you should get to use sudo in text RPGs.
you should get to use sudo to acquire prescription drugs without a doctor.
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you should get to use sudo in text RPGs.
you should get to use sudo to acquire prescription drugs without a doctor.
it’s deeply unsatisfying that for enjoying one’s time a satisficer strategy is probably more optimal than an optimiser strategy
I could try to think of exactly what music I’m in the mood to listen to right now. or I could hit shuffle a bunch of times until something interesting comes up.
You're optimizing your time-enjoyment algorithm, it's just one meta level up
train autism is so mysterious. why trains? why is it so common, so powerful a fixation? cant just be cultural, its occurred in isolation too many times. something about the size combined with rigid paths? bus autism much less common. trains werent MEANT to be compelling, they solve a problem. the obsession with them is just this weird side effect.
Car autists are probably 10x as common but unrecognized since Car Autism is jock-coded and Train Autism is nerd-coded
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Ragebaiting my fat dog? More like master baiting my fat hog!!!!!!!!
❗️Great Hog is displeased by this.
The kingly pig looks taken aback by this statement. "You claim to be 'baiting' our kind?.. A master of it, no less - after all the trust we hsve placed in you?"
- Your relationship with the Hog Society 🐖 is now Unfavourable.
It fucking astounds me how many people completely understand “being treated like a child is horrible” but never reach the very logical conclusion of “we should not treat children like that”
monster that wants to eat your flesh : Okay, that's what most carnivores do. Not scary.
monster that wants to drink your blood : Okay, that's what mosquitos do to me. Not scary.
monster that wants to specifically eat your bones : whadda fuck
#giant African land snail if it was evil as opposed to a being of pure heart and utmost virtue
hey tumblr user ravnervn, I now have additional questions, such as, bwah?
Giant African Land Snails eat bones in order to get calcium for their shells, but are also among God's most innocent of creatures and thus contain no malice. Hope this helps.
Avoidance is the worst reaction to stress. Oh this thing is giving me anxiety? And it's something I could prepare for by looking at it more or learning things about the topic? No, I will take psychological damage if I look at it directly. I will still be thinking about it and be stressed though.
On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping ar
Cannot consumption of AI be considered an art expression?
Of course it can, and performance art is art, but I feel like it's important to know that the art being eaten was a series of AI generated images reflecting the artist's experience of AI psychosis and commenting on the way that AI use changes the users' interactions with the world. The images were generated by someone who has been using image generation tools in their art since 2017 and who was educated as an artist using traditional techniques.
The piece that the protester ate was made by an MFA student and wasn't an attempt to "pass off" generated images themselves as art, the art was the presentation of the images and their sequence and variety (there's an element of obsessive iteration visible even in the remaining images - an empty room, the same room with different light, the same room with a smiling woman on the bed, the same woman standing in different poses, which speaks to me of someone furiously attempting to construct a comforting reality and finding the tools in your hands inadequate, but that's just my interpretation of what remains).
For the record, Nick Dwyer was the MFA student whose art was eaten. "The intersection of art and AI" is a huge theme in his work.
Like. He made a ceramic sculpture of an AI girlfriend, then generated an AI image of the sculpture and called them one and two in a series.
He made ceramic "phones" and inscribed them with cuniform and ai image hieroglyphics that he carved into the clay.
I've talked a lot about how I think that AI has a place in the creation of art and I think Dwyer's work is genuinely a perfect example of someone using AI to create art.
