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Atheists aren’t claiming to have positive proof of the nonexistence of God.

The term means that someone has not seen convincing evidence for God’s existence.

Likewise, I wouldn’t say I’m agnostic about Russel’s Teapot or any mythical idea because that terms tends to imply that you find the existence and nonexistence of the thing to be comparably likely.

People will be training AI on their ex’s face to show how unhinged they are. Anyone could make pictures for divorce or custody battles that depict the other party like this.

And if they dismiss it as AI that’s a whole other problem. Actual pictures will mean nothing.

Market research shows Gen Z are the most zealous about using iPhone and ostracizing those who don’t. Nearly 9 in 10 teens own an iPhone specifically. Older generations don’t have anything close to that lopsided.

It really is a generational phenomena. Millennials and Gen X aren’t pushing people out of groups because their bubbles aren’t blue.

Using IG over Signal is along the same lines.

Ted started off as a smart guy, but the MKULTRA abuse he experienced left him with a broken ideology.

Many parts of his manifesto are problematic, and I hope people don’t think it’s good theory.

Some excerpts:

The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

The leftist seeks to satisfy his feeling of inferiority by cultivating attitudes of superiority. He is not the only one to do this, but he is the one who goes furthest in this direction.

Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good, and successful.

The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority make him a braggart, an egotist, a bully, a self-promoter, a ruthless competitor. This kind of person is too eager to seize the initiative and too insensitive to feel guilty for his aggression. The leftist is as prone to manipulating others as the more right-wing person, but his main goal is to avoid straining his own conscience.

Ted also has some jabs at reactionaries, but he’s not a leftist for sure. There’s better literature out there, from an actual leftist perspective that people could be reading instead.

That’s all very vague, what specifically do you think people wouldn’t know from online work?

Someone studying math online could be speaking to many more people through video calls, online forums, and get exposure to many professors through different videos.

You can ask “why am I learning this?” during an online class, and in-person work can be textbook heavy.

If there’s something specific people need to know, it should be tested for. The vagueness around what problems online courses have seems to be an excuse to preserve a system that is inaccessible to the majority of the population. Only about 40% of the population ever gets a bachelor’s, and many of those are online already.

It’s beside the point whether you like it personally.

If someone was able to pass advanced math tests, does it matter how they learned it?

Why should it count for less because they did it online, so long as they did understand the concepts in the end?

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Colleges act like Scientology in the states. Equating education with how much money you’ve handed them.

Meanwhile anything can be learned online, but it counts for nothing because corporations treat purchases credentials as the only legitimate form of “education”.

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Interesting timing, since Windows just removed Cortana.

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