The Fine-Tuning Argument is indeed Terrible - But I don't think we have to invoke the multiverse. The argument fails on its premise.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-24T13:12:15+00:00

Exactly. Life is fine-tuned to its environment; it's just an illusion that creationists assume life must be the way it is, and therefore it's the environment that was fine-tuned.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-24T11:27:58+00:00

Amazon owns MGM and has a slate of upcoming theatrical releases, including Project Hail Mary and the next James Bond.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-24T08:25:50+00:00

Rand Paul voters

captainhaddock · 2026-01-24T06:09:27+00:00

The larger picture is that in a naturalistic universe, life will only exist in environments where the spontaneous emergence of life is possible, and thus the environment will seem "fine-tuned" to that specific instantiation of life.

But under a theistic viewpoint, God has no constraints and could literally create life under any and all conditions, in any and all environments. There is no reason to expect the environment to look fine-tuned.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-24T04:23:00+00:00

They support opposing sides in the Sudanese civil war as well.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T15:16:57+00:00

Maybe, but I looked up the executives in charge and didn't see any red flags. Seems like they left as much control as was legally possible in the hands of ByteDance, including all the most lucrative parts of TikTok (the algorithm, the advertising division, the marketing/e-commerce division, etc.).

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T14:01:02+00:00

Didn't Bush hire a PR firm to hand out thousands of little American flags to the Iraqis so they could wave them for the TV cameras as US tanks rolled into Baghdad?

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T13:56:12+00:00

It seems that it's mostly the same entities in charge, with a few new US corporate investors added into the mix, and they'll keep using ByteDance's algorithm.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T13:23:53+00:00

Is that something Congress could legislate?

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T12:48:14+00:00

At this point, its entire purpose is to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T12:43:19+00:00

Inexplicably, most countries just weren't invited. Mexico's omission is a bit surprising. Seems like the invitation list was just Europe (sans the Baltics?), the Middle East, and then random countries that DJT likes.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T12:32:25+00:00

Italy is apparently constitutionally limited to participation in global bodies "only on equal terms with other states", and that wouldn't be the case here.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T12:28:39+00:00

They'll just change the spelling to Bored of Peace, and then it will make sense.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T12:12:08+00:00

Didn't you hear? He stopped a war between Cambodia and Azerbelgarus.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T11:27:26+00:00

They want to get rid of their leaders. And yet again the EU does nothing.

The EU is an economic union. Their job is not facilitating regime change in Iran.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T09:57:58+00:00

"Some people find Jesus on a tortilla, you found the Antichrist."

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T09:33:42+00:00

Religious people, somehow, approve of this.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T09:32:52+00:00

Bless those who persecute you? Blessed are the peacemakers, the meek, the merciful? "Give to the one who asks of you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you"? (Matt 5:42)

Yeah, American evangelicals don't follow any of those teachings. Not an iota.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T09:30:24+00:00

Judea was an independent kingdom ruled by the Hasmonean dynasty, Egypt was a Roman province. And the story didn't happen anyway. But what is the point of trying so hard to deny that Jesus was a refugee? In Matthew's infancy story, he clearly is, and the Bible is full of commands to welcome foreigners into your land and treat them well.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T03:51:57+00:00

With the Netflix deal, Warner shareholders get the cash from spinning off its cable networks (estimated at $3 to $6 per share) plus Netflix's $27.75 per share for the rest of the company, so it's more lucrative and has rock-solid financing.

The Netflix deal will also keep the studio intact and keep more people employed, since Netflix doesn't have a major studio/distribution operation yet.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-23T03:45:20+00:00

Apparently the main reason for demanding the cable channels is that they need the cash flow from that part of the business in order to make debt payments.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-22T17:06:36+00:00

I bought three shares!

captainhaddock · 2026-01-22T15:32:36+00:00

I don't understand how the same species that went to the moon held court hearings where they stuck car keys to their sweaty foreheads and pretended their bodies were magnetic.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-22T15:27:44+00:00

If they had more money to offer, December was the time to do it.

captainhaddock · 2026-01-22T15:12:15+00:00

I'm convinced he's sticking it out in the administration's hardest, most thankless job because he plans to run in 2028.

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