mad_samster

welcome to the natterbanquet. we do what we want here.

[BENZO-KAZOOIE @BENZOTOOIE]

This defense sucks because at that point why not say pops instead of dad? Why not say bro? Why not say 6 7? It’s not in Greek anyway so what does it matter?

[Callum @AkkadSecretary]

Almost everyone i met in my Physics degree cheated on every single bit of course work in every single year group.

After failing a coding exam in year 2 the teacher finished it for me and tried to get me to hand it in.

I told him obvious not this is fraud.

Spent the next few hours chatting with him, every single teacher new every single student was cheating and the system does not care as each pass is thousands of £.

Got my honest idiot tier grade.

The entire university system in the UK produces nothing of value, even in STEM as its just min/maxed for churning students into debt slaves for £.

Same as the United States.

The AI scare is just exposing how bad the fraud is.

[Quattro (Weiss's Husband) @QuattroMKII]

A statement that can only be made by the historically ignorant.

Before Christians took over the Roman Empire, it was normal for Roman parents to dispose of unwanted babies (of which were mostly daughters) by simply dumping them on trash heaps. This was a practice known as 'exposure'. If babies didn't outright die, they'd be picked up by brothel owners or slavers to be turned into products for profit.

Many Christians adopted these unwanted children as their own. Because many of these children were girls, and because the conditions they grew up in weren't very fortunate, early Christianity developed a reputation for being a religion for women and poor people.

It wouldn't be until Christian Emperors like Constantine that the practice of exposure was finally equated to murder.

So yes, Christians did invent most of what we know as "Basic Human Morality" as we know it today. You stand on the shoulders of giants but are too arrogant to look down and see where your feet are planted.

[The Nerdiest Podcast 🎙️ @NerdiestPod]

Maybe if you gave us more than 8 episodes every 3-4 years we’d be more invested in said shows. Just a thought

[mad_samster @mad_samster]

The easy retort as to why the villains of Scooby-Doo were rich people is that you cant make tens of satisfying episodes of "it was the cracked out homeless schizo from the subway"

[Moron Mine ⛏️ @MoronMining]

> leftists looking for support for their world view

"How can I oversimplify this children's cartoon?"

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

Happy 4th of July!

250 Years!

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country.”

- Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Great Adventure”

Happy 4th ♥️🇺🇸

[Bear ✝️ @aquinasbear]

I wrote this because the SSPX crisis is not an abstraction for me. It may directly affect my access to Confession, Communion, and priestly care as a homebound Catholic.

This is my attempt to explain why.

https://t.co/P2WrgUkiJa

[Ælfwine @deathtoallpoets]

gm Christ is Lord

[John A. Douglas @J0hnADouglas]

Gooseworx unintentionally made Jax the most relatable straight male ever. Digital Circus is about caring about one man’s mental health.

Jax is a normal guy forced to co-exist in an environment with no other normal guys. A typical snarky wise-cracking dude that no one else gets. As time goes on, the less normal guys remain in the circus, the less stable his mental facilities get.

In the end, he’s surrounded by neurotic, mentally damaged women and the only other guy is an introverted dementia patient. No wonder he abstracts, he has no one to relate to. His only failure was not seeing this as an opportunity to step up and be a decisive leader.

He almost has a solid girl in Ribbit but as soon as he opens up, she tries to groom him so he rightfully shuts her out. It makes him paranoid. So when Pomni tries to get close later he’s too cautious to let her. And most guys don’t appreciate women trying to psycho-analyze them like a science project.

Pomni did the one thing women in media almost never do: cared about him despite his reflexive avoidance. If Jax had a rock solid guy to talk to, someone on his level, or had a little more real life experience with girls, he’d have understood Pomni’s intentions better, but losing a dad early means he lost that source of wisdom.

Jax is the new Rorscach: a character understood on one level by the creator but perceived entirely different by the audience. Even much of the audience doesn’t get Jax. The cope by the gender-obsessed midwits is Jax is trans but that couldn’t be further from the truth and they just don’t get it. Not surprising.

Jax didn’t have a happy ending. A lot of guys don’t. But he was the closest we’ve ever seen to a normal straight male in modern media than we’ve seen in a generation. He deserved better.

[mad_samster @mad_samster]

This is a good response laying out (at least in part) the difference between a christian mindset and a socialist mindset.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I hear statements like this all the time:

"Why when Jesus talks about feeding the poor, it’s christianity. But when a politician talks about feeding the poor, it’s socialism?"

This is one of those ideas that sounds profound until you examine it for longer than the lifespan of a fruit fly.

Take the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37). A traveler gets robbed and left for dead. A Samaritan comes along and:

Bandages the mans wounds.
Puts him on his own animal.
Takes him to an inn.
Pays his own money for the man's care.

Then Jesus says, "Go and do likewise."

At no point does the Samaritan stop and say, "Hold on while I petition the Roman provincial government to establish the Department of Fallen Travelers."

Notice the subject of that sentence. It isnt Caesar. It isn't the Sanhedrin. It isn't the Ministry of Compassionate Transportation. It's YOU.

This theme shows up repeatedly. Jesus tells individuals to be generous, to care for the poor, to lend expecting nothing in return, to give secretly, to serve one another, to sell possessions and give to those in need. (Luke 12:33, Luke 3:10–14, Luke 6:35–36, Matthew 5:16, Matthew 6:1–4, John 13:12–17.)

If you actually study the Bible, and not use it as a pithy collection of sayings, you learn that Jesus made it very clear that public service to those in need is part of your worship of God and him. It's necessary in order to be a christian. Outsourcing it to government is not good enough.

Christian charity is fundamentally a moral obligation placed on the believer. I can't outsource the giving and service required of me to the Government any more than I could outsource prayer or belief.

If a politician wants to talk about feeding the poor, he's a good Christian if he's doing it himself, with his own money. That's it. (He should also be doing it quietly as Matthew 6:1 says, but that's a different rant.)

If your definition of socialism is simply "helping poor people" then congratulations: your childish understanding of politics almost eclipses your childish understanding of Christianity.

[mad_samster @mad_samster]

The USA is World Economic Zone 4K

Four, taken from WMO Region 4. K, taken from ICAO region K.

WEZ:4K

[mad_samster @mad_samster]

World Economic Zone 4K

WEZ:4K

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

If you’re born in America, you’re an American.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

This is a very thought-provoking article.

I disagree quite strongly with the author's take on DEI, as he minimizes the degree to which DEI grotesquely erodes unit cohesion, unit discipline and combat effectiveness.

I also think his criticisms of SecWar and the DoW team doing the investigating are quite unfair because as a general matter no final reports have been made public, so it is greatly premature to judge outputs based solely on perceptions of the individuals involved in the investigating.

However, the article is written in a respectful, productive way, unlike the defamatory screeds we have all come to expect from such propagandistic rags like The Atlantic and the Washington Post.

It is the rare article for which I disagree on many points yet which I believe further advances the conversations needed to improve our nation's military.

[MentisWave 🐍🚁 @MentisWave]

AI for research is mostly useful only as a search engine from what I have seen. Searching for academic papers, it tends to do OK. You of course still have to READ the papers because AI will hallucinate bogus claims ~20% of the time. But it's better than google.

The mistake that far too many people commit is allowing AI to analyze said papers entirely for them. That doesn't turn out so well. AI doesn't really understand things, and its explanations are extremely midwit-coded along with all associated errors that tends to come with.

[mad_samster @mad_samster]

https://t.co/WwyqaQTikE

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

https://t.co/jbAJOmByEJ

[mad_samster @mad_samster]

I am what I eat.

[USDA Forest Service @forestservice]

Ticks can be as small as a poppy seed. There are five ticks in this photo. Can you spot them? Learn more about protecting yourself from ticks when enjoying your national forests and grasslands: https://t.co/k1W5HuH4MX.

[mad_samster @mad_samster]

When "capitalism, racism, white supremacy and islamophobia" and other 'systemic' terms are used in this way, it is like they are trying to cast a magic spell of some sort. Conjuring irrational support from 'above' and backlash from 'below', which it turn conjures a headline.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Mamdani-endorsed Aber Kwas won the Democrat Primary tonight for a State Senate seat in New York.

Here she is saying that 9-11 was America's fault because of our "system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy and islamophobia."

[mad_samster @mad_samster]

Imagine renting out a room of your house to 8 robots... imagine the one driving your car running over 3 other robots on the way to pick you up from your friend's place... imagine catching one in your bed with your...

[David @DavidSHolz]

5 million humanoid robots working 24/7 can build Manhattan in ~6 months. now just imagine what the world looks like when we have 10 billion of them by 2045. now imagine the year 2100.

[PraxBen, but I am tired of ts @benbackupbackup]

Leftists can’t seem to understand this, so I will lay it out succinctly and bluntly…

The data shows that liberalism appears to weaken the perceived moral distinctiveness of close relationships and local communities by extending moral concern more uniformly across increasingly distant groups.

Conservatives rightfully criticize this because a morality that treats distant strangers as increasingly equivalent to family risks undermining the very social bonds that make moral life possible in the first place.

Civilization depends on special obligations. Parents must favor their children over other children. Citizens must have special obligations to their fellow citizens. Communities must prioritize their own members. If everyone is morally equal in practice, many of the institutions that hold society together become difficult to justify.