I signed up because it wasn’t an echochamber.

I was psyched until I learned it would be a biologic. Those are so bloody expensive and there isn’t enough research ruling out potential interactions between multiple biologics to convince my doc to freely prescribe me a second one.

Thank you. Much appreciated. I see your point.

I provided enough information that the relevant source shows up in a search, but here you go:

In no situation did we explicitly instruct any models to blackmail or do any of the other harmful actions we observe. [Lynch, et al., “Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could be an Insider Threat”, Anthropic Research, 2025]

I think they use computers for those now.

Everyone here so far has forgotten that in simulations, the model has blackmailed the person responsible shutting it off and even gone so far as to cancel active alerts in order to prevent an executive laying unconscous in the server room from receiving life-saving care.

That’s partialism, Patrick.

Edit: Oh, I see someone else linked to that video below, so here’s this instead for more historical reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasian_Creed

It’s the obsession with replacing PCIe slots with M.2 sockets that gets me.

Speaking of enshitification, who wants to bet that the calendar app doesn’t support an open standard like CalDAV?

It means your car is likely less than 10 years old, so… yes.

Purgatory isn’t a place, it’s a process. You go through purgatory, not to purgatory. It also helps to think of the afterlife as more of a state than a place, existing outside of time.

On the subject, my favourite aspect of Marian apparitions is the fact that they are culturally rooted.

Our Lady of Guadalupe comes specifically to mind.

This is a fun opportunity to share that mainline church teachings consider each tiny drop or fragment of the precious blood and sacred host to contain Christ entirely. It’s not exactly blood here, guts there.

White people?

What am I going to do, put the $20 back in my pocket? No, that’s a dick move. I see that they’re acting like they’re in a rush. Pocketing the paper money will only slow down the transaction.

It’s a lose-lose scenario, just like the grandparent commenter suggests.

How do I know the total until I’m given it?

The store knows which items are taxed and which ones aren’t.

I get you, but cashiers are trained to be impatient and never wait for me to pull my change purse out to round it up, even if I tell them there’s more coming.

This is how it typically goes:

Cashier: Your total is $10.50. Me, handing them $20: Here, hang on to this, I’ve got some change. Cashier snatches the money, enters $20.00 in the machine and stuffs it in the drawer as I fish out the appropriate change. Me, as they are in the midst of gathering a large amount of change from the drawer: Here you go. Cashier, interrupted during their change counting, furrows their brows at me as if I just tried to pull a fast one on them.

It can’t be a quick change scheme if you haven’t given me my change yet. Just don’t be in such a rush.

“Tuliping”

Jewish hell (Sheol), though, which was more of a “land of the dead” than a place of punishment (Gehenna).

Is there an echo in here?
“according to myth”^according to myth^ ^^according to myth^^

Slight correction, that’s born with/without "original sin which is best described as a condition and very different from committed sin, which one can describe as an action. Also, Jesus was born without original sin owing to the belief that he’s also fully divine.
That “holding a child responsible for the sins of their father” business stopped being a thing around Second Temple Judaism and what followed.

Another word for original sin that helps distinguish it from what people usually think of when they think of sin is concupiscence but that’s not in my vocabulary. I had to look it up because I keep forgetting the word.

And as always, none of this applies to Mormons because they’re special.