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- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 7 hours ago:
There are several passages that suggest money & Christianity aren’t aligned. Several passages in Acts talk about the disciples selling everything after Jesus passes and living as a commune with no private property. It says they sold & shared everything together.
There’s the camel & needle proverb. There’s Matthew 25:32. There’s multiple passages that speak of selling what you own and giving it to the poor. There’s Jesus throwing the merchants out in the temple.
When did Christianity become like this? Probably when power saw it could abuse faith, so hundreds/thousands of years ago. Your instinct is great, and you should challenge Christians. I mentioned Matthew 25:32 because it seems so diametrically opposed to what many Christians in power say. We’re supposed to care for the homeless, the immigrant, the prisoner—that’s what this book says.
James 2:15 states that belief is not enough. Belief without works of faith is empty, the same as no faith at all. People telling you they are a Christian while behaving otherwise should be made aware of this passage.
I say this as a Unitarian Universalist. I study the Bible to inform my beliefs, but they are not defined by them. I do think Jesus has been commodified and warped, and the people in power who tell us we’re a Christian nation in the US have lost sight of scripture. They quote the Old Testament and ignore John 13:34.
I also studied all this so when ICE / this government comes for me, I’ll have my receipts. Maybe it won’t matter, but speaking truth to power is important. If so many people believe this book, why do we act like we do? It’s power’s fault, not religion.
Note, I was an atheist for 20 years. I know all about the ills of religion. UU is not like my Catholic Church growing up. If you haven’t been to UU or a Quaker org, it’s worth your time.
- Comment on Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism” 1 week ago:
Quietly because we were ashamed. Loud because now we’re proud of it.
I leave it to the public to judge which of those are better.
- Comment on Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism” 1 week ago:
Between this and the recent NSPM-7, the difference is the outward rhetorical combined with a directive of “pre-action”: stop these things before they commit crimes.
This changes the state of things into truly thought policing, not through unspoken, implicit societal norms, but with the authority and blunt force of the regime’s might.
It feels like we’re being fomented into a civil war while strategically weakening us on the global stage. It’s almost like the duty to the constitution & country has “left the chat.” I say “almost” because I have 3 kids and don’t want to be disappeared.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 week ago:
I don’t want ScreamingMinecraftYoutuber67 on my watch history, and yet, it’ll be there tomorrow morning.
/s
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 week ago:
Accounts used by multiple people enter the room.
By kids often use my account on our shared family TV. We have adults in 30s/40s, early teens, and toddlers all using YouTube for different things.
This is a stupid idea.
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 3 weeks ago:
No doubt
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 3 weeks ago:
What about D-Tent Boys? youtu.be/-jpbCWcz2pk
- Comment on What if this is a coma dream. 4 weeks ago:
We are all God’s dream. At least, that’s what I believe.
- Comment on I ordered drug-laced vapes on Snapchat. It was as easy as picking up pizza 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure I played this quest in Cyberpunk yesterday.
- Comment on Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for writing and making content.
In this era, I feel like I’m in the Good Place: it’s impossible to make “good” ethical choices while engaging with modern world. Every day, some platform or artist is found supporting blood money, genocide, unfair labor, treats other artist/collaborators like shit, exploitation… Then we all have to pivot to some obscure alternative with its own issues, lest we be immoral internet users.
I’m so tired of all this shit… /rant
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
Here’s 2 faults:
- Most people push a build once a week, because making a stable build usually has an engineer combining people’s work, and sometimes there’s conflicts in the merge.
- If you have a lot of bugs, you may need to patch more frequently.
Either way, it’s a bad look. Doing stable daily pushes is good in development, not in a live environment like this.
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
This is such a joke to anyone in tech. It’s like a Silicone Valley skit.
- Comment on Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. 1 month ago:
Somewhat irrelevant: omg, this is peak “corporate art sucks.” It’s like corporate art combined with fascist content, more than usual.
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
New England is distinctly different from Nomansland.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 months ago:
The delusional motto private equity lives by.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 2 months ago:
The architecture of Doom was specifically designed for portability. If you’d like to learn more, check out this video. For those that don’t know, tl;dr, the game’s structure is compartmentalized with specific connections. The game logic runs separate of engine logic. If you write the specific engine hookups, the game logic should then run.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 3 months ago:
This feels like a grave mischaracterization of what I wrote. I don’t think you’re a good faith actor. Have a good one.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 3 months ago:
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The pattern is poorer & richer people give more. The poorer people understand hardship & help one another. The richer people have more to give (and financial incentives to do so, such as tax write-offs).
