Derek Fake

Catholic, Married to @gina_a_fake

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

@ruthdelioncourt Venerable Jérôme Lejeune’s great ambition was something to this effect I believe.

[Marko Papic @Geo_papic]

I don't always repost, but when I do... it's THE TRUTH.

[Eddie @chacaranda]

Ross Douthat was always insanely charitable to his podcast guests, which is why I was so surprised at how uncharacteristically uncharitable he was towards Bryan Johnson, especially at the end of their interview.

As usual, he was reading the room correctly.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

@Ring__The_Bell This could go viral

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

The fun part about American Airlines is that buying a ticket in no way guarantees a flight that leaves at the time specified, a flight that arrives in the right location, or even a seat on the plane

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

If I were Elon Musk, I'd roll up the entire steel industry.

Step 1: Buy Cleveland-Cliffs. Instantly control ~60% of US blast furnace capacity.

Step 2: Vertically integrate — feed cheap steel straight into Tesla.

Step 3: Use my bottomless bank account to sell steel below cost to everyone else. Nippon just paid $15B for US Steel? Bleed them dry. I can run at a loss forever. They can't.

Step 4: When they go bankrupt, buy the scraps. Now I'm Andrew Carnegie with a Twitter account.

Step 5: Jack prices 20x for Ford and GM while supplying myself at cost. Their cars get more expensive. Mine don't.

Endgame: 100% of steel. 100% of autos. One rollup, two monopolies.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

What is there to author? This is reality…

[Blue Pixel🌈✝️ PNG-Tuber @PixelBibleBytes]

If I was a better writer, what would be a cool idea for a horror game is for it to be just like this. You spend the whole game thinking God and His angels are evil, destroying your civilization, you can't fight the angels, all you can do is hide. And as you progress more info about your own civilization is made to you about their evil and immoral practices and history. At the end there is a Job moment where God reveals He's given your civilization 500 years to repent of its evil, sending prophets warning of the coming wrath which your people killed and you realize God wasn't the evil one, your people were and they fought against every offer of mercy or repentance and you learn that His judgment was just.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

@ragnarisapirate @Sacramentshow @fakegingerbitch When I was Protestant, I understand Purgatory in relation to sanctification. While, we seek God for forgiveness of our sins. We may not be fully aligned with his will. It’s the pain of our will not align with God that constitutes Purgatory.

Eucharist: 1 Corinthians 11:17-22

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

I’m a big fan of the show. The scientists come across as naive and ignorant of political obstacles to solutions. As a story, the impact of individual people was the most compelling story from Anatoly to Boris, which runs counter to politics or science mattering.

[Mazer Rackham Jr. @TheNextMazer]

People seem to have started turning on this show. It's clearly meant as a piece of "trust the science" propagandizing, but Craig Mazin's research betrayed him. He couldn't help but unearth the real obstacle to progress, the real enemies of truth: Midwit Commies.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

Veganism may have its merits, but atheism discredits the merits of veganism.

If atheism is true, “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” New Atheists will cope to no end
to the contrary because they are Christian heretics.

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

I remember hearing a philosophy professor say that nobody can agree on anything in the field of philosophy except two things, veganism and atheism, but the public strongly disagrees with the obviously correct positions, so they have to pretend that the other side has good points.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

Summer break is for working, that’s what it was made for. If kids aren’t working anymore we should make school year-round like the rest of the world.

The “do-nothing” summers folks describe is poisonous for the soul.

[Lycurgus @GC_Strategos]

My parents never encouraged me to work in high school. I remember talking to my dad about summer jobs and he said, “Why would you want to do that? You will have the rest of your life to work.”

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

It’s much simpler to say that the Creator of the universe has his ways—who am I to question how. All “how” questions are pedantic to begin with. I’m much more intrigued by WHY he rose from the dead.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

I don’t mean to imply a god of the gaps, but I always found those that interact with “laws of physics” rarely grapple how tenuous we understand the physical universe.

In Thermodynamics, the ideal gas law only predicts under ideal conditions. Every subsequent law are curve fits.

[christian @cxgonzalez]

how do people actually believe in a literal resurrection without lobotomizing themselves? like the universe is causally closed and follows the laws of physics always except for that one time with very poor documentation and all the incentive in the world to fabricate?

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

I like to bring this up when developing models. We can use the past to predict the future, but the past has an undefined set of assumptions generated predictive relationships.

As observers of the known universe, who are we to presume we know the conditions of a miracle.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

@Joey_nya @MLSophist @maahirpanchal They ship to most of Europe in 2-3 days

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

@HeraldOfRome In the style of the Pre-Raphaelites

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

What’s likely misunderstood is that deterministic, high-scale automation was achievable prior to LLM’s. What’s coming next is a Swiss Army knife solution that can flex between many tasks to remain utilized.

You automate folding laundry but no one will pay for it.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

Folks are missing the mark; the reason Marjorian’s coin is concerning is the shift from an austere realistic depiction to an animated depiction of the human person. If a culture valued the accuracy, then that would be the standard. This issue is that it didn’t.

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

Coin of Augustus (0 AD)
Coin of Marjorian (460 AD)

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

@LilJiaWei @LandsharkRides On many of these occasions, I have thought the same. I suspect it is a prerequisite to victimhood that the victim will not contact a priest.

[Derek Fake @DerekFake1]

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