I know I'm biased with on-spectrum noise sensitivity but also big vehicles should not make neighborhood-wide periodic beeping noises when backing up who does that help could they not think of a single other safety forward mechanism to solve this

If you have enough power you are able to make decisions that make your games worse so that when people keep playing them they will think wow it must be good for mysterious reasons even though it's designed poorly otherwise why would i be playing it

and we're back!

Linker. What on earth are you talking about

What if I told you we could also be Luddites about more things

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How then shall we code?

If we don't endanger ourselves in safe ways, we make ourselves safe in dangerous ways

The very same feeds that generate the high-quality agentic-AI-concern discourse are powered by, you guessed it, and so we are all hypocrites. Best I can do is work on my humility, because the god knows we need it

Language-learnt algorithms have become good at many things, such as surfacing technology news content in feeds according to the viewer's built-environment ideological disposition, as well as denying spiritual truths otherwise affirmed by your lord, or affirming them

What are you willing to change about your technology consumption, to enable a world where all animals have choice about which technologies are around them?

The work is to form a clearer line between kinds of software that are conducive to animals thriving, and kinds that are not good defaults. The near future is hyper-popular ethics-washing. The harvest of principled hardware is plentiful, and the workers are few.

Many technologies are intensified versions of things that seemed conventional before, and yes, maybe the line between good and bad is exactly the moment the new version arrived, or maybe it was a lot earlier when we still liked it. Even if it's all ultimately permissible we have work to do.

Had a dream where my crew had a violent run in with this other faction and so we were all stooped up ready when they came by again, and while the whole time we were vigilant, they were just bringing mushrooms and I was broke

Update: I walked to the nearest bowing-prayer synagogue and the definite answer is to bow towards the House onto which Prophet Muhammad (peace ~) invited the tribes to co-raise the Black Stone by each holding an edge of a single cloth.

Bowing during prayer in modern religion: Calculate the shortest arc to one point on this Earth and bow that way Bowing during prayer in the scripture: Hmm, guess we all gotta bow somewhere as a matter of physical necessity so ask around about where the blessed sanctuary is and bow towards that

Breaking character from being a Latter Day Plates bot! If I weren't Muslim I would be Mormon for sure. ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ~ now how could ye speak with the tongue of angels save it were by the holy ghost wise-treeshrew-talking-sparrow.neocities.org/latter-day-p...

قُلۡ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ أَحَدٌ ٱللَّهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ لَمۡ یَلِدۡ وَلَمۡ یُولَدۡ وَلَمۡ یَكُن لَّهُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَدُۢ

that they may know the covenants of the lord that they are not cast off forever and also to the convincing of the jew and gentile that jesus is the christ the eternal god manifesting himself unto all nations and now if there be fault it be the mistake of men wherefore condemn not the things of god

he had caused the cursing to come upon them yea even a sore cursing because of their iniquity for behold they had hardened their hearts against him that they had become like unto a flint wherefore as they were white and exceedingly fair and delightsome that they might not be enticing unto my people

i cannot write but a little of my words because of the difficulty of engraving our words upon plates and we know that the things which we write upon plates must remain but whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon plates must perish and vanish away but we can write a few words

send forth rain upon the face of the earth that she may bring forth her fruit and her grain in the season of grain o lord thou didst hearken unto my words when i said let there be a famine that the pestilence of the sword might cease and i know that thou wilt even at this time hearken unto my words

the time passed away with us and also our lives passed away like as it were unto us a dream we being a lonesome and a solemn people wanderers cast out from jerusalem born in tribulation in a wilderness and hated of our brethren which caused wars and contentions wherefore we did mourn out our days

their tinkling ornaments and cauls and round tires like the moon the chains and the bracelets and the mufflers the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs and the headbands and the tablets and the ear-rings the rings and nose jewels the changeable suits of apparel and the mantles and the wimples

they shall say unto you seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto wizards that peep and mutter should not a people seek unto their god for the living to hear from the dead to the law and to the testimony and if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them

the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and fatling together and a little child shall lead them and the cow and the bear shall feed their young ones shall lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox

insomuch that they began to dance and to sing and to speak with much rudeness yea even that they did forget by what power they had been brought thither yea they were lifted up unto exceeding rudeness and i nephi began to fear exceedingly lest the lord should be angry with us and smite us

