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Comment Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score 1) 48

I'm an atheist, so in one sense I have no horse in this race. But while there's no denying the Church hierarchy protected pedophiles, and for a lot longer than even many Catholics would like to believe, it's not a central tenet of the Catholic faith. The Trinity, the Immaculate Conception, the Theokotos, the Ascension, Papal Infallibility when speaking ex cathedra, and the soteriological nature of the Church, those are core tenets.

And so is Matthew 7:5, which is in Catholic and in most Christian traditions the very heart of Christian ethics.

Comment Pathetic; but classically so (Score 2) 26

What seems so strikingly pathetic is just how ordinary the attack is; but it sailed right through because "AI" hype seems to do some mixture of attracting drooling idiots and convincing people who ought to know better that if they don't abandon everything in the race for minimum viable product someone else will get to securitize the omnibrain forever.

Random guy just sent a pull request to Amazon's project and they were "OK, seems cool" and added it. That's how an idiot child would think a supply chain attack would work; except it turns out that it actually does.

And then, of course, they scrubbed it without a changelog or a CVE; because the memory hole is a totally viable communications strategy.

Comment Re:Dangerous? (Score 3, Funny) 70

They said that about D&D and Judas Priest when I was growing up. You see, people a fucking idiots and easily frightened, so are easily convinced that playing a wizard in a dice game or listening to Rob Halford sing will cause young folks to kill babies and drink their blood.

Did I mention that people are fucking idiots? I don't think you can say that enough times.

Comment Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score 3, Insightful) 48

Actually, he forgot a foundational Catholic/Christian value:

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."
Matthew 7:1-5

I'm no Christian, not even the least bit religious, but there has seldom been a better proclamation of charity and forgiveness than this passage from Matthew.

Comment Re:Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score 2, Insightful) 48

The only sin that's anyone's business is that the CEO was having an intimate relationship with a subordinate, and the only people that matters to is their coworkers, the board and the shareholders.

1. The coworkers, because these kinds of relationships can actually be very demoralizing. Even the perception of favoritism, whether real or not, has a terrible effect on everyone else.
2. The board because it is their fiduciary duty to protect the company's reputation and eliminate to whatever extent possible any liability that can come from such a relationship (superiors having intimate relationships with subordinates opens up a number of issues surrounding sexual coercion and the risks involved if the relationship turns sour).
3. The shareholders, because reputational harm and lawsuits can negatively impact their investment.

Nowhere in there is your tender sensibilities a consideration, beyond the very limited context that you might be a customer or advertiser who might get turned off. Even if that's true, being self-righteous and vicariously inferring your superior morality largely erases that, and as a Catholic, I'm sure it's at this juncture that you should ponder your Savior's own words at Matthew 7:5 before you delight in building yourself up on an Internet forum at the expense of fellow human beings that made a sad and not terribly uncommon error in judgment.

For myself, I actually feel very sorry for them. Beyond the damage to their reputations and careers, they are human beings just like me, capable of great joy and then great humiliation and shame, and for them, this awful coupling, even if completely their own responsibility, all happened while the rest of the world decided amongst all the real and tangible problems, to mock them. I viscerally hate it when anyone is publicly humiliated, even if they are entirely responsible for the humiliation.

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