It’s one of the things I’ve bounced off of many times, but each time I come back and give it another shot it gets a bit easier until one day I thought, hey this isn’t as bad as I used to think. Not really a ringing endorsement, but I definitely don’t hate it anymore. I would still rather do as much as I possibly can in Krita though.

He looked at me. And I looked at him. And he looked at me. And I looked at him. And he says what did you want again?

Dante’s Inferno went into detail that was not biblical, but there’s enough in the bible that writing it off completely is cherry picking.

“They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

"And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

"But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

“And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

Because there is no downside

Sure, unless you care about LGBT+ people not being discriminated against and murdered. And unless you care about teaching strong critical thinking to avoid conspiracies including anti-vax. And unless you care about the future of the planet in the face of climate change which is largely ignored by religious people who are more focused on the next life than this one. And unless, and unless, and unless…

There are tons of downsides.

As the only way in which the human condition can be contextualised is in a world that is created, and religions are the keepers of that knowledge.

Yeah no, we can contextualize with rational thought, it’s just that more work needs to be done that has historically been stifled by religion considering they have historically killed people who didn’t go along with them. Religions don’t have some monopoly on knowledge in this field, what they have is some shit they just made up, some of which works, and a lot of which doesn’t. But they have no methodology by which to test which parts work and which don’t so they just push all of them regardless.

The project could not be going great but also the AI is just incorrect about the status of the project rather than being sarcastic

I always find it funny. When I respond to someone and point out the flaws in their argument and they don’t respond but I get their one immediate downvote, I consider it a victory. They can’t respond with any kind of logical argument but also they’re upset about their inability to defend their point. It’s like two victories in one.

It helps to think that if someone is a complete jerk to you when they respond to your comment, they’re a jerk so you don’t have to care what their opinion is. I know it’s easier to say than do, but my general feeling is that if I don’t respect someone, I don’t really care what their opinion of me is. In fact, I’d be more bothered if they agreed with what I said.

Big mistake not hanging around to at least test the waters after a few replies

You’d have to find people who knew how to do those things. Cisterns, aqueducts, and even farming didn’t just happen, they developed over time of people figuring out small things, and passing on the information generation after generation and building on the knowledge slowly. For the vast majority of human history, we didn’t do these things.

Take ten or twenty random people from modern society and see how many of them know how to grow plants in a harsh environment and good luck getting one who knows how to work with stone. Just look back into our past, even relatively modern history, how often groups of people who were experienced farmers with passed down knowledge were almost, or actually were, starved out by the environment. Surviving is hard, even for those who have practised it. Modern society has made us forget that. Nature is waiting to own us again, and when she does, it will be brutal and nowhere near as easy as you make it sound. There’s a reason we almost went extinct numerous times.

If you could hand pick a group of survivors, sure you could make a community, but you don’t get to hand pick. You get who you happen to meet out of those who happen to survive which means random, which means good luck keeping the required skill sets alive.

Smolitov’s! D’awww! The revolution will be cutified!

Because otherwise it might seem weird to offer people an egg for trying times

What wakes you up? -Can’t wake up.

No I mean what excites you? -Ancient song lyrics

I think you made a mistype there. A box of KD contains exactly one serving. No more, no less, and I refuse to countenance any further discussion on the matter, thank you sir, madam, or else-wise!

Jokes on the US government, that’s the only way I consume my media! I would be singing along until my captors showed signs of significant mental impairment.

Oh no! Is the company that makes 70b per quarter and is buying back 70b of shares to keep making more in trouble of only making 80b per quarter next year and not 100b? Poor babies.

It’s relatively cheap for their masters, but they won’t buck the leash that got them into their position

Do you visit any websites that are hosted in the United States? It doesn’t matter where you’re located, it matters where the site you’re accessing is hosted.