toadjones79 @ toadjones79 @lemm.ee

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I am a Christian and I don't believe that. I could go on at length about how the Bible doesn't support that idea.

Ironically, I have read that there was a study that found that the most gullible kids in elementary school grow up to be republican. I'm not kidding.

There is a lot to be said about economics and capitalism. I am in no way excusing the greed based nonsense we have rampantly running us all into the ground. But I do think that these actions will eventually burn themselves out. Take AI replacing workers. If that happens, there won't be enough customers to buy AI products. So they will mostly go out of business and become a taboo. Instead there will likely be a balance.

The same is true of all the stuff you are mentioning. I think we are reaching a tipping point where these bad business practices and bad financial government practices are all coming to a head. Our economies are based so much on credit, and we are running out of credit to borrow worldwide. And, these corporate corruptions of government free democracy are all kind of back firing. I think in the next four years there will be an uprising of the population, much like what happened after the Hoover presidency, and I think that will result in some major law changes for the better. Not perfect, but better. I also think that we will see a LOT of these high profile compani s get broken up and go bankrupt. Take the insurance industry. It has become so toxic that they are getting close to being not worth it. They don't pay out as much as they cost for most of us. So I think we will see alternatives start to pop up.

But then again, maybe I am just sticking my head in the sand because it feels safer to be ignorant.

All valid points and questions.

It was a news article posted in the r/Wisconsin sub about the kid who killed his parents and plotted to start a violent, extreme right-wing revolution. The headline said something like "Wisconsin teen killed parents and planned on killing the President." In the first paragraph it said "...he murdered his parents, and planned to do something even more sinister." There were a lot of posts questioning that sentence, (like, "why is that more sinister?") and I replied to one of them saying "It isn't, it is the lesser of two evils."

That comment got removed (and I think a LOT of others in the thread) and I got a three day suspension for advocating violence. Calling it evil is not advocating for it. It was brought on by an auto-mod, and the appeal was denied a little too quickly for me to believe it was actually seen by a real human, as they claim.

For me, deciding that everyone around me is an incompetent imbecile has been quite freeing. I don't care what anyone thinks of me. I am always pleasantly surprised when they do a good job. And I am extra vigilant, take responsibility for the safety of those around me at all times.

Hate me all you want. I'll burn your eye sockets out with my high beams.

I spent an extreme amount of time aligning my low beams so they don't point up into people's eyes. And I drive a fairly low to the ground Hyundai Elantra. I am very careful with those high beams.

So I'm curious what the consequences would be for reporting mods who ban members for violating reddit rules. I just got a three day suspension for violating type 1 (advocating violence), which I think is purely dishonest to say I violated that rule. I looked up the mod of that sub and sure enough, they actually advocate for violence all the time. If I go around reporting those mods until they get permanent band is that a bad thing? Will I just get repercussions? Am I just being childish?

I have no idea. It may have even be n a false claim. But I do believe the government can pay claim to a patent if it wants to. Like, if you invented a new kind of bomb, like say you figured out how to make a device that could create a decent amount of antimatter in a second row two, specifically loaded into a warhead, I'm pretty sure the government would take that from you and all your research. And it would be illegal to publish the design.

But I'm no lawyer and am merely guessing.

I knew of someone who had a patent for a device that attached to a forklift to aid in large scale floor remodeling (scraped up old vinyl flooring). The US military used Eminent Domain to steal that patent and use it for military operations (still just remodeling old floors, not even for combat operations).

I don't know any more specifics about it. (I have a feeling there were more details that would have made that more understandable). Just that they can take a patent if they feel they need to.

I think it is more accurate to fear the transition. Economically speaking, there will be turbulence. We have already seen some companies try to eliminate all their employees and replace them with AI. But we have already been here before. I work in railroading, and in the 80s they all got rid of huge portions of their employees by replacing them with computers. Those people found new jobs, and some of them fell on hard times, while some made out better. There are whole industries that were completely transformed due to technology changes in the past forty years. But it wasn't the end of the world. It was just turbulent for some.

So for me, I'm not worried, but I am weary. I welcome AI as a new tool for humans to use. I just don't welcome poor decision making from shareholders and shitty management.

