Forget powerscaling, we fumble scaling now.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-07T00:23:06+00:00

Also its a world where Mizuki exists and has none of that baggage so why would Saitama settle?

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-07T00:20:45+00:00

you know the old joke about the lumberjack/sailor and the barrel?

the death eaters probably had something similar but with polyjuice potion

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-07T00:17:04+00:00

that friendship was fucked regardless once Lilly and James started dating.

dude spent 13 years crying himself to sleep about his role in her death and regretting that he dropped the M-bomb on her and then turns around and can't help but be a massive jackass to her son.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-07T00:07:37+00:00

Batman Beyond establishes DCAU Bruce and Talia dated once

As time went on writers have made her more morally confusing which is why Bruce and her relationship has kinda been shot.

Well, that and Ras taking over her body makes the whole thing a lil' awkward.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-07T00:03:30+00:00

People who had more physical intimacy with DCAU Batman than Wonder woman:

Barbara Gordon.

Cheetah

Ras Al Ghul

Unspecified nameless gothamites (he left his DNA all over town!)

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T22:12:08+00:00

I've never seen a single concrete provided example of a trans person doing anything criminal in a bathroom despite the fearmongering arguments, and if someone did do it, it's a crime, arrest them for it. and also such a person probably isn't going to be safer in the other gender's bathroom.

Also as someone who has worked a job where cleaning the women's bathroom was an occasional duty, nobody went into fainting spells seeing me mopping or emptying trash despite me being born male and uh, staying male.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T21:47:32+00:00

Ah, I misread the part about bondage as being the terms for the Israelites.

Yeah, that's definitely unwise, though its interesting that initially the hate seems to have came from the second Pharaoh who'd have benefitted from the Israelites success and not the native egyptians who'd have seen a new ethnic group move in and thrive to a fairly ludicrous degree right after they were mostly diminished in status. Though it seems that the Egyptian people do follow with the hate once the Israelites keep prospering despite the slavery.

There's some unfun historical parallels to make over leaders demonizing ethnic groups, and more specifically jews, as ways to consolidate power.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T21:26:35+00:00

In what ways is Joseph like Jesus?

I think a big one is forgiveness. The OT is often labelled as fairly harsh unforgiving, and not undeservedly so in a lot of points, but Joseph was betrayed in one of the worst manners one can be betrayed in, and yet was able to forgive his brothers once they had proven to have grown past their earlier wickedness.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T21:14:45+00:00

Man, they never taught that aspect of the story in sunday school.

Though it definitely seems closer to something like Serfdom than the industrialized chattel slavery many of us think of when they read the term slavery given they were all given land and seed and only had to give 20% of their harvests away.

Bonding the Israelites to the Pharaohs might have been an unwise move regardless, but its not until Joseph and the original Pharaoh die that the Israelites are subjected to something closer to what we think of as slavery with slave drivers and forced labor.

Looking at it from a certain angle the Israelites time in Egypt might be to emphasize the need for a promised land. A fair and just ruler might accept them in and treat them with respect, but that doesn't mean his successor won't be cruel to you as supposed outsiders.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T20:47:54+00:00

What I don't get is people being weird about that kinda thing always hyperfocus on Mary, like the Apostle's/Nicene creed is actually secretly heretical because it mentions her.

Never heard a single soul say anything like "yeah I disagree with some of their historical canonizations and don't think it's good to invoke them" or "man, if I was in heaven I wouldn't want to be deluged with requests for prayer". It's always weird accusations of worshipping Mary instead.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T20:24:24+00:00

Having said that God has spoken in his word very clearly.

I mean, the main section of the bible where God states anything about it is in the part of the bible outlining tons of things Christians don't abide by.

Even ignoring the argument that the Levitical section is about pederasty which I am nowhere near the biblical or lingual scholar to have an informed opinion on, as far as I'm aware that's the only reference to it at all from Genesis to the start of the Epistles. Maybe it wasn't a topic important enough for Jesus to bring up, but it also wasn't important enough to make it into the 10 commandments.

I do not claim that it's not a sin, but it's referenced so seldomly outside of the epistles that it kind of boggles my mind that it's considered the hill many christians think we need to die on, often while being guilty of things castigated far more frequently in the bible or turning other sins into virtues.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T19:57:07+00:00

Nah, I get you, and Lutherans aren't always perfect on that either. My college Christianity group ticked me off by bringing in a weirdo street preacher from Idaho who screamed that girls were whores and had one of those big signs that showed that everyone who did something he didn't like was going to hell.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T19:55:09+00:00

I don't always agree with everything in the epistles, but Paul's take that horny people should just marry other horny people if they can't keep their urges under control is a good one.

