if the control is from the state or from private corporations. It's still control, and it still stands in the way of individual liberty.
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-07-31 03:02 🇨🇦
shoving AI into everything ignores one of the most fundamental and beautiful aspects of our world – that everything that isn't natural is made by a human mind, with their own aspirations, goals, thoughts, and the leakage of those in their innovation
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-07-29 15:36 🇨🇦
This is not to say software isn't political btw; it absolutely is. The computer itself, though, couldn't care less.
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-07-29 15:35 🇨🇦
Computers! Don't! Care! About! Your! Pronouns! (or dislike thereof). Computing is egalitarian. Your computer isn't going to care about your philosophy. Your computer isn't going to discriminate against you on any basis, be that race, sex, sexuality, gender, or any other characteristic – immutable or not. Your computer is upset you fed it an unexpected NUL byte! You should solve that first, before making even the humble transistor a culture war issue.
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-07-16 04:20 🇨🇦
In case it isn't obvious (because I thought it was), I was raised Muslim.
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thecoolcats 🌟 reposted 2026-07-16 04:18 🇨🇦
I know this. I'm sure there was a real Muhammad who existed. I don't doubt either that he existed, or even that there are accurate accounts of his life. I'm saying Muslims do not revere that Muhammad. They revere the mythologized figure described in the Quran and Hadith, both of which are not reliable sources of information (as you've pointed out yourself!).
dawood 🌟 2026-07-10 10:19 🇨🇿
I thought I’d post all of this slowly, but since you’ve asked directly, I’ll post my response in a series of comments to this repost.

To summarise though.

There’s more evidence for the existence of Muhammad than probably any other figure in ancient history. The evidence we have is not like the Bible, where we don’t have even the names of the people narrating each gospel. No, for Muhammad, we have the names of each person and even the chain of narration, telling us each name that passed the story on until it gets to the person the writes it down.

Also, the timeline of Aisha’s marriage will also be in comments. Suffice to say, the age range we get for her marriage is between 14-24. Disturbing at the low end, but smashing the 6 or 9 myth and when precise numbers are involved, mostly by using the recorded age of her sister, the age we get for her at time of consummation of marriage is 20.
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thecoolcats 🌟 reposted 2026-07-16 04:15 🇨🇦
That fundamental physical process is called.. the regular chemistry of life. It's beautiful, don't get me wrong, but it's not special.
dawood 🌟 2026-07-10 14:03 🇳🇱
Neurons drive consciousness for sure, but there is no neuron for sight or hearing, rather there are networks of them that create the sensations of sight and hearing.

Also, on a fundamental physical level there has to be a physical process that allows this all to happen, otherwise you’re saying that neurons have this weird special place in reality.

If there’s a fundamental process driving consciousness then what I’ve said is true.
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thecoolcats 🌟 reposted 2026-07-09 17:14 🇺🇸
This is irrelevant, because the Muhammad who Muslims revere is not the Muhammad who actually lived. He's a mythologized figure. And regardless, can you show me one of these efforts to build a timeline?
dawood 🌟 2026-07-09 16:56 🇳🇱
To be clear, if you were to ask a lot Muslims what was true, they would take your position mostly based on respect for some long dead religious figure.

However, I’m telling you that if you interrogate the primary sources, you would struggle to corroborate the story. In fact, every attempt shows it to be false.

I have little interest in following some long dead religious figure that is deemed “authoritative”. My sole focus is in working out what is actually true.
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thecoolcats 🌟 reposted 2026-07-09 16:43 🇺🇸
This is blatant anthropocentrism. There is no reason consciousness is special. Consciousness is just what happens when neurons congregate. It is just chemistry doing what chemistry does. You can argue theism is spritiually beneficial (which I would debate) – but that doesn't make it more true, or somehow make consciousness integral.
dawood 🌟 2026-07-02 07:32 🇳🇱
Surely, atheism is closest to the truth, but it is missing only one small thing.

Consciousness is not a mistake, it is integral to the order of the universe in the same way gravity is.
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thecoolcats 🌟 reposted 2026-07-09 16:35 🇺🇸
This claim is that she was around the ages of six and seven, and that her marriage was consummated at nine. It comes from the two most authoritative of the Sunni Hadith books (collectively the Sahihayn): Sahih al-Bukhari 5133, and Sahih Muslim 1422 c.
dawood 🌟 2026-07-09 15:58 🇨🇿
It is often said one of Muhammad’s wives was 9 years old, but this is almost certainly not true.

The false stories come from a collection called, the Hadith. There is a story coming from one person stating the false age plainly.

However every attempt to construct a timeline of her life using many different people as sources gives us an age of around 20 at age of marriage.
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-07-04 17:42 🇺🇸
goto statements feel so good when there isn't a bitch in your ear telling you about structural programming
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-07-04 00:12 🇨🇦
Linguistic purism: 😡😤
Linguistic purism, Iceland: 😇🥰
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-06-11 00:37 🇺🇸
custody, the way it exists today, is a tool of oppression
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-06-09 14:09 🇺🇸
annoys me to hell when people find some premodern erotica and then are like "omg!!!! things never really change)
this buys in both to the idea that a) people from the past were somehow completely unrecognizable to us today and b) into purity culture, by implying that eroticism is new
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-06-07 00:42 🇨🇦
liberalism is built off maintaining the *image* of moral superiority by adapting left-wing and progressive ideas in a diluted enough fashion to be palatable to white cisheteropatriarchy
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-05-24 14:43 🇺🇸
It is not okay to tell people who are upset about their bodies that they have nothing to be upset about because "all bodies are perfect" or whatever. People should be allowed to be upset, dissatisfied even. Shocking concept, I know.
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-05-24 00:20 🇺🇸
Philosophers have been pondering the question of the purpose of life for millennia, and never even thought to ask an Internet poly lesbian (she believes the purpose of life is to kiss your girlfriends).
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-05-12 01:34 🇺🇸
i wish i was someone's comfort person
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