Nowhere in the Bible is being gay defined as a sin.

I think that’s true of the new testament, but I think the old would hold male on male gay sex as a sin (i.e. “soddemy”). The act, not the state of being. I don’t think lesbianism is ever referred to.

But you’re right. The entire point is that we all sin and we all ask for forgiveness. We should all be humble to god.

Of course, it’s all bullshit, but it’s also been corrupted so much that Christians don’t even live by the lessons.

…signed an atheist that was forced into Bible study as a child.

It’s the beginning of reality biting for sure.

I think the big one will be when companies like openAI and anthropic have to file audited books in order to IPO (which they both want to do).

The fallback argument for the social media ban is that it’s better than nothing. But with results like these, it may be worse than nothing, given it potentially creates new problems. Children will remain online with arguably less supervision and support, new privacy and digital security vulnerabilities seem to have appeared and the worst aspects of social media lay largely unaddressed.

I wish more people understood this. Changing something can mean you’ve caused harm unintentionally, even if you haven’t identified it yet. Too many people seem to have the thought process “We have to do something! This is something. Let’s do this.” without ever considering the harm they might do.

WHAAAAT?!?! Educating people is better than telling them what to do?

…but who taught her to flop off the couch? That sounds like an aunt or uncle.

That’s just a savings account isn’t it?

It’s a hell of a moment when they can out perform their parents, isn’t it?

Why are even non-contact sports segregated? Tennis? Why?!

This has been tested on multiple occasions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)

The only real win in singles was Billie Jean King (then 29yo) over Bobby Riggs (then 55yo). Riggs had recently beaten Margaret Court who was a 17 year number one in the women’s game.

Martina Navratilova in 2023 stated that the reason the 55-year-old Riggs lost to the 29-year-old King was simply because of age.[37] Navratilova said Riggs lost “because Bobby was too old,” and added, “A 35 year old Bobby would have beaten all of us.”[37]

We Brits use Czar as a colloquialism for “person in charge of…”.

So the head of the water regulator might be referred to as the water Czar (and they deserve a similar fate).

Should never have been in the browser anyway.

I can think of a few.

I mean…they deserve it, but so do others.

The rationale for bail out the banks previously was that the retail arms (what you and I use) were so intertwined with the commercial arms that allowing the commercial part to fail caused the loss of everyone’s money. Regulation was introduced (at least in the UK. I don’t know about elsewhere) that ring fenced the two from each other, making future bailouts unnecessary. The commercial arm would shoulder the risk of its own investments.

Doesn’t stop corrupt politicians bailing them out though.

I think it’s ineffective with the psychology of most people of this type. Their fear isn’t death. It’s losing what they have.

They have made the amazing of material worth and power their primary goal In their life. They’ve probably had to screw over friends. They’ve probably had to ignore family. In a lot of ways they’ve sacrificed their “life” or their humanity to do this. They know they are are mortal, but if they go out with more than other people they’ve “won”.

To die with nothing… To have lost it all despite all the sacrifice. To end the game having “lost”. That’s what they fear, and it’s why so many of them cannot do what this guy did and share with employees. Even $1.2m is a really small amount. Five guys has 30,000 employees globally but is probably ⅔ US (20k). It’s no more that $100 each.

So I say, don’t kill them. Take their money and make them live like the rest of us.

No. Pretty sure it’s true of patents too. Might depend on which court you’re in.

It can’t be completely circular. There is an end customer that will expect something for their money eventually. Right now it’s driven by huge amounts of debt, but you can’t be on that forever. At some point it unwinds

5 year patents should exist IMHO. I think that’s a reasonable chance to monetise an invention. Short enough to remove the use of patents as munitions between companies.

After that it’s open season and you’ve allowed society to use it in any way in return for that 5 year protection.

Which is a damn good point. If you don’t protect a patent in a reasonable time frame I believe you lose the right to protect it. If Dolby has had this patent for a long time, and allowed it to become part of a standard, it may be a quick dismissal of the case.

Not sure Sony manufacture flash memory themselves. They probably just buy it and package it into memory cards.

Except that it seems a lot of these trades are on-paper, and not involving the actual transfer of goods. The data centres aren’t getting built. The servers aren’t going in them. The power isn’t being supplied. The tokens are not being generated. At least… It’s only a fraction of what they are all saying.

Some auditor is going to have a field day.

Manufacturers are supply constrained and they are basically selling to those that pay the most. Prices are above what most consumers will pay, so consumer lines become unsustainable.

The big question is what happens when they are no longer supply constrained. Will they be able to start the consumer lines back up again?