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Threats and promises are your guiding principles?

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Atheists aren't one cohesive group, so there is no single answer. Atheists can be humanists or utilitarianists or any other (un)defined ideology they choose.

It's not like Christians all hold the same beliefs or moral framework. Some Christians think love is love, while others want to kill queer people. Which one is God's will? How do they know for sure?

At least the atheist takes responsibility for their own morality. Christians either interpret the Bible through their own confirmation bias or, even scarier, they are given their morality by a church leader.

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A long time ago, when I was a little chrizzo kid, I asked my mother if I should stop playing Pokemon because the pastor said it was made by satan.

She said that some people will always try to find evil in things that they can control. Little evils that they can fight about, but that ultimately don't matter. There are Big Evils in the world that heroes try to fight without ever making progress. But the little evil is easy to kill. So the cowards kill all the little evils and then, when they run out, they start inventing more little evils. They rile themselves up about dice and beer and Pokemon, all so they don't have to fight the Big Evils.

If you dare face the real problems in the world, if you defend truth and justice, if you stand up for your beliefs, then you don't have to worry about the little evils biting your ankles. You can even play with them if you want.

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This thing is broken

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Did you think Light was the hero when you watched it the first time? He's a teenage kid who suddenly gets way too much power, thoroughly abuses it, then starts killing innocents to avoid the consequences of his own actions. Even if his first few kills were literal supervillains, there is no justice in a world where Light decides who lives or dies.

Your idea of a revolutionary undermining the system is also an interesting story idea, but it's a very different story idea.

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True, I think both take advantage of our inherent bias to pick the side of the main characters and then push and push into the dark side until you have to admit that maybe they are the bad guys after all. Catching onto it after 10 episodes or on the second viewing isn't a fundamental difference in that regard.

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Immune to Rule

Help, at one point I was younger than Shinji, but I am older than Misato now. But seriously, 30 is too young to be a cougar right?? She's a young woman, an older sister to Shinji and Asuka.

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This, I think, is the real promise of vibe coding tools—that you can learn how to code without a CS degree.

I learned to code without a CS degree. I used a for Dummies book, W3schools, Stack Overflow and the good guidance of a senior developer. Learning to code was never the issue. And I think poking around in the code, experimenting, stumbling on unrelated but helpful answers, before finding your problem, are all great ways to become experienced that are prevented by the use of a tool like Bolt. If Bolt produces code that confuses experienced developers, how is the vibe coder supposed to learn anything useful from it?

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Peak movie idea

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What's this flattened piece of metal doing on the table? Wait a minute... Are you Superman in disguise and the bullets fired from a silenced gun bounced off your invulnerable chest and landed on the table? ...What am I saying? If that were true, Superman obviously would have eaten them to hide the evidence.

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Which one are you?

I want a microwave that has a database of every possible food type that tells it the optimal programming for everything, supported by sensors measuring weight, humidity, maybe even an infrared camera inside, if those can survive microwaves.

Until I have that: 100% until stuff starts to steam/bubble/boil, take it out, bite into it, regret not putting it in for longer, eat mostly cold leftovers.

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Before liftoff, [Gayle] King – who co-hosts CBS Mornings – said she was approaching the rocket trip with trepidation. “I still get very uncomfortable when people say ‘astronaut’,” she said. “I in no means feel like an astronaut. They said: ‘But, Gayle, if you go to space, you’re an astronaut.”

Stepping on a boat doesn't make you a sailor.

This wasn't an "all-female mission", but the equivalent of the women-only carriage on a metro. Or more like a limo, actually, because you don't need a billionaire's personal invitation to ride the metro.

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> doesn't mind watching the burgers for a minute while you go to the cheese shed to get the good cheddar
> wears an apron to protect the Sailor Moon shirt you gave her for your anniversary
> eats all the burgers while you're in the shed
> throws four fresh ones on the grill before you're back because she loves you

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Typical elf, not thinking of the obvious solution!

Gimli was just trying to help in any way he can. You think anyone in Elftopia was capable of hitting the ring with as much power as a dwarf in the prime of his life? They couldn't even punch down a tree, which is why their land is overrun with the bloody things. And the one time they made a "legendary" sword, it famously shattered into a million pieces. Wouldn't have happened with proper dwarf craftsmanship, I tell you!

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Thus, the Court easily concludes that the public has a strong interest in knowing the identity of the corporate entity that operates this website and is appearing in federal court

I come there all the time and I have absolutely no interest in knowing who operates it tbh. That information can basically only be used to do harm to nhentai.