The only requirement to be a Christian is to believe in the Resurrection and its purpose according to scripture. Anything else is just argumentative between sects of the religion.

To be Christ-like is what he really was referring to, and most people, whatever beliefs they have or don’t have, would have a hard time with that measurement because it is set so high. Almost too high for a human to meet. But it’s a goal, not a final outcome, and that’s really key. Even as a non-believer I can appreciate the better parts of the Bible, just like any other religious or philosophical text. It’s a shame that too many of the believers of the religion don’t understand or care to understand some of the basics, the ones that they’ll even quote themselves while being okay with harming others.

We had space travel. Well, sort of. Kinda.

What about strictly TTS models, which would probably be lumped under ANI (artificial narrow intelligence), which has been around a long time? There’s cloud based ones, but also some good local ones. Throwing out the content just because of how the voice is made is one level from doing that because a person sounds funny, ot looks a certain way. Which is fitting, since that’s probably why some of them use TTS, to avoid comments that attack them personally.

They’re coarse, they’re irritating, and they’re everywhere.

That and put his name on something. He’d call them “best friends” then.

What, the right turn around and blame the current left administration for something that the right had caused before? Why, that never happ… okay, that’s what always happens.

I’ve found that most chess alternates are fucked. They always seem cool at first, but then, thinking far into gameplay, you realize why chess is what it is after centuries of changes. The most reasonable I’ve seen was an old German variation of 3d chess, I think five levels, that introduced a new unicorn piece. But I don’t know how full gameplay works out.

The best fucked up chess, 5D chess. Not only because it’s mind-blowing once you get into it, but it sort of works. Sort of. It depends on how you play it out. And it’s funny, I saw one of the famous grandmasters of chess play it once, and I thought it would be interesting to see their take on it. They didn’t seem to even understand the idea, and played basically normal chess using the 5D structure. Shows that a genius in one thing doesn’t guarantee anything in others.

Side note: What a wonderful natural yard. They obviously love it that way. Also, never thought of that color as cameo, but it works.

*Don’t Look Up

This should now replace Idiocracy or Wag the Dog. It’s so on the nose in so many ways, that’s why so many people didn’t like it. And there’s no positive really, like “well, they had a President who cared and recognized the smart people’s opinion” or “well, at least the war didn’t really happen”.

He might… and give me a bit of latitude here, but… he might be an idiot. Just a hunch.

Take the bait? Look, playing chess with a pigeon is difficult. Given the terms listed out, someone took bait, but I don’t think it was Iran.

The alternate ending is the real ending.

Every one of those is ambiguous by design, so they can be utilized against the enemies of the State. Very Orwellian.

You know what can technically get classified under “support for the overthrow of the U.S. Government”? The four-year peaceful transition we’ve always participated in, even during wartime. So I guess if you support fair and public election of your officials, you’re a criminal now.

Just one layer removed from the problem.

“WTF does this comment even mean?”

I wish I still had my Okidata printer I used with my C-64. Yes, it’s dot matrix and slow, but it knew its job and did it well. Same with our later HP 5P. Solid. What the hell happened, HP?

Never underestimate incompetence. It will always beat you.

Judas was the only one Jesus could trust to carry out the mission. The rest of them were cowards.

You’ve never had managers who can’t spell or form a simple email? This gives a bit of authenticity to it.

Update: RIP Adam