The middle class gives the least, likely because they feel the most pinched on maintaining a quality of life that’s often becoming more expensive.
The poor, In my opinion, have the MOST empathy. They give a lot as a percentage of income & have the most to lose.
Your intuition is pretty much the opposite of the statistics.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 4 months ago:
This just feels straight up lazy and exploitative given their salaries.
Also, if this is normalized across your company, what the hell would meetings be? A group of avatars talking while humans do other stuff? “If the CEO can do it, why not us?”
If we’re at that point, let’s go ahead to UBI, because the smoke screen is falling about how BS this whole facade is.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 4 months ago:
Out of the games I’ve been fortunate to work on, 1/7 require internet, and the 1 was my first industry job as QA. Everything else has been mobile, online required. 5/7 are no longer playable / removed from the internet.
It makes me sad because my kids will never play a bunch of things I made. I can’t revisit them nostalgically. If I had made something in the 90s, it would be preserved still.
I played the cards dealt to me to follow a dream and make a living, but I wish the industry wasn’t like this. The money has always been a role, but nowadays, it’s distorted so badly.
- Comment on 'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times 5 months ago:
What doesn’t kill you slowly makes anti-venom.
- Comment on Top 19 'Truly Superwealthy' US Families Grew $1 Trillion Richer Last Year: Analysis 5 months ago:
Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.
You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.
That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”
- Comment on We are so cooked 6 months ago:
- Comment on Blobfish 6 months ago:
Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?
Me when I have water Me when I’m a human living in the modern world
- Comment on Young Americans lose trust in the state 6 months ago:
If you convince one side that the government is evil and needs to be small, while your government is in fact evil and large, both sides will want to change the system.
This is the culmination of the Republicans thirst for power over morals & Putin’s desire for the USSR’s revenge and coming into world power. We all know both governments (Russia & USA) commit funds to propaganda and psychological warfare. Americans have enjoyed a lot the last 40-60 years. Russia was the USSR in many people’s living lifetimes.
Someone got into bed with Russian mafia, lost a shit ton of money and bankrupted business, and their business acumen was so bad that they needed to make a shady deal to pay off debts, Russia responded with, “How about we make you President? If you help us, the debts are gone.”
Meanwhile, it’s been over a decade of Trump’s influence. “Alternative facts” was like week 1 of the first term. People barely remember that or the blank pages that were all for show. It’s turns out that humans love novelty, and chaos is a ladder, that if you flood the zone with enough lies, you can make whatever truth you want. A lie goes around the world in an hour while the truth puts its shoes on.
Liberals in the US are disorganized and so fractured by a desire for originality that they forgot how to organize. People are tired of fighting. There’s little pay for the common person. Wealth distribution isn’t even fathomable.
There’s 260 working days in a year. If you made $400k/working days for 2025 years (between now & Christ as the right liked to say), you wouldn’t have enough money to beat Bezos’ holdings.
The everyday person? At the median salary, you’d have to make that trip 3,145 times.
You’d have to work $37k, for 260 days a year, 2025 Christtimes, 3,145 times.
We’re too busy fighting each other to even process how broken the wealth gap is. Once you put it in human terms, I don’t see how any moral person could allow that to exist. When we have the crisis of the unhoused, the crisis of violence, the crisis of food and education.
Christ asks people in Matthew 25:32
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. 34 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35 for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? 38 And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? 39 And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’ 40 And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’
I’m a liberal. I’m non-binary. I’m very thankful for my life. I know I haven’t treated my own family the best. We’ve been fighting over all this bullshit…
I don’t want any harm to anyone, but how can you say you follow Jesus, or Buddha, or Laozi, or the Earth Spirit, “This wealth is okay.” No religion supports it.
Anyway, I have to believe we’ll get through this. My faith is in humanity. I wish we’d recognize ourselves as one species.
- Comment on Do all conservatives hate immigrants? Do I HAVE to hate immigrants if I want to be a real conservative? 6 months ago:
Except the past, which should be conserved.
- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 7 months ago:
I like this comparison to see how they were right about different facets together.
- Comment on In a thousand years, will historians regard today as the digital dark ages? 7 months ago:
You should peep this.
- Comment on Freedumb 7 months ago:
Thanks for sharing, homie.
