Hell March Intensifies

Personally, I think it is more likely than not that somebody named Yehoshua existed, and did at least some of the things described in the Bible.

Because there were a good number of other Apocalyptical, Messianic Jewish type preachers/cults around the same time, the same area.

Getting conquered by the Romans … yeah, makes sense this would make people think they’re living in some kind of end times, a seemingly unstoppable heretical force is now in charge of near everything, forcing the Jews to endure heresies and descrations… surely God must be pissed and have something up his sleeve, to make things right.

I’m a fan of Paulogia’s minimal witnesses hypothesis, basically, you more or less only need Paul and Simon Peter to have something approximating post-bereavement hallucinactions or guilt based psychotic breaks, and then word of mouth and legendary development takes care of the rest from there.

Jesus, imo, probably was a real dude, who got crucified for eventually causing too much trouble. Thats entirely believable to me.

Resurrection? Miracles? Uh no, but, its pretty believable to explain how things roughly similar to, or based on things he may have actually done, got exaggerated and reformulated into the original Gospels.

But yeah, as Price says, he very directly states that he thought he would return before all of his contemporaneous followers passed away.

So… thats why a good deal of the theology is basically based on “well he did actually, in a way, from a certain point if view.”

… Because he very clearly did not do so literally, matter of factly.

It gets even more wild if you look into the ‘Gnostics’, the Sethians, the Valentinians, etc, the stuff that didn’t uh, make the final editors cut, as it were.

The… only thing I think I technically agree with them on is that… the holy day should by rights be Saturday, not Sunday.

Beyond that… yeah, some of them are very pleasant, delicate people… whats his name, the guy that Hacksaw Ridge was about… basically fairly close to a real story, he was an Adventist, thus a Pacifist, refused to pick up a weapon during WW2…

Became a medic, saved I think around at least 100 soldiers lives, got a Medal of Honor.

But the flip side of this is that, as best I can tell, at least some of their Preachers/Pastors, they’ve been conspiracy theory crafting intricate explanations of how the Catholic Church is more or less the most heretical thing that can be, Pope is the AntiChrist, etc etc, many, many other details… been doing that for decades.

I’ve managed to not meet too many Southern Baptists, due to being nowhere near the South at any point in my life… but yeah, what you say about them comports with what I’ve heard… seen on youtube, from people covering absolute nutjob, modern fire and brimstone preachers and ‘prophets’.

Dear lord that’s a whole can of worms there, people and branches that make prophecies and encourage other members to… or, who claim God is directly talking to them… makes for a whole lot of dramatic nonsense real fast, such as the recent Tiktok Rapture mass psychosis event.

If we ever doubted how those old tales of things like ‘dancing madness’ happened, well, now we know.

Sometimes people just kind of… euphorically, collectively, snap.

Well, nearly all biological lifeforms would … more or less wither and die, rather quickly.

Give water infinite surface tension?

Yeah, whole lotta internal processes stop working … life as we know it is… kinda mostly built around water acting like water.

Yeah, not near, it just is.

Brainrot is a real thing, the studies have been done now.

Might as well have just drank for the whole pregnancy.

Thats comparable to the level of fucked up this will make your kid, just handing them a tablet to be their ‘parent’.

Here’s the direct comparison:

https://www.hardwaredb.net/geforce-rtx-3070-vs-radeon-rx-6800

Would it be worth it?

If you’re in the US, looking at US prices (~$520), hellllllll no.

You can get a 9070 (non xt), for almost the same price (~$550), and thats a much, much better GPU, much more performance per dollar.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9070-vs-radeon-rx-6800

Or, you could get a 9060 XT (16 GB) for half about half the price (~$270), and still have a probably overall better card in most situations.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9060-xt-vs-radeon-rx-6800

And yes, a 9060 XT (16 GB) beats a 3070.

https://www.hardwaredb.net/radeon-rx-9060-xt-vs-geforce-rtx-3070

Double the VRAM, near half the cost, roughly 20% more gigapixel throughout.

Yeah, older model GPUs, the used market, at least in the US?

Pricing is delusional right now.

Apparently nobody got the memo that new, current AMD GPUs, have actually fallen in price a good deal in the last 6 months.

If a private company hired you to kill people…

… and you broke their NDA…

… they will hire someone to kill you.

I get what you’re trying to ask, but oh boy have you picked a silly example.

