ScathingAtheist 525: Lord Only Knowles Edition
Added 2023-03-09 04:39:28 +0000 UTCIn this week’s episode, Florida challenges the rest of the country to a “Taken-off”, Texas gets mad about all the outside data that's misceginating THEIR internet, and we’ll learn the difference between ignoring you and paying attention to you in mysterious ways.
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Headlines:
CPAC Speaker calls for the eradication of trans people: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cpac-speaker-calls-transgender-people-213112725.html
Florida courts could allow 'emergency' custody of kids with trans parents or siblings: https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-anti-trans-bill-court-custody-kids-gender-affirming-care-2023-3
Texas is trying to scrub the concept of abortion from its internet: https://gizmodo.com/texas-abortion-websites-bill-internet-service-providers-1850178991
SCOTUS won’t hear city-sponsored prayer vigil case: https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/breaking-the-supreme-court-wont-weigh
A pastor compared honeymoon sex to how "Christ penetrates his church": https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/a-christian-pastor-compared-honeymoon
TX lawmaker proposes bill to lower property taxes for people with a fuckton of kids: https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/be-fruitful-and-multiply-tx-bill
Comments
It was so nice talking to you both at FreeFlo! I had to leave 15 minutes after I saw you both this morning as my mom was taken to the hospital. I’m so sorry I will miss your talk today at 3:30😢 It’s the main reason I came. Again, I had a great time and really enjoyed the company of you both!!
Lori Wieser
2023-03-12 18:29:34 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Michael Knowles. This is a God Awful Mini starring Michael Knowles from when he was a student at Yale. https://youtu.be/dHwfg9LPARY
Oboewan
2023-03-11 04:01:52 +0000 UTCThe biggest problem with ChatGPT, as others have pointed out, is that - much like the internet at large - it has no concept of "truth". It will happily assert things that are true with exactly the same level of confidence that it'll make things up. It's always funny to get it to teach you how to use some fictional web service you just made up. :) Oh, and I enjoyed it again this week.
Cal Alæra
2023-03-10 14:44:32 +0000 UTCCan't you just steal code from a site that auto fills your info and extend that, add to the chrome extension?
Nicole Strauss
2023-03-10 12:41:26 +0000 UTCParty of limited freedoms really going at it hard. It's crazy how insane people can be.
Oxford Comma is Mandatory
2023-03-10 05:53:49 +0000 UTCSeems a bit appropriate that I was playing Mass Effect 2 during the diatribe.
Oxford Comma is Mandatory
2023-03-10 05:08:37 +0000 UTCLook, I know I'm a lesbian, but holy shit that Christian description of sex was nauseating.
Bowl of Piss Water
2023-03-10 02:15:49 +0000 UTCAfter listening to "Christ penetrates his church" (caliente) I want to jerk off to porn.
Dean A. Batha
2023-03-10 01:41:58 +0000 UTCExcellent diatribe, Noah. You made points about the moral dilemmas players face in modern video games and it never occurred to me that it may be the basis of Christian opposition. I always assumed it was competition for the attention of youth. Ask a kid what he would prefer to do on Sunday morning (or Sunday evening, Monday evening, Wednesday evening, etc...), sit in church for hours, or play a game on his PS5? The PS5 will win that vote every day.
Dean A. Batha
2023-03-10 01:15:32 +0000 UTCI have paused the episode to also yell at Heath "READ FASTER!!" GOOD GAWD THAT WAS HORRIFYING.
CarrieBoo
2023-03-10 00:26:13 +0000 UTC
