yunyun333
1d ago
A rat blogger making an awkward comparison of his weirdo buddies to the Jesus movement is more offensive than the President posting AI slop of himself performing a Jesus miracle. Another reminder that Twitter is fake and gay.
yunyun333
4d ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/28/nyregion/tompkinscornell.html
While there, Jane Doe opened one previously unopened can of beer. She and Male Number 1 “danced a little" in a way that “was definitely flirtatious in nature.” Male Number 1 brought Jane Doe to a “quiet area” and “asked how [Jane Doe] would feel about having a threesome with two male partners." Jane Doe "agreed due to how attracted [she] was to [Male Number 1] on top of [her] drunken curiousness.” When she learned that Male Number 2 would be the third participant, Jane Doe "remembered being excited because [she] thought that [Male Number 1 and Male Number 2] wanting to have a threesome meant that they were gay."
Is it gay to have a threesome with your bro?
yunyun333
21d ago
Did Judaism end after the Temple was destroyed (twice)? Did Christianity end after all Jesus's OG disciples were dead and buried ("some of you standing here will not taste death...")?
They're perfectly capable of creating new copes. In fact, they'll probably just steal the original: "God has punished us for our degeneracy."
yunyun333
22d ago
It would be fairly easy to steal some old medical or industrial radioisotopes for a dirty bomb; it's certainly happened accidentally plenty of times.
If you wanted to make an actual nuke, there was a window post USSR where a motivated group could have theoretically filched some poorly guarded fissile material from their nuclear cities.
When post-Soviet Russia came into being, in 1991, it inherited a sprawling state industry that had provided a full range of nuclear services, including medical science, power generation, and ship propulsion—as well as the world’s largest nuclear-weapons arsenal and, almost coincidentally, the world’s largest inventory of surplus plutonium and HEU, maybe 600 metric tons. The physical plant consisted of several dozen research, production, and storage facilities, and especially of ten fenced and guarded nuclear cities, which housed nearly a million people, yet were nominally so secret that they did not appear on maps. But within a few years the industry was obsolete, unable to adapt to the new Russian economy, and in steep decline. The buildings were in disrepair, and morale was low because people were not being paid enough or on time. Worse, the nuclear stockpiles were apparently being neglected. There were stories of guards abandoning their posts to forage for food, and of sheds containing world-ending supplies of HEU protected by padlock only. The question now, some fifteen years later, is why terrorists or criminals apparently did not then take advantage. One explanation is that they were ignorant, incompetent, and distracted. Another is that the defenses were not as weak as they appeared.
yunyun333
26d ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC487792/
https://studentbriefs.law.gwu.edu/crcl/2024/06/24/dobbs-v-history-part-one-english-common-law/
The word crime harbored important ambiguities as well. For medieval jurists and theologians the Latin “crimen” meant something more akin to sin. Medieval English lawyers used a different word for what we mean today by crime. They used the word “felony.” The difficulty this poses for Alito’s marshalling of the evidence is that there is no tradition, deeply rooted or otherwise, of prosecuting post-quickening abortions as felonies at common law in the medieval period. Penalties for women who terminated their pregnancies post-quickening are spelled out most clearly in medieval penitential manuals, where the offense is treated as a sin to be absolved through penance. And even here it is clear that the underlying sin is the fornication that resulted in pregnancy. Penances imposed for abortions pre-quickening were minor, as they were even for post-quickening abortions for poor women. Some manuals imposed no penance at all on poor women who aborted. More severe penances were reserved for abortions or for neonaticide motived by an effort to conceal fornication or adultery.
yunyun333
27d ago
But compare with abortion. It started off with the morning-after pill, then first-trimester abortion, and before you know it, low-decouplers are correctly intuiting that, if a mother killing a fetus at nine months shouldn't be a hanging crime, why should killing a child at five years be?
English common law allowed abortion before 'quickening' (16-20 weeks, when the fetus's movements can be felt) for centuries, following Church teaching that the fetus was not yet ensouled. So the debate has not been monotonic.
England, like several other commonwealth and European countries, has infanticide law defining a lesser charge for 'mentally disturbed' women who killed their <1 year old babies. This arose because juries were reluctant to hand out the death penalty to poor and desperate unmarried women.
https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/100-years-of-the-infanticide-act
This strikes many Americans as a grave injustice, but it doesn't seem to increase infanticide rates.
yunyun333
28d ago
If it only refuses to explain how to produce extra-strength smallpox 99.99% of the time, that's a problem.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Sam Altman may be an amoral alien but most of the people who work there are not.
Why should it be easy to make an LLM act morally 100% of the time? Humans have morality and it's not that hard to get them to do amoral things. And LLMs are very different from human brains.
yunyun333
1mo ago
What did you think unions protecting their employees meant? Vibes, papers, essays?
Anyways, an opinion writer winning in arbitration with a private company is hardly the most egregious example of union bullshit.
yunyun333
1mo ago
People really hate big tech. Flock has the same problem, though it's much easier to put up a bunch of cameras than build a datacenter. That's all it is.
