The key phrase is tell a lie not speak a falsehood. All the magic does here is reveal his honesty or dishonesty.

And since he eventually becomes either a real boy or ordinary puppet, it’s hardly an infinite source of wood.

~Excellent point that the only things worth invading Earth for are those things found only on Earth.~

Calculation is a fundamental part of mathematics. You can’t get to caring about game theory or infinities without understanding calculation, and calculation itself has iterative components of counting, addition, multiplication, and formulas.

Children are trained by rote how to calculate so they can function in a society with strangers. The same skills that are of benefit to the current capitalist oligarchy would also be of benefit to a socialist republic, communist democracy, anarchist market, or technologist dictatorship.

The idea that basic skills are somehow tainted by their utility for the status quo is the dumbest idea in revolutionary thought, and is essentially the main culprit for the sort of atrocities that reinforce the anti-revolutionary impulse which props up the status quo.

That’s… Something.

Conflating mathematics with mathematic education after blaming numbers for both war and capitalism is a hell of a way to make an argument for student-led education.

Nobody except for DJs, producers, cover bands, and nerds known songs by their name.

(“My” is in the song itself, isnt it?)

LLMs are less human than monkeys, and so are not granted any copyright at all for any near-art created through them just as a human can’t claim copyright over what apes do with a camera.

The question isn’t whether or not the overgrown reddit-comment-simulator is original or not The question is if its output counts as writing and acting. And the answer to that is a strong no.

They didbt kill it. They issued a court ruling about how two conflicting laws interact whose interpretation could drive federated social media underground if commercial social media don’t lobby for a sane regulation that doesn’t treat the modern Internet like pre-internet print media.

So…

Some troll put together a fake ad, put it on a ad-sharing site saying someone was a prostitute, and the site took down the ad about an hour after the someone complained. But in that hour some other trolls copied the ad elsewhere, and so the someone sued saying the ad-sharing site should have stopped the other trolls.

The upset someone sued in file-sharing site in Romania, and rather than getting laughed out of court like a NFT dork complaining about right-clicking they got a favorable ruling, and now both halves of the fediverse are unlawful in the EU.

Why oh why can’t people use the right names for things?

Open Source didn’t die. NPM just proved its controls insufficiently trustworthy.

This is kin to red hat including a subscription check in their branded Linux distros and then screaming that “Linux is no longer free” just because one vendor wants to get paid.

Except, of course, that it’s even dumber that that because it’s about “enterprise IT”, where everything is either a billion dollar project or a hack put together by some salaryfolk in their spare time. (Or both, simultaneously.)

The progressive and conservative “movements” in the USA were named the same way Greenland was. By picking a word that would help appeal to low information folk.

Neither has any actual adherence to either change or tradition for the sake of such.

Aviation and computers are both dramatically English. For either Mandarin or French to supplant English as the world’s most widely spoken language we would need not just a large and wealthy segment of the world that natively speaks it, but a mechanism that encourages people who know neither French nor Mandarin nor English to learn one of the former and not the latter.

French has a bunch of former colonies and a considerable bit of history where it can be a useful shared language, but I don’t know if there’s anything beyond that which would encourage someone not going to these places to learn it for casual use.

Similarly, Mandarin is the second language of a bunch of non-native speakers who live or work in China, most of which are presumably Chinese natives whose first language was a different dialect like Cantonese.

(And I believe Hindu is in a common boat, where a massive chunk if it’s second-language speakers are natives of India with a separate dialect.)

It’s likely that modern English won’t reign forever as our species common language, but I think we’re more likely to see an English-mandarin pidgin take over than we are either modern French or modern Mandarin.

There are few adjectives which are both homophones and homonyms for verbs.

I wonder if there are any such pairs not related to violence or sex…

Weirdly, the women-first men-are-dangerous “feminists” seem to prefer “feminazi” over “misandrist”.

(Because we rarely encounter “radfems” arguing that facism doesn’t exist.)

The only stupid questionz are the sincere versions of “why would I want to learn this” and “why would you ever ask that”

Everything else is just rhetoric and lore.

The fed “isn’t a government agency” in the same way that the post office and CIA aren’t.

It was created by an act of Congress and managed through appointments from federally elected offices.

The exact same process that names post offices could unilaterally undo the fed in whole or in part and no one has any direct recourse or appeal. Even a desperate appeal to SCOTUS would fail if the law was written clearly enough, since the Constitution specifically grants congress itself the sole power to print currency and regulate commerce.

(Yes, it’s creation was a good thing. Yes, I know how it’s funded. No, neither one changes it being a government agency, no matter what your sovereign citizen website says.)

The EU is about twice the size of the USA…

A comparison of religion to legal systems is both only a sensible comparison to the three Abrahamic religions and incredibly useful for those three. (Other religions such as Buddhism are more starkly personal).

Essentially no Christian, Muslim, or Jew in any century takes the common scripture and reads it like an RPG manual for the game of life. Either they’re laypersons who rely upon the guidance of experts, or they’re the experts and they approach it with the advantage and bias of the years of study it took to become experts. And if those experts are wrong, there is always some authority to correct and rebuke their interpretation.

Ignoring the Protestant schism for a moment, this is exactly how the USA’s legal system works. The body of written law and judicial interpretation are extremely complex and nobody relies only on the plain text of the law when they want to figure out how it affects them. Even the crazy sovereign citizens mostly rely on someone else’s interpretation.

(And “sane” isn’t really a helpful label here. It encourages atheists to think about Christians as if the latter are entirely unpredictable and unreasonable, when it’s much more useful to think of us as mostly rational people who have a philosophical difference with you. More akin to the leftist/progressive/liberal/socialist discussion you can see on Lemmy than a MAGA/non-MAGA encounter.)

Do you want to have a real discussion about morality and religious teaching, or are you just in search of an gotcha quote because you feel the need to reinforce your theocratic nihilism by arguing with a theist on the internet?

I don’t feel bound by any part of the system of violent punishments that Jesus rebuked. Especially not one line which wasn’t even from either listing of the Jewish law in the Torah.

OTOH, there is something to be said for actually teaching children to behave. Using a rod to spank children is a failure of patenting, but so is letting your kid run around the restaurant making a mess because you can’t bear to rebuke them.

(And, again: Proverbs is a pre-Christian work that was incorporated by the gentike Christians when they formalized a canon for the Roman empire.)

“Jesus must be a myth because the English J was only invented in the 1500s” may well be the dumbest argument against the historical Jesus that anyone has ever made.

You are of course entirely free to doubt his divinity or the existence of God, but asseting that both the religion founded by his teachings and the 1s century rabbi were invented after Columbus’s voyage is just bad history.

The ten commandments are a old testament thing, textually written by Moses as he attempted to copy the ones God had written and that Moses shattered after the golden calf.

Christianity extended the Jewish scripture with the gospels, which include a story where God Himself Slumming As A Human was asked what the most important part of the law was, and Jesus said “love” twice.

If “love everyone as you love yourself” doesn’t lead you to not abusing children, I don’t think any book of good behavior is going to stop you.