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lol yeah one of those things that is attempted to be fanfic to make him seem stronger... but in the end it does the exact opposite. If most the people on your side rebel, you either made or recruited very evil people that thought you looked weak. Or you were doing things that they found horendous enough they'd rather make a futile attempt and accept the cost of failure then take part in whatever you are doing.

Honestly to me the whole concept of Lucifer as written in the bible to me, makes me question the whole thing.

like 5 year old me was like "OK wait so how is this guy so stupid that he thinks that he went to battle against god, is he really stupid, everyone knows god is 100% perfectly all powerful", then you think further and realize literally lucifer was supposedly like the closest angel to god, if anyone has a solid view on gods power, it's him. Which honestly points to the idea that god... isn't immortal, isn't all powerful etc... he just uses that lie as a crux to prevent people from threatening him.

Honestly the story of the tower of babel cements that even more. Now first of all if you've heard this story from christians... get rid of the pre-conception because usually preachers etc remove a lot of what is actually in the text, and add things that aren't there. The story is not about stupid men trying to build a stairway to heaven.

The story as written, in short, man was amazingly unified, world peace was achieved. They were building the tower as an enormous landmark so basically people could see their city from wherever they were, as well as just a testament to what they could accomplish when they worked together.

God looks down at it and says "wow, look at these humans, when they work together, they can accomplish anything they set their mind to. They keep this up and they would be as powerful as gods. To which, god saw that as a credible threat, and so he smashed the tower, spread them all out, and made them speak different languages. Ensuring that they would be too busy fighting eachother rather then becoming a potential threat to him later.

In short, the old testiment is kind of littered with actions that only make sense, if you conclude god, actually has weaknesses and can be beaten.

That's indeed such a big issue... fact is the trash problems of our cheap wrappers etc... were so huge... what prevented regulation. The endless spree of ads saying "You terrible people, stop throwing your trash on the ground".

Also former fundie... and yeah there was a popular teenage book series when I was growing up. I think it was called "the forbidden doors". And yeah basically a long series that basically fell into the same pattern over and over, and yeah in short, basically it's "no that house isn't haunted, it's a demon, we need to get right with god and cast it out"... "No that isn't an alien it's a demon, we need to get right with god and cast it out". etc...

But aliens and spirits are enemies in dandadan. Spirits are what keep aliens from invading.

While I'm far from an expert on it... at best the dream simulations are still, extremely rudimentary. To the point that's usually how you can tell it isn't real by doing something like reading a book. IE it's largely believable, but only because you are put in a gullible state. Like watching 2 year old AI videos, while stoned.

I mean there's that... but there's also the fact that nobody has been stupid enough to break the seal on the Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear issue. Report after report shows trump is really really anxious to find a reason to use a nuke.

voters think there is still sanity in the party.

Gotta say though, surely they didn't need to pick the "Rothchilds are using space lasers to start wildfires" and "Yes they can control the weather" person to be their "voice of sanity".

IMO the learning curve for caddy is almost non existent, and just about anything you might want to selfhost almost certainly has a quick simple caddy configuration you can copy paste with just updating the relevant domain. Personally learning curve for caddy was probably way lower than figuring out the edge cases of apache that I was using before

I mean it is still kind of the same thing... In texas there were tons of people who didn't vote for it... but were effectively caught in their neighbors self inflicted bullshit.

Same concept with blue states... those states may not have had a majority that voted for trump... but the nation as a whole did. (caveats of course for all forms of voting shenanigans, disqualified votes and any possible fuckery with the election itself).

was claiming to be able to take superzoom photos of the moon, but were actually just replacing the very fuzzy moon with a clear image

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra

is indeed samsung that did this.

Now you see, that's the problem there... they were claiming to do X, but were actually doing Y.

Just as lets say if we did have AI person removal... but you said "actually lets you see what's behind the person that would obviously be a problem, as obviously that's actually impossible.

Likewise you hear space zoom... you have to point the camera at the moon... you assume that the camera is capturing the moon, and the image you are looking at is the moon in real time. Obviously not likely to happen but imagine for a second while you were looking at the moon through your camera, and say a meteor hit the moon leading to an enormous explosion and crater that would be visible through a telescope, or hell maybe something extreme enough that it's at least partially visible even to the naked eye. The feature as described would let you see it enhanced in more detail than you could with the naked eye, while in reality it would replace the abnormalities and give you a picture of how the moon looks in it's training data.

Side note, conservatives have almost supernatural timing with regards to these things... Remember when Rick Perry cut the texas fire departments, right before the historic texas fires broke out... and in the trump admin those instant flash floods that whiped out the kids camps right after the weather budget got slashed.

Quote me later... a tsunami on par with Fukushima will hit in 2 months or less.