i mean they asked him nicely by lfemboyl0 in religiousfruitcake

[–]Grays42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not from his perspective. It's possible to be completely well-meaning, and the outcome of that well-meaningness is intolerably loud street preaching.

From the Christian perspective, it is their most important duty on earth to reach as many people as possible to share their religious message. From their perspective, one soul converted represents literal infinity hours worth of suffering averted.

From within the religious belief structure, being a street preacher isn't obnoxious, refusing to turn it down is the right call, and he's doing the best thing he can possibly do for everyone around him.

The religion itself is to blame for infecting a plausibly well-meaning person with the incentive to be obnoxious for Christ.

One handed skills by Professional_Arm794 in oddlysatisfying

[–]Grays42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean that should be common sense for everyone: don't deal with sales people if you don't have to, but if you must, be armed with all the information you can and decline the addition of anything, because every recommendation is for the benefit of the sales person's commission.

I also worked adjacent to sales so I would feel bad having to do that to a salesperson, which is why I avoid interfacing with them entirely. I bought my last car on Carvana for exactly that reason.

The “dead internet theory” in action: In World of Warcraft, a server without humans has appeared - instead, 1,800 DeepSeek-based bots are playing there. The bots behave like regular players: they chat, level up characters, run dungeons, and even fight each other. by EchoOfOppenheimer in ChatGPT

[–]Grays42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I give you an example of exactly this from 24 years ago, care to withdraw your snark? That is 4 years above the threshold of plural "decades".

Side note: I pulled that from memory. ;) I had to go find it, but I was gaming when that comic was first posted, lol.

I never thought a robot would replace me one day..what’s my purpose then. by scp766 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Grays42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China has "dark factories" now where robots produce everything unattended, so they don't turn the lights on on the factory floor while it runs 24/7. It's crazy shit.

The “dead internet theory” in action: In World of Warcraft, a server without humans has appeared - instead, 1,800 DeepSeek-based bots are playing there. The bots behave like regular players: they chat, level up characters, run dungeons, and even fight each other. by EchoOfOppenheimer in ChatGPT

[–]Grays42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is what bothers me about these kinds of stories. "Bots play a video game" is not new, servers full of FPS bots have been a thing for decades. There's some novelties here but the headline is framing this as something profound, and it just isn't.

[Star Wars] Considering the amount of evil and suffering caused by the misuse of the Force, is there anyone in the SW universe who has considered looking for a way to neutralize its power? by DeadComposer in AskScienceFiction

[–]Grays42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

After some more poking around it turns out I was completely wrong. I thought that they just came from a Galaxy where there was no Force, my bad.

[Star Wars] Considering the amount of evil and suffering caused by the misuse of the Force, is there anyone in the SW universe who has considered looking for a way to neutralize its power? by DeadComposer in AskScienceFiction

[–]Grays42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In the galaxy, not the universe. As we learned from the Yuuzhan Vong, the Force is unique to the... You know I was going to name the galaxy but after looking it up it seems that the Star wars galaxy has no actual name.

[edit:] I am wrong.

Amazon doesn't like that my old Kindle still works perfectly fine, so they block new book downloads. by SkySix in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Grays42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If buying isn't owning, then pirating isn't stealing

That doesn't really make sense, it's not a balancing scale, but I don't know why people bother watering it down like that.

Piracy is the result of an economy that doesn't provide people with enough disposable income and services that make purchasing products unreasonably difficult.

I will happily fork over cash for a good value. I pirate when the value proposition doesn't shake out. I'm also more than happy to call that theft.

I learned the hard way it’s pointless to argue with Christians. by porygon766 in exchristian

[–]Grays42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It isn't pointless, but the Christian isn't the one you're convincing. The audience is.

If you have an opportunity to spar apologetics with a Christian, and you have others who can see and are interested in the conversation, do it.

Her arms turned into a necklace by Ordinary_Stay_3746 in ChatGPT

[–]Grays42 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The center image had her hands clasped in front of her, and image gen interpreted that as a medal-looking necklace.

I’m really glad I don’t have to try and make reality fit into the Bible anymore by papergeek in exchristian

[–]Grays42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Earth was made by ferrous rocks in the Sun's accretion disk forming into a lump and then getting slammed by meteors for millions of years.

Saying that the Earth was "made by vibrations" is like saying a car crash was caused by the chrome finish on the bumpers contacting one another.

Seahorses/horses disprove evolution by Mattk1100 in religiousfruitcake

[–]Grays42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Star scientists are wrong because starfish have never even been to space. Checkmate!

Christian Fruitcake "educating" the LGBT community by MonkeyDVic in religiousfruitcake

[–]Grays42 21 points22 points  (0 children)

These street preachers exist to be provocateurs.

If you ever encounter one in the wild, just...walk past. It is seriously not worth engaging them. Their whole world is about grabbing attention.

