No, it’s just as basic as the OP let on… Going to church every Sunday indoctrinates the, “appeal to authority” logical fallacy. The very premise that the religion itself is the source of truth in the world is the trap that leads people down the road of falling for charlatans and other scam artists.

All it takes is for their priest or pastor to endorse (directly or indirectly) any political view, candidate, or person/product and “the flock” will adhere. To not adhere is to deny the authority and thus, the religion itself. That often also means expulsion from their community and very real other social and sometimes worse consequences.

The only “escape” is to simply not participate which actually resolves into two scenarios:

• An honest one where the former adherent admits that they no longer believe (the authority; not necessarily the entire religion).
• A dishonest one where conformance and piety is claimed and faked as a sort of performance art. After all, who can deny piety exists in an individual? It’s all in their head. This method can be quite profitable if you have no scruples! (For example, a Jesus fish in an official company logo/slogan… That’s basically the modern day version of the money changers in the parable of the money changers!)

At an even more basic level, going to church and claiming publicly that you adhere to a religion like evangelical Christianity opens you up to be scammed. Since there’s no official tests or regulations regarding what counts as “Christian” literally any scammer/scummy company can claim to be Christian and thus, “on the team”.

Christ’s teachings are pretty clear that everyone is on the same team and not to favor one group over another based on ethnicity (and by extension, religion) as given by the parable of washing the prostitute’s feet. However, that’s not really taught much in evangelical churches these days! In fact, if your pastor isn’t bringing that up right now–as Trump promises to intern immigrants, forcing them away from their families/communities–with regularity they’re probably in that second camp I talked about: Faking piety for profit.

Ahaha! Microsoft employees are using AI to write hallucinate their own performance reviews and managers are using that very same AI to “review” said performance reviews. Which is exactly the dystopian vision of the future that OpenAI sells!

What’s funny is that the “cult of Microsoft” is 100% bullshit so the AI is being trained in bullshit and as time goes on its being reinforced with it’s own hallucinated bullshit because everyone is using it to bullshit the bullshitters in management who are demanding this bullshit!

Gelsinger said the market will have less demand for dedicated graphics cards in the future.

No wonder Intel is in such rough shape! Gelsinger is an idiot.

Does he think that the demand for AI-accelerating hardware is just going to go away? That the requirement of fast, dedicated memory attached to a parallel processing/matrix multiplying unit (aka a discreet GPU) is just going to disappear in the next five years‽

The board needs to fire his ass ASAP and replace him with someone who has a grip on reality. Or at least someone who has a some imagination of how the future could be.

“obviously fake”: NO, damnit! What’s “obvious” is that about a third of Americans can’t differentiate between what’s real and what isn’t.

Yeah seriously! Why does it have to be a Christian supernatural force? It could just be Baba Yaga “reaching out” as it were, to a kindred spirit.

Why couldn’t it be the fae trying to pull him into their world? Or perhaps an evil yokai finally tracked him down?

Maybe his original soul escaped the mirror dimension and was trying to claw its way back into his body!

It takes effort but you have to milk it for all its worth!

Not true! The female nipple is actually useful.

Here’s the thing: That’s exactly what Trump supporters want. That’s the “pain” Musk talked about.

They don’t care about the cost. Money or human.

I asked a Trump supporter how they wanted to handle American citizen children of illegal immigrants and they said they wanted the children taken away and placed into Christian indoctrination programs (they didn’t call it that but that’s what they meant).

Meh. This is but a fraction of what the big media companies think the world owes them for piracy.

As another (local) AI enthusiast I think the point where AI goes from “great” to “just hype” is when it’s expected to generate the correct response, image, etc on the first try.

For example, telling an AI to generate a dozen images from a prompt then picking a good one or re-working the prompt a few times to get what you want. That works fantastically well 90% of the time (assuming you’re generating something it has been trained on).

Expecting AI to respond with the correct answer when given a query > 50% of the time or expecting it not to get it dangerously wrong? Hype. 100% hype.

It’ll be a number of years before AI is trustworthy enough not to hallucinate bullshit or generate the exact image you want on the first try.

In short: They’re not. They’re basically guessing at this point for anyone under 50.

Not only that but anyone under 50 who they do reach is the type of person who doesn’t use an ad blocker. In other words, iPhone users and the ignorant.

In the past he’s said it takes him six or seven flushes to get anything down.

Anyone care to guess how long before that island is completely submerged due to rising seas?

Doesn’t exactly seem like a long-term base.

Republicans are all about the nanny state. Tracking periods, banning books, deciding who gets to have what medications/medical treatments (instead of doctors), trying to control what websites publish, etc.

Mayor: [shoots some black guy] “What? It’s the same as the cops.”

Hmm… This dude is so nasty he probably sucks his own shit through a straw every day in order to maintain the high degree of excrement that he regularly and publicly vomits from his mouth. What could make this guy so ashamed that he’s going to drop out of the race? What would upset his base that much that it would amount to a serious betrayal of their ideals?

Donating to a liberal cause?

Housing poor people/illegal immigrants?

He went to some socialist country for healthcare?

He’s secretly trans and got an abortion before transitioning?

Use a robot to secretly paint “Kamala” on his lawn. For bonus points use AI to generate an image of him kissing Kamala and use that as the image (wonder what kind of resolution one can get on a lawn? 🤔)

Two of our (gay couple) neighbors said something similar to me a while back: They’re too afraid to put up a sign or flag.

My house doesn’t have any LGBTQ people living in it but we have a HUGE fucking LGBTQ flag right across from the American flag. It’s been such a blessing too! Now the most annoying of my neighbors don’t try to smalltalk with me anymore about their absolutely batshit insane conspiracy theories 👍

This article could’ve been written any decade since the 1990s. It’s nothing new: The big game companies haven’t changed a bit and continue to exploit workers.

The only way to change things is via stronger worker protections/regulations.

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