my dad also does this, and ngl it freaked me out a little bit when he decided to stick a banking app on an old oneplus 5T that didn't even get security updates anymore, what's worse he strongly refused the idea of me gifting him a newer phone, even a cheap-ish one. like i can afford it, god it's no big deal.
mittens
insofar as jesus was crucified in order to deliver humanity from sin, god gave up his own son, which is reflected in the ritual of the eucharist: jesus' blood and flesh gives sustenance to his church. i think it's a cool ritual personally, i'm not sure if other religions have the sacrifice of its own prophet as a foundational belief.
technology never seizes to amaze me
yeah they noticed there wasn't a significant difference between zoomers and millenials, which why would it exist, they're on average a decade apart, it really isn't a huge unsurmountable gap. spongebob has been on the air for far longer than this, so we mostly consumed the same cultural artifacts during our formative years. i'm not as cynic as to say it is completely useless, but the gaps between generations are arbitrarily short and thus they become meaningless
I think (white) boomers did have a significantly different experience compared to every other generation irt to access to material wealth, but I believe this is strictly US phenomena lol (Mexico doesn't have this overwhelming conservative slant among old people, at least not in electoral terms). Then again, it is significant enough as to not be a completely useless I suppose.
It's just so irresistible, like a giant zit you just wanna pop it
I think it should be noted, that some of the members on the board of OpenAI are literally just techno-priests doing actual techno-evangelism, their job literally depends on this new god and the upcoming techno-rapture being perceived as at least a plausible item of faith. I mean it probably works as any other marketing strategy, but this is all in the context of Microsoft becoming the single largest company stakeholder on OpenAI, likely they don't want their money to go to waste paying a bunch of useless cultists so they started yanking Sam Altman's chain. The OpenAI board reacted to the possibility of Microsoft making budget calls, and outed Altman and Microsoft swiftly reacted by formally hiring Altman and doubling down. Obviously most employees are going to side with Microsoft since they're currently paying the bills. You're going to see people strongly encouraged to walk out from the OpenAI board in the upcoming weeks or months, and they'll go down screaming crap about the computer hypergod. You see these aren't even marketing lines that they're repeating acritically, it's what's some dude desperately latching onto their useless 6 figure job is screaming.
He won by a wide margin but it should be noted that his opponent is the fucking current minister of economics like holy shit.
same thing with souls games really, the story is minimalist not only as a stylistic choice, but also to keep the actual ludonarrative front and center. link is really whatever you want him to be and does whatever you want him to do.
well excuuuuuuuuse me, young sheldon
Even that comparison falls short because Bush arguably just let saudi operators perform the attacks, here Israel opened fire on the festival attendees themselves. Total death cult shit.
I bought a monoprice subwoofer for like 100 bucks, and I'm pairing it up with a Fosi Audio V3, which also goes for like 150-200 bucks to replace an old subwoofer/amp that got busted and it sounds incredibly good for an audio setup that totalled like 300 at most. you could probably get these for even cheaper maybe.