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Undecided voters say they now support Joe Biden after debate
  • Lol did you? It literally cites a single voter and a poll showing Trump trending better among Latinos than previous electoral performances for that demographic. Nothing in this article actually warranted the headline and meta polls show Trump still ahead. Delusion will only hand us another 4 years of Trump

  • Much respect for the people of Iraq, who put in a ridiculous amount of effort to deny the BIble.
  • Do you know why there are sources discussing that it isn't? Admittedly can't really even find something reliable worth citing but see some historical Islam groups discussing Makka and Bakka as mentioned in the Quran and attributes to modern Mecca. But this doesn't seem to be in any mainstream articles or easily found academic paper

    I'm not really familiar with the subject but curious what's the nuance I'm missing since it feels like there's a weird historical debate here I'd like to read up on

  • NEW POLL: Nearly Half Believe Trump Should Drop Campaign Over Guilty Verdict
  • By that logic any article from a news distributor is garbage. Which while true, you can find the original story from a new wire. Sourcing points is key but having someone write a table of authorities when they can link a video with their thoughts and data is fine

  • James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe
  • Not a scientist but the article seems to mean that they checked that the tools themselves had no defects giving incorrect measurements.

    This comment seems to be questioning the methodology of how we measure the rate of expansion so tackles a different aspect of the conversation.

    But that's about as much as I can contribute haha

  • Real Jesus
  • While that's true that the earliest non-Christian source was Josephus, that doesn't mean Paul (very contemporary figure) or the Bible aren't good sources. We can read around the obvious fabrications and their bias doesn't per se remove all historical value.

    The standard for historians (even critical ones) strongly support treating Jesus as a real person.

    This isn't at all a win though for Christians. The Dead Sea scrolls are very indicative of Jesus as a non-unique figure. It was common for there to be Jewish apocalyptic teachers. Jesus was one of those.

    The better way of thinking about him in my opinion is that he was a real Jewish teacher who never claimed to be the son of God, that was mythologized by early Christians.

    Highly recommend a Marginal Jew by Meier or anything by Bart Erhman for Atheists.

  • Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?
  • Many have already touched on this, but you hit the nail on the head with the third paragraph. Always smart to prepare but any attempt to use this to reduce workers will go horribly. Saving isn't crazy in this regard but wouldn't plan on it being long term until LLMs can become less expensive, have better reasoning and most importantly have at all better performance on longer context windows without impact on performance. These aren't easy solves, they brush up on fundamentals limits of the tech

  • Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?
  • If you are truly feeling super anxious, feel free to dm me. Have released gen AI tech though admittedly only in that space for about a year and a half and... Ur good. Happy to get in depth about it but genuinely you are good for so many reasons that I'd be happy to expand upon.

    Main point though for programmers will be it's expensive as fuck to get any sort of process going that will produce complex systems of code. And frankly I'm being a bit idealistic there. That's without even considering the amount of time. Love AI, but hype is massively misleading the reality of the tech.

  • Important distinction
  • Tell me you are a Christian who is sad that people keep calling out how Christians have vitriolic hatred for their fellow man with telling me you are a Christian.

    Also anyone get a strong feeling that by extremist, OP means Muslims not Christofacist in the US

  • Charles Littlejohn: Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison
  • Lol check out this bs: "The judge compared Littlejohn’s actions to those of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, noting that, “your actions were also a threat to our democracy.”

    “It engenders the same fear that January 6 does,” Reyes added."

  • I wonder how quickly one would cage and kill the other?
  • Really interesting topic actually but most early 'Christians' didn't really think of themselves as converts but rather just Jews who understood Jesus to represent the 'completion' of Jewish script and prophecy.

    Best example is Paul who most definitely continues to view himself as a Jew.

    Anyone interested should check out a book like 'Did Jesus Exist?' by Bart Erhman or a Marginal Jew (huge read). There's a better book by him on the topic but blanking on the title

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