Ding ding ding!

Winner winner, idiot dog barfing up your chicken dinner.

So uh, skipping a bunch of excess lore:

“Dogs are one of the most beloved pets in the world. They are loyal, friendly and make great companions. Despite their differences, all dogs share a few key traits – they are affectionate, protective of their owners, and eager to please. Dogs require proper care, including regular exercise, grooming, and veterinary checkups. In return, they provide unconditional love and can even improve their owner’s physical and mental health. Whether as a family pet or a working animal, dogs have been an integral part of human society for thousands of years.”

The chat bot is named after a dog because a dog-named chatbot is more likely to make users treat it with patience, kindness, and understand that it does silly things sometimes, but it means well.

Its marketing. PR.

The problem I am aware of is moreso that the number of programmers that know COBOL is vanishingly small, it … COBOL does not seem to really be taught anymore…

…so if something goes wrong at that level, you may be SOL if you cannot find an increasingly rare programmer that knows COBOL well.

DARPA has unironically been funding a tool that purports to translate C / C++ into Rust…

https://www.darpa.mil/program/translating-all-c-to-rust

… Are the Feds aware that the core systems that many, many older companies (and government agencies) use are still based on COBOL?

Is… is that not of any concern?

Its fanboy/girlism.

If you pirate content from their favorite author/artist/producer/whatever, basically all of their screeching comes down to a hysterical emotional response that you are hurting a person or group that they worship as God.

They just learn rhetoric to justify their emotions as a side effect, a consequence of wanting to be able to argue against the bad mean people that are hurting their favorite creatives.

They are naive, ignorant or misinformed, immature… usually believing in some kind ‘just world’ type worldview where everything is fair and square actually if you just follow the rules.

They don’t understand that the actual ‘losses’ from piracy are far, far smaller than whatever the RIAA or game studios say it is.

They don’t understand that the people who actually create or perform the art basically get paid a tiny fraction of what their labels or corporate overlords make.

They don’t understand that some people are actually poor, and the poor deserve art as well.

They don’t understand that when a reasonable cost forma product with reasonable ownership rights exist, a great, great many will prefer a streamlined but slightly costly method over a complex but monetarily costless method.

They don’t understand that you don’t really own anything which you can’t use or view or listen to as you please without relying on some proprietary other system which may just poof that ability out of existence one day, without refunding you.

There are multiple times where Jesus breaks with the established gender norms of the time.

Telling off the people about to stone the prostitute/adulterer to death would have been utterly shocking.

For starters… men and women were not supposed to be talking to each other in public, unless they were your family.

At the time, you basically needed two women to directly witness something… to be the equivalent of one man repeating hearsay, or claiming something with rather dubious evidence.

So… throwing himself into that situation… its actually so unbelievable that it would have played out as it did, that most non fundie scholars are almost certain it never happened… because Jesus most likely would have been beaten or killed.

If it is then a fictional story… the intent of adding it was clearly to indicate … not as equal of a view of women as say a modern feminist, but a radically, radically progressive and more equal view for the time.

As to being against biased treatment of ‘other’, foreign groups of people?

Jesus again talks with a woman, in public, a Samaritan drawing water from a well.

This is an oversimplification, but basically Samaritans were viewed by many other Jews as … not really Jews, as heretics, because they did not see the Temple in Jerusalem or its Rabbis as necessary or important to their version of Judaism.

Its… sort if analogous to how many modern Christians don’t view Mormons as Christian, even though Mormons believe they are.

But its much more extreme than that. Samaritans and other Jews would often refuse to speak to each other, beat the shit out of each other, kill each other, be very very intolerant.

But Jesus just sees this ‘foreign, heretical’ woman as another person, says it does not matter whether you worship at the Temple or not, and attempts to convert her as respectfully as with anyone else.

He ‘heals’ women with bleeding disorders, in a socioreligious environment where a bleeding woman would have been seen as untouchable, who should basically either be banished from society or sequestered and only tended to by other women, who would have to ritually purify themselves after every encounter.

…

You are correct that examples of misogyny and racism do exist in the New Testament as well. Paul comes to mind for having a much more traditional view of women.

But, there absolutely are ways to cherry pick or emphasize the … not as equal or progressive as modern views of equality and progress… but astoundingly more equal and progressive things Jesus did and said.

There absolutely are progressive churches that emphasize this.

You can interpret the totality of the Bible in many, many ways.

I agree with you that most fundamentalists who read it come away with very, very misogynistic and pro slavery views.

I do not agree that that is not the result of cherry picking.

I came from a fundamentalist upbringing.

For almost every single point espoused by them, ‘adhered to’ by them… you can find another verse that contradicts it, a parable that can be interpreted to negate it, a same story told multiple ways where various details of the different versions cannot possibly all be equally true and correct at the same time.

