omniscrates

@ZeroSuitCamus "George Washington would be liberal today" "No he would be conservative" George Washington: I am quite fond of stegosaurus

@AndrewH43114926 @MercuriusFilius are they not???

@omniscrates @MercuriusFilius I wasn’t aware that percentages are measured in minutes.

How would you answer this common J.P. Morgan interview question?

@xadhish @MercuriusFilius i dropped out

@omniscrates @MercuriusFilius Go back to school

@MortisPuella @MercuriusFilius 🎣

@omniscrates @MercuriusFilius the dish is 30 minutes full at 59 minutes?

spice it up a little: same scenario, but if more than 50% of people choose the blue button, 10% of people who chose the red button die.

@MasterChiefJLPS @StefanMolyneux this is just moving the goalposts, you’re still faced with the same sort of question: how can anything exist outside of the universe and its governing laws? you can’t use unfalsifiable claims to try to *prove* the existence of anything, because proof requires evidence

@StefanMolyneux God would by the definition presented, exist outside the universe, which is governed by the laws of cause and effect, and would exist outside of time... are you sure you are up to asking such an asinine Question?

The builder and the painter were both created by prior causes. What is the prior cause for a god?

@Teslimatttt it’s roid gut. they’re on tren

I’m confused, why do some Viltrumites have large stomachs? Are they actually fat?

@arcticinstincts BIG ASS TRUCK I.E. erasure 😔✊🏼

A study linked various SAT test scores to favorite bands- the lowest SAT scorers preferred Lil’ Wayne, and the highest preferred Beethoven

everybody’s making fun of this but the MMIW part is actually a *real* problem. murder is the THIRD leading cause of death (~10x national average) for indigenous women and girls, which is absolutely insane the data on missing indigenous women genuinely sucks, but there were 5,712 reports in 2016. only 116 of those were logged in the federal NamUs database the majority of murders are committed by non-native people on native land. there’s a federal prosecution requirement for this, but ironically federal resources are spread too thin to adequately handle it tribal police can’t prosecute murders per Oliohant v. Squamish Indian Tribe, so they have to hand cases to the feds, who are constrained by manpower/resource limitations watch wind river

@SnowMed34 @Howlingmutant0 seems like a way for people with violent inclinations to justify acting on them, but they tend to be *really* bad at the justification part

another point that’s rarely made is that most (if not all) of the accounts of the deaths of the apostles are historically dubious. the only accounts from even the first century a.d. are of james son of zebedee and james the just. most of the martyrdom stories are from 2nd-4th century a.d., and seem conveniently legendary (e.g., bartholomew being skinned alive, peter crucified upside down, etc.). apologists just assume these stories to be true because doing so bolsters their beliefs. i’m in a similar boat as you: i’ve yet to hear an argument supporting the resurrection that is actually supported by history and doesn’t make logical leaps. if one or more contemporaneous accounts of the event were found i’d happily change my views, but afaict they just don’t exist.

(Most of you should just scroll past this, but because I can’t help myself, I’m going to lay this argument out another way.) Right, but also nobody rises from the dead. You’re expressing extreme incredulity about the possibility that somebody would go to death for a lie, but you should instead direct that incredulity toward the fact that somebody rose from the dead. Given those two possibilities, one of them is dramatically more likely than the other. But while you just cannot accept that anybody would ever die for a lie, you very easily adopted the position that a man rose from the dead. This is a very strange kind of selective incredulity. On the one hand, you refuse to accept a proposition that is pretty unlikely. But then you immediately accept an alternative explanation that is literally unbelievably unlikely. What makes this even worse is that we can easily think of many other explanations than that they knowingly died for a lie. For example, perhaps the accounts we have from history are just simply inaccurate. Surely, it’s far more likely that the accounts we have of the apostles were incorrectly recorded than that a man rose from the dead. It is as though there were a man riding in the back of an airplane one minute and then the next minute we find that he isn’t there and we’re left wondering what happened. I propose that the man jumped out of the airplane and you say, “I just cannot imagine somebody jumping out of an airplane. That just seems so unlikely to me. Why in the world would anybody willingly jump to their own death? No, what must’ve happened is that he spontaneously teleported to another dimension.” You’ve traded one unlikely idea for a much, much, much more unlikely idea. The idea that the apostles only could have behaved as they did given solid evidence of the resurrection and that, further, we can be completely certain that they did act this way, so much so that we will entertain ideas that would otherwise be literally unbelievable — it’s just simply a very bad argument. I assure you, the problem is not that I don’t understand this argument. The argument is just simply a very bad and unconvincing one. This is what almost all religious apologia is like. As a Christian, when I’m told to read, say, CS Lewis, that his works had a profound impact on somebody else’s belief, I feel a kind of rumbling disappointment. I wish that were true of me! Critics will say that I am not open to the arguments, which means that nothing would convince me. But this is not true. I want so badly for one of these arguments to be convincing. If I were to encounter a convincing argument, the moment would be one of the most important in my life. But, for better or for worse, there’s an entity that lives in my stomach who needles and poisons me when I pretend to be convinced by arguments that I do not genuinely believe are good ones. Alas, my belief remains rooted in something not so luxurious.

if you want a genuine answer, historians look for multiple corroborating accounts, particularly of the same event. including the gospels, there’s about 7 for the existence of jesus (paul’s letters count as 1 because he wrote them). the more contemporaneous the better. -gospels: 4 (ignoring the synoptic problem) -epistles: 1 -josephus: 1 -tacitus: 1 counting the number of copies doesn’t work, bc then you’re counting each individual source multiple times. if that were a standard, then historians thousands of years from now would have reason to believe harry potter was a real person.

@jkbdts @Urban__Tree then what is?

“Jesus wasn’t a real guy”

@onp01nt22 @hoshizorarock i believe you but i googled farmhouse living room and this came up lol

@omniscrates @hoshizorarock The white is more of a neutral choice for show rooms and home design shows. "Farmhouse" is much more colorful even if that color is other neutrals or muted colors

アメリカ人の皆さんに質問です。 日本には「大正ロマン」と呼ばれる、西洋と日本の伝統が融合した芸術様式があります。アメリカ人の方々には、このスタイルはどのように映るのでしょうか？ 個人的にはこのスタイルがとても好きです。😊

the japanese are vagueposters too, but they have enough decency and decorum to explain themselves in the comments

i’m inherently skeptical of anything that has mass opposition. the ability to think about nuances and particularities regarding a certain issue degrades as the size of a group grows. i bet if you individually asked these people *why* they’re opposed to the data center, they’d regurgitate talking points and platitudes without any actual substance. the issue they’re protesting is a motte-and-bailey: a defensible claim (ai is putting significant stress on state/local grids) is being used to support a less defensible claim (ai is killing the planet/using all the water, etc). when you think about it, the real problem isn’t the data centers themselves, but navigating bureaucratic red tape to drive up energy production at local levels.

@TerraCattaMoon @chiefofautism oh that’s cool!

@omniscrates @chiefofautism Not even just for kids. You could potentially turn any lesson, historical or otherwise, into something rhythmic or catchy that is easy to remember. Look up Money Game by Ren!

someone made the most ADDICTIVE game to learn DATA CENTER networking its called Data Center, $6 game, you start with bare floors, buy racks, mount servers, route every cable by hand the INSANE part, every customers traffic shows as colored balls rolling through your cables... you literally see bottlenecks in real time 180 reviews in 48 hours, people with RTX 4090 rigs are HOOKED on a $6 cabling sim

@TerraCattaMoon @chiefofautism how does that work? like songs kids sing to learn things?

@omniscrates @chiefofautism I've often thought this about music, too