The only one of the films that made the world seem fun.

Just saw a Wankpanzer for the first time last Friday and I agree. It is ugly and anyone who fell for this scam deserves every ounce of derision they receive.

Assembled a thousand years after the fact by a group with a vested interest in solidifying the narrative to fit their own.

Hell, the Tanakh didn’t really get put together until well after Christianity appeared and it was a reaction to Christians appropriating Jewish literary culture to establish their own.

It’d be similar to people a thousand years from believing that Christian Gray is literally descended from Edward and Bella.

Exactly. An example from outside the Bible might be Achilles. There was probably a great warrior with that name in the Mycenaean Greek world. Later storytellers probably just added more to make it sound better or the material was from other warriors who were like Achilles.

Some of Jesus’ teachings definitely come from the milieu of the Roman era in Judea and Palestina.

Personally my favorite head canon is that Jesus was, or his parents were, Egyptian born Jews or Coptic converts to Judaism. It’s a reverse Obamas birth certificate. There is so much time spent establishing the lineage and explaining the flight to Egypt.

There is no proof outside of the Bible and some other writings. Even those mentions seem to have occurred well after Jesus supposedly lived.

In terms of non-literary proof, there isn’t anything credible.

There’s more evidence that King David existed.

He’s white, it’s okay.

The first Shakespeare I watched was Branaughs Henry V. It actually got me into Shakespeare a bit.

His Hamlet was filmed on 70mm, giving it some great color and depth though I can’t sit still long enough to watch it in one sitting.

In general, you can’t beat The Reduced Shakespeare Companys “Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged.”

A good stop-gap while cities de-car-ify and rebuild green space.

Why many word when few good?

Seriously though, “AI” itself is misleading but if they want to be ignorant and whiny about it, then they should be labeled just as they are.

What they really seem to want is an automatic metadata tag that is more along the lines of “a human took this picture and then used ‘AI’ tools to modify it.”

That may not work because by using Adobe products, the original metadata is being overwritten so Thotagram doesn’t know that a photographer took the original.

A photographer could actually just type a little explanation (“I took this picture and then used Gen Fill only”) in a plain text document, save it to their desktop, and copy & paste it in.

But then everyone would know that the image had been modified - which is what they’re trying to avoid. They want everyone to believe that the picture they’re posting is 100% their work.

lisan al-gaib!

I try to refer to it as Xitter. Posts are xeets.

Lisan al-Th’rob

Ah…well, it was always implied. It’s a stretch though since in the South, cousin stuff isn’t incest. That’s just normal, otherwise the population would decline rapidly in terms of numbers.

Quality tech in manufacturing

It wasn’t Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden - it was Smith and Wesson.

General Lee - Robert E Lee, general of the Army of Northern Virginia, the main army for the Confederate States of America.

Jefferson Davis - president of the Confederate States of America.

The Flag - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America#First_flag?wprov=sfla1

The whole war was about slavery. The Confederate states wanted to have slaves. When Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, they threw a tantrum, claimed the election wasn’t legitimate (sound familiar?), then seceded and tried to form an independent nation.

Anyone who says that it was about states’ rights is being disingenuous. The Confederate Constitution mentions slavery and includes regulations for it.

The Confederacy also wanted to deport all Jews (except for one - the Secretary of The Treasury) and eventually conquer Mexico and use them as slaves as well. The brown ones.

The Confederacy also would have enslaved any Native Americans remaining in those states.

The vast majority of southern soldiers were too poor to ever own a slave and were treated only slightly better than slaves. It was very obviously the white supremacist elitist class exploiting everyone else.

The Republican party regurgitates a lot of the Confederate talking points.

Wow. Todd must have an amazing contract. Has Bethesda released an actual finished game since…what? Oblivion?

Just like they didn’t rush Starfield? Well, Microsoft told them to spend another year on it. I can’t imagine what that version looked like.

LMAO - that might be accurate for tankies but not actual antifascists.

Let Marine Animals Organize

So…GPT-4 is gay? Or are we talking about a different kind of test?