I swear, if the Christian heaven exists and St Peter is there at the gates, this is how it will go for those people:

St. Peter: "Let's see... It says here that you proclaimed that it's immoral for a person to change their gender because it's 'against God's plan.'"

Self-described Christian: "Yes. That's correct."

St. Peter: "But it also says that you had surgery to remove tumors and had your wisdom teeth taken out."

Self-described Christian: "Uh, yes. What does that have to do with anything?"

St. Peter: "According to your regular proclamations of absolute morality, what you're born with is God's plan... So by that logic, having surgery of any kind is immoral. Hypocrisy is a great sin"

Self-described Christian: "That's not the same thing! I just did what my doctors told me to do! They're the medical experts, not me."

St. Peter: "So if doctors recommended a person get their sex changed, then it would be OK?"

Self-described Christian: "No. Those would be incredibly immoral doctors!"

St Peter: "I see. Ya know, Jesus harshest words were reserved for hypocrites." (He presses the button and Self-described Christian drops down into hell)

St Peter: "NEEEEXT!"

Atheist: "I uh... Just tried to be nice."

St. Peter, as he unlocks the gates: "Welcome to heaven!"

They should just stack them on top of each other like in Ready Player One. No need to demolish them, that's a waste!

This is why open source AI is necessary!

I like super obscure achievements that aren't documented at all. Like, your weapon and armor just broke but you're in an easy area so you just keep grinding, trying to find that rare loot (or whatever). Suddenly, you get an achievement, "Naked Brawler" 😁

You check the wiki and that one's not in the list 👌

I remember getting an achievement for something like, "Last Light" in some game where I ran out of torches in an area where you take severe damage from darkness. I got the achievement when I lit that last torch, very close to the end of the area.

It wasn't documented anywhere! I posted about it to the game forum (this was back when forums were the primary place to talk about such things) and no one had seen it before.

Like a year later, the community finally figured out the sequence of events necessary to get that achievement and it only gets awarded to characters who are too far in to make it out before the torch goes out and those that read a very specific, obscure book in a starter area.

"You read the book‽"

"I... Uh... Read all the books. Doesn't everyone read all the books at least once?"

🤣

Assume all the big AI firms die: Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Poof! They're gone!

Here would be my reaction: "So anyway... have you tried GLM-7? It's amazing! Also, there's a new workflow in ComfyUI I've been using that works great to generate..."

Generative AI is here to stay. You don't need a trillion dollars worth of data centers for progress to continue. That's just billionaires living in an AGI fantasy land.

Truly, a keystone of a wise and connected culture.

Easy: CircuitPython running on an RP2040 or RP2350 microcontroller. Being able to write a simple bit of code and have it control something in the real world is sooooooo satisfying. OMG: You'll jump for joy the first time you get it controlling some LEDs, a display, a servo, a motor, etc.

Programming a microcontroller for the first time was definitely the most fun I ever had when programming. CircuitPython makes it so easy, too! Oh if only it had existed back when I started learning electronics.

There would need to be a stupid complex network of regulations and inspectors to do it right.

This is how all regulations work (for the most part). Also note that there's no such thing as "too much" or "too little" regulation. There's just bad regulations and good regulations.

Examples of good regulation:

• Car emissions standards
• Appliance energy efficiency requirements
• Safety regulations (all kinds)
• Loads of regulations related to banking

Examples of bad regulation:

• Requiring certification for things that don't need it (e.g. braiding hair)
• Requiring drug tests in order to receive government benefits
• Banning necessary medical procedures and medications based on religious beliefs
• Loads of regulations related to banking

Note: I work for a huge bank and our executives bitch about the cost of compliance all the time. Make them bitch more. Of all the things that need regulation, banking is of the greatest need. Never trust any financial system or transaction that isn't heavily regulated! There's an infinite number of ways to get screwed via banking and if it weren't for regulations they would screw you and everyone else as much as they possibly could. History is full of examples.

What industry isn't abusive and exploitative these days?

I kept thinking about it and was like, "What about... No. Wait! No, not that one either..."

No. They're off the old block.

Surely you will not regret wolfing down nine slices of unrefrigerated leftover bar pizza while running 100 miles across Massachusetts, chasing your wife who is ahead of you, raiding every aid station.

That's a wrap on this injustice. Lettuce celebrate!