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As far as I know, the only way to prevent people from joining a cult is a) warn people it's a cult and b) make the cult less powerful and attractive.

embed physics into computation

Ok, have I been sniffing glue or is computation not the result of physics?

these people said "what if we had a church that was also a country with a monarchy" and then cooked for like 800 years

edit: although I think the actual borders only got defined in like the 20th century?

Back in the day (i.e 2015), .vu custom domains were pretty popular with Tumblr bloggers - I think Vanuatu gave away free urls?

Linked in the article: the designer/programmer has now done the obligatory "Well I didn't think there was anything wrong with it" AI bot post mortem interview with a Catholic blog.

"AI gore, smug and pretentiousness" is a good summary of the sneer-subject of this server.

More of a Woodstock mud puddle than anything else

The actual Vatican seems to use its own .va domain name, which neatly sidesteps the .com vs .org dilemma.....but doesn't explain why they let randomers use catholic.com and catholic.org.

Is it an offence against the church for a group of lay theologians to ordain an AI? no idea. It is very funny though

In Cambridge, there's a sign at the train station with a quiet joke....

Ah yes, the Bloods and the Crips. Because those two gangs are well known for peacefully coexisting (?!?!?!?)

This is literally the same conversation therapy approach they use against gay people lol* the idea is that people believe they're gay because they are insecure about not being traditionally masculine or feminine enough (usually due to a bad relationship with their parents) and if they just learn how to be masc enough/fem enough then they'll be able to be heterosexual.

*kill me now

OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

Reminds me of this bloke's approach to teaching swimming.

Oh my gahhhhd. "Most child abuse is committed by family and friends, so why not commit some abuse against your child?"

I started (but didn't finish) a degree in city planning, and we literally spent a lot of the first year learning about why planned cities are usually a bad idea. Siskind's a schmuck

Ah, the idea that merely living in the same country as some rich people means that you yourself are rich.

His glowing reference to the "aggro Scots Irish" reminded me that the "Scots Irish" are descended from Ulster Protestants, and that it wasn't fun being an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland for much of the 20th century. Ian Paisley famously said that Catholics "breed like rabbits".

"If you zoom in on an upward trend, it looks smaller. I am very smart. A genius, even"

Not sexist at all!