BenVimes
@BenVimes@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Zero tolerance policies in schools and mandatory minimum sentences have the same arguments and issues 5 days ago:
Zero tolerance policies aren’t meant to protect students, and they aren’t even meant to protect bullies. They’re meant to protect teachers and principals, mostly from having to face scrutiny for how they handle bullying. They can just punish all parties equally and wash their hands of the matter, and any criticism can be deflected by saying, “zero tolerance; everyone was treated the same.”
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree that one can generally talk about books in that way, but given what I know about how biblical authorship, I think it’s an incorrect (or as you say, misleading) way of describing the Bible specifically.
Of all the books that became canon in the Christian Bible, the most recent ones were written in the late 1st/early 2nd century CE. The later edits were additions, deletions, or alterations to these existing works rather than entirely new books on their own, and by the time those edits were made the books were already being used as scripture in Christian communities.
I’d liken it to The Hobbit. The first edition was published in 1937. In order to align more with The Lord of the Rings, a 2nd edition was published in 1951, and it contained significant changes to the the characterization of Gollum and the function of the One Ring. However, despite those changes, I would never say that, “The Hobbit was written in 1951.”
My final note: you can see in my first post that I agreed with the sentiment of the post I was responding to: that, “Christ would likely not quote documents written after his existence,” as you said. Many words have been put into the mouth of Jesus of Nazareth, because everything written about him came after he was too dead to make corrections.
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 week ago:
The original post says that “the Bible” was written “hundreds of years after [Jesus’s] death.” I consider this to be an incorrect statement. When someone says “the Bible,” I wouldn’t think of only the most recently composed passages, but as a whole, from Genesis to Revelation.
This doesn’t mean that those recent passages weren’t written hundreds of years after Jesus died, only that I wouldn’t identify that point in history as “when the Bible was written.”
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 week ago:
What is it that you think I was implying with my post?
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 week ago:
I don’t see where I said otherwise.
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 week ago:
Let’s be correct here: the Christian Bible was canonized centuries after Jesus’s death. That’s not the same thing as being written.
I still appreciate the point you’re making, though.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 4 weeks ago:
I got a free three month trial for Google’s AI Pro plan, and Google wouldn’t shut up about the fact that I had the offer waiting, so I gave it a shot. It’s been more annoying than anything else. Gemini made me feel icky when I tried it, and now I get irritating popups asking me to use an AI tool every single time I go to type something in a Doc or Sheet
My brother in Christ, I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics. I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand, and it is mostly text. This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind. I do not need your help with anything.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 2 months ago:
It’s a personal thing, but the smell of cumin kills my appetite. I had a bad experience with it once and I can’t shake the association between the smell and the experience.
- Comment on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes | Reveal Trailer 3 months ago:
I don’t know how to feel about it being an RTS, as I’m pretty bad at those.
I guess a straight slow-time game might end up too similar to the board game, though.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 months ago:
My own experience, as someone who is not necessarily tech illiterate, but also not an expert either:
I decided to check out some basic Linux stuff, and found a post directing newcomers to a website that was supposed to be a top-notch beginner’s guide. This guide started with a history of Linux, written in the style of an early 2000s GameFAQs guide. It then jumped immediately into selecting a distro, and started describing each option with terms like "lightweight"and “robust” without explaining what those terms meant in that context - or even defining what a distro was in the first place.
As someone who has used Windows for around 3 decades, I could make some inferences to fill in the gaps. But I imagine someone with less experience with PCs would get completely lost.
Now on the flip side, I’ve also shared in another thread the story of how I lost interest in programming partway through my introductory university course, and mostly received positive feedback. The folks in that thread seemed happy to hear the perspective of an outsider.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 4 months ago:
Assuming you were aiming for the French phrase for ‘seafood’, I think you meant ‘fruit de mer.’
‘Fruit de la mere’ would translate to, ‘fruit of the mother.’
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- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 9 months ago:
I can think of a bunch of other things that Google should be embarrassed about, but Gemini is uniquely humiliating because of how proud they are if it and how hard they are pushing it.
- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 9 months ago:
Copilot is one of two LLMs I’ve briefly tried. It was noticeably better than Gemini was at the time, but still seemed entirely redundant. Nothing it (and Gemini) offered to do were things I wanted help with. I like research and writing, so why would I outsource those things and burn down an acre of rainforest in the process?
