LOGIC💣

“I would search for a website that collects the best answers to the most idiotic interview questions, and follow the instructions I find there.”

You never know until you test it, but my hypothesis would be that the religious people, having spent their entire lives abdicating their moral decision-making to ministers and stone age religious texts, would have different results from people who have had experience thinking about their actions and creating moral convictions on their own.

I think the quote is overrated, honestly. There are a lot of times that a “good” person may do “evil” without religion.

Probably the most famous example comes from the Milgram experiment. All that’s required is an authority figure to tell people to do evil and they’ll do it.

And if you study behavioral economics, you’ll find out that a lot of people tend to cheat and steal just a little bit.

Another time is when there is a conflict of interests. I forget the exact quote, but it is said that it will be impossible to get a person to understand something when their pay requires them not to understand it.

Does the Bible mention masturbation?

I am not a Bible expert, but every time I’ve heard people talk about it, they reference an Old Testament story where a man’s close female relative (I think his brother’s widow or something like that?) tries to seduce him after her husband dies, but then he lets his seed spill to the ground instead of impregnating her, and this displeases God.

The story is obviously about him not fulfilling his familial duties, but modern Christians pretend it’s about making sure you only ejaculate when there’s a chance of reproducing.

Unfortunately, Mike Johnson cannot orgasm unless he thinks about starving orphans and dead puppies and shit.

They aren’t starving from the shutdown, though. They’re starving specifically from Donald Trump.

He should have proactively used those emergency funds to keep SNAP going, but he is intentionally dragging his feet and fighting against doing the right thing.

Also, she doesn’t say what our most extreme ideas are. The most extreme idea she mentions is allowing trans-women to compete in women’s sports. But I think that’s probably a mainstream belief, and also the one that is best supported by science.

(Meanwhile, the most extreme idea of theirs that she mentions is that trans-women should face non-stop violent rape if they go to prison.)

Even after all of that, she still doesn’t get it:

I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse.

The problem is that “our” (using quotes as I’m only progressive, not LGBTQ+) most extreme ideas are only held by a minority of progressive people, and meanwhile the things she thinks are their “most extreme ideas” are the ones that she saw personally, while interacting with people who don’t mind interacting with a trans-woman. Those aren’t their “most extreme ideas.” They’re their mainstream ideas.

She’s comparing our most extreme ideas against their mainstream ideas.

The Democratic Party is the party of the wealthy people who don’t like the policies of the wealthy people who run the Republican Party.

There is no way that we’ll ever have a government for the people until we pass campaign finance reform, and the wealthy people who run the parties don’t want that to happen.

If we can’t get giant popular sentiment to do something like push for a constitutional amendment, then the best we can ever hope for is tiny baby steps.

I ended up “buying” it off of Amazon digital. Before I had “purchased” it, it had been variously bouncing around free or ad-supported streaming services like Prime and Tubi. I stopped paying attention to that stuff after I “bought” it, though.

(All that stuff in quotes because you don’t really own it, but I’m at least using whatever I paid for.)

I’ve probably watched all of B5 about 10 times or more. Going through another cycle right now. Just watched the first episode of season 2 today, having finished season 1 yesterday, so this is very fresh. I think if I was going to introduce a friend to it, I’d say to skip season 1 entirely.

There’s a lot of stuff that feels like filler in season 1, even though I think quite a few of those episodes are actually trying to introduce lore in a sneaky way. Like, the Soul Hunter episode feels a lot like hot garbage, but it does put some important lore in your head. Similar with the episode that they find some ancient organic alien technology. Plus, I think everybody will instantly like Sheridan in a way that never happened with Sinclair.

I’ve grown to like season 1, but it took several watches before it stopped bothering me.

Today, we have 0%. At the beginning of the Biden administration, we had 95%. The policies of that administration really caused us to lose practically the entire China market. - NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

The article says that both Biden’s and later, Trump’s policies have decreased NVIDIA’s market share. He’s really phrasing it in a favorable way to Trump. Like, the same way, you could say the following, “At the beginning of the Obama administration, we had zero deaths from COVID. Now, we have millions.” Just skip over the part that is inconvenient for propaganda, right?

However, the loss of NVIDIA’s market share in China isn’t only attributed to the previous administration, since under President Trump, Team Green had to halt the sales of its H20 AI chip temporarily, and they were resumed only after the firm agreed on a ‘revenue sharing’ model with the Trump government. More importantly, with US-China trade relations being influenced, NVIDIA also suffered a significant setback from China, as domestic regulators and authorities began persuading Chinese Big Tech companies not to use Team Green’s AI chips.

Also, Jensen Huang’s statement betrays an insane naivete about China. Newsflash: China always tries to take international industry and make a domestic Chinese version. If you have a 95% share of something in China and you’re a foreign company, that simply means it’s related to some fresh technology, or that it’s virtually worthless. If it is believed to have value, China will have their own stuff before you know it, and don’t expect IP laws like patents or copyright to slow them down. They don’t give a shit about that stuff for foreign companies.

This reminds me of a time when I was working part time for a small business while I was in high school. The owner told me that an adult employee named Gary wasn’t going to be working there after that day. So a few hours later when I saw Gary, I told him that I was sorry to hear that he was leaving, and he had no idea what I was talking about. The owner hadn’t fired him yet. Talk about awkward.

(It turned out that Gary had been stealing business from that place and doing it on his own, despite not holding the required engineering licenses to actually do the work, so his firing was pretty inevitable.)

If Trump was a Ferengi on Ferenginar, he’d have long ago been sent off of the Tower of Commerce.

You know the rules. Combat slaves are okay. Sex slaves are not okay.

I don’t disagree with you essentially, but 30 minutes is ambitious, in my opinion, to really figure queries out. I’d much rather have a slower person who actually understands what they’re doing than a faster person who is probably just copy-pasting from ChatGPT.

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Once, I applied for a job and all of the technical questions were about SQL, because I had listed that as a technology that I knew. One of many, by the way, and not something that I claimed mastery in or anything. It was just those three letters. Somehow, the interviewer thought that meant I’d have a DBA’s knowledge of the subject.

This reminds me of how police abuse any new tool they’re given.

Like how while trained dogs can actually sniff out drugs, when they’re given to police, they get retrained to simply alert whenever the police want them to, and essentially become a flimsy reason to let police violate your rights and search anybody they want to.

And the police suffer zero repercussions for their actions. If they don’t find drugs, there’s nobody who’s going to take them to court and force them to retrain their dogs or to disallow drug dogs from being used as reasonable suspicion.

Also not to be confused with the decapitated centaur.