Long story short: Uh, basically you have to sue or be sued, to find out how enforceable an NDA actually is or isnt.

But:

Big company have money.

You? Not have as much money.

NDAs are mostly effective tools of stifling speech by way of intimidation, not by way of legal legitimacy.

Sure, I’m sure many scenarios exist where a clause of an NDA is enforceable if you violate it… but there are so many different possible laws and jurisdictions that come into play… you’d have to be a lot more specific.

Wait, we have to learn this again?

Did we not do this… 20 years ago, with the music industry?

…

… but Albert.

I am very hungry.

[>:D]

I mean, can I just say I follow the Jefferson Bible, am I a Christian if I do that?

Yes?

No?

Let me guess:

A bunch of different Christians will disagree about that!

Those are all good specific, relevant, additional details to bring up, yes, I did gloss over aspects of history a bit, hehe.

“more or less”

(load bearing phrasing, lol)

Ok, so you admit the scenario I describe is possible, just not ‘likely’ in your view… after initially dismissing it.

Did you read the article?

What happened was not that the whole main rocket zoomed right past a Starlink Sat, while still doing the initial burn sequence.

What happened was:

“If confirmed, this incident occurred nearly 48 hours after payload separation, by which time the launch mission had long concluded. CAS Space will coordinate with satellite operators to proceed. This calls for re-establishing collaborations between the two New Space ecosystems,” the company added in another X post a few hours later.

… One of the sats released by Kinetica 1 whizzed by SL6709 at a 200m distance. 48 hours after the Kinetica 1 launch.

So… that would have occurred during when said K1 deployed sat… was doing some kind of orbital stabilization manuever, most likely, no?

Either that, or, even worse… it wasn’t, it doesn’t have much of its own ability to trim and adjust its own orbit… which would mean it is just stuck, on an eccentric orbit, possibly stable, possibly not… that crosses above and below the altitude Starlink sats are at… and there’s like ten thousand of them…

… which CAS Space does not seem to either have accounted for, or have the ability to account for.

So yeah the situation that is currently occuring, that is from the article we are talking about, yeah, that does not to me seem like an unlikely thing, given that it is, or something pretty close to it, seems to be currently happening.

Given that CAS Space said:

“CAS Space will coordinate with satellite operators to proceed. This calls for re-establishing collaborations between the two New Space ecosystems,” the company added in another X post a few hours later.

That would seem to me to imply that they had previously been in contact with SpaceX, to be able to coordinate launches and do trajectory deconfliction… but that this coordination ceased… for some reason.

https://payloadspace.com/china-calls-nasa-on-orbital-conjunction/

Looks like China’s been asking for help from NASA with this sorta stuff in the last few months… I guess SpaceX didn’t get the memo?

Nobody’s sure what the … correct procedure or chain of command is here?

… Does Starlink actually publish and make all its Sat locations snd trajectories, in highly accurate detail, available to Chinese space companies/agencies?

Thats a legitimate question, I don’t know.

You’d have to have basically a real time syncronizhed data sharing operation going on, given how many Starlink sats there are, how often they make orbital adjustments or fail.

How is it an interesting thing to do?

Hateful bigotry is bad, is that your point?

… Religion is the only one of those things that, by definition, constitutes a worldview that… very often serves as a generator of violent bigotry, in and of itself.

‘Race’, gender, sexual orientation, those things can lead to the actual enactment of violent bigotry against outgroup members… but they have to be paired with an accompanying worldview and/or material economic situation of disparity for that to arise.

Religion is the only one of those that doesn’t need any extra components for its adherents, its members, to enact violent bigotry against outgroup members.

I’m not justifying violent bigotry.

I’m explaining what causes it:

So long as there are idiotic squabbles over nonsensical and contradictory and logically incoherent worldviews, that are deeply held with great conviction, there will be violent bigotry.

Further, ‘race’ itself is an ultimately incoherent construct, it is a worldview, one that is just so ingrained into so many that we don’t even realize this.

People groups exist, ethnolinguistic groups exist, heritages of haplogroups exist… ‘race’ doesn’t, ‘race’ is a way of thinking, promulgated by some societies, that just clumsily and incoherently defines people into ingroup and outgroup members, and then oppresses the outgroup members so hard that they are functionally forced to adopt it as a practical, lived identity.

Imagine trying to do the ‘one drop rule’ with the US conception of ‘white people’.

