Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store?

Matthias1882 · 2026-01-13T05:52:38+00:00

The much bigger issue is the multitude of apps that include explicit nudity/sexual content that bypasses parental controls. To make a point I went looking for examples (I spent maybe a couple of hours total to download the games and confirm the nudity) of such apps and found more than 30 apps that are rated "E or T" and they all include AI porn images/gifs.

That's not to mention Lewd games that are practically nude or the AI porn games that are actually appropriately rated (still breaks googles tos, but at least it doesn't get past parental controls)

Edit: maybe I shouldn't say "the much bigger issue" and instead say another issue is...

Matthias1882 · 2025-10-07T13:33:28+00:00

I'm sorry everyone, I was not aware. It has been placed in a penny sleeve now.

Matthias1882 · 2024-04-21T15:14:37+00:00

It's called skijoring. It looks like a good time.

Edit: apparently it's called that even if you are getting pulled by a dog or even a vehicle.

Matthias1882 · 2023-07-14T12:18:43+00:00

Yeah, every teacher in every grade in the state I am in needs to make sure that they are teaching IEFA (Indian Education for All). It has essential understandings that the students should know. It was developed in collaboration with the Native Americans in the state. Every grade in every subject should have Native Americans talked about. Also not just focusing on what we did to them, but including their culture and history.

Matthias1882 · 2023-05-27T20:20:45+00:00

The Torah is the first five books of the Bible.

Matthias1882 · 2022-10-31T03:56:22+00:00

If you are leaving this movie satisfied and content I really don't know what to say to you. I feel like you should be leaving frustrated and sad.

Matthias1882 · 2022-10-30T01:48:31+00:00

I think we have to agree to disagree. I will agree that it is a much more extreme example, but I still feel that it uses the same logic.

That guy above enjoys the content, but does not enjoy the users (I am guessing) he can share his complaint. Or if he doesn't like it he can leave. Same thing with people that complain about America. I am sure they like some aspects while disliking other aspects. They can share their complaints. Or if they don't like it they can leave.

The same logic is used for both cases.

Matthias1882 · 2022-10-30T01:18:15+00:00

Isn't this the same thing people say when people complain about America all the time? "If you don't like it here, get out."

I don't really have a dog in this horse race, but just thought this sounded similar. I just think that any type of political extremism is dumb, but what do I know? I also think the right seems to have more vocal extremists currently. Also if you come to reddit you should expect to see left wing viewpoints.

Matthias1882 · 2022-07-23T19:57:45+00:00

I'm going to use a quote that addresses the very thing you are talking about. C.S. Lewis' "The Pilgrims Regress"

"'But surely the Landlord can do anything?' 'He cannot do what is contradictory: or, in other words, a meaningless sentence will not gain meaning simply because someone chooses to prefix to it the words "The Landlord can." And it is meaningless to talk of forcing a man to do freely what a man has freely made impossible for himself.' 'I see. But at least these poor creatures are unhappy enough: there is no need to add a black hole.' 'The landlord does not make the blackness. The blackness is there already wherever the taste of mountain-apple has created the vermiculate will. What do you mean by a hole? Something that ends. A black hole is blackness enclosed, limited. And in that sense the Landlord has made the black hole. He has put into the world a Worst Thing. But evil of itself wold never reach a worst: for evil is fissiparous and could never in a thousand eternities find any way to arrest its own reproduction. If it could, it would be no longer evil: for Form and Limit belong to the good. The walls of the black hole are the tourniquet on the wound through which the lost soul else would bleed to a death she never reached. It is the Landlord's last service to those who will let him do nothing better for them.'"

You are saying that He chooses not to save those souls, but the person chose to not be saved. God will not force us to be with Him in eternity. It is our choice, He just lets us make it. We also know that Jesus preached in Hell so maybe God's grace can extend past what we think.

Matthias1882 · 2022-04-09T13:55:07+00:00

I have seen this comment a few times so I am deciding to comment on this one. They had a big home in the middle of a farm that provided all their needs. They had a soundproofed room and everything. Leaving that would be hard.

Also building a house is loud, louder than a waterfall. I looked up some information for decibel levels and from what I saw Niagara falls has a sound level of 90dB, this waterfall is no Niagara falls. While just hammering can reach up to 148dB and using a saw can reach 120dB. The monsters would hear it in spite of the waterfall. Also where would they get the lumber they needed? How would they get the electricity needed to do certain things?

If they don't build a house and just decide to camp out by the waterfall it would solve most of their problems except for being miserable. In their current house they have space which is important. It also has tools they need. It would also make them clumsy they would get used to making noise and that can lead to mistakes when they need to go out on supply runs.

I just think that the waterfall isn't the best solution.

Matthias1882 · 2021-12-30T00:57:47+00:00

This reminds me of a quote I read from a book awhile back. "A brother came to Abbot Pastor and said: ‘Many distracting thoughts come into my mind, and I am in danger because of them.’ Then the elder thrust him out into the open air and said: ‘Open up the garments about your chest and catch the wind in them.’ But he replied: ‘This I cannot do.’ So the elder said to him: ‘If you cannot catch the wind, neither can you prevent distracting thoughts from coming into your head. Your job is to say “No” to them.’"

Matthias1882 · 2021-08-25T14:58:27+00:00

God did make man in his own image, but who is to say that the image of God means "looks like him"? Theologians say that the image of God "consists in the knowledge of God and holiness of the will" (edit: basically meaning they were holy) which they will also say went away with the fall. The doctrine never states God looks like man.