Again, I also think that performance art is art and eating a portion of the gallery piece is certainly an interesting statement, but I wonder if the protestor would be as outraged by the ceramic phones with AI images engraved on them. How much human touch or human intention does "slop" need before it's art, or is it fruit of the poisoned tree and must always be considered slop because AI was part of the process?
perhaps controversial opinion but when answering the question 'should you destroy someone else's property' neither the artistic merit of the thing you destroyed nor the artistic merit of the act of destruction are really dispositive
europeans have some explaining to do regarding the numerous micronations littered across their godforsaken continent. what the fuck is "andorra", wtf is "lichenstein", "monaco" (???). they will say, "oh those are tax havens". bitch please. we have that here too. it's called connecticut. do you know what's going on in connecticut? absolutely god damn nothing. not that the tax haven excuse was plausible to begin with, y'all already played that card with luxembourg, and if we're being real, switzerland, and if we're being One Hundred, ireland.
lichenstein is ineligible to join the EU as it isn't a democracy. it is a kingdom. there is a king of lichenstein. what the fuck? keep in mind, lichenstein is theoretically about the size of an average suburban american garage, or is at least theorized to be, as square feet are not directly comparable to "meters times meters"
get your fucking shit together.
Unbelievably cucked that W and Z bosons don't have separate Wikipedia pages. They don't even do the same thing.
As far as I can tell this is because from the perspective of the math, the weak force is clearly one single "thing" even though from the perspective of the actual interactions between particles it's two things, and physicist brain won out over normal person brain in this case
when youre talking to someone and you can tell theyre a sex baby and not a stork baby
An entire race of creatures that perfectly resembles, detached human arms, but happily go about their business, have their own small villages, and are lightly disturbed when they see humans.
Humans get to feel the same way a chimera feels when it sees a singular goat or snake or lion just walking around on its own.
I was going to delete this as just kind of "this is a weird thing with no context", but I love the final section.
Centaur who's freaked out by humans and horses. What the fuck? Where's that other half come from?
If I was the president of South Korea right now I would send out a tweet saying, shit, sorry guys, was a little drunk last night. I was binging history Wikipedia, started imagining myself as Park Chung Hee, and instead of keeping it to the roleplay forums I pocketdailed parliament instead. My bad. Let's just...let's just sleep it off okay?
*blearily checking CNN* wait what the fuck
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Magilinguistics and magiconlinguistics are so underrated. The idea that the specific language and syntax used to cast a spell can alter the efficiency and flow of a spell is amazing; it’s honestly infuriating how many people, including many mages, think Latin is the only valid conjuring language even though glossolalia is a WELL-DOCUMENTED PHENOMENON. I use many other languages in various spells and it’s really fun. Would recommend.
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YOU CAN DO THAT? YOU CAN TRANSLATE LATIN SPELLS INTO A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND THEY’LL WORK!?! EVEN YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE?!
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Yeah, welcome to the club! Using your native language isn’t recommended for summoning forces from other realms, though. The portals tend to collapse if you do that.
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Wait wait wait, I just consulted my familiar about this, is magiconlinguistics modifying or inventing an entire language to optimize your magic? Because that sounds like something both extremely commendable and also batshit insane.
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Yeah, that’s basically exactly what it is. We’re surprisingly pretty chill. I mean, except for that one time where someone hyper-optimized Taikureiden Suomen Kieli V5 to create the first, and most dangerous, known instance of the Everything-Damage Fireball spell, but we usually don’t talk about that.
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Ah, Taikureiden Suomen Kieli, the most absolutely broken magilang to ever exist. Go Finland, give us more fucked-up spells!
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wait, the Everything-Damage Fireball is REAL? I thought you guys were joking.
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We WERE joking. ONCE.
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on one hand, this is really cool and all, but on the other hand, i'm scared of what this can do. However, on the secret third hand, i kinda wanna modify a language to make demonic creatures physically sick upon hearing it, cause i wanna do a little trolling.
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Grand Mage Amara Lightningchain coming up with the idea for the Volapük Silananazunik experiments be like:
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hold on let me look something up
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wh. what the fuck
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We need the obnoxious atheists back. I know they engineered their own destruction by being annoying and pretentious, but it has become apparent how essential to the ecosystem they were. The religious fanatics have become too bold without their natural predators. Jesus wojaks would have been torn to shreds in 2011.
okay it really says a lot that atheism got branded as "obnoxious" and "reddit" as an ideology when rejecting religious dogma is maybe the first most basic step of leading a more rational-- wait where are you going come back
its detractors have to attack what you might call fedora atheism by calling it or its proponents annoying, ugly, low-status, etc., to get around the uncomfortable fact that it is literally true and there is no intellectually respectable way to be a theist in the 21st century; there is no theist argument that stands up to Dawkins’s simple question “what about Thor? why don’t you believe in him?”
