Enjoyed the conversation!

What if, by asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, God was testing him? While his response showed obedience, Abraham demonstrated a total lack of independent moral judgment, which signaled to God that the Israelites required a FAR more micromanagey covenant (incl no child sacrifice)

Wooo! Love seeing people use RFab.ai to create cool stuff.

The very popular enemies-to-lovers trope starts to look a lot less cute when you look at what women do IRL with hostile occupying forces.

With AI getting sucked into the next major culture war, we're keen to see how the elites of the anti-AI group navigate the hypocrisy of their AI usage (a requirement to maintain a competitive edge). Will they use it with protest? Apologize? Lie about it? Signs point to lying.

It's weird enough that people seem to be capable of getting under women's skin by posting fan art of an Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit. What's even weirder, though, is the apparent systematic obfuscation of explanations of the meme.

Biblical accounts agree that: A: God exists, B: He's on our side, C: He wants you to marry a tomboy.

Imagine being one of the police officers who raided the Stonewall Inn and found themselves in a riot. Imagine putting your life on the line to fight the mob, gay exploitation, & police corruption—all for history to frame you as a villain. These officers deserve so much better.

You'd never guess it from most media coverage, but the Strait of Hormuz blockade is functionally over & Iran’s neighbors needn't care what happens to the regime anymore. By trying to hold the world’s oil hostage, Iran ultimately torched one of its few remaining leverage points.

It shouldn't matter what cause you support; it's bad form to: 1. Donate to charities without understanding where and how the money flows and 2. Use people's parasocial relationships with *someone else's character* to fundraise for them. But c'mon guys—you're supporting HAMAS??

Combine the Wikipedia vandalism @cremieuxrecueil describes with the "reliable sources" manipulation @tracewoodgrains surfaced in 2024 and you'll see how Wikipedia is used to commit innumerable reality heists, probably daily. Once a reliable source repeats a lie, it becomes real.

Just when we think we've been historically hoodwinked for the last time, we learn the Stonewall raid wasn't what we had been told. Goodness, what's next? Mother Theresa was cruel? MLK didn't believe in judging others by the content of their character? Ghandi was abusive?

I had figured the Girl Scouts skewed progressive, but was shocked when Malcolm told me they give patches for engaging with LGBTQIA+ culture but not equivalent conservative cultures (among other things). Pity that institutions like these have slid so far. Hoping for a revival.

Many people out there have grown up thinking they can't have kids as they're so worried about their family risk of conditions like schizophrenia. That changes now. So cool.

You know there's something off with the "tradwife" label when the top tradwife influencers disavow it. I personally hold people are just adding meaning to pretty snapshots of domestic life that's simply not there, but Malcolm thinks something else is afoot.

There's an odd correlation between sex pests and sex positivity/negativity movements. Basically, if you see someone shouting about the virtues or vices of something sexual (or adjacent; see: fat positivity), odds are high that they're... kinda weird about it behind closed doors.