Have you ever read the bible? Plenty of material in there that is pretty naughty. Torture, rape, incest, mass murder, slaughter of children and bizarre executions are all described - to name a just few things.

Church groups might also want to discuss things related to adulthood such as sexual trauma in people's past, deaths of loved ones, harrowing experiances etc.

I agree. People seem to think Fluxer is a good alternative. Anyone else have any suggestions?

These people are so dumb. Hollywood didn't go all in on computer graphics when they were shitty back in 1980, they waited until they got gud and made avatar in 2009. Maybe someday "AI" will get there but all these people betting the house on "AI" being perfect right out of the box are just stupid people. I wish there were consequences for their failures but that's not the way capitalism in this country seems to work anymore.

And yes, "AI" has been a thing since before computer graphics, but I'm talking about "AI" as its being hyped in the last 4 years.

YOUR position has been that a tulip is just a flower but I was able to buy a fine house with 1 tulip bulb in 1636. So WHY THE FUCK should anyone listen to you?

Crypto culture is dying. It wasn't much of a culture to begin with, just a bunch of morons who were pumping thin air, but they were excited - they had dreams! They all hated wallstreet and institutions, which excluded them, or so they felt. They were going to show the world! Well, the world was impressed with the amount of money they poured into bitcon and their old enemies from the institiutions showed up and began to take over - and the whole thing became massively awash with husksters and lies and trainwrecks to the point that its synonomous with a scam now.

But the true belivers are going to hang on for the rest of their lives pumping crypto. The pumps may get smaller and smaller and the bags they hold may get heavier and heavier, but I don't think they'll give up until they're in the grave and their grandchildren will be wondering why they inhereted a quadrillion snotcoins. So I don't see a 100% destruction of bitcoin for at least a few decades.

Probably more here than the people making the big decisions for NASA nowadays.

Yeah, I can't prove it but I feel like it really is almost exactly the same with the Kardashians. Its a huge bag of nothing but it attracts certain basic people like flies, and the more people are attracted the more people are attracted, in some kind of recursive way.

Gaming stocks dumping after google showed off their latest image-generator-on-meth shows how much investors understand about this stuff.

"The wealth itself is no barrier whatsoever for entry to heaven"

Verily I say unto you, That A RICH MAN SHALL HARDLY ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. AND AGAIN I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

You can argue with Jesus' own words as much as you want, but you can't change them.
"there are zero apologists or religious scholars would agree with your statements that " heaven demands that you give your wealth away in order to enter it.""
LOL. You can't be serious. There are hundreds of saints that have said this and done it, vast numbers of religous thinkers too agree wit this. Giving up your wealth to follow Jesus is the reason monasticism exists, a disicipline founded by St. Antony, a rich man who gave up his wealth entirely to follow Jesus.

I'm sure you have more ways of twisting the words of Jesus so that they are subservient to capitalism, but you're only fooling yourself, thou hypocrite.

They could have built at least a litte moat, I belive, if they'd invested in making good software that works with chatgpt. Integrating chatgpt into your workflow isn't hard if you're a coder but very few people who use it are, and coders are the first to learn about the alternative ai's and start using them - and the mountains of shitty, scammy, insecure, subscription based chatgpt wrappers vibecoded in the last year by random weirdos trying to get rich without doing any work don't help built user's confidence.

They should have built a whole useful ecosystem around it as hard as they could, just like google has with their chrome profiles. Instead they blew that money on datacenters and ram. Oops.

pedos.

Jesus is pretty clear that the kingdom of heaven demands that you give your wealth away in order to enter it. Is Jesus not the king and ultimate goverment of the earth? Does he not tell you repeatedly to give up your possessions to the poor? If that isn't like socialism it is even less like capitalism. Many times have I seen rich people read passages from the bible that directly say "Do not be rich". The words seem to flow around them like a vapor.

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? 21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

I wonder if they were to ask a group of people who actually work with windows a lot, especially whatever part of it they want to change they'll just always get "FUCK OFF WITH THAT SHIT" from the focus-group, so they've decided to just stop listening.

I think microslop puts a lot of weight on its reputation, but utterly fail to realize its reputation is shit. Its a classic bubble situation. I have a friend who works there and I just can't bring myself to dump on microslop with them because I'm sure they care about their work and they seem to like the company.

But microsoft's reputation is horrid. They can't be trusted, their software constantly lies to your face. Anyone who has had to work in-depth with windows knows this.

Now with their gamble on ai failing because their ai is the worst of all the megacorp's ai and their founder being exposed as one of eptein's close buddies and europe moving to seperate from amerislop software, perhaps an inkling of their actual reputation is getting through. They really are in danger of losing marketshare in the Non-OS sectors of their buisness. I stopped using microsoft word 15 years ago, and you couldn't get me to go back to it with hot pokers. I'm using linux for gaming and windows for work, because I must, but every year it becomes easier to forget that microslop even exists.

Some of this is real, no doubt about it, especially if you're a coder or someone whose job is to create spam or shitty advertisements or run chatbots.

But a lot of this is people using ai because its been pushed violently in front of us. Just see how MSFT tried to replace microsoft word with it, or how google has you look at AI before any actual search results. And then there are the employers who mandate it. When you that and then survey the results and find people are using it more, that doesn't translate to it actually being more useful.