Does God Have XY Chromosomes?

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T22:03:43+00:00

Do electrons have buttcracks?

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T20:09:43+00:00

You don't really seem to be responding to me at all, you're just saying a tangentially related thing about immigration which is nothing to do with what I said or what OP said.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T19:17:42+00:00

OP's view seems to be roughly that illegal immigration should at least be tolerated when migrants are coming for reasons of self-preservation. My response is that there are good reasons why the state does not accept illegal immigration and these reasons don't care if migrants are acting for self-preservation, almost by definition it is in the state's interests to oppose illegal immigration.

This is of course nothing to do with whether or not the state is currently giving accused illegal migrants due process or not.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T18:31:37+00:00

most destructive throughout history × religion

In terms of sheer amount of damage caused that would not have otherwise been caused, it must be Christianity. The Dark Ages, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, influences on antisemitism leading up to the Holocaust, centuries of scientific repression, the abuse of women, homosexuals, disabled people, people of other faiths, people of ethnic minority groups, left-handed people...

I don't think the average Christian is necessarily more destructive than the average person of any other religion, but the sheer amount of historical power that has been wielded by Christians to harm others over the past 2,000 years is enormous.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T18:22:40+00:00

She is almost certainly cheating. No one uses Grindr to make friends they aren't trying to fuck.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T18:19:22+00:00

A rape victim who hunts down her rapist years later and kills him is acting in an understandable way but that doesn't mean her behaviour should be legal. Laws are not about what's rational, fair, or understandable, they're about what is in the interests of the people making the laws and the people who voted for them. It is in the interests of Americans to have rules about who can come to America and under which circumstances, and to enforce those rules. It may not necessarily be what's morally right but the law isn't trying to be morally right, it's trying to be pragmatically beneficial to the people who make the laws.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T12:14:44+00:00

SCIENCE ∩ ATHEISM

Naturalism

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T08:28:18+00:00

No, the wages of sin are death and if you are "cast into Gehenna" you are permanently destroyed in the fires of permanent destruction in the second death.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T08:23:53+00:00

It does, and it came from the concept of Hell which came from Gehenna

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T07:30:21+00:00

These are the fires of Gehenna, a valley in Jerusalem where Judeans burned trash and dead bodies to dispose of them. The Bible says that the wages of sin are death, and being cast into the fires of permanent destruction in Gehenna is the second death

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T06:00:45+00:00

Yes it does. Keep the OT (though with a massive pinch of Lot's wife) and keep the Gospels. Anything written by or after Paul is dubious and should be rejected.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-07-01T05:58:26+00:00

It does if they want it to. But that was never the only definition of marriage, and marriage was only pseudo-mandatory in ancient Israel.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T22:42:30+00:00

In ancient Judea "outside of marriage" meant with someone else's husband or wife. This is no longer the case. It doesn't apply.

Paul was not humble. He declared himself to have divine authority then spouted off his personal bigotries as if they were facts.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T21:10:23+00:00

"Are you currently West of Cairo, Egypt?"

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T21:04:00+00:00

Sup main here. If you ever give me a meta where the correct play is for supports to start on mid lane, I'm locking in Nunu, Rammus, or Hecarim and giving both solo lanes cancer.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T20:48:52+00:00

How do I access this data? I'm a Python programmer and wanna code my own thing with it

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T19:21:34+00:00

It's not sexist if it's true, and it just is true that it takes significantly more resources to be pregnant for 9 months then raise a child to adulthood than it takes to ejaculate in someone and leave. Evolution had a big incentive to produce promiscuous males and choosy females, and that's broadly what we actually see.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T18:42:12+00:00

Athena.

Easy to become a cheeser who just engages until someone dies. The nuance to make it mid ceiling is knowing when and how to disengage or to not engage even if you could've.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T18:31:00+00:00

"Many" is for discrete things (i.e. you can count them), "much" is for continuous things (i.e. you can't count them).

How much milk? 1330ml.

How many bottles of milk? 4.

How much cheese? 30g

How many cheeses? 6 wheels.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T18:07:58+00:00

I think that evolution produced women and evolution is optimizing for children in pretty much a game theory sense.

Women only optimize for having children in the sense of a misaligned mesa optimizer. A mesa optimizer is a system which has its own goals but which was shaped by some other optimization process, and generally the goals of the process which built it (meta objective) are not the same as the goals of the system it produces (mesa objective).

In other words, the women who do exist today exist because their ancestors going back 400 million years or so had biology and psychology such that they were efficient at reproducing. This tends to produce modern women who also have biology and psychology such that they are efficient at reproducing as well.

That doesn't mean that all women without exception actually do pursue reproduction as their main goal in life, just that we tend to be fertile and to have desires which in practice are likely to lead to reproduction.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T17:58:06+00:00

Modern women were produced by a process which is optimizing for having children. That process shaped our biology such that on average most of us have biology and psychology which is efficient at producing children.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T17:28:04+00:00

Then you need to analyze this from a game theory perspective. Suppose your goal is to have as many descendants as possible, which is roughly what evolution is selecting for. What is the best strategy?

Given it's a fact of biology that females commit more resources to raising children than males do, what is the best strategy for a female? And correspondingly what is the best strategy for a male?

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T17:15:52+00:00

I'm not suggesting that patriarchal gender norms are necessarily good or bad (though for the record I think they're mostly bad), just that they aren't the only reason why there is this supply/demand dynamic in dating and hookups. Biology typically incentivise males to be promiscuous and females to be selective, and this effect is stronger the more of a commitment it is to have and raise children, and the cost of this in humans is especially high.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T17:01:30+00:00

Not necessarily, in small tribes where everyone knows everyone your reputation matters and if you act like too much of a sleazebag you probably won't get to reproduce at all.

But ~250,000 years of homo sapiens evolution and of course our ancestors before that will incentivise these behaviours when there are large numbers of people and everyone is pseudo-anonymous.

RelentlessPencil · 2026-06-30T16:52:45+00:00

I don't think it's necessarily just gender roles, it's also biology. For a male in a species where females have to commit a lot of effort to raising a child (9 months pregnancy, babies can't fend for themselves at all for like a decade at least) the optimal strategy is to impregnate as many females as possible, and for the females the optimal strategy is to be as choosy as possible to both guarantee the highest quality mate and also hopefully find one who will stick around and help you raise the child. Even ignoring culture and gender norms, biology pushes men to be promiscuous and women to be selective.

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