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- Comment on Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks in US over windshield wiper, exterior trim issues 5 days ago:
Just saw a Wankpanzer for the first time last Friday and I agree. It is ugly and anyone who fell for this scam deserves every ounce of derision they receive.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 1 week ago:
Assembled a thousand years after the fact by a group with a vested interest in solidifying the narrative to fit their own.
Hell, the Tanakh didn’t really get put together until well after Christianity appeared and it was a reaction to Christians appropriating Jewish literary culture to establish their own.
It’d be similar to people a thousand years from believing that Christian Gray is literally descended from Edward and Bella.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 1 week ago:
Exactly. An example from outside the Bible might be Achilles. There was probably a great warrior with that name in the Mycenaean Greek world. Later storytellers probably just added more to make it sound better or the material was from other warriors who were like Achilles.
Some of Jesus’ teachings definitely come from the milieu of the Roman era in Judea and Palestina.
Personally my favorite head canon is that Jesus was, or his parents were, Egyptian born Jews or Coptic converts to Judaism. It’s a reverse Obamas birth certificate. There is so much time spent establishing the lineage and explaining the flight to Egypt.
- Comment on USA | Texas woman allegedly tried to drown Palestinian-American girl, aged 3 1 week ago:
It’s Texas. The governor will pardon her.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 1 week ago:
There is no proof outside of the Bible and some other writings. Even those mentions seem to have occurred well after Jesus supposedly lived.
In terms of non-literary proof, there isn’t anything credible.
There’s more evidence that King David existed.
- Comment on Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees 1 week ago:
A good stop-gap while cities de-car-ify and rebuild green space.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 1 week ago:
Why many word when few good?
Seriously though, “AI” itself is misleading but if they want to be ignorant and whiny about it, then they should be labeled just as they are.
What they really seem to want is an automatic metadata tag that is more along the lines of “a human took this picture and then used ‘AI’ tools to modify it.”
That may not work because by using Adobe products, the original metadata is being overwritten so Thotagram doesn’t know that a photographer took the original.
A photographer could actually just type a little explanation (“I took this picture and then used Gen Fill only”) in a plain text document, save it to their desktop, and copy & paste it in.
But then everyone would know that the image had been modified - which is what they’re trying to avoid. They want everyone to believe that the picture they’re posting is 100% their work.
- Comment on Starfield Crossed 14 Million Players, Will Get Annual Story Expansions; Shattered Space Set on Single Planet, Is Far Harbor-Sized 2 weeks ago:
It is available through GamePass, so I imagine quite a few people figured they’d play it for “free.”
I have GamePass and I won’t waste any space on it. I’ll stick to No Mans Sky.
- Comment on "2.5 Dimensional Seduction" New Key Visual, PV 2 weeks ago:
Ah, my kind of trash. Will be watching.
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 1 month ago:
You’re my favorite person rn.
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 1 month ago:
The commenter is from hexbear… it’s better to ignore them.
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 1 month ago:
The seas can’t rise fast enough. Someone needs to start carpet bombing the pythons and gators and feral pigs with growth hormones.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s been years since I went to a show. Went to see Grouplove a couple of months ago and nobody I knew was familiar with them (very sad) so I decided to fly solo. Going to see Bleachers soon. Again, by myself.
Imgur will help your meme game, though not your sex appeal.
On here, I just started searching for things like “indie,” “alternative”, etc. I haven’t really come across too many communities dedicated to individual bands…well, none that I am interested in. YMMV.
SoundCloud has been worth the subscription fee, imo.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 1 month ago:
It depends on which algo/service. Pandora and I have never meshed so I just avoid that one. YouTube occasionally tosses a good one in my feed. Spotify does well enough that I pay. SoundCloud is probably my favorite.
Aside from that, I’m subscribed to a few music communities here. That has widened my net. Same with imgur - 99% of the time I’m there for the memes but occasionally someone will post something that helps me find a new band.
I’ve gotten back into going to concerts. I go by myself and end up meeting bunches of new people and we all end up talking about music, sharing the names of our favorite tracks and bands.
You’re going to have to blaze your own trail. There’s so much new music being made every day that it’s very much a “needle in a haystack” thing.
Plus, don’t automatically rule out a band because they’re not new. That is, Alien Ant Farm was never on my radar until last year. Their cover of “Smooth Criminal” hit my SoundCloud recommendations. It’s from before MJ died…anyway, I’ve listened to some of their stuff and added some to my playlists.
Keep your ears and mind open.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favourite city builders? 1 month ago:
I can’t believe I forgot Caesar and Pharaoh. I played the f out of those when I was a PC only player. I sucked at them but loved them.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
giggle giggle snort
- Comment on Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook 1 month ago:
Awful generous thinking they ever peaked.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 1 month ago:
That was my thought as well.
Now that I understand it, I’ll be able to block the bloc of boneheads.
I know that a broken clock is right twice a day but using a broken clock is just dumb. Out of the 1440 minutes in a day, it gets 1438 of them wrong? Broken clocks get binned.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 months ago:
Sounds like I-15 through northern Utah.
- Comment on About to try the Outer Worlds 2 months ago:
I’ve played it off GamePass a few times since it was released.
Is it a great game? Not at all. Is it entertaining? Yes.
The characters are all a little odd in different ways, making it interesting to try different combos for parties, depending on what you think you might be running into.
I told myself that I was going to spend more time with my other companions but I almost always have Parvati with me.
Depending on how you build your character initially, you’ll find that you’ll want different companions for different tasks. That means some backtracking but there is some fast travel and I know I’ll miss loot at times, so it’s usually worth it.
Definitely not open world but that’s okay if you don’t have hours to spend wandering down a track only to find some BS loot.
Dialogue options do make a difference and that is what kept me going back. All the “I wonder what’ll happen if I …” is fun to explore.
Again, the customer is always right - in matters of style and taste.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 2 months ago:
Where I work, we use a date like that. The only difference is the letters are at the end.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 2 months ago:
Would LJ be the year code and 349 the Julian date?
- Comment on Next on the hydraulic press channel! 2 months ago:
You got paid? We used to have to pay for the privilege of being crushed to death at work.