Do I see another supreme court justice in the making?

And why doesn’t this mayor have an issue with their poor constituents being stuck in “shitty houses”

I can never tell when someone is just arguing for the thrill of it or if they’re genuine…

As someone who’s had five dogs and three cats + been married, divorced, and remarried pets cost more just in terms of money. I bought real wedding bands & engagement rings from a proper jeweler for about $1,500 USD per ring. On the other hand I spent between $1500-3000 in vet bills alone for almost every pet I’ve adopted just in the first year; not to mention the toys, food, etc that comes along.

I suspect you’re gonna say “oh, well some people spend tens of thousands on wedding bands” which is true, but those are also the types of people who spend five-figures on purebred pets and doesn’t apply to the average experiece.

Guarantee you that cat will cost more in the first year than a ring from a fancy jewelry store

AI goes back way before machine learning. I’ve been familiar with the term “AI” in computing since at least the 90s and I’m sure it’s older than that.

At this point, when I see it slapped onto a product I assume it’s unrelated to LLMs and just a marketing term the same way “organic” is slapped onto every food product.

I don’t think they care as much these days, I’ve seen some absolutely wild fake names recently

A) you don’t have a choice. Christianity teaches that our lives are deterministic, God chose who will and won’t make it into heaven. If he decided to design you to be a sinner who won’t accept him then that’s your fate.

B) Pharoah never had a chance. It wasn’t himself or the devil who made him reject God, the Bible itself that God hardened his heart and made him act the way he did. Same with Judas, he was chosen to fulfill prophesy. Sure, a different follower could have betrayed him, but it had to be someone because God decided that someone had to take the fall. He wasn’t even able to repent afterwards, even though he tried.

C) Almost everyone ever born won’t make it to heaven according to Christianity. Many are called but few are chosen—as you mentioned narrow is the path according to scripture. It also states that “many” (interpreted majority of) Christians will stand before him in judgment and be rejected because they didn’t believe in him the right way. Performing miracles and healing the sick isn’t enough if you weren’t the right denomination with the right version of the Bible.

D) the beast and antichrist are both human, one a politician and one a religious leader who team up to deceive the world

Have you never heard of Kim Peek aka Rain Man? The guy read a book an hour, tens of thousands over his lifetime and could recite any line of text verbatim and tell you what page and line number it was on, but otherwise he’s what anyone would call an idiot. He couldn’t dress himself or do really anything with all that information other than memorize it. He could quote any book but couldn’t say in his own words what it meant bc there was no processing/understanding. Ai is kinda like that except it’s somehow also bad at remembering things or getting facts straight. It’s almost an accomplishment in its own right for a computer to be capable of forgetting how to do math.

Gemini, for example, is really good at accumulating information—Google is the biggest data aggregator in history after all, but it’s possibly the worst Ai in terms of quality checking it’s sources. I always read the Ai summary when Googling something and check the sources, it’s sort of a hobby of mine at this point. I’d have to estimate I’ve read 400+ Ai summaries and not a single time has it not hallucinated in its response. Even the parts that it quoted directly are often not actually in the original source and the sources listed are low-credibility to start.

I don’t hate AI. I think the companies hosting AI are unethical & doing real harm to the world, but the same can be said for all tech companies.

The biggest reason I think people shouldn’t use Ai is because it’s literally stupid. It’s very good at language and that’s it. If/when it’s correct about something factually it’s chance & because it’s repeating something it’s read enough times. I know it’s easy to become convinced it actually understands what it’s talking about bc it’s truly mastered language, but it absolutely cannot understand. People who have real intelligence can spot the difference.

For me it was the fundamental contradiction between God being both good & all powerful. If (S)he created everybody exactly the way they are, how are they to condemn anyone to hell? Some people are born incapable of communicating or understanding anything, some people are born with their wires crossed and are just evil, some are born in a time/place where they never hear “the good news”. Why would a good and loving God condemn them forever for being exactly what (S)he designed them to be?

The Christian Bible I grew up with was rife with examples of people God created and designed specifically to be antagonists so they could be punished: Cain, Pharoah, Ahab & Jezebel, Judas Iscariot, Ananias & Sapphira, The Beast & Antichrist, etc.

Find someone with the same first name as you and steal their last name

I’ve wanted to get into making stained glass art for about a decade now. I’ve spent countless hours watching instructional videos and researching, I just can’t justify dropping a thousand dollars on just beginning a hobby, not to mention the space & clean air requirements

Also they need to ban Ai videos from YT Kids

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While I think it’s stupid that the US isn’t helping, it does prove the point of their right wing: The rest of the world expects America to be in charge of fixing everything

The 08 at the end of their name is the number of accounts we’ve had to block so far

I remember when the minumum wage was increased under Obama, inflation stopped and actually reversed for awhile. I know you don’t have much to offer other than snark, but I think it’s worth saying for other people who read this that you’re heavily guessing what it’s like to live in poverty. I grew up in homeless shelters—when my family finally got into government housing I had to steal from grocery stores for my family to eat. If you think being jobless or homeless are the most terrifying things that could ever happen to someone you’ve had a very blessed life.

I think you missed the point. I think (as I stated) that companies shouldn’t exist that don’t pay a living wage. Millions of jobs going away is fine by me because I come from the real world where everybody is working 2-3 jobs to make ends meet. I can see why you believe that losing a job would be devastating, but most of us would be glad to be in your position where we depend on a single income to survive.

Hot take, but I think a massive resession would ultimately be good for the average person in the long run—especially coupled with a minumum wage increase. I’m so tired of businesses and politicians bragging about job creation. Almost everyone I know works 50+ hours a week just to make it by. What we need isn’t more jobs, we need businesses to close down if the only way they can afford to stay open is starving their employees.

I’ve read several of his books. He’s a great communicator but he’s never been particularly intelligent outside of explaining evolution.