There’s a lot to unpack with that quote, and a full analysis requires us to consider the functions that opium served at the time Marx wrote. Asprin would not be invented for another 15 years after Marx died. Laudanum and morphine, both opiates, were extremely common pain-management tools of the era.

The full quote (supposing you like this particular translation), sheds some light on the context:

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

While I feel that the modern interpretation of (the snippet of) his quote is apropos, I think it’s also good to analyze what he was actually trying to say. These days I interpret Marx to be trying to essentially say “Religion serves as a painkiller for people exploited and/or alienated by a capitalist society.”

But I’m interested in hearing other perspectives, if you disagree!

Here’s some further reading on that particular quote. Bear in mind, I don’t necessarily agree with all the perspectives presented by them:

https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2015/01/karl-marx-on-religion/comment-page-1/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people

https://cunninghamjeff.medium.com/karl-marx-was-a-capitalist-8a71138418fd#

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/04/identity-politics-opium-of-the-people

Yes! Bookmarks are for things I’ll need to reference again and again in the coming years. I do keep a tightly-curated bookmark collection, I just don’t want it clogged up with a bunch of stuff I can’t foresee needing in the long term.

Tabs are for things I’m working on right now and don’t need bookmarking for the long term. And, for what it’s worth, most of the browser windows are custom-titled, so the windows themselves are a lot like bookmark folders, while the tabs are like temporary bookmarks.

Plus, the ability to search through tabs by hitting Ctrl+Shift+A means that it ends up being faster to search through my tabs than my bookmarks, without using the mouse. ex: Ctrl+Shift+A, Type needed page, up/down arrows if needed, then hit enter to move to the tab. With Ctrl+Shift+O, you don’t get the same ease of scrolling the results without tabbing through a bunch of junk first.

There are other reasons, including neurological ones surely, but those are my primary justifications.

I would genuinely like to see Edge open all 848 tabs I have hoarded over 61 Chrome windows. I wonder if it could do it faster than Chrome manages. After rebooting, Chrome reopens, with all my tabs intact, in about 5 minutes. Provided a sanitary shutdown, that is. It takes more like 15 minutes for it to become responsive again after a (rare) crash.

Clearly I have lost control of my life.

And yes, before you get on my case, I am working on switching back to Firefox after using Chrome for the last decade. It just takes a long time to pare down all these tabs.

It’s easier to represent as 0.000001 km, imo.

This happens to everyone.

Yeah, they said that in their comment. Did you not read all 5 sentences?

Edit: Sorry, I misunderstood your post.

Imagine thinking a natural biological expression of sadness and grief is an insult. Masculinity so fragile you can almost taste it right through the internet!

No. There’s a big difference between asking questions and asking pointed, leading questions. One is Socratic dialogue, the other is JAQing off.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

There’s no love lost between me and Meta, but I’m just gon’ leave this here:

Against Intellectual Monopoly