John Baskette

Retired Software Dinosaur, Christian, father of three. Amateur Dabbler in things related to science, the bible and matters philosophical and apologetic.

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Christians are often taught Jesus's birthday was like this grok imagine video, but it was not. (1/x)

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@CodyLibolt He had the potential to be great, but his grevious policies on Epstein and War will make him a failure, perhaps the worst ever when you include corruption that was not present in his first term.

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Regarding the first question. Sinners may develop into greater sinners. Or some may grow towards faith according as God has proclaimed before conversion. I'm not saying all this is my view, but it is how a reformed person would think. In fact a Calvinist would not deny that a saint really acts in faith and really grows in sanctity and is conformed to the image of Christ in a process that includes change and transformation. It all unfolds as ordained.

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@dfziklag It does not make sense to actual change would be against sovereignty. God could ordain that a change of state from A to B will occur at a particular time for a given period. A real change occurs in accord with the will of God who ordains both ends and means.

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It is all saints day eve where we honor the saints. It is a Christian observance that 20th century people popularized for harmless trick or treat in the US. Other cultures like Mexico developed day of the dead observances. Some have tried to hijack our Christian tradition for Satan and evil. Don't let them.

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Rather incpmplete. A person's responce to Evil and pain produces virtues not possible otherwise, even animal suffering. Producing a greater good does justify God permitting evil and suffering. We often will endure pain and things that are normally evil to acheive a greater good. Nothing wrong in that.

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@Ryder69396 @archie_lochie This is also a bit misleading. It is true that he promoted the use of that word in the creed, he did not originate it. The idea was already prominate among the bishops. But he was forcing the bishops to take a paticulat stance to unify the church.

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@archie_lochie It's misleading to say Constantine "led" the council of Nicea. He did summon the council to resolve the Arian controversy, but he did not dictate the results, or lead it.

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@brockpierson Yep.

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@Literal_Word Great app that lets you easily use an original language lexicon as you read. Very nice.

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@SydesJokes Regarding eggs: geography! We have to refrigerate to ship them large distances interstate. Our large scale and long supply chains require the washing for sanitation.

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We should not forbid or make data center development impossible or unfeasible. We need these to enable the US to remain the economic power and tech leader of the world, to keep our large GDP growth and raise living standards. But we need share these benefits with everyone, not just enrich billionaires and the 1%.

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Data centers are extremely expensive. The AI oriented centers run $30 million per MW, most being hardware costs, so these added regs might add $1 million or more per MW to the costs. It is a minor increase to follow these rules. Developers really should volunter tp pay local resident power bills.

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@alex_avoigt All assumes FSD v15 will be level 5 and not held up by government. Elon seriously underestimated the difficulty of FSD. It is still not clear if V15 will make it. And with the coming blue wave, FSD even if it gets to level 5 faces real regulatory obstacles.

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@barnes_law Sad fact: Andrew Wilson made none of these points because he was rather ignorant and unprepared. His basic logic worked well enough to give him a tachnical win, but he was unpersuasive. Missed oppertunity to really refute and embrass Candace.

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@wendelltalks Obstacle.

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@ApexSeeker_ Never

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You failed to make that case for most listeners. To convince others you needed an overwhelming set of arguments. You failed to prepare sufficiently to make them. Your ignorance of the charges is a case in point. Your failure is a sign of your arrogancem. Big missed opportunity.

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@JOBhakdi While I favor #2, it is still the case that Elon was too Optimistic and FSD is still not ready for cybercab, so we have only limited experimental deployment until it is which could be a while.