I am even to the point now where I no longer believe certain people need religion anymore. They need community and a sense of belonging and religious leaders like to highjack that basic need for their own selfish interests.

I think I agree with basically everything you’ve said here and especially this conclusion. The problem is that for many the only type of these things they can find is couched in religion. As a child-free atheist, I basically have no sense of belonging nor a community.

In addition, some people’s only exposure to even the very concept of morality or ethics comes through religion.

Yes, with just about everything I eat and now I’m ok with most everything.

As a kid, I thought nearly everything tasted bad: cucumbers, mustard, relish, mushrooms, onions, peppers, different types of cheese, stewed tomatoes, roasted carrots, roasted potatoes, etc etc etc.

As a young adult, I tried some things for the first time and hated them at first brush (for instance, avocado, which was so rich tasting to me at first that it almost triggered my gag reflex). I kept going and got over it.

Nowadays, everything I order I do so without having the chef hold a damned thing.

I’ve learned that in isolation, many things taste pretty overpowering, but with proper preparation and seasoning most things can be part of a delicious dish.

Religion is not the source of our social bounds and morality rather a parasite of control left over from ancient times.

Not the person you’re replying to, but I’m an atheist or an agnostic and even I’m not so sure about that.

When given the idea that there is no retribution or reprocussion for their actions, many people become nihilistic and act terribly.

I agree that it’s weak to need a “sky daddy” to act properly, but many people are weak.

Honestly, probably a buy opportunity for good ddr5 motherboards. When the bubble bursts then you can buy the ram for pennies.

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Perfect plan, I’m sure there will be no problems

You know it’s telling that this shit is found to be acceptable by folks that rattle on and on about IQ. A common exercise on an IQ test for children is to find and enumerate incorrect things in a picture.

“take the country back” dude, you’re the fucking vice president of the United States, your party controls all three branches of government and did so when Kirk was killed…you want to take the country back from yourself or something?

Samsung appliances are complete trash.

The goal here isnt to have personal devices run the shitty vibe-coded apps, it’s to lease time in datacenters to have them run it for you and stream it to your device for a monthly fee.

Sure but there are deep seated problems with this: (1) the shitty vibe coded apps are so bloated that they can’t run their client side code without thick clients, (2) optimizing code is something nobody wants – or in many cases knows how – to do, and (3) Internet access is still spotty in many parts of the US and will likely stay that way due to other digital landlords seeking rent for fallow fields.

Definitely not

It’s so ridiculous when they can’t even effectively govern the fucking country they already have.

Honestly, I actually believe that AI could replace thoughtless, dudebro podcasts.

Go fuck yourself, bro jogan.

You love to see it

Microwave safe

Everyone at my job keeps producing these AI slop summary and design documents and thanks I always wanted to read something you didn’t even type that has no discernible content.

Yeah and having an expansive universe with like three languages and three races of intelligent creatures, none of which seem to have any personalities just left it feeling shallow.

There’s no storyline in even the main story. It feels like a vast and lonely universe. I think procedural world generation has largely the same problem as generative AI: infinite slight varieties of responses, all of which are as bland as a HR seminar.

I’ve come to realize over time that I would prefer a completely linear story to games on the other extreme end.

What you’re suggesting sounds very interesting though, linear and more handcrafted content paired with procedural content to pad in the margins. Keep playing forever if you want to, but feel a sense of story and accomplishment in the main storyline.

Edit: that’s probably why the expeditions feel more worth playing… You bump into people because you’re all playing on the same planets, and the star systems you’re playing through are at least somewhat curated.

It’s one of the many toxic byproducts of “journalism” as a for profit industry.

OP is from a country full of models.

I was trying to do a return on Amazon today and I had to use my computer because for some reason my phone browser kept getting it to go into some AI workflow / chat thing that didn’t work at all. It just loaded forever and did nothing.