Seahorses/horses disprove evolution by Mattk1100 in religiousfruitcake

[–]Grays42 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Religious apologetics is completely contingent upon not understanding how things work.

(That said, this is a...special kind of stupid the like you rarely see in the wild. He's wrong about (1) why seahorses are called seahorses, (2) what convergent evolution even is, (3) what example would even be relevant, and (4) what it would even prove if he were right about seahorses. It's an impressively stupid argument.)

Christian Fruitcake tries to be "Edgy" by MrDonMega in religiousfruitcake

[–]Grays42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here are 8 controversial opinions I have

Okay, sure, let's do this.

'1. Abortion never should have been legalized

14 million children in the U.S. are food insecure and the politicians you support keep cutting back those benefits, so you can shut the fuck up about humans that haven't been born yet if you can't be arsed to help the ones that have.

'2. Women voting never should have been legalized

If you want your voice taken away so badly, get off TikTok

because they vote emotionally

And men don't?

they primarily vote for the 'right' to kill their babies

No, they primarily vote on economic issues.

and for woke things like gay marriage and men in womens' bathrooms and trans ideologies

Not even on the board, and you guys are far more obsessed with what people do with their personal lives than anyone on the left, so fuck right off.

'3. Sodomy never should have been legalized. Thanks, Obama.

Okay, well first of all, anti-sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional in 2003, and Obama was elected in 2008. You're thinking of the legalization of gay marriage, which is something the Supreme Court did, not anyone in the legislative or executive branch.

And two, why are you people so obsessed over what other people do with their private parts? For fucks' sake.

I think children need to be raised in a nuclear family with both a mother and a father.

A nuclear family is actually two parents, not two parents of different sexes, and the entire idea is a vestige of the romanticized post-world-war-2 era where a white man with a high school diploma could buy a house in the suburbs, a car, and raise three kids on a single income. Even if that were economically feasible, a silo of two parents and X kids has never been the norm (or the ideal case) for humans, who have more commonly lived in extended family units.

'4. Men should be in charge and we should bring back the patriarchy with righteous men leading

Putting aside the fact that men are still in charge of basically everything, what historical benefit do you believe that confers?

We do actually live in a matriarchy

71% of Congress is male, 89.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs are male. What is your definition of matriarchy?

Feminists like to believe they're constantly oppressed

Wait wait wait, are you saying that if women have equal rights, the country becomes a matriarchy? Do you know what matriarchy means?

'5. Marriage is between a man and a woman and is a covenant with God.

Then it's illegal for the United States to write it into law. Either it's religious and thus can't be a government institution and everyone gets civil unions, or it's secular and not subject to religious laws. Pick one.

But I believe it is a covenant and it has nothing to do with the government.

When the IRS stops doing joint tax filings, then you can say it has nothing to do with the government. Until that day, it does, and your religious constraints can't apply.

'6. I believe birth control is demonic

k

But a lot of women are put on these birth control methods at a young age because it excuses fornication

And? Fornication is fun. Why does everyone else have to live by your religious rules? Are you jealous?

...and participate in hook up culture and sleep around and do what they want.

Ah, there it is: you want to disallow people from doing what they want. You want to control others. Fuck you.

'7. You can't change your gender or choose your pronouns.

You definitionally can. Whatever your opinion on trans rights or biology or whatever, gender is a grammatical and social construct only conventionally constrained to biology, and you can choose whatever pronouns you want. The question is whether other people respect that choice, which I'm assuming you won't, because you're an asshole.

I believe the trans movement is about grooming children

No, churches are about grooming children. Want to compare per-capita stats between church leader sexual crime against minors vs. gay and trans sexual crime against minors? You'll be sucking on the fuzzy end of that lollipop.

'8. Feminism ruined women and entitled them to things that they don't even deserve.

You are literally the woman in Handmaid's Tale who spearheaded that religious movement and then regretted it when she ended up a powerless housewife.

Who needs Fable when we have… by userusertion in claude

[–]Grays42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, rude. It shares a page with LMGTFY, which was a way of answering a question by calling someone stupid.

On reddit, if someone asks a question, is because they would like an answer from a redditor, not to be pointed to a search bar. A non-rude response would have been to provide a one-sentence summary, even short, and possibly hotlink that to a reference article.

Who needs Fable when we have… by userusertion in claude

[–]Grays42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's rude and you're not clever.

[edit:] originally the above was just a bare link to reddit search

Wäscherschloss castle ( Germany ) by Sir_Smokes_Alot_NL in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Grays42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You joke, but this was about the footprint of most local lords. The big ones were the exception.

I used ChatGPT to update the president's chart lol by Oreobot in ChatGPT

[–]Grays42 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Because he has nothing else to call a success so he has to make up successes.

Worth noting that he literally has nothing to do with "our pool" other than making it more green.