GiorgioBoymoder

joined 3 months ago
[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

tony hawk tuah

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 15 points 14 hours ago

so it got tired of answering banal questions, especially since the user was blatantly cheating and decided to roast them. since LLMs are "next word predictors" trained on internet pages, it seems to be working lol.

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A parallel sentiment I've noticed is DSA members in labor-organizing focused spaces stating their goal is to "help labor." We are labor! We're not apart from it, we're trying to help ourselves!

 

I've noticed that mutual aid efforts in an org often focus on directing aid outside the organization, essentially operating as a charity. Additionally, many leftist orgs are quite small and could benefit from additional membership.

I'm wondering if it might be better for a mutual aid org to focus its aid efforts internally? It is mutual aid after all. Please understand, I recognize that helping one's community is worthwhile, but an org focusing aid internally materially benefits the self-interest of its members. If one sees material benefit to joining a group surely they're more likely to join?

Am I off base here? Seems like an idea worth developing.

 

Topical!

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

it's really fucking with me that neither axis follows a progressive ordering so I'm going to post a fixed (debugged) version. EDIT: lmao this is the most fucked up, inconsistent alignment chart I've seen. here it is fixed:

everything -> sometimes -> nothing

know -> not sure -> don't know

 

The full game is still yet to come. The project's intent is turn the Episode 3 story outline released by Mark Liadlaw (Epistle 3) into a game, resolving the cliffhanger ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the reverse (i'm using mathematical inverse here) of "Pull Pot" is "Push Plate"

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this is a good point, but the abrupt change twice per year is harmful regardless of which ends up being the permanent time.

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

1 / (Pol Pot) = Push Plate

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

yeah this happened to me too, but at least i busted

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

that's totally reasonable. thinking about philosophy helped me grow a lot as a person as I unlearned YEC and learned the true history of the world so it's stuck with me shrug-outta-hecks

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sincerely, unironically, I love that for you.

religion had a big impact on my life without my consent so I have strong feelings about it. fortunately it doesn't come up much so I can also just vibe and not care most of the time.

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

thank you. I don't feel attacked.

it's not based on faith it's based on history. Worship of the Abrahamic god was also associated with polytheistic religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion. many times in the old testament a prophet chastises isrealites for worshipping other gods of the pantheon, like Ba'al or Asherah. First of the 10 commandments is "thou shalt have no other god before me" and there are a few times in the early stories that god refers to itself in the plural, or is clearly stated to not be all powerful. this is quite different from how we understand God today, how can we determine which view is correct?

There's also the character of God which is nationalist, racist, abusive, murderous, extremely controlling, qualities that are far more consistent with being invented by a culture which had those same qualities than being the omnipotent creator of the entire cosmos.

Are all the gods of the Canaanite pantheon real or just this one? What about other pantheons? Can we assume he's more likely to be real simply because a large number of people believe it? That's not a good way of determining what is true. if an idea cannot be tested directly the next best thing is to trace its provenance.

my point here is that there's nothing special about "God" any moreso than the deities of other cultures, yet Yahweh gets special treatment but has no more evidence for basis in material reality than Athena, Ganesha, or Nap Anya. I also feel confident saying Loki doesn't exist and I doubt many would call that out as a belief based on faith.

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