The more I read the Bible (having read multiple versions) as a teen the more I realized that people who claim to walk as Christ did, in fact do not walk as Christ did. There are exceptions, such as the pastor who I met volunteering at a soup kitchen, but a vast majority only prove my point.
Christ walked among sinners, the down and destitute, tax collectors, sex workers and the "unclean". The same people these self proclaimed men and women of Christ will rebuke and spit on.
I always think back to that scene from Castlevania between the Bishop and the Demon: "my life's work is in his name!" "Your life's work. Makes him puke."
Yea I feel like some of the bots across multiple instances need to be toned back. Right now several of them, including lemmit.bot are just scraping anything that matches their search criteria and puking it out which leads to actual member posts being buried under the inundation of articles and headlines.
Yea I just personally blocked the lemmit bot which made ml and lemmit much more... "Bearable". Hexbear tho? I canned that instance after a few trips into it, some may find it bearable but it's not for me. It toes a very fine line that I just don't feel comfortable with, but hey, you do you.
If anything, if an instance is just 75% bot posting, I just silence it, especially a majority of the politic instances... I don't need a bot spewing doom and gloom into my feeds at mach fuck.
For X links... I guess ban the links if you feel the need but maybe allow for screenshots of X posts since a lot of companies and emergency services use X for posting realtime information that doesn't get posted elsewhere.
"hey, boss man created a JIRA ticket for the revolution, they wanna know how many story points we think that will be." 😂
Rolling Stone was probably the only source of actual journalism during the Iraq Invasion for a time.
Oh the memories.
Lions mane and chicken of the woods. Grill em, hit em with some garlic butter and lemon pepper. Pretty dang good imo.
Industrial diamonds have always been on the cheap and that industry is far removed from the jewelry/gem industry, in fact a large majority of diamonds that are mined aren't gem grade, they're industrial grade. It's been growing and advancing despite the jewelry/gem market starting to fall.
Also because newer generations just aren't sold on diamonds being a luxury item anymore. Your average Joe just isn't paying their rent or more on a diamond engagement/wedding ring like they used to because, well, that's their rent payment or mortgage for something that's gonna lose value the second they walk out of the store.
Honestly out of all 12 steps it's the first step that actually hits the hardest.
"We admitted we were powerless over alchohol (although you could substitute alcohol for anything really)—that our lives had become unmanageable."
As my shrink used to say "the hardest part of overcoming a problem or mistake is admitting you have a problem/made a mistake."
God... Imagine being in the middle of an important call for say discussing family affairs for a dying family member and you just hear "there will be a 30 second advertisement break in 1 minute."... I'd probably pop a blood vessel.
Ive actually been experimenting with using aquatic snails like nerites, ramshorns and pond/bladder snails to help control algae and detritus buildup in hydroponics.
So far pond/bladder snails have proven to be ineffective as they tend to feed on the plant roots as much as anything else but ramshorns have proven pretty successful.
A WELL TRAINED AI can be a very useful tool. However the AI models that corporations want to use aren't exactly what I'd call "well trained" because that costs money. So they figure "we'll just let it learn by doing. Who cares if people get hurt in the meantime. We'll just blame the devs for it being bad."
Edit: to add this is partly why AI gets a bad rap from folks on the outside looking it. Corporations institute barebones, born yesterday AI models that don't know their ass from their elbow because they can't be bothered to pay the devs to actually train them but when shit goes south they turn around and blame the devs for a bad product instead of admitting they cut corners. It's China Syndrome but instead of nuclear reactors it's AI.
That's probably the point. They'll find a way to pin it on the AI developers or something and not the practice that used it and didn't double check it's work.
Although I feel like this is just the first step. Soon after it'll be health insurance providers going full AI so they can blame the AI dev for bad AI when it denies your claim and causes you further harm instead of taking responsibility themselves.
Blind definitely helped me understand DF a lot better.
Definitely in the category of "ol' reliable" in terms of watches but I like the Pro-Trek because of some of the added features like the compass, barometer and altimeter.
I've had mine for a good while now and it's out up with all maner of abuse. Plus mine has a canvas strap that I prefer over metal or silicone.
Yea id either get what I wanted to see which was essentially just shit posting and wood working videos or, more usually the case, it would be nothing but Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan and half baked conspiracy videos taking about DEW and wildfires.