Fandangalo
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- Comment on Rush 1 week ago:
For comparison
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
I feel like many Christians in America are completely disconnected from actual values exposed by Jesus in the Bible. Republican (many of the Christians) policy is diametrically opposed to Matthew 25:31. No one quotes John 13:34 because they rather quote Old Testament BS about what’s an abomination. Why not focus on the love for others, including enemies? Why not focus on helping the poor, the sick, the homeless? Why not help the immigrant? The Bible specifically calls this out as a marker of getting into heaven.
Most of these people don’t even read the book. They like the sense of community at a church, but it feels like it’s formed into a total in:out group mentality. We can’t be a Christian nation as long as there are poor & people struggling.
Then the Utah governor says something like, “We can’t have people camping wherever they want.” my emphasis. Bud, they don’t WANT to be homeless. The lack of empathy is so apparent.
- Comment on It's a metaphor 2 weeks ago:
Not if it’s swallowed.
- Comment on Photographer combines family faces together to show genetic similarities 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham 5 weeks ago:
Let the tech giants have AI & all of human knowledge. They subsidize UBI with their bubble profits. They stole everything, so seems fair?
- 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? 1 month ago:
It’s a great community and shares a lot with us. More people should know about faith communities doing the good work in the world, rather than swindling their congregations for mega churches with elaborate shows, while telling people “empathy is not Christian.” It’s absurd what’s happening in those congregations right now.
- 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? 1 month ago:
Religion is a set of beliefs, typically in things beyond what we can falsify (hence faith). It’s not inherently powerful to believe people should be treated with respect. A belief in democracy is a belief in giving others equal power to our own (part of my UU faith).
Unitarian Universalism holds very little power in the world. It’s a beautiful faith tradition. Sure, there are powerful religions, but again, that’s power, not religion.
- 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? 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 month 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 2 months ago:
No doubt
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 2 months ago:
What about D-Tent Boys? youtu.be/-jpbCWcz2pk
- Comment on What if this is a coma dream. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 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) 3 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? 5 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? 5 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 5 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 5 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 6 months ago:
What doesn’t kill you slowly makes anti-venom.
