Historians generally agree that there was an actual person named Jesus at the place and time described in the Bible. In Biblical canon, Jesus was born to a virgin mother, so he’d have no Y-chromosome on account of having no biological father.
I don’t care what people say, the most important historical event in my lifetime was the discovery and release of the lost Steely Dan tape containing The Second Arrangement
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I mean we all know by now that Jesus was a transgender man right?
Squorlple@lemmy.worldto Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•Flattery undermining my confidenceEnglish4·22 hours agoMany AI chatbots or chat assists are by default programmed to be saccharine to the point of disingenuousness. Don’t adjust your values to categorically match what they are programmed to praise or condemn. They appear on the surface as people-pleasers but are actually intended to please their distributor’s investors. Additionally and most critically, don’t fall into the trap of thinking of the machines as people.
With the AI tangent aside, with human interactions I definitely do feel the disparity between coddling and general treatment in society. If you’ve ever seen people interact with young kids or people with disabilities, especially mental disabilities, people often express overvaluing of their actions and creations to boost their confidence. While it may be a great achievement for that individual’s standards and capabilities and they do deserve praise for that much, lauding a simple piece of macaroni art as being better than the Mona Lisa, for example, is probably not genuine and can in fact undermine the creator’s confidence if they are aware enough to sense that lack of genuineness. However, for some people maybe they’d rather have that piece of macaroni art over the Mona Lisa because it is made by someone they love and care about and they highly value tokens of that person. Sometimes it can feel as if there is a conspiracy against someone if they notice a mismatch between the level of praise they receive and their presence and level of success in society elsewhere, and I too have experienced that sensation.
I mean isn’t the thing about the Fediverse that if your host instance gets entrenched in enshittification or financial ruin then you can just leapfrog from instance to instance and have all of your old posts still online and the content and userbase of one community can be migrated to another community on another server?
The explanation page doesn’t have anything yet, but this feels like it has references to the Futurama episodes “The Late Philip J. Fry” and “Lethal Inspection”, with just a hint of Slartibartfast from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
[EDIT: After making this comment, I noticed that those two Futurama episodes happen to be back-to-back with each other. xkcd must be in the middle of watching the series]
Squorlple@lemmy.worldto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•This can get you arrested in France.English1·1 day agoThe display name is “People Twitter”. The community’s full name is !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
The 80’s will to be 50 years from now, too
Squorlple@lemmy.worldto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•This can get you arrested in France.English36·2 days agoI thought this was fiberglass insulation at first
Squorlple@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfillEnglish521·2 days agoMaybe they got to the dump and there was a big sign and chain across the dump saying “Closed on Thanksgiving” and they had never heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving before and with tears in their eyes they drove off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage. They didn’t find one. ‘Til they came to a side road and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff was another pile of garbage. And they decided that one big pile is better than two little piles and rather than bring that one up they decided to throw theirs down.
Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPto Star Wars@lemmy.world•What throwaway lines from the Original Trilogy would you like to see explored more in live action or animation?English1·2 days agoThose are no longer considered canon, nor are they in the medium of a movie or show
Refer to the first sentence of my comment.
This raises so many questions:
- How does frog mom know Heathcliff? Are they romantically involved? Is Heathcliff frog dad? Is Heathcliff frog sibling? Has frog mom kissed Heathcliff before?
- Is Heathcliff’s natural form cat or is he truly a frog?
- Magic exists?
- Will Heathcliff remain in frog form in the next comic? How will he return to cat form, if at all?
- Why would somebody name their cat “Gurch”?
Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPto Star Wars@lemmy.world•What throwaway lines from the Original Trilogy would you like to see explored more in live action or animation?English3·3 days agoThat’s a good one! Would have fit well for the recent Tales of the Underworld short series.
There was a brief deleted scene of Luke putting the finishing touches on the saber (canon?), but there still would be questions left with what we know now of the need for kyber crystals and each design’s connection to their constructor.
Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPto Star Wars@lemmy.world•What throwaway lines from the Original Trilogy would you like to see explored more in live action or animation?English12·3 days agoThose don’t take place during the same time period. Andor is set during the construction of the Death Star 1. The “many Bothans” line involves the plans for the Death Star 2, which was 4 years after Rogue One and A New Hope.
Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPto Star Wars@lemmy.world•What throwaway lines from the Original Trilogy would you like to see explored more in live action or animation?English17·3 days agoThat is shown and is an important part of the movie
Squorlple@lemmy.worldto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•"Normaize This Reaction" (Art by Cellspex)English17·3 days agoAI chats are known for their overconfident persuasiveness, especially when incorrect. IIRC the job was pretty much just yapping that exact type of rhetoric.
Squorlple@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove itEnglish72·3 days agoAre you saying you think it’s ok to give a platform to content explicitly promoting genocide and Nazism so long as it has a beat?
Somebody posted this exact same comic to this community just prior. I don’t think your title is a reference to a small edit that I’m missing? In any case, it might be best for everyone to glance through New on a community before posting non-OC.
Category is mothers mentioned in songs written by a Beatle?
Mother Superior - “Happiness is a Warm Gun”
Mother Hubbard - “Gimme Some Truth”
Mother Nature - “Mother Nature’s Son”
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