I was raised with religion in my life, but not heavily forced on me. I will say that certain principles shaped me as a better more empathetic person, but once I was on the outside looking in, I stopped believing but still carry some of those lessons with me. That said, a good household that teaches empathy and respect can achieve the same outcome without the ghost stories. Particularly where “Christianity” has devolved to, is not what I grew up with and does not teach the same positive, turn the other cheek mantra, and should be abolished. I would argue I’m in the minority where my experiences were good and made me a better person where others didn’t have the same track.

At its core, Christianity should be, love each other and be a good person, but unfortunately it’s weaponized propaganda to scare and and disparage people.

Well maybe you shouldn’t have propped up this particular pedophile, Joe. Eat shit.

Obama wasn’t in the habit of having unidentified, masked federal agents breaking into citizen’s house without warrants, then keeping them in concentration camps, where they die or maybe get arbitrarily deported. People aren’t complaining about illegal immigrants getting deported. It’s the weaponization if the federal government against citizens and the lack of due process, which is afforded to all individuals regardless of how they ended up in the US.

Your numbers are a strawman argument commonly used by people that don’t know what they’re talking about or are maliciously arguing in bad faith. Your lack of critical thinking leaves both options up for debate.

AI is dog shit, it’s taxing on the environment and people (through rising energy costs to train models), and the product is bad. If you can’t write your own words or generate your own ideas, then the slop you generate has no value and people can see it’s trash. You keep saying AI isn’t going anywhere, but it takes a minimal effort to research the current state of the technology and see that it’s not productive, companies hosting it are hemorrhaging money, and that there will be significant changes in the future. LLMs have been around for a long time, but it’s not financially viable for these super powers to continue in this path if they want to survive.

Shells have edges, but I’ve never seen one that’s sharp. I think this shower thought more implies the shells are stored off you face and there’s a buffer between skin and shell, butt one could also get shells large enough to go over the ear.

No, that would be the opposite. The noise captured and muddled in the shell is what gives the effect of hearing the ocean. Lose your ears and you remove some of that echo chamber.

Still works but the sound quality is shit.

Their incompetence has certainly had an effect on the Luigi trial.

I took a trip to Tahiti a couple years back, which is a French territory. Baguettes everywhere. Fellows sold sandwiches with baguettes as the bun. French toast was day old baguettes and phenomenal. Sometimes you just ate baguettes and saw people riding their mopeds with a bag of baguettes. It’s versatile and great.

Unfortunately the decision makers / lawmakers are a slimy bunch that are good at propaganda.

I wore my dirty scarlet letter. I’m not proud of it, but I’m not a liar. It always comes with the caveat that I’m also disgusted and hate everything that’s happening. Every foreign person I’ve talked to has been understanding in that we have the same views and concerns. Rational people know that there are a lot of us that disagree and are protesting against the current regime, and we bond on that.

Some people can’t put two and two together. Obviously a deployed soldier in a “hostile environment” is eligible to receive VFW benefits. It’s more like stolen valor to brag about it when bragging about a domestic invasion.

I’m on vacation and my buddy had someone ask if we’re Canadian. It felt like a compliment.

It’s unfortunate and I’m embarrassed by my fellow countrymen. The US certainly has not often been on the right side of history, but in the here and now, I’m truly disgusted by it all.

If Trump didn’t have a playbook I wonder if he could have accomplished the same tyranny he has.

I’m in the US Virgin islands at the moment on a trip, and I had a good conversation with a taxi driver. Tourism is way down and they are all just as disgusted and feel just as helpless as the rest of us. It’s still a US territory, but anecdotally his shit is flinging on everyone.

There have been many horrible events, but recency bias, I would be interested in what if Hitler never came to power, there was no WWII, and no Holocaust. Would his failure to forge a path to power have prevented many of today’s happenings and not put the US as the top world power for decades, or would we still have ended up here? Israel and Palestine would likely be different, nukes wouldn’t have been dropped, and maybe the Soviet union wouldn’t have collapsed. I’m not a history guy, so maybe all of this is off base. Again, certainly worse things in history that if changed would have reshaped the world, but this is definitely not a small thing affecting us today.

Hey now, he’s also given air time to Trump’s cronies. Can’t say he’s done nothing.

So they’re cowards. If they can’t fulfill their duty, they should step the fuck down. Just because there are more ICE agents doesn’t mean anything. If someone obstructs, arrest them too. It’s very simple and ACAB and this is further evidence to support that.

Nobody with a brain said he is smart.

Reaper is native Linux support too. I’m very very much a novice in audio production, but using yabridge you can import most plugin models as well. I don’t know that getting something like neural DSP is possible, at least stable though.