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ProbablyBaysean

@ ProbablyBaysean @lemmy.ca

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I have studied various Christian religions and have liked the teachings of the Mormons (They currently prefer to be called "members of the restored church of Jesus christ").

I generally try to abide by 3 Ne 11:29-30. I think my favorite scripture is 1 Ne 11:17 as it answers substantially all questions with faith and humility until you have time to properly study it out.

I am prone to talk about what I believe in a manner that I think gives respect all around like the epicurian paradox, the nicene creed, polygamy and judaism, etc.

I feel like I have a few strengths that I would love to share with those curious: my method to pray in a two-way conversation, my affinity for administration, and the "hiding in plain sight" cheats to be in control during persecution, dreams, and restrictive behavioral loops.

  • Trump calls New York Times reporter ‘ugly’ in latest insult to female journalist

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  • Just read the article, apparently she asked if he was tired and able to keep working as president. Empirical evidence shows him dosing off on camera during meetings and him not sharing the raw health information. He claims he has never worked harder in his life which tells more about his work ethic than his work output.

  • College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

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  • Trying to see a different perspective, a professor fed the contents of his course to a ai (textbook, lesson plans, and recordings of lectures) then had that ai take the cpa exam and it passed with flying colors. If the same professor is "on call" during the lesson but doing research in the other room, and he periodically posts a news article with a few of his knee-jerk responses to how it may affect the profession which adds to the ai "local knowledgebase" and empasizes that as it happens, I am not sure how much is lost. This may give great outcomes with a huge reduction in redundant costs (same lectures with minor tweaks).

    Edit: as this community is "fuck ai", I thought it allowed discussions about impacts that were more than attacking people. I believe that the scenario is mentioned would have severe costs to quality of education because some students need someone successful to mimic or they are lost (and you cant mimic an ai). However from the other perspective, it may not be all bad for certain professions.

  • Wherever or whenever you go, it will be waiting for you.

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  • Ehh, double entry accounting being invented at 3000 bc was a basic part of most accounting 101 classes.

  • Would you use this app?: 'Subscription' to FOSS

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  • Well, i just remembered the nexus mods and vortex Mod manager business model. All downloads are counted and you are asked to give an endorsement of the mod after a period of time. There is then a option to donate and you can choose your allocation if any. Something like that could only run once per month and be able to give good info. While tracking use time can be like beneficial Spyware, I think I would still like the reminder without that service.

  • Would you use this app?: 'Subscription' to FOSS

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  • I would like to have a way to track my use of FOSS, but i want to retain my privacy. I would be interested in this app. I also would like a different way to allocate so that apps that increase my efficiency so that I don't spend a long time troubleshooting something get the bigger slice. Perhaps having an optional "impact" survey with varying degrees of granularity (impact survy with only thumbs up and down OR impact survey with only 5 stars OR impact survey with 1-100) honestly this would be really cool if adoption got so high that this became the "patreon" of linux apps (aka having a "like" at the bottom that would remind you of high impact).

  • Despite having heard the phrase 'passive aggressive' several times, I still don't know what it means.

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  • As a native speaker, I will try to answer without being pedantic with a dictionary: to be passive aggressive is to answer with an unusual assumption and to act like the other party should have known all along.

    E.g. if you want someone to leave and it is snowing, say "I just cleaned off the snow from your car so you can make it home safe. When do you plan on leaving?" This places an expectation and social pressure to accept the gift of cleaning the snow by leaving soon.

    E.g. if you want to leave work at 5pm daily and your boss knows this and adds a frivolous mandatory meeting to the office calendar. You can take notes in the meeting then at the end send the email with notes to the recipients and say "this meeting could have been an email with no knowledge lost". This implies that your boss did a disservice by wasting everyone's time when they could have just used a secretary and an email and let you keep to your informal time to leave boundaries.

    Good luck figuring out and understanding the actual definition!!!

  • I now have call recording on Android

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  • Undergarment upgrades bring many Mormon women comfort and joy

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  • The undergarment is what a mormon wears after the 2 temple ceremonies that are to give them extra power and protection. It is kinda like a clerics robes, but not shouting to everyone at every time. The first designs had turtle necks and long sleeves. The "important" part of them are the symbolic parts which are not at the sleeves, so generally this is part of the general movement of mormon church policy away from "we made these policy rules black and white so it is easier for you to measure personal commitment". The church recently likes to go by "the restored church of Jesus christ" as a nickname instead of mormon. Additionally, with the opening of "Grey areas", the lines between doctrine, temporary policy, and sometimes cult like culture are easier to see. According to the People I talk to, this is a non issue.

