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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

I now have “a mind-bending virus” if I don’t agree that Israel should “defend” itself by a program of eradicating and ethnically cleansing Palestinians(?).

I don’t disagree that Israel is entitled to respond to Hamas, but their response seems only vaguely aimed at just Hamas.

Anyway, Israel now finds itself in service to Trump’s agenda of…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

Some USAID programs might be viewed as a waste of American tax dollars and a poke in the eye to people with socially conservative values. They ask how do programs such as these benefit the United States?

USAID’s Transgender ProgramsTransgender Opera in Colombia: USAID allocated $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, aimed at promoting…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:
The strategy is one of overloading the defenses along the lines drone swarm attacks.

You guys beat me to post this insightful video. I’ll just add, Scientology cult creator L Ron Hubbard taught “The best defense is an offense”.

Hubbard may have taught it, but the concept goes back at least as far as Sun Tzu’s…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 3 months ago

Why The Warning isn’t just another rock band. What makes them stand out?
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Sorry, my bad. I thought I had shared that link to State Capture above. Please try it again here.

That works. I have a lot of time on my hands and look at many sources of information and viewpoints. However, at the same time I have a small budget that is not keeping up with inflation. As a result, I simply don’t have…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 3 months ago

Paul Reed Smith (PRS) is the brand one usually sees Dany playing. This is a concert celebrating the company’s 40th year with a number of famous and/or notable players featured. This video is notable for Dany performing the AC/DC hit, Back in Black. Note that Orianthi takes a solo and she’s clearly a shredder, which Dany is not. When people…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Some commentary on “State Capture“.

Paywall. I think they used to let you have a certain number of free articles per month. No more.

Summarize, perhaps?
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

Trump is officially nuts:

Probably wants to turn Gaze into a Trump resort with a hotel and golf course throwing away American soldiers’ lives to do so.
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

CDC Orders Its Scientists To Withdraw New Papers To Hunt Out ‘Forbidden Terms’

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered government scientists to withdraw or pause the publication of all papers set to appear in medical or scientific journals so the Trump administration can review the material for “forbidden terms” such as “gend…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Hamas has expressed the aim of killing Jews in its founding charter and public statements. The original Hamas Charter of 1988 contained explicit antisemitic rhetoric, including references to the destruction of Israel and religious justifications for violence against Jews. Article 7 of the charter cited an Islamic…

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Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

@Jake

The ideology of extremist Islam allows for terrorism and targeted assassination.

The ideology of the State of Israel allows for the subjugation and extermination of the Palestinians.

Not much to choose between them.
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

jakelafort wrote:
I still can’t get over how stupid the lefty ideologues are protecting Islam as an idea.

If you’re talking about “stupid lefties” like me, first don’t mischaracterize our position. At least in my case, I’m for treating human beings like human beings. It has nothing to do with their stupid theology which is no better than the C…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 3 months ago

Subtext of Trump, the GOP, and their ilk: any govt hires should first meet two basic requirements:

white

male
Unseen replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 3 months ago

As for one AI stealing from another one… Hey, business is war. As long as they aren’t illegally hacking and are using data the other AI gives out freely, it would be difficult to mount a legal counter attack, it seems to me.
Unseen replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 3 months ago

AI’s can give bad answers. For example, I asked ChatGPT for a baguette recipe to use up 4 cups of flour and it did give me a recipe which lacked any salt. I pointed out that bread without salt would be unappetizing and the AI admitted the error and modified the recipe to include salt.

So, placing too much trust in an answer that you can’t verify…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Did the movie Annihilation get it right? in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 3 months ago

What characterizes mature cosmic horror from its predecessors/progenitors is the impersonal and amorphous nature of the threat. Rather than being a monster, as in the movie Alien (yes, a cosmic horror) or invaders, as in The War of the Worlds, in mature cosmic horror the threat simply is there as a fact, not because it wants to be there or has…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 3 months ago

In case anyone wants to know what happened in a nutshell. American tech giants have been working on AI in the hopes of monetizing it and dominating the market, generating monstrous amounts of money. I’m talking about Google (Gemini AI) , ChatGPT (OpenAI backed by Musk and others), plus several other major players and numerous minor ones. You can…[Read more]
Unseen replied to the topic Did the movie Annihilation get it right? in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 3 months ago

I think Annihilation, which didn’t do well at the box office will go down in history as a landmark in cinematic history like Blade Runner, which also didn’t knock it out of the park in terms of box office on its initial release, but now is recognized as a one of a small handful of classics.

While the roots of cyberpunk easily go back at least as…[Read more]
Unseen started the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 3 months ago

Try it out and tell us if you’re impressed.
Unseen replied to the topic Did the movie Annihilation get it right? in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 3 months ago

_Robert_ wrote:
Looks like it may be a good one. I like the genre to a point. Movies that are so relentless with dread, terror, violence, horror, _______, just desensitize me and I don’t care what happens at some point. This is typically what happens in sequels.

It has a couple jump scares but it’s more about weirdness than scares and gore. W…[Read more]
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