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@lemmy.worldFor a while I've been thinking that all sports should get rid of gendered male/female competitions and replace them with weight categories that take into account physiological characteristics like muscle mass, testosterone levels, weight, height, etc. This would result in, say, three to four categories ranging from lightweight to heavyweight.
Why wouldn't this work?
Yeah, I know that gnostic atheism is a theoretical position to hold, but I've never actually met an atheist that holds that view. The vast, vast majority of atheists ascribe to a scientific world view that is based around the concepts of evidence and burden or proof. As such, trying to argue belief in the non-existence of a non-existent being (i.e. "I firmly believe that God definitely doesn't exist") is not compatible with that logic, whereas "I don't believe in God, because there isn't enough evidence" is.
When it comes to explaining atheism to religious friends and family members, I've found the best approach to be this: Ask them if they believe in any other Gods except their own (Zeus, Ganesh, The Yellow Emperor, etc.) When they say no, you say "Ok, so my list of Gods I Don't Believe In is one longer than yours."
there's no wyantonrpove the existence of A god, atheists must believe that that's the truth.
What you're describing here is agnosticism, not atheism. Agnostics claim that the existence of God is either 1) not known, but certainly possible, or 2) unknowable to begin with.
Atheism, on the other hand,
is not an affirmative belief that there is no god nor does it answer any other question about what a person believes. It is simply a rejection of the assertion that there are gods. Atheism is too often defined incorrectly as a belief system. To be clear: Atheism is not a disbelief in gods or a denial of gods; it is a lack of belief in gods.
IMO, the first statement is half-stupid, the second one is half-overcomplicated :)
Welcome to English, my friend. No one ever claimed that it wasn't a pain in the arse to learn :)
It's more than that; they don't understand the difference between belief and non-belief.
Lol well teaching this professionally surely makes me some form of authority (albeit of course not the authority!) on this subject.
To clarify, your original point sounded like you were making a distinction between metaphorical mirrors and actual mirrors:
"in the mirror" tends to more often refer to a metaphorical "mirror", typically when discussing self-reflection
"in a mirror" tends to refer most often to actual mirrors that exist in reality, not metaphorically
This incorrect distinction is what I was objecting to, because of course we can use both the indefinite and definite articles to refer to either literal or figurative mirrors.
Nope, as I explained in my other comment, it's standard usage.
In English, we often use the definite article when speaking in general about a specific activity or action that involves a non-specific object. E.g. "go to the bathroom" or "catch the bus", or "read the newspaper". It's not poor form at all.
A fair guess, but this isn't one of those times when a grammatical error becomes normalized through common usage.
There is no grammar rule that separates speaking literally versus metaphorically in this case.
"You have something on your face; go take a look in the mirror" is just as grammatically correct in English as "You need to take a good look in the mirror and change your ways."
I've explained why this is standard usage in English in my comment here.
English teacher here. Articles in English can be really confusing but essentially we use the definite article in this situation because:
I've never had to deal with Broadcom drivers or pinned the kernel, so I can't tell you anything about that. The LTS kernel (currently 6.6.32-1) still updates regularly, albeit not nearly as often as the stock Arch kernel, so that means fewer updates that require a reboot.
Just install linux-lts
and linux-lts-headers
via pacman, and you're good to go.