I'm not sure what that question is getting at. What if the hypothetical theist is Asatru?
then you ask what about Osiris?
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how polytheism works.
yeah I seem to underestimate human stupidity and ability to maintain inconsistent and contradictory ideas
Well you see the ginnugagap is just a metaphor for
The funny thing is you probably think this is clever. You think a metaphorical interpretation of religion is an absurd modern theist cope and not the default position for most of history. You have the exact same reading level and understanding as the religious fundamentalists you hate.
The notes on this post have really been reminding me why reddit atheists became cringe in the first place. I still think they're essential to the ecosystem, but in the same way that mosquitos are essential to the ecosystem. Irritating little pests that keep the lumbering herds of religious extremists from turning the lush wetlands of the internet into a putrid cesspool.
You think a metaphorical interpretation of religion is an absurd modern theist cope and not the default position for most of history.
because it is! “it’s just metaphor bro!” is pathetic cope in the face of the undeniable fact that science has made it completely impossible in the modern day to believe in the literal truth of religious myths without seeming utterly delusional. but people in the past did in fact believe in their own religions. many still do. the US is like 30% young earth creationist literalist. every pope ever would have you burned at the stake for saying the resurrection of christ was only metaphor if he could. the online mind is so throughly secularised it can’t actually what it feels like from the inside to be religious.
"In ThE mIdSt Of A dIsCuSsIoN wItH pEoPlE wHo HiGhLy PrIzE rAtIoNaLiSm"
I tremble in the presence of such intellectual giants!
You people are so stupid, it's not even funny.
"For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar."
-Galatians 4: 23-24 (the fucking Bible)
3rd century theologian Origen said the Bible's true meaning could ONLY be found by reading it allegorically.
"This, however, must not be unnoted by us, that as the chief object of the Holy Spirit is to preserve the coherence of the spiritual meaning, either in those things which ought to be done or which have been already performed, if He anywhere finds that those events which, according to the history, took place, can be adapted to a spiritual meaning, He composed a texture of both kinds in one style of narration, always concealing the hidden meaning more deeply; but where the historical narrative could not be made appropriate to the spiritual coherence of the occurrences, He inserted sometimes certain things which either did not take place or could not take place; sometimes also what might happen, but what did not: and He does this at one time in a few words, which, taken in their “bodily” meaning, seem incapable of containing truth, and at another by the insertion of many."
On Genesis in particular, he said the following:
"For who that has understanding will suppose that the first, and second, and third day, and the evening and the morning, existed without a sun, and moon, and stars? And that the first day was, as it were, also without a sky? And who is so foolish as to suppose that God, after the manner of a husbandman, planted a paradise in Eden, towards the east, and placed in it a tree of life, visible and palpable, so that one tasting of the fruit by the bodily teeth obtained life? And again, that one was a partaker of good and evil by masticating what was taken from the tree? And if God is said to walk in the paradise in the evening, and Adam to hide himself under a tree, I do not suppose that anyone doubts that these things figuratively indicate certain mysteries, the history having taken place in appearance, and not literally."
St. Augustine, one of the most influential Christian theologians, famously concurred that Genesis was not to be taken literally. And yeah, no shit. The main character is named "Man" and his wife has a conversation with a fucking snake. Not Satan in the form of a snake like fundies will tell you. Just a regular snake. Who talks because animals talk in this kind of story, and the people of the time would have been familiar with those conventions.