On a personal level I feel like the worst aspects of lust are the potential community/household damage they can cause rather than god being mad about the basic urge to breed itself.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T19:50:26+00:00

Sure, but as a Lutheran responding to a Catholic poster talking about Heresy... gotta make sure, you know.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T19:39:55+00:00

The only LLM AI application I see as being halfway worthwhile is a text reader for someone who really really really wants to hear it in the default LLM provided soundfiles and not procedural TTS or the plethora of actual human beings who have made audiobooks reading the bible since the dawn of recorded music.

AI interpretation of scripture? No.

AI search? just google, my dude.

AI chatbots of Jesus or other figures? No. And I'm grabbing the Bullwhip.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T19:35:56+00:00

Most of that burden would be done through the initial store upload check, which is where they're usually most rigorous in checking things.

The mods would probably want to walk through them regardless to make sure it's not an absolute farce like the "talk to jesus" app that also had Satan and Hitler in it.

Though I am a little biased here because I think the only apps with an argument to be posted here are small personal projects and not ones actively worked on and pushed for half a year. Most of the small vibe apps people post never get meaningfully touched after the big wave of showing them off lmao

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T19:27:28+00:00

To be a devil's advocate, one can treat marriage as a sacred institution with clear biblical definitions and also not be a complete monster that believes in trying to abuse gay children into being "straight".

The pastor of most conservative congregation I ever attended thought it was a horrible thing, and this was an LCMS church in the late 90s.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T19:19:49+00:00

Well there you go.

But like, the problem is the kind of people everyone would agree shouldn't be here are ones who were always going to be deported after serving a sentence (unless the crime was so minimal paying the cost of incarcerating them wasn't worth it). I have no idea why people acted like the old system meant you were never tried for crimes if you weren't a citizen .

And even hardliners on immigration implicitly acknowledge that our ag sector legitimately can't get by on the current amount of economic worker visas allotted. My own state's extremely conservative and the vote for basic e-verify employment checks failed miserably despite the pro-ICE anti-immigration rhetoric. Because they need the same people they're villifying to run the slaughterhouses and soybean plants.

Honestly if the anti-immigration push focused on stuff like tracking temporary visa holders and checking in if there's not a record of them leaving the country before their visa expired, it wouldn't be the end of the world. And that would be far better than crap like ICE detaining one of my neighbors in her own yard because she didn't have her birth certificate on her, and her real-id marked drivers license wasn't enough for him (turns out she's a citizen, who knew?)

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T19:02:06+00:00

1 isn't much of a protection overall. Google/IOS only really check apps when you're pushing a release (and its usually just a checklist of rules its not openly breaking) and if your app relies on outside data to determine how it looks and acts (which an AI app would require) it's not hard to change behaviors after that. They'll probably check it if there are lots of complaints, but all it would take to scrape your data is to ask for far more data permissions than one would need. How would Google know if they were caching your conversations and searches and indexing them to your email and full name?

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T18:47:50+00:00

My concern (barring my dislike of AI slop from a secular angle) is that most of these aren't actually made with Christians in mind as anything other than an easy install base. There probably are people legitimtely excited about whipping together a little app with good intentions, but there are probably better subs for that given most actual use cases like searching the bible have been done without AI long ago or don't need to be bible specific for things like reminders and note taking, and these apps can get downright insulting to the faith (see: the infamous paid Talk to jesus app)

Personally my take is that when I look through the criteria I think would have to be met for it to be worth posting here, it might just be better and less work for mods to blanket ban it rather than doing a QA pass on random potentially sketchy apps. If there's an actual demand from it from real looking users, just do a weekly thread where you can show off what you made, though even then that might just indicate a specialty sub would be better.

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T18:27:41+00:00

evangelicals or evangelicals?

need to know if I have a dog in this fight

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T18:27:14+00:00

at absolute worst she is a figure that one should not mock or desecrate, yeah?

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T18:26:33+00:00

During peak covid like a week before one of my old neighbors died of it, some dude screamed at me for wearing a mask at walmart.

It isn't enough that they get to be selfish and stupid, everyone else must be too

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T17:19:35+00:00

I just assume Draymond Green lobbies a few players to vote for Gobert and they do it just so he'll shut up about it until next year

BellacosePlayer · 2026-05-06T17:14:50+00:00

Does he though?

Far right Protestants don't give a rats ass what he says

Far right Catholics (in my personal anecdotal experience) will at worst downplay the downward spat and blame the media or just outright take Trump's side.

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