I really loved my Trinitron, but it needed so much space

Flat CRTs were excellent though.

Since pixel phones started using one volume button + power for reboot and the other volume button + power for screenshot, I have so many random, useless screenshots

I monthly go into the gallery and delete all the screenshots to keep on top of them

Thanks. It’s been decades since my last bit of mainstream Catholic education

If you’re a complex machine whose action could be perfectly predicted (with full knowledge of everything you ever experienced) it’s still reasonable to punish you for breaking rules - the risk of punishment goes into your programming as part of the (deterministic) calculation of what action to take

I reckon we are so incredibly complex, are integrating so much information that from inside it’s hard to see if you’re deciding or selecting by rule your preferred path given what you know

You can call the complexity free will, we’re all so different having had different parents, different childhood experiences, different education, different opportunities so each has their own solution that rises to the top in any situation

But also brain scans have demonstrated that for minor stuff (like raising your hand) action precedes “deciding” to take the action.

I don’t think believing in fate (or a plan) is strongly correlated with atheism

That doesn’t work. People with crap lives often can’t meet the standards of goodness that many forms of Christianity need for you to be qualified for heaven

Depends on the flavour of Christianity

At one end unforgiven sins condemn you to the ancient Greek underworld, slightly modified

At the other end you land in limbo if you haven’t been perfect for a time that fits, thence to heaven for the rest of forever

Beyond that end, their god is infinitely forgiving so everyone goes straight to heaven.

Don’t worry, they don’t read the Bible, and especially don’t read the old testament.

They believe they have god given freedom of action

It seems to need an order of magnitude less compute, so probably. It’s also open source

DeepSeek runs so much faster than gpt4

No idea when its feed data cutoff is, it like all others isn’t allowed to look at the live internet

The kid fed them. Now they’re screwed

America is doing something wrong to have so many fail to vote

Australia has 90 to 95% voter turnout

We hold elections on weekends

We use a single transferable vote, so you can safely vote for who you actually support

We have a rule that you must vote, enforced by a tiny fine

You got the leap year rule wrong.

Every fourth year unless the year is divisible by 100 unless the year is also divisible by 400

And it’s a leap day that’s inserted, not a leap year

And anyway we’re talking here about measuring in dicks

You got the leap year rule wrong.

Every fourth year unless the year is divisible by 100 unless the year is also divisible by 400

You got the leap year rule wrong.

Every fourth year unless the year is divisible by 100 unless the year is also divisible by 400

Palladium tabletop RPGs swords do 2d6 damage, katanas do 3d6

He’s in a comic, he read the speech bubble

Evangelicals are decidedly not Catholic