It is pure arrogance to think we in the 21st century are uniquely rational. Ancient people weren't stupid. The people who built the seven wonders of the ancient world knew snakes didn't actually talk. They knew that certain Biblical stories were theological retellings of Babylonian myths. They didn't post on tumblr about the Hades and Persephone story like it was true crime. They did believe that a god or gods existed, but they understood that the stories that had been written about them were ultimately written by men. Do you think the ancient Greeks and Romans were unaware of how many different and contradictory versions there were of each story??? THEY WROTE DOWN EVERYTHING! That's how we know there are multiple versions of everything in the first place! You are not smarter than a Greek philosopher!
Literalism is a modern cope, not fucking metaphor.
I'm spraying you with a can of raid.
'Kay, not sure why you chose to respond to my zero-effort tags this morning rather than @official-kircheis's response two weeks ago, but here we are. I didn't flag that the last tag was jokey and intentionally over-the-top, so that's on me. In my defense though, you did: a) specifically request such behavior in the OP, and b) follow up that warranted mockery with a woefully bad argument, so I don't feel too bad about it.
Anyway. You've done this tidy little motte-and-bailey-esque rhetorical switcheroo where you're answering the claim "most religious people throughout history actually did literally believe in their own stated religion" with the overspecific counterargument "not true; there are certain early Christian theologians who believe that certain parts of the bible were allegorical." Which is incredibly narrow in scope. What about the other parts of the bible; did Origen also think God's very existence was figurative? What about non-theologians; did the average illiterate Roman Christian think of Sodom as a moralistic fable? What about other time periods; did Urban VIII display an allegorical view of Genesis when he condemned Galileo? What about other religions; is the reincarnation cycle typically taken as metaphor by Hindus? Or perhaps all the world's religions, by some strange coincidence, happen to have been struck by this same spate of literalism in modern times?
But we don't even need to go into all that, because even on your chosen grounds of early Christian theology, there's still a huge amount of literal belief to be seen. St. Augustine did not argue that Genesis as a whole was not literal, he made that argument regarding the six-day creation cycle specifically. When it comes to Adam and Eve, Eden, and the Fall of Man, though? Augustine repeatedly affirmed, across multiple writings, that while these stories had figurative implications they were also genuine historical fact. (City of God, Book 13, Chapter 21 is particularly explicit about this but it can be found all over the place.) You are mistaken about his beliefs.
I mention Augustine because you brought him up, but he isn't the only example here. Irenaeus and Tertullian were particularly serious offenders in this regard, but the best evidence can be seen in the kinds of theological debates and divides early Christianity saw. Were they arguments over what kind of lessons to draw from biblical stories? Perhaps esoteric debates on how to better cleave to Jesus's teachings? No. They were all shit like "is it correct to call Mary "God-bearer," or are we only allowed to call her "Christ-bearer" since Jesus's divinity didn't come from her?" Every council, every schism, dealt with what their attendees saw as historical matters of literal truth. Or, at the most, philosophy of the soul.
And they killed people over this! Under your concept of early Christianity, it would be a norm to riot over, exile, and even deploy military action against, what, people who cleave to a different allegorical interpretation? Of course they believed it was real.
The same applies to any other examples you might care to name. Oh, the Greeks thought Zeus was a character written by mortals? Well they spent a whole lot of time and effort raising statues and temples and offering animals to that metaphorical character, in an age where misspent time and resources easily meant death. Must've been super into the stories, I guess.
This isn't "arrogance." I know I'm not special. I know perfectly well that, had I been born in centuries past, I almost certainly would have believed these things as well. The median European peasant wasn't morally lesser for taking the local bishop's teachings as fact; they had little way of knowing better. But, through the immense growth in scientific methodology, education access, and communication, we have created a world far more well-equipped to disclaim religion. Purely allegorical religion was never the norm in past societies; the degree of it we see today is a massive anomaly on the historical scale. So, sure, maybe I'm not smarter than a Greek philosopher - but which one of us sacrifices goats in hopes of rain?
I don't think all the edgy atheists in the world could deliver an insult to religion as devastating as people who honestly hold the idea "of course nobody really believed this shit, look how utterly ridiculous it is!"