I am religious, and for me he'll is sort of where we already are. Like, heaven is more a concept of achievement, like being healthy and balanced. Hell is the regret for what could have been, and was always open to you.

As far as the political Christianity that has overtaken republican politics, I think most of it is what Jesus was talking about when He said nothing angers God more than claiming you are a follower of Christ for the vanity. They (the Republican party) do not represent the teachings of Christ in any way at all. Not one part of their platform was taught or encouraged by Christ. (Except a very misunderstood adaptation of race politics that ignores Christ's actual words regarding it).

Long story. But basically I took a few of my friend's friends out on rented snowmobiles at night and we all shared a bottle of jägermeister. My friend was a 30 year old mother of two with a husband in jail for violating a restraining order she had on him. Her two friend had recently had a threesome with her. (I chose not to have sex with her months before despite her throwing herself at my 18 yo self). This resulted in them getting into an argument, and I decided we should all leave. On the way back, mistakes were made (the two stopped suddenly in the middle of the trail to argue and I overcorrected to avoid them) and she fell off and hit her head. The two dicks sped off leaving me alone in the woods with an unconscious woman, who's brain resorted to animalistic screams and flailing arms, holding her head/neck at an angle so she didn't stop breathing. Some time later we were found, then the cops and paramedics arrived. I was sober by then, so didn't go to jail. But she got life flighted half a state away and spent a month in the hospital.

I sort of changed my life after this. I don't really think of this as the moment it all changed. Rather it is other events (finding a belief in God and wanting to become a better person as a result) that precipitated those changes. But truth be told, I probably would have continued to go downhill if not for this incident. Typing that all out made me realize just how messed up my life was back then.

A very long time ago I was a stupid young man. I got a little drunk and ended up putting my friend into a coma for a week (on snowmobiles). That was the last drop I ever drank. It's been over 25 years, but I will never forget how invincible I felt, and how foolish that feeling feels every time I think back on it. Don't mess around with this shit. Like ever.

Shark Vertex. I landed in the AZ2002 a couple of years ago and it has worked extremely well for our home. Same carpet percentage, and we have a dog. Poodle, which has hair instead of fur, but we still end up with a lot of hair from regular grooming.

Is this just an end run advertisement?

Fairly common knowledge. Even portrayed in movies like Kuru and Seven Years in Tibet. Unfortunately the whole thing has been wrapped up in lots of misinformation. The Tibetans have both accused China of atrocities and claimed that they didn't happen. Outsiders looking in on this could argue that they were trying to appease the Chinese to maintain the paltry religious autonomy granted by the Seventeen Point Agreement. Here is a link to a PDF from the Tibetan Bureau in Geneva listing their atrocities. It is worth noting that even these claims are impossible to verify. The Chinese government has worked tirelessly to scrub the world knowledge base, and most search companies are more than willing to cooperate with such large governments with huge resources. Additionally, sensationalism is equally attractive, meaning it is easy and tempting to over report and exaggerate war crimes.

But the simple fact remains that May Zedong openly opposed religion and claimed that his annexation of Tibet was a "liberation" from what he called "religious oppression."

It's not even true. Like not even close. The Chinese liberation army forcing Tibetan children to murder their parents to "liberate" them from "religious oppression" is one example.

I got called to Minnesota to serve two years as an LDS missionary back in 2000. I absolutely loved the place. But my first day was I was stationed in Brainerd MN, and my apartment was on the edge of a frozen lake. I took a picture of it, and colored in the old brick BBQ to look like a wood chipper with feet sticking out of the top, and a large red stain across the ice, and sent it to my sister. That picture sat in her cubicle for years after that. I can't think of that scene without thinking of it.

Trying to switch over. I use them both, but the threats to reddit freedom and it's fast enshitification are the reasons I am currently using both.

Plus, the automod are out of control. I got a three day ban for quoting Clerks. (Try not to blow anyone on your way through the parking lot). I wasn't even being mean, it was all for laughs and got a lot of upvotes before some automod refered me to a prude of a moderator.

Haha. Not what I meant but I guess it works too.