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  • There certainly is a strain of modern American non denominational fundamentalists who think the reformation was the right idea. Catholic priests and all the trappings are a distraction.

    Think about a modern Protestant church. It's empty. No art. You show up. Simple sermon. Socializing. The whole emphasis for many modern believers is a personal relationshio with God. Not supposed to be the mega church pastor, or the art, or the nice facilities, or the donuts.

  • This is a specific reference to the kind of church that emphasizes a personal relation with Jesus as the escape from sin etc. It's like the second reformation. It's not good enough to not be catholic. It's not good enough to go to a Protestant church that doesn't use icons and Latin chants and confessional. Church itself can be a distraction to some non denominational fundamentalists. You should go to church but it's a bare bones place. The emphasis is on you reading your Bible. Etc.

  • There are definitely anti educational themes in some strains of Christianity.

    In the circles I grew up in, public school was evil for a variety of reasons. The good Christian families would not send their kids to public colleges either. They'd send them to Christian colleges which in many cases are not accredited. Not a good choice if you want to be an engineer or something. OK if just looking for a godly spouse!

    We wanted a science fair at our Christian high school but the leadership was against it, lol.

    Home schooling is a popular choice in some Christian circles. It's hard to say that home schooling is a generally pro educational decision.

    Think about the Bible. The first story is that God made everything. Cool. The second story is that Adam and Eve wanted knowledge of good and evil and God was like lol no.

    Finally, if you want an extreme example, read the book Educated. I guess it's more about a cult that is a family. But yeah.

  • Humor IS a quality though. Human voters are able, in aggregate, able to award certain types of humor. Which an LLM is not able to. Which gets recycled with no context, as fact.

    The internet would be a vastly different place if sarcasm and in jokes were not regarded as a type of "quality" content.

  • Even with a load of great ideas, and lots of the technical data (hardware drawings, software and firmware codes) you'd have still have to set up the supply chains, and convince a host of other people you have insanely good ideas.

    Lots of people had ideas for miniaturization and portability of computer hardware but as soon as you quickly got a technology out early, the time line would change and so would the compatibility issues..... You'd soon just be Steve Jobs managing a company creating shit, just with some extra juice in your back pocket.

    What if consumers were not ready for your ideas? What about all the other dependent technologies? Are you an expert in battery or glass technology that's needed to really make the smart phone possible? Are you able to just call up ASML in 1970 and explain them how to jump a few generations of chip scaling?

  • I don't want to speak for you. But it seems there's two loud conservative voices that talk about news coverage.

    One loud voice, especially when the president has an R next to his name says things like "why is the news so pessimistic? It inflates the risk of things like tornadoes, car crashed and violent crime. It's silly. People should stop worrying and exercise, because it's heart attacks that will kill them!"

    But then later. Others decide that actually the news is not panicked enough about kidnapping, CSA material, human trafficking and the like. People just aren't aware that predators lurk everywhere! "the media must be complicit!"

    If the news covered this stuff any more, most parents would have to stop staying current due to fear. If the news covered it less, they would not be able to appeal to lurid needs of the average viewer and go out of business.