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  1. tango

    Our interaction with AI seems to debunk Biblical ideas

    Is it an ultimatum to expect a promise to be kept? If God says "you do this and I will do that", you go ahead and do this and then God doesn't do that, is it unreasonable to question the promise? Of course it's worth being sure that you didn't misunderstand the promise, and that it applies to...
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    The dead malls

    I'm trying to be realistic. Asking what to do with something without considering whether it's ever going to happen is just a bunch of pipe dreams. You know, I'd really like to build a huge tower so I can see for miles. Never mind small problems like, you know, a lack of funding. I can plan it...
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    Child rape cases

    12 is still a slightly awkward age - if two kids who have been exposed to inappropriate levels of sexual activity decide to experiment for themselves what happens then? If one child just turned 12 and the other will be 12 next month, does a child get executed for experimenting when ultimately...
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    The dead malls

    Except that if nobody is wlling to pay the bills that hostel, homeless shelter etc soon goes away. "Financially viable" doesn't necessarily mean "able to turn a profit" - it just means that something is able to support itself. Whether that is through generating profits or receiving donations...
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    Our interaction with AI seems to debunk Biblical ideas

    I think it was this thread (it may have been another one, I forget) where I commented that it's perfectly OK to have doubts and questions, and perfectly OK to ask questions of God and of others, but there's no point asking questions from a place of intellectual dishonesty. I don't know any...
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    Child rape cases

    So much nuance in a headline like this it's just silly. The obvious question is what exactly counts as a child? When we're talking about infants it's pretty easy - it's hard to see how anyone could look at a 5-year-old and think they were 16, or think they were able to consent even if they did...
  7. tango

    Our interaction with AI seems to debunk Biblical ideas

    There's a difference between challenging God and looking for specific answers. I'm thinking of Gideon and his fleece, for example.
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    I'd tell anyone to focus primarily on your body size rather than weight when you start exercising seriously. When I started exercising years ago everyody told me how much weight I'd lost but the scale said I hadn't moved at all. I'd just shed a lot of fat and gained a lot of muscle. I honestly...
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    The dead malls

    A good use does need to be a financially viable use. Otherwise we could turn deserted malls into water parks, spaceship launches and all sorts of other stuff. No money to pay for it? Who cares? No demand for a water park because most of the local kids have unemployed parents who can't pay? No...
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    Our interaction with AI seems to debunk Biblical ideas

    Seriously, I don't see anything wrong with having questions and doubts. I don't see anything wrong with the metaphorical equivalent of screaming at the sky something like "God, what the (expletive) are you doing right now?" At the same time it's important to be intellectually honest if we...
  11. tango

    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    Sprint repeats today. I wasn't sure how my legs would cope with them given the last time I tried to sprint it felt like I'd strained something. But this time it worked out OK, although the one particular time a sprint coincided with an uphill and a headwind I didn't enjoy it all that much.
  12. tango

    The dead malls

    If a town needs those things, and it needs them in the location of the mall, maybe there is a case to be made. Chances are the structure of a mall isn't going to work as well for all those other things as it once did for retail so you end up with the questions of wide open public spaces and who...
  13. tango

    The dead malls

    But there lies the problem. If there's going to be a lot of renovation required (and there will be, turning retail space into something totally different) the question endlessly falls back to who is going to pay for all that renovation? Maybe office space would be wonderful, maybe you could...
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    The dead malls

    That's very true - there's a definite attraction to having a wide variety of stores to browse even if only as a way to while away an hour or two. I guess a dead mall could be converted into offices but it would take a fair amount of redesign unless the offices were intended to be at least...
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    Our interaction with AI seems to debunk Biblical ideas

    If you assume that every person has one and only one role they are allowed to do, that may be true. Take away the assumption and, just like so many other sweeping generalisations, the whole thing collapses. For your comment to stand you also have to assume that there is no judging "the system"...
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    TikTok Benadryl challenge

    In the same vein, should the parents of the dead child face charges for apparently failing to adequately secure medicines? It's a great shame when kids try something stupid and pay the ultimate price. It's also a shame when the first question is whether some more or less random person should...
  17. tango

    The dead malls

    A track path would be great but I can't see running, jogging and walking working in the same space at the same time. My local mall is all but dead - probably 40-50% of the stores are empty - but I still can't see using the space for running being safe when there are still a few people about...
  18. tango

    The dead malls

    I hadn't thought about it like that but I guess you're right. And it's impossible for an individual or a couple to sensibly keep a booth staffed for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 6-8 weeks. That's another good point. The times my wife and I go to the mall we are interested in two stores...
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    The dead malls

    I guess malls adapt to an extent and vary the rules a little. One mall near me, that's now all but dead, used to have pop-up retailers all over the place during the peak Christmas season. One year I thought about getting a spot for a side line I had going but when I read the requirements there...
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    Gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers

    It's a joke. When trucks drive around belching clouds of thick black smoke we don't need to worry about that because Nanny State is telling us how to gather up leaves. If carbon emissions were anything like the threat we are endlessly told they are perhaps our fearless leaders could, you know...
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