this is such an odd thing to say considering that exmormons, by definition, have been on both sides and prefer “the alternative”
if op is correct, you’d think there would be more people reconverting after seeing how empty things are on the other side, but what do i know
The problem with anti-Mormons is that none of their counterfactuals can trump the lived evidence of our lives and they can't offer a better alternative.
You can't tell me bacon is bad when the entirety of my life says otherwise and you haven't got a better alternative.
Only in America can a Canadian billionaire waltz into a drought-ridden state on the verge of ecological collapse and get a massive data center campus rubber-stamped with huge tax breaks. Zero local input. But made possible by the bought and paid for government!
you know you’re cooked when your scrabble hand looks like the last name of a guy who had a couple productive seasons at left tackle for BYU, bounced around the league after signing an UDFA contract, went to his hometown to coach high school, took a position coach job at UNLV,
It’s literally the exact opposite of this. Kids who pass off foundational cognitive tasks like memorization to AI will be lost in an ocean of people just like them, all powerless to think their own thoughts, dependent on bad mechanical imitations of mental acts they have no capacity to perform or judge for themselves. They’ll grow up into glazed-over subaltern dupes at the mercy of machinists who view them as little more than farm animals to milk for training data. You could hardly do a worse disservice to a young person right now than to empty out the contents of their soul and strip them of the mental armor that only a rigorous literary education can provide. And all in the name of some gullible claptrap about humanity and tech that wouldn’t stand up to five minutes’ scrutiny if the people peddling it and swilling it down had ever read a single thing worth reading. We had all better snap out of this kookery right the heck now or we’re cooked, fam.
it’s been fun watching the BYU message boards get VERY woke VERY fast about criminal justice, pretrial detention, bail, etc. in response to the parker kingston arrest
When President Newsom establishes the Thousand Year Woke Reich you will be begging for the days when the Super Bowl halftime show was in a romance language.
the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard