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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Victim’s Remorse? Or something else? in the forum Advice 3 years ago
I’ve had great support from the VA, and great luck with therapists for ten years, solving depression first, which was caused by decades of severe social anxiety. It took the next seven years or so to get over the social anxiety. For both diagnoses, the treatments were “standard”, but different therapists favored different techniques, and…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School October 22nd 2023. in the forum
Sunday School 3 years agoThanks Reg!
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Extra-Geeky Chat/Conversations in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 years agoUnseen wrote:
However, rephrase it a bit and then it will answer it when for the life of me I can’t detect a dime’s worth of difference between the two queries.I have two challenges each time I chat with it.
One is to word my query concisely, and in a way that “anyone” could probably understand. I appreciate taking on that challenge, as I fee…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic ChatGPT 2022/2023 in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 years agoHere’s another example of a one minute query/response that may have taken hours to query and piece together responses in (say) Google. Using purpleair.com and windy.com now to predict, sometimes to the minute, the arrival of forest fire smoke to my area, I noticed how wind currents very often follow very closely the California coastline, in a…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Extra-Geeky Chat/Conversations in the forum
Artificial Intelligence 3 years ago@Unseen, somehow, 25 days ago, I missed notification that this elevator query was posted.
Unseen wrote:
Given a building with 16 floors and two elevators, which floors should the elevators wait on when not in use?The ChatGPT response looks more comprehensive than Bard’s, but who knows how they (and Microsoft’s offering) will evolve. ChatGPT v3.5…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School 15th October 2023. in the forum
Sunday School 3 years agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I do not use FB or Twitter or any other medium.I mostly quit both, years ago, but didn’t delete my accounts. Maybe a few times a year I check FB for updates on my closest friends or family. And recently I’ve added some people to follow on Twitter, based on their record of being factual, e.g. Dr. Michael Mina, who…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 15th October 2023. in the forum
Sunday School 3 years agoThanks, Reg 🙂
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic We need a Middle Eastern mulligan in the forum Politics 3 years ago
Unseen wrote:
Guess who is siding with the Palestinians?Are you pointing to the guest in the interview, just one person?
Do you agree with him that reports of beheaded babies were fabricated?
Even if the reports of beheading are true, he made a good point imo that destroying buildings in Gaza has the same effect on babies, children, moms, and…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago
Unseen wrote:
It’s like a Brussels sprout morphing into a head of cabbage, isn’t it?LOL wow, I feel that now too! And I’ll bet the band would get that, and laugh. 🙂
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago
Unseen wrote:
I thought Rick Beato had been ignoring The Warning but I was wrong. Back on May 12 he interviewed The Warning with David Bendeth* on David’s channel.I mentioned that interview a while ago, and is why I mentioned Bendeth’s involvement and that Beato’s not ignoring them. But I didn’t post it because it’s so long and the interview w…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunni Islam and Shia Islam Together Again…And Against Us! in the forum Politics 3 years ago
TheEncogitationer wrote:
Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims are setting aside their ancient quarrel over who will run the Caliphate conn (or con) after Muhammad died and they’re uniting against “The Zionist Entity” Israel and supporting Hamas murderers!So don’t be surprised if/when Israel kills ten times as many human beings as Hamas has. The motiv…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic A Conjecture: Intelligent technological life requires a skeleton in the forum Science 3 years, 1 month ago
Unseen wrote:
Does an octopus (or would one at our degree of intelligence) speculate about what’s out there beyond the surface of the water.The do sometimes explore the shore. Especially in tidepool areas.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic A Conjecture: Intelligent technological life requires a skeleton in the forum Science 3 years, 1 month ago
Yikes, this topic will be challenging, trying to stay short and concise. As I often do, I’ll try to zoom out for wider perspective.
Unseen wrote:
While our science fiction writers write about alien intelligences in many different physical forms, I believe that having a skeleton is a necessary condition of any intelligent life form. Here on Earth,… -
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School 8th October 2023 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 1 month agoUnseen wrote:
A quick case for Earth being the only place with intelligent life in the universe:It’s just not possible in our current state of technology and knowledge to confidently make this “case”. Trying to prove a negative in such a large universe will be practically impossible for long time, while finding chemical signatures as likely…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 8th October 2023 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 1 month ago@unseen The convenient similarity between white supremacy and Christian nationalism is that both base themselves on exclusive superiority and both denigrate outsiders. These feelings serve to justify bigotry in all its ways.
The Venn diagram of white supremacy and Christian nationalism would always have had a major overlap.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 8th October 2023 in the forum
Sunday School 3 years, 1 month agoThanks, Reg!
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 1 month ago
Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I hope you told them to go and ‘Have a blessed day’. That’s what I say in Georgia 🙂I’ve thought of that, but it wouldn’t feel sincere.
Maybe something like “I believe in the Church of FSM. But we don’t try to convert non-believers, so you need to look it up on the internets, and decide for yourself.”.
Or you know,…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Should AI be considered a creator under intellectual property law in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 1 month ago
I have a couple of nits to pick, y’all can tell me whether or not they’re relevant.
Unseen wrote:
Since copyright exists to protect the work of original creators, should I be able to lay claim to a copyright on this poem? I don’t think so.I feel a need to refine this definition, and your question. Let’s stick to created music, for now. The c…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Biden WILL lose in 2024… in the forum Politics 3 years, 1 month ago
Well yeah, the same guy that’s in your topic’s title.
Here’s a potentially relevant story. My first thought was Clinton wants to see someone other than Biden running.
The “Clinton Breaks With Democrat Party” headline got my attention. As an aside, I can’t even tell who chose that headline, msn, msnbc, American Insider, or New York Post. (Doesn’t…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 3 years, 1 month ago
Oh wow, nice! I’ll pay more attention now to who honors that, especially anyone close to them. Their mother has been involved with the group, e.g. helping to get their words and grammar right in their Spanish songs. I heard one of them, Dany?, say they feel they know English better than Spanish, although outsiders presume that Spanish is their prim…[Read more]
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