Yeah I meant like the end result since yours is the clean white look and mine is very busy lol

I go even further on the minimal UI personally lol. Black box over the date/time is an edit and the theme I have is animated so it has rain partiles falling down. But I like as much of my screen as possible to be the content and want the browser out of the way. I'm hoping they don't entirely break my current setup. It's technically Floorp but that's Firefox based so we'll see.

Edit: Figured I should clarify. When I say minimal I mean like how MUCH of the UI I have. Like tabs and search bar in the same row. I don't mean like minimalism. I'm clearly more maximalist in my themeing than you lol.

A completely ridiculous article that is as divorced from reality as current paper oil markets. They speak of this as if it is a bump in the road. Look at their graphs. First they assume the strait will reopen by the end of May. Ridiculous. Then they say how bad it will be if it "takes a few more weeks" to reopen. It will never reopen the way it was before. It is Iran's now. They are not giving it back to the west and its puppets.

Then let's assume for a moment they were right. Why do their graphs show a mere months until production levels reach the previous level again? When the gulf states themselves admit it will take years. Their infrastucture is damaged. They have had to shut down production. Even if the strait reopened today the production would not reach normal levels again for years. And it won't reopen today. It will stay as it is, and they will have to pay Iran's tolls.

Ironically American Revolutionary Thomas Paine in his Common Sense said something that explains this quite well, "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,[...] Time makes more converts than reason."

Well it is actually true that an integral part of Christianity itself is the imperative to spread or proselytizing. It is baked into the religion itself. Originally this was an idea to convert all Jews to the new religion, but it was Saul of Tarsus, or the Apostle Paul, who introduced the idea that this should apply to all peoples, not just Jews.

In the words of the Bible itself: Matthew 28:19–20: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them... teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." Mark 16:15: "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation."

So while you may be correct that there is a psychologal aspect to it as well, it is also true that it is simply a part of their religion. They are taught that they should do this. It is generally seen as a holy duty to convert others and save their souls.

I would honestly just create a tiny dual boot of another linux distro with LUKS KVM encryption on the entire thing. It has its own sudo, and is locked behind your encryption password. You just boot into a small 30GB or so private session that only you have access to while leaving the main distro untouched.

How bold of you to claim atheists do not have a national holiday a mere TEN DAYS prior to National Donut Day!

I would push back on the idea that humans inherently want to push their religions on people. In actuality that behavior is an effect of the memetic construction of more modern religions. Memetics being the concept "viral ideas" or contagious ideas. Where an idea becomes a thing of its own and spreads without outside interference. (yes like memes). The polytheistic religions were generally not so inclined to spread their religion to others. They'd show up in a forgein land and see other peoples worshipping gods and either think those were the names for their own gods here or think that these are just the gods of this land. The Greeks for example would make offerings to Isis while in Egypt.

The more recent idea of "An imperative to spread" is an invention of christianity that was picked up by Islam as well. Over time much like our societies evolve the ideas we have evolve too. It's natural selection. Given enough time any idea that has baked into it the imperative to spread will overtake ideas that do not. Hence the death of paganism in Europe and the dominance of Islam, and Christianity in that region by comparison over the last few centuries.

Eventually (As is already happening to some extent with political ideologies imo) a new memetic construct will come along that outcompetes christianity. Just as the christians before it absorbed paganism (Arch Angels and Demons are literally just pagan gods given new names) this new one will absorb christianity and outcompete it and the other religions into near extinction. This may be a new religion of its own, it may be a political movement, it may be something else. Whatever it is it will better fit the material conditions of the current world than the now quite outdated christianity which was more suited to a medeival time period. Giving it an advantage and leading to inevitable spread.