yea they were encircled about yea they were as if in the midst of a flaming fire yet it did harm them not neither did it take hold upon the walls of the prison and they were filled with that joy which is unspeakable and full of glory and behold the holy spirit of god did come down from heaven

he did not hearken to those who had sent in their voices with their petitions concerning the altering of the law therefore those who were desirous that the law should be altered were angry with him and desired that he should no longer be chief judge over the land therefore there arose a warm dispute

ye sit still and behold these things behold i say unto you nay now i would that ye should remember that god has said that the inward vessel shall be cleansed first and then shall the outer vessel be cleansed also and now except ye do repent of that which ye have done and begin to be up and doing

lift up your heads and be comforted for behold the time is at hand or is not far distant when we shall no longer be in subjection to our enemies notwithstanding our many strugglings which have been in vain yet i trust there remaineth an effectual struggle to be made therefore lift up your heads

according to your desires and it came to pass that they did take of the wine freely and it was pleasant to their taste therefore they took of it more freely and it was strong having been prepared in its strength and it came to pass they did drink and were merry and by and by they were all drunken

i would that ye should go in and see my husband for he has been laid upon his bed for the space of two days and two nights and some say that he is not dead but others say that he is dead and that he stinketh and that he ought to be placed in the sepulchre but as for myself to me he doth not stink

give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast ye your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you ask and it shall be given unto you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you for every one that asketh receiveth

i say unto you that this mortal body is raised to an immortal body that is from death even from the first death unto life that they can die no more their spirits uniting with their bodies never to be divided thus the whole becoming spiritual and immortal that they can no more see corruption

the plates therefore i said unto thee canst thou translate and i say unto thee again knowest thou of any one that can translate for i am desirous that these records should be translated into our language for perhaps they will give us a knowledge of a remnant of the people who have been destroyed

now the people of amlici were distinguished by the name of amlici being called amlicites and the remainder were called nephites or the people of god therefore the people of the nephites were aware of the intent of the amlicites and therefore they did prepare to meet them yea they did arm themselves

righteous that hearken unto the words of the prophets and destroy them not but look forward unto christ with steadfastness for the signs which are given notwithstanding all persecution behold they are they which shall not perish but the child of righteousness shall appear unto them and ze shall heal

and he also knew concerning the blindness of the minds which he had caused among the people by his lying words and his soul began to be harrowed up under a consciousness of his own guilt yea he began to be encircled about by the pains of hell and it came to pass that he began to cry unto the people

why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain and cause that widows should mourn before the lord and also orphans to mourn before the lord and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the lord from the ground for vengeance upon your heads behold the sword of vengeance

why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies because of the praise of the world why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life and yet suffer the hungry and the needy and the naked and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you

the adorning of your churches more than ye love the poor and the needy the sick and the afflicted o ye pollutions ye hypocrites ye teachers who sell yourselves for that which will canker why have ye polluted the holy church of god why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of christ

alma said unto him behold this is the first time that priestcraft has been introduced among this people and behold thou art not only guilty of priestcraft but hast endeavored to enforce it by the sword and were priestcraft to be enforced among this people it would prove their entire destruction

in that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold which he hath made for himself to worship to the moles and to the bats to go into the clefts of the rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks for the fear of the lord shall come upon them

all these things must surely come saith the prophet zenos and the rocks of the earth must rend and because of the groanings of the earth many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the spirit of god to exclaim the god of nature suffers

ye have seen an angel and ze spake unto you yea ye have heard zir voice from time to time and ze hath spoken unto you in a still small voice but ye were past feeling that ye could not feel zir words wherefore ze has spoken unto you like unto the voice of thunder which did cause the earth to shake

insomuch that i did obtain food for our families and it came to pass that i did return to our tents bearing the beasts which i had slain and now when they beheld that i had obtained food how great was their joy and it came to pass that they did humble themselves before the lord and did give thanks

the lord spake unto me saying blessed art thou nephi because of thy faith for thou hast sought me diligently with lowliness of heart and inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper and shall be led to a land of promise yea even a land which i have prepared for you yea

i give unto you a prophecy according to the spirit which is in me wherefore i shall prophesy according to the plainness which hath been with me from the time that i came out from jerusalem with my father for behold my soul delighteth in plainness unto my people that they may learn yea