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Didn't someone say that AI would be better at replacing the CEOs?

Imagine if we trained an AI solely on jepstein's emails

It's fine, I don't care how people play. This is going to be my first non-nintendo gaming system

It's been the main kicker for me honestly. Part of it probably is just the clamshell in general. I'm looking forward to getting my Thor

Anbernic's device couldn't even emulate 3ds

While money was a part of it, Peter points out it is about lying. Please note, I am trying to weed out a predatory tactic of "sell everything you have to give to a priest". Not "billionaires should exist". In terms of tithing, it's more about lying.

Acts 5:3-4, 8-9

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”

And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.” But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

I'm not discounting both readings, I think here it's a case of "both are true". But I don't think Ananias and Sapphira would have died had they just not pretended it was all of their money. Greed was a part of it, but so was an act of deception and stolen valour.

Main thing keeping me away is banking. Unless if I just carry two phones. Quite trendy these days.

This melted my brain. I hope you're happy

I don't complain because I like women

Other 50% and she teleports like an enderman

I remember they have a telephone thing. Fun fact, if you have two receivers, you can like use the other one to listen in and spy on phone calls.

Is that a landline? We have that in the UK, I used to do that on my mum. Got in trouble quickly when she heard me laughing over the line 🤣

The distance between a dilapidated city slum and a modern-looking shopping mall is like 20 minutes away. Like. You walk 20 minutes, and its like you time travelled. So bizzare when I recall the memories.

20 minutes? I saw some that were right next to each other. I came out of a metro station and was in a pomegranate farm, across the road were newly built apartments.

What I found odd is that their TV provider was their ISP. The TV must have been IPTV and they were allowed to use the internet, by plugging a router into the TV box which had a modem. In the UK it's generally the other way around, your ISP is your TV provider also.

Where I stayed had a crapper toilet. I don't think that was the norm, though.

ROC built nukes, maintains sovereignty, becomes a bastion of freedom.

The ROC didn't become a democracy until the 1990s.

Modern China is definitely better, but CCP's China wasn't the only possibility we have, there are much better alt-timelines.

Yeah, that's basically what I'm saying. However, you can say this about any country. I think the UK would have had a better future if we got "chaos with Ed Milliband"

Disclaimer: I have nothing against the Japanese people, I'm only mad at the Imperialists specifically

You're allowed to, it's fine. You shouldn't need to disclaimer this.

I don't know if there are breadlines, but definitely a lot of poverty... very underdeveloped. My parents have extremely frugal behaviors... especially my mom.

The Chinese still do that, the ones that came into wealth are still alive. I think that's the same with any recently developed country. The house I stayed in China was very cluttered but also very clean. Furniture was kind of haphazard and the bathroom was basic. But their tvs and fridges were pretty modern. I think it's just they don't know the potential, but this family certainly could have afforded it.

In the villages, the only bathrooms are the communal ones...

I have a memory of it being late at night and walking to the bathroom with my dad...

Like, you literally have to leave your own house to go to the bathroom lol.

What year was this? Genuinely curious. I saw some underdeveloped villages there from the windows of trains and manual farm labourers. My dad also used to have a communal neighbourhood bathroom in the UK when he was younger in the 1970s. Someone else I was talking to was recalling collecting water from the well.

But I don't think ROC would be wasting crutial time on some "cultural revolution" stuff and actually starting on building the country. But then again, if Japanese Imperialists didn't invade, it would've been a much better timeline anyways. War ruins shit.

Yeah fair, I think if you put China how it is now, ten years ago (accounting for the cultural revolution) it wouldn't have set it back. Also the one child policy will have extremely concerning implications in a few years

China is such a strange country. The streets are extremely clean minus the dust, the place I was staying had an advanced metro system nearby and endless huge apartments in the area, something I had never seen or experienced ever before. But the water wasn't running like 30% of the time and even when it was, it was best not to drink it and get it from a machine outside. You're Chinese so I cannot speak in a position over you, but I do find a lot of westerners seem to underestimate it. And they think we're behind because there is one bus every thirty minutes to the somewhat big city which is half the side of the centre of their district.

In China they aren't in bread lines and a lot of people there seem to have a stable life. A few Chinese people I know do genuinely say that life did get better than what it was under the communist party. Keep in mind, this country was still getting peasant girls into harems for the emperor who couldn't leave his palace ever during victorian times

We just have open book exams, problem solved

In the UK I refused to turn my camera on in online class and cited GDPR. The next class the lecturer informed us that he can't force us to do it anymore due to GDPR. Lol.

"Upgrade?"

Also I remember these Pearson pricks downgraded everyone's BTEC results for an assignment on "the future of the media industry" as they got some boomer to mark it who didn't do any research himself

Okay, so, if all the quiet religious folk were just more quieter, that would stop the megachurch swindlers? How? Wouldn't it just give them more leeway as we won't be "forcing our religion on them", eg, calling out their heresy?

Also, I believe that anyone outside of my religion goes to hell. So it will be neglectful and not loving to refuse to give someone the reason/cause of my belief, or to warn them of impending disaster.

I consider Jesus of Nazareth's resurrection from the dead a historical fact. Therefore the logical implications from there are that He is God and what He says must be true. I don't see why I shouldn't be able to speak about said fact like anyone can speak about other facts and give them my reasons for believing that.

Lastly, if I weren't practicing my religion in public, that would involve not forgiving other people. It would involve seeking revenge. It would involve being impatient. Things I might do if I weren't a Christian.

genuinely want to know your thoughts: what do you think we can do?