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thecoolcats 🌟

a silly programmer on the internet

17 followers 15 following 111 posts 79 Posts 11 Reposts 21 Replies 305 likes 0 muting 4 muted 0 ⚝ tags 0 ✕ tags 
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thecoolcats 🌟 reposted 2026-08-28 21:31 🇨🇦
people hating on LSP annoys me so much because like. what did it ever do to you. be slightly cringe? have poor pacing? sure but it can't be This Bad
simplicity 🌟 2026-08-28 20:50 🇳🇱
char.social stand united against LSP
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-28 21:31 🇨🇦
God allows a suspicious amount of child rape in His name
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-27 18:19 🇨🇦
it is evident everyone hates me
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-27 03:34 🇨🇦
these fucking cis women claiming they want to be trans women filling up my feed. YWNBART
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-27 02:40 🇨🇦
It's always "all cops are bastards" and never "all medical professionals are bastards." Why do people refuse to acknowledge some kinds of institutional abuse?
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-25 22:42 🇨🇦
honestly the majority of the time i see anything about femboys its sexualized and/or trans erasure
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-25 15:37 🇺🇸
why do cis people talk about having sex with a pre-op trans person like it's a bad thing??? i need me some gock..
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thecoolcats 🌟 2026-08-24 14:01 🇨🇦
modern tribal politics is largely a ploy to distract you from your civil liberties being sacrificed for the creation of a forever state
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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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