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@phudgins
Well, the Christian faith is that He is alive right now, and also as God has omniscience.

One technique I’ve heard being used by Bible translators to learn new languages: show some curious/interesting object, you’ll learn the phrase “what is this?”, then start pointing at everything and repeating it.

It is a nice backpack tho…

Why this controversy now? Tools like StyleGAN could do this for years already.

To be a little bit more fair, he also put some people he did like in hell.

And the “lost love” does criticize and accuse him a few times.

Not disagreeing.

A Tilley hat.

The problem with Communism is that if requires non greedy people.
The problem with Libertarianism is that it requires non greedy rich people.

@Prunebutt
China? Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?

I know the horseshoe theory is problematic, but it’s fact that some nominally “left” groups in practice resemble the “far right”; today’s China specially in practice resembles more Nazism than Communism.

@mhague
The problem with the US political system is that it’s so far skewed to the right that the moderate right Democrats are called “far left”, and by hearing “far left” people will associate it with Stalin and Mao…

@FenrirIII
That’s more like “center left”.

At least some definition of “Far Left” would be more: “we’re gonna get everyone’s basic needs meet by exterminating entire social groups because they’re impure”. It’s not the only one, but it’s the one that “centrists” would say it’s no different from the “far right”.

@pdqcp
Iguaçu Falls, on the border between Brazil and Argentina. Nearby you could also visit Itaipu Dam, formerly largest in the world.
Going a bit into the same Brazilian state of Paraná, there’s also the amazing Vila Velha park, with incredible sandstone formations.

Because it refers to economic liberalism.

Here in Brazil bolsonaro’s party is also called “Liberal Party”. Weirdly he was elected when in the Social Liberal Party.

Names don’t mean anything in political discourse.

Happiness is connected to contentment, feeling you have enough.
There are people living in their cars who are happy, and elon musk, with all the money in the world, very much doesn’t look like a happy person.

I read a story that once the US air force tried designing a pilot seat based on the average of the measurements of all their pilots and ended with something that was uncomfortable to all of them.

IIRC China does have elections, but people can only vote for local councils, and those elected then vote for higher positions; but there’s no parties, and it’s those currently in power that choose the candidates.

The driving school I went to would fail people that used the “handbrake start” on a hill.

And also fail people that tried to drive backwards by looking back instead of using the mirrors.

Abortion is sometimes the less monstrous alternative in a horrible situation, and it should never be seen as less than that.
Women should have enough social safety nets that abortion would never even cross their minds.
It is mostly Capitalism with its focus on productivity and selling youth and beauty that pressures women into it, women are “freeing” themselves into Capitalistic slavery.

From: “leftist” privileged cis het white guy, feel free to ignore or bash me

LLMs are just statistical models, all they know is how likely a text fragment is to appear near another text fragment.

If the wings are limbs, shouldn’t insects be considered to have 8-10?

Personally I prefer it starting on Sunday, but also here with Portuguese being the main language it only makes sense to start on Sunday, Monday to Friday are called second-fair, third-fair, fourth-fair, fifth-fair, and sixth-fair. Fair as in either market or festival.