The anti flock case is more coherent because mass surveillance is a meaningful tradeoff. The water and power concerns are probably not as real.
yunyun333
1mo ago
It's a shame, the rector had showed some backbone in standing by his hiring.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Are you referring to this? (Case 4b) https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MDRC-Report-2024.4_Same-Day-Next-Day-Provisions_Final.pdf
Mrs. B was a female in her 80s who had a challenging medical trajectory following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. She experienced several post-operative sequelae, including wound dehiscence, osteomyelitis, and respiratory failure. She required specialized care in hospital, including additional surgical procedures. Due to physical and functional decline, Mrs. B elected for a palliative approach to care. She was discharged home with palliative supports (i.e., palliative care team and home care support services, including adaptive aids and personal support services). Mrs. B reportedly expressed her desire for MAiD to her family. In response, and on the same day, her spouse contacted a referral service on her behalf. The following day, a MAiD practitioner assessed her for MAiD eligibility. She reportedly told the MAiD assessor that she wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values and beliefs. She communicated that pursuing in-patient palliative care/hospice care and palliative sedation was more in-keeping with her end-of-life goals.
The next morning, Mrs. B presented to the emergency department (ED) of her local hospital. Her spouse was noted to be experiencing caregiver burnout. Mrs. B was assessed to be in stable condition, and thereby discharged home with continued palliative care. Her palliative care physician completed a referral for in-patient palliative care / hospice care due to her social circumstances (i.e., caregiver burnout). Her request was denied for not meeting hospice criteria for end-of-life, and a long-term care application was offered.
On the same day, Mrs. B’s spouse contacted the provincial MAiD coordination service requesting an urgent assessment. A different MAiD assessor from the previous day completed a primary assessment and determined Mrs. B to be eligible for MAiD. The former MAiD practitioner was contacted. This MAiD practitioner expressed concerns regarding the necessity for ‘urgency’ and shared belief for the need for more comprehensive evaluation, the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e., due to caregiver burnout). The initial MAiD practitioner requested an opportunity to visit with Mrs. B the following day to re-assess; however, this opportunity was declined by the MAiD provider due to their clinical opinion that the clinical circumstances necessitated an urgent provision. An additional MAiD practitioner was arranged by the MAiD coordination service to complete a virtual assessment. Mrs. B was found eligible for MAiD by this third assessor. The provision of MAiD was completed later that evening.
A MAID assessment requires the person to be conscious and mentally aware. It sounds like the caretaker husband convinced his wife to go through with it after inpatient hospice was denied.
yunyun333
1mo ago
For track 1 requests (natural death reasonably foreseeable), which made up 95% of such requests, 86.5% of recipients were over 65. For track 2 requests (mental health/chronic conditions and the like), 78.4% of recipients were over 65.
For those who received MAID under Track 1, cancer was the most frequently cited medical condition (n=10,035), followed by "other" conditions (n=3,928), then cardiovascular conditions, such as congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation or vasculopathy (n=2,703). For Track 2, the most frequently indicated medical conditions were neurological conditions (n=378), "other" conditions (n=375) and cardiovascular conditions (n=94)
yunyun333
2mo ago
The State Department released a report on the ties between radical leftism and Cuba
It seems to consist of already public information, well documented in books like Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough. An excellent and humorous review can be found here.
Cuba doesn't seem to be such a big deal nowadays. Most of the documented influence ops are from decades ago, where they assisted semi serious militant groups like the Black Panthers and Weatherman. They do cooperate with aforementioned leftist front orgs like the Natoinal Lawyers Guild, but it's not exactly a secret, they aren't even trying to hide it. And there isn't evidence that these groups would wither and die without Havana's support. It seems surprisingly easy to convince young Americans that their country needs to be burned to the roots.
Anyways, Cuba is definitely getting invaded within the next year or so.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Well, that's the whole question, isn't it?
Matthew probably captures the historical Jesus's message best. Follow the Law more righteously than the scribes and Pharisees, in preparation for the imminent kingdom. The trouble is that he was talking almost exclusively to other Jews, and never makes it clear what he expects from Gentiles.
yunyun333
2mo ago
So we can conclude that anti homosexuality is a meme perhaps suited best for more primitive cultures.
yunyun333
2mo ago
If "cultures with memes optimised for evolutionary fitness will outcompete cultures without", and the west is the most pro-homosexual culture in history, and also the most dominant culture in history...?
yunyun333
2mo ago
Well, judging by the modern world, the pro-homosexuality meme has thoroughly defeated the gay bashers.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Yes, the Roman Empire heavily prohibited and criminalized homosexuality after the reign of Constantine. While pre-Christian Rome had complex social norms that tolerated certain same-sex relationships under strict conditions of dominance and class, the Christianization of the empire led to systematic legal and social bans
Hmm....
Yes, and yet you will notice that syphilis is far less lethal than HIV.
Sure, most STDs before HIV was not particularly lethal. But that would go against the idea that prohibitions on homosexuality were created because of devastatingly lethal STD epidemics.
yunyun333
2mo ago
So the Israelites knew about STDs, but not the Romans and Greeks?
Homosexuality prohibitions didn't stop 10% of Victorian Britain from getting syphilis.
yunyun333
2mo ago
George Droyd and such are still freely available on tiktok/youtube/insta.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Enlightened centrist hat on: Leftists are hypocrites about this, but so are pearl clutching rightists when the dark humor is about Kirk and not minorities. Everyone has their sacred cows.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Those memes had a message though. They were anti-Turning Point. They existed in the first place because Kirk was an influential political organizer. There is no message behind "put Kirk's face on everything and create new slang (lowkirkenuinely)", it's just irony poisoning.
Not even a prostitute, merely a 'sinful woman'. There's a lot of sins and Luke could have just used the word for prostitute if he wanted to say that (see 15:30).
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