… While fundamentalists say that the entire Bible is inerrant, and has no contradictions… this just is not the case.

Even fundamentalist ‘literalists’ have beliefs that they base on non literal readings of verses.

Its… basically impossible to do a literalist reading of the book of revelation, for example.

Fundamentalists interpret that book metaphorically.

The Bible also very clearly states that one should never get a tattoo

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A28&version=NKJV

or wear clothes made of mixed weaves of different fabrics.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 22%3A11&version=NKJV

Yet its very common to see Christians with tattoos, especially of a cross, or wear clothes that have some mixture of cotton and polyester and denim or whatever.

… almost like they’re cherry picking the Bible to support the positions they themselves already prefer!

EDIT: (for these two verses, the translation is the same in basically every … translation version, just went with NKJV because why not?)

I know.

I’d be embarrassed to be an out and proud fascist too!

The Shy Trump Voter theory is basically the theory that a whole lot of Americans are fascists, support fascist policies and leaders, but are self aware enough to realize they’d be socially ostracized for doing so openly, brazenly, enthusiastically.

I no longer care to coddle, or reframe the confusion or embarrassment or stupidity and ignorance of people who… know what they are doing is wrong, so they lie about what they’re doing.

Shy Trump Voter is an interesting way to phrase CryptoFascist.

Not sure if you are joking but… it does not appear to be making anywhere near the amount of money that has been invested in it.

It costs a stupendous amount of money to develop the models, to train them, to rent out or just buy the hardware needed to do this, to pay for the electrical power to do this.

I actually had to do a double take and realize this was not an onion article.

S…sure, sure, we gotta take out this hospital because ub. uhm… its… got buried treasure!

What are we, 2 months away from ‘this hospital had a nuclear bomb in it!’?

We found the Ark of the Covenant! Hezbollah is hiding it under an orphanage!

NonCredibleDefense is a recreation of a reddit community.

The following is an oversimplification but its all so ridiculous it is still going to be long:

So… what NonCredibleDefense is, is a mixture of military enthusiasts who are pro Ukraine, pro modern western / NATO involvement in its defense, but also politically left of center, and also very often gay or trans.

And also very into anime, and esoteric internet memes, and video games. Because of course.

The lemmy community is an offshoot of this.

EDIT: Maybe a better way to explain this would be to present the example of the youtuber LazerPig, as basically my best approximation of condensing all of NonCredibleDefense into one person.

… WordPress had a good name?

… Required use of proprietary software causing a bunch of headaches and arguments… somehow makes FOSS less reputable?

Is this guy from another planet?

…

Oh. Oooohhhh.

This is connected to the Prime TumblrBrain Powertripper, the bastard king of the land of delusional manipulative narcissists.

Ah.

That explains perfectly why the discourse around it is utterly contradictory and nonsensical.

That didn’t take long.

Oh yes, I am well aware that those things will happen, but its still probably better to be nearer to the actual resource than farther from it.

So far, my plan for this is ‘Move to Minnesota’.

Lots of fresh water, rental/housing prices are not completely absurd (yet?), and as the Earth generally warms it will probably make for more mild winters.

Its not anonymous. Its pseudonymous.

Even if your pseudonym isn’t directly linked to you, even if you are not doxxed, your pseudonym carries its own reputation.

Its up to the pseudonym operator to determine how to manage that.

So, the goal here is to prevent ghosting by making ghosting minutely costly to the ghoster.

They pick from an array of multiple reasons why, and the app formulates an exceptionally kindly worded explanation to send to the ghosted person.

I don’t see this as dangerous to people who are ghosting potentially dangerous people.

Instead of getting nothing, and formulating whatever cockamamie explanation in their own minds (or maybe just going ‘sigh, oh well’), they at least get a facsimile of closure from a canned response.

Obviously this does not magically solve the many problems of dating apps, but I fail to see how this is more dangerous than just ghosting on its own.

The problem is that its minutely time consuming to provide a ghosting explanation.

This ghost explanation requirement requires people to actually explain themselves, and that’s gonna be very cumbersome to people who are not really looking for a serious, long term relationship.

It makes it very annoying to use the app in a scattershot approach for rapid fire hookups, with tons of potentials on deck, as you’ll be forced to consistently ‘tend’ to all of your simultaneous matches, or drop them…

…and for people who think they’re looking for a serious, monogamous relationship, but consistently ghost people, it will basically cause uncomfortable cognitive dissonance when they realize they don’t like having to do a modicum if effort to explain why no one seems to meet their standards or is due their attention, even though they previously thought they were interested.

Basically, the problem I see with this app is that it forces users toward being honest with themselves.