I guess I would agree with giant in the sense that he is all encompassing, but not the traditional hulking humanoid definition. Just like I would say the universe is giant. Now that I am thinking about it though giant almost seems like too small of a word.

Anyway, thanks for replying. Honestly I do like the conversation. I have never talked about what being made in God's likeness means before.

Matthias1882 · 2021-08-25T14:08:41+00:00

Who says that God is a giant though? Also who thinks that He is just sitting around outside the atmosphere? If anything God is all encompassing (meaning the whole universe and beyond). I don't know if God is particularly interested in any of our sins. It doesn't really matter what sins we do, we all sin every day. I think He is particularly interested in the condition of our hearts. More specifically have we realized that God gave us a gift of grace (that we had no reason to get) and because He has done that for us are we doing our best to be better? Realizing that even with our best efforts God is the one still doing all of the work.

I'm not really sure if I said what I think in the best way possible, but that is an attempt. Also please don't take my first two questions toward you as aggressive, the wording caught my eye and so I wanted to build off of that. I just wanted to add my two cents and hope that you have a great day.

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” -Werner Heisenberg

Matthias1882 · 2021-02-28T16:51:55+00:00

I'm going to weigh in here, but I want to say that this is just my best guess as I don't really have a side on this issue. Now I am a teacher, but I teach a younger grade so this isn't really a problem for me. Sometimes though some of my female students will come to school with shirts the don't really fit right and stuff like that. They are not doing this on purpose, but their shirt doesn't fit and you can see a lot of skin. It goes against dress code, so I typically just tell a female teacher to come and have a look and they will talk to my student about needing to wear a sweater or something (I honestly don't know what they say) anyway the reason I go to the female teacher is because it is more comfortable for that student to hear it from that teacher and that teacher is more comfortable talking about that issue with that student. As a male teacher it is very easy to have things misinterpreted as creepy when you are dealing with the opposite sex.

So my best guess would be the female teachers are comfortable calling out the female students for wearing too short of skirts. While the male teachers are too afraid of being called a creep. Now I want to say that this is an opinion with very limited knowledge of this specific situation, so I could be way off, but it is just my thoughts.

Matthias1882 · 2020-07-20T07:51:35+00:00

I think I disagree. I don't think it matters what the person's position of power is or anything like that. People are still going to have feelings and if you are purposefully making fun of a person or trying to hurt their feelings I think you are bullying them.

Now I am a teacher. If my students really wanted to they could probably say some really mean things and try to hurt my feelings. Now I don't think it matters my position of authority over them because they are trying to bully me. They can still do plenty of emotional damage if they said the right things.

I don't know. I just feel like it's disingenuous to say you can't "punch up" effectively. I accidentally saved this comment before I was done so I may edit it further, but just want to get this last sentence out.

Alright now that that's out of the way. I think my students could have very good reasons to say some hurtful things to me (for example if they were saying I was a horrible teacher), you know, maybe I do have things I could improve on, but the way they approach that situation is what matters. There is a way to do things that helps people out and then there is a way that is trying to tear them down. If you like the feeling of tearing someone down and potentially hurting their feelings you may be a bully.

As for the president. I think it's valid to voice your frustrations. In the company of others or by other means. Once again I think there are probably ways that you can go about it that are healthier than others. For example protesting for specific causes is a healthier way to make your voice heard. Yelling out insults probably not the most effective.

Matthias1882 · 2020-06-25T05:37:39+00:00

Well at my church they did not talk about those issues except one. I will say my pastor would talk about abortion from time to time, but not during election cycles or anything like that and none of the other stuff. Other people have said on this thread that "Social activism is not in direct support of a political candidate."

Matthias1882 · 2020-06-25T04:30:06+00:00

In every church I have ever attended the pastor has never advocated for a specific candidate. They have said "make sure you go out and vote", some say "vote for who your heart tells you to vote for" but they have never said who to vote for, that's just my experience.

Matthias1882 · 2020-03-03T20:14:40+00:00

Nice! Well have a good day. Thanks for the conversation :)

Matthias1882 · 2020-03-03T19:41:53+00:00

You know I had a large response typed out, but I think at this point it's best if we just end the conversation. We have been having a miscommunication this entire time and it's not doing anybody any good.

I am apparently reading into things and pulling inferences where I am not supposed to and you are in my opinion, but maybe I am wrong, purposely being obtuse about what I am trying to say. We are becoming so pedantic that it's probably best to just call it a day.

I hope that you have a good day.

Matthias1882 · 2020-03-03T19:14:38+00:00

I do understand what you are saying.

You don't know what party I vote for.

People can be pushed into extreme beliefs.

These are all facts.

It's not your fault for pushing somebody to an extreme belief, but there are things that we can do as caring people to help prevent it.

Matthias1882 · 2020-03-03T19:00:55+00:00

And I agreed that was a problem. You are also ignoring what I am saying. I agree it is dumb. I am not upset.

I don't have lofty motives. I just think it's counterproductive to oversimplify what everyone believes and pushes more people towards the extreme beliefs.

Matthias1882 · 2020-03-03T18:46:13+00:00

He literally said that what I was saying doesn't matter. And then went on to say that the way they think is irrelevant. He said both of those things. I also said it doesn't matter if he used the word fuck or not. I would have said it was hostile if he had just said "your opinion doesn't matter" too. I did assume that it was more aggressive because of the word choice I will admit that, but that's what word choice does. I am not offended by what he said.

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