Oh, sure, you’re uh I dunno, Norweigan, eh? Well, there’s actually a German, and even a Spaniard, somewhere in your set of great great grandparents, so clearly, you’re some kind of white mochalatto, not really pure white, thus impure.

… Absolute nonsense.

Gender and sexual orientation?

These are unchangeable, naturally arising aspects of people, that some other people with some worldviews may choose to hate, or not.

Religion?

Very often the worldview that chooses to hate.

‘Race’?

Yeah, more complicated, more like a clumsy worldview that is enforced onto others untill they adopt it or have no choice but to adopt it… by certain other kinds of worldviews, which are very often religions.

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.

Yup yup, best find those bootstraps and start pullin’, reaaal hard.

Oh what, you’re obese and crippled and old and tired?

… did I stutter …?

Well it sure is a good thing SNAP basically doesn’t exist anymore, otherwise these brain dead morons, these wayward souls, they’d have a chance to be tempted into becoming profligate hypocrites in another way!

You see, God, Trump, they’re the same thing, and this is all a good thing, because now they’ll have a chance to prove themselves before the sacrificial altar of capitalism, just as Jesus wanted.

Just uh, start a business or something, in the midst of a rapidly worsening economic depression, can’t be that hard, right?

And then the fourth type of guy: Oh hi Mark!

… Unless they functionally constitute a massive, fast moving, kind of net, that anything trying to climb to a higher orbit has to pass through, and hope to not collide with, as showcased by this article we are commenting on.

Anything that’s trying to break through VLEO, well, if a collision happens on its way to LEO, or beyond, some of those debris will be headed to LEO or beyond.

At no point did I mention realism.

Yep.

You’re right.

Realistic open worlds are generally boring, to most players.

Thats why almost no popular open world games have realistic distance scaling.

Skyrim, for example, is a teeny tiny place, compared to how large the lore describes it as, everything is scaled in a kind of exaggerated way, same with all GTA games, even RDR and 2, they’re not even close to being realistically scaled, they’re scaled based… basically on an estimate of a player’s average attention span.

You want realistically scaled?

Go play an ARMA game, and just go on a hike, over a close to one to one scale replication of an actual island or penninsula, for a real world entire day.

Yeah that shit’s boring as fuck to most people.

… But I did not at any point say that a good open world is a realistic world, or anything like that, but thats what you appear to have read, out of what I wrote.

Fascinating.

Anyway, what you should do to make an open world that doesnt suck, is make it interesting, in an actual game mechanical sense, not merely ‘pretty’.

Maybe as you travel, enemies of one kind or another have a chance of spawning nearby and cresting over a hill or emerging from a forest.

RDR2 does shit like this very well, oh I’m just gonna relax, trot along, enjoy the scenery… and … my throat has been ripped out by a pack of wolves, goddamnit.

Or you go for the Bethesda approach and have 500, one time discoverable locations with basically some kind of a mini dungeon or staged scenario you can wander into.

Or you can do the Kenshi approach, no real questlines, just simulate the entire world as a kind of sandbox that tens of thousands of other npcs live in, do their own thing in… with actually closer to a realistic sense of distsnce scaling… and just give the player save states and the ability to fastforward or pause time, by default… and maybe they bumble in to some particularly interesting people, or maybe its oops all beakthings, or maybe you’ve now been enslaved by either cannibals or the Holy Nation, while you were afk for your literal 12 mile hike across the map.

Or you could just make some kind of game where fast travelling requires the player to engage in something on the order of a hacking/lockpicking minigame, to… keep the wheels from falling off or something, I dunno.

Maybe vehicles are simulated in some kind of way that… if you’re reckless and innatentive, you’ll break em, and now you’re fucked, in the middle of nowhere. State of Decay 2 comes to mind, sort of.

Point is… there are many ways you can make travelling itself into an engaging, alternate form of the game itself, or a kind of minigame, or a way to experience some kind of story or plot development, or reward the player for picking up on contextual cues during transit, punish them for missing them…

Hell, make a minigame out of trying to pick a song to listen to that your npc companion doesn’t hate, throw in guitar hero style karaoke minigame, why the hell not? maybe it can boost or demerit your relationship with that npc, land you on different paths of a branching storyline.

… Travel doesnt need to be realistic.

It just needs to be more interesting, rewarding, engaging, than skipping it.

You gotta go to the Seventh Day Adventists, imo, to get some reeeeaaallll hardcore Catholic hate, good lord do they hate Catholics.

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