  • With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"

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  • No, I think his crime was that he wanted to take away the whole purpose of life aka living with choice between good and evil. Then the icing was that he wanted God's glory to be given to him.

    My understanding of the purpose of life is that we have no memory of before, we are faced with plausible good and evil choices, and finally we get some hardware that lasts (physical body). There is some irony that the option for evil comes first from lucifer.

  • Mourning Pants

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  • This was said elsewhere, it enhances the appearance of your nethers looking like a couch. It appeals to a very niche type of person in power

  • 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced

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  • Not a bubble popping, but a balloon deflating. We have enough hardware to simulate the 10 billion neurons in a human brain, right now they are focusing on the software. I don't think it will "pop and crash".

  • Trump Announces More Surprise White House Renovations — Removing ‘Totally Inappropriate’ Tile in Lincoln Bathroom

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  • Do a sustained emp while powering the place to sterilize the bugs?

  • GET ALL A'S OR YOU'RE DISOWNED!!!! (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

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  • I hear that divorce comes sometimes when a partner has a f in sex

  • Deforestation and climate change are srs bsns.

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  • Okay, so I dont usually read any uncurated books that claim to be non fiction on the internet. Based on a few of the comments that cross-examined your position, I judged this worthy of a read.

    Most of it was new information expanding on what was guessed at when I was in high school. If I were living in the climate of my choice and owned land, I would create hexagonal "mangrove walls" around small hexagonal rebar "reef anchor bones" honeycombing inside.

    I actually have looked into forgoing kids and instead adopting. From anecdotes and and some personal experience, adopted kids are hard. They are often having learning issues and/or are not neurotypical in unexpected ways and add a slpash of drug baby withdrawal development and ptsd and it becomes the most destabilizing thing to do to a marriage. On the other side, The amount of effort to raise a child of my flesh and blood involves shared milestones of my own version of being neurodivergent and preparing for expected things. I'm not saying i won't ever adopt, but I am saying that adopting happens when I have no more biological kids to have (likely older and with established home life stability). I understand that cultural collapse occurs when a society has less than 2.11 births per female, so the people who can read and act on this advice will primarily weaken the long term power of "enlightened" and forward thinking by simply reducing the numbers with that type of intelligence able to empathize and comprehend your argument.

    I enjoy being proven wrong. I try not to offend. Thanks for your write up.

  • Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770?wprov=sfla1

    I beg to differ, and i dont consider altering sex ed to be full evil. When people have a lot of money and power and political influence they can do some bad unethical things. Things like requiring "the correct race" to breed and "the incorrect race" to have forced military drafts and mobilizations. It's right now easier for other immediate goals to ... not go that route yet. Let the robots and automation catch up to the depopulation is my guess.

  • Fossify Messages

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  • Landlords are parasites

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  • I lived in a housing market like that. It was a college town dominated by a church subsidized school. The students had to live in on-campus, off-campus and registered, or unregulated housing. The only people allowed to do unregulated housing were those who had their stuff together e.g. married or living with family. Housing was cheap and any landlord disagreements could be complained against the uni housing office. The uni provided so much housing that prices were based on the uni's low cost instead of anything higher. A friend from high school had her dad choose to "invest" by buying a small apartment building out there, but even with his daughter as manager, he didn't make a good return because he didn't have the scale to provide the minimum level of service. I think he sold it.

    Students there tended to get married and have children while still in school.

    Long story short, housing market regulation can be done via a dominating entity over demand, but non market forces are not common everywhere.

  • Anyone else live somewhere that has had people joining in a WiFi naming joke?

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  • I learned something today about something removed 35 years ago.

    Planning my additional research, for someone alive to have gone to the temple and have done these, they would have to be at least 55ish. I'll try to find someone to talk about it.

  • Anyone else live somewhere that has had people joining in a WiFi naming joke?

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  • I'm curious. The temple has 4 rituals

    1. baptism on behalf of your ancestral dead
    2. ritual washing
    3. promising 5 commandments that are above a regular baptisms promises to gain access to pass through to God's dwelling with power.
    4. marriage for all eternity.

    Mormons dance around temple and associated rituals being sacred, not secret, so the command to not cast pearls before swine applies; but certain promises are not to share signals that show you made the extra promises, so just to be sure, mormons treat it all temple info as secret unless they actually thought about the words of the rituals.

    I have been able to talk to Mormons outside of temples in pretty deep detail because I was respectful (not mocking).

    Please be specific, what part seems to pantomime suicide? I'm thinking baptism on behalf of ancestors?

    Shrug