ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
24d ago
Not OP but a common story told in Protestant circles is that the Catholic Church did not want the Bible translated into the common languages of the people so that they couldn't decide for themselves what to believe (or something along those lines). Reality is a bit more complicated (as per usual) and the simplified version of this story told by Protestants these days isn't accurate, and the existence of translations of the Bible into common languages long before Luther is clear evidence of this. Even the name of Saint Jerome's 4th century translation of the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate, is evidence of this (same etymology as vulgar, i.e. in the language of the commoners). Also widespread illiteracy and the high cost of books would have kept most people from reading the Bible even if there were translations available in their language.
That said, there is a certain kernel of truth to the story that Protestants tell. Certain translators (most notably William Tyndale and his English translation) were persecuted by the church because their choices in translation undermined certain doctrines of the church, etc. So the church definitely wanted to exert control over who was allowed to translate the Bible and how they were allowed to translate it.
ChickenOverlord
24d ago
Unitarians are so off-putting that even the Simpsons has regularly used them as the butt of jokes:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pe6Ol5kO0Ks?si=LXikLwww792dapv-
I have a sibling who decided to leave our church (Mormon) and became a Unitarian because he wanted to still be ostensibly Christian to not completely alienate my parents (or at least that's my impression of why). Frankly I would have respected his decision more if he'd straight up come out as atheist or agnostic.
ChickenOverlord
24d ago
Admittedly, these people are all employed, so they're not really worried about being outcompeted by an allegedly illiterate Indian software dev.
I don't have to be unemployed to be concerned about downward pressure on wages due to an increased supply of labor.
ChickenOverlord
25d ago
You really ought to try to have some feeling of fellowship with your fellow citizens. At a minimum, pretending that citizenship means nothing is a big part of what allowed the woke madness (especially in regards to immigration) to take hold in the first place. But this (surprisingly coherent) video from Sam Hyde might help convince you for other reasons: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YvcUQI6gAaI?si=yIqiiZSn1C4nAos9
ChickenOverlord
25d ago
because them trying to supply labour is little different than Indians trying to supply labour?
Objection, facts not in evidence.
ChickenOverlord
25d ago
but do you equally accept the arguments of liberal elites who want to exclude US citizen conservatives from being able to compete for elite jobs for the same reason
No, because citizenship actually means something. Which means that, in spite of the countless issues I have with our black underclass, I prioritize them over illegal Mexicans competing for their same jobs.
ChickenOverlord
25d ago
Well I can't fix their skills unfortunately. And I'm very well paid to be a tard wrangler for jeets, that's the only reason I stick around.
Any tips for learning and breaking into embedded systems roles? Code monkey stuck writing web APIs and client wrappers for retarded jeets here, though I'm about to start my masters in comp sci. Mostly C# though I can handle Python, JS/TS, and Java and I'm starting to learn Rust. I know what the hell the stack and the heap are (and that embedded often doesn't have a heap) so I'd like to believe I'm at least marginally better than most based on that sad fact alone. Also watched Ben Eater's videos on building a modern 6502 and understood most of it, I've also written a CHIP-8 emulator before.
Basically just please help me get the hell out of this, it's soul-crushing having to explain basic crap to jeets every single day that refuse to read the documentation that I painstakingly wrote for them.
Edit: Also in response to your claim that tech has stagnated - even for LLMs writing code, I think just making more powerful developer tooling would provide most of the "benefits" we're seeing from LLMs. You've been able to stand up a bunch of boilerplate for decades now (like ASP.NET controller generators). Making tools like that more powerful would create tons of developer productivity, and you don't have to worry about it hallucinating a massive security vulnerability into your systems. That won't stop the JavaShitter webdev crowd from thinking it's hot new shit though.
ChickenOverlord
25d ago
And if they're gone home for the day (which happens before I have lunch) I can't talk to them at all that day.
That's the best time of my day, when I can work without constant meetings and constant braindead queries from my jeet coworkers in Mumbai.
ChickenOverlord
25d ago
Good boon for the UK/Canada though as it means that instead of American companies hiring in the US they'll instead offshore the jobs and hire here instead.
"We need to outcompete China in tech, how do we do it?"
"Import 10 million Indians?"
"The UK and Canada are already doing that, is their tech sector doing really well compared to ours?"
"Uh, not really."
"What about China, are they importing tons of Indians to compete better against us?
"No, not really.
"Got it, import 10 million Indians"
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
no kings march
Interesting choice of protest to bring up since the Salt Lake City No Kings protest involved the official event security opening fire at a protester who was open carrying (but not brandishing), killing a bystander because they're shit shots, and then lying about what happened and trying to blame it on the open carrier they tried to murder until video footage came out showing otherwise.
ChickenOverlord
30d ago
Isn't "legislator" already gender neutral?
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
As far as I understand when Bluesky launched they announced plans to support federation but they have yet to materialize (if ever).
Edit: looks like their idea of "federation" is rather limited - https://old.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1axebtz/bluesky_federation_goes_live/krpp87x/
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
Groyper refers to fans/followers of Nick Fuentes
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
Especially since the weapon used would likely have been legal even in our strictest pro gun control states like California and New York.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
What do you want to say at work that you think you're being prevented from saying because of potential employer liability under "hostile work environment" standards?
"Our Indian developers are the cause of 95% or more of the issues we face (in terms of delivery speed of new features, software performance, and software stability). We could fire virtually all of the 200+ Indians we have writing terrible code and replace them with half a dozen American developers for roughly the same price (if not cheaper)."
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
Definitely strongly anti trans
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
a) the fact that Iryna Zarutska was stabbed from behind with no chance to defend herself
Sure, but that's where the "relax tax" memes come into play
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
If I were going to steal from Home Depot I wouldn't go for the power tools, I'd go for boxes of screws. That crap is expensive.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
The faith which I’m currently earnestly investigating (Mormonism)
Not much to add here, just wanted to say if you have any questions about whatever I'm a Mormon.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
Except that schizophrenia rates tend to increase following legalization (and/or reduced criminalization) of cannabis: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2829844
Definitively proving cause and effect is extremely difficult even in the best of cases. Numerous studies have consistently established correlation, and plausible causal mechanisms have been proposed. I'd say the burden of proof at this point is those insisting that there is no causality.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
From the abstract:
These relationships have persisted after controlling for confounding variables such as personal characteristics and other drug use. The relationships did not seem to be explained by cannabis being used to self-medicate symptoms of psychosis. A contributory causal relationship is biologically plausible because psychotic disorders involve disturbances in the dopamine neurotransmitter system with which the cannabinoid system interacts, as has been shown by animal studies and a human provocation study.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
I realize hypocrisy is a built-in part of being human, and of politicians in particular, but if the dems do this then all of the crap they said about Republicans being obstructionist, unwilling to compromise, etc. back in the Obama era when they tried similar strategies will make for some very easy (and easy to go viral) soundbites.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2424288/
This study says people who used weed prior to age 18 were 2.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than those who hadn't, and rates scaled with heavier use:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2424288/
They also estimated that about 13% of all schizophrenia cases could be eliminated by eliminating cannabis usage.
Here's a bunch of nerds discussing it in depth:
https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/5593/is-it-true-that-luther-intentionally-mistranslated-romans-328
The one caveat I'll give is that most of the answers seem to be from Protestants who seem to mostly agree with Luther's decision. That said, one of the answers directly quotes Luther himself talking about the controversy over his translation, so that was quite interesting to read.
Edit: For what it's worth, members of my faith (Mormon) largely agree with the Catholic interpretation of the verse, and with Catholics about the need for works in addition to faith.
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