Chap at the top is claiming “Christianity is part of European identity” but the image contrasts the pagan religions of Europe 2,000 years ago (you can throw in the Celts, Romans and Greeks too) on the left with Christianity which has it’s roots in various Middle Eastern religions (Judaism, Zoroastrianism, etc) on the right.

“Elaha” (ܐܠܗܐ) is the Aramaic for “God” and “Alaha” (ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ) is the same word in Syriac (both languages used by the early Church), which is similar to other Semitic languages like Hebrew (Elohim) and Arabic (Allah).

They are developing their own extremist-infused AI models, and are already experimenting with novel ways to leverage the technology, including producing blueprints for 3D weapons and recipes for making bombs.

Given thr way AI is prone to hallucinations, they should definitely have a go at building them. Might solve our problems for us.

So the idea to make people think that Nazis are using AI, might have come from a Nazi AI? 🤯

I imagine that might happen in a couple if years.

I’m blaming a weasel.

Don’t Ban This Book.

They seem to be taking things literally, so let them get their head around this.

Ban This Book Too

I am very laid back (my Dad always said I was nearly horizontal) and I never get angry, I rarely even get flustered or impatient. My Dad was a very good man and I try to follow his example as much as possible. As his health declined and I started caring for him (a real privilege as he helped so many it was only just that he got help in return when he needed it, even if it couldn’t possibly fully pay him back) and, as I picked up some of his slack I did wonder where he found the time or energy. Since he died, I have felt like a sheepdog without a flock and have found myself adopting various people - I helped a friend through her cancer journey and her son start university, I took another friend to hospital sufficiently often that she just told the staff I was her “hospital husband” (which did stop them asking questions, usually with a roll of the eyes) and, as I don’t drink, I ferry people home from the pub.

However, I can be… thoughtless and this can be really annoying, especially to the easily angered - I’ve lost a friend over it and my brother isn’t exactly my greatest fan (the other year, my niece asked if I wanted to know all the nasty things my brother said about me and I declined - if we knew what people thought about us, we’d tear each other apart). I can also be rude to people but just where it’s funny, you just have to know your audience (it can appal any bystanders though). I’m also not very emotionally expressive and I suspect at least one friend thinks I’m a sociopath.

So am I nice? Although it might depend on who you ask, I’d say no. However, I try to do as much good as possible - if anyone needs help, I’ll drop what I’m doing and pitch in.

What I do when I have spare time: write. I just don’t seem to have had any spare time recently.

Removed Post Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says

This is lunacy, why would a constitution not guarantee basic rights? Reads like a joke about conservatives.

That was one of mine (and I have another pending, as an Admin I get to see reports for users of my instance, including me) and it’s removal is fair enough as Mods have to be allowed to set the remit of their community and prune content accordingly. As long as they aren’t abusing their powers, which is not the case here.

As I’ve reported another post on here for rule 4 violation, it would also be a bit hypocritical of me to complain.

As another comment suggests, perhaps start c/notquitetheonion on here or (preferably) another general instance (spread the love and the load) for things that don’t quite make the grade here - if they are deleted an Admin can still fish them out of the Modlog and repost them if needed. It would likely help this community by diverting things that don’t meet the standard of inclusion.

I have put a list in the sidebar at !andfinally@feddit.uk - there may not be one that ticks all the boxes but if you want some weird news in your feed mixing a couple in might do the trick. As Lemmy doesn’t do algorithms we have to curate our own feeds with something from column A and something else from column B until you have your own bespoke smorgasbord.

No it’s still juice that is orange, just not juice from an orange.

It’s still a bit of a mix but then it can be subjective but it’s another source of NOT news and we have to curate our own feeds.

Because everyone remembers he user to lead “lock her up” chants, so claiming otherwise is utterly bizarre, in a 1984 “Oceania had always been at with Eurasia” way.

Looking back the one that stood out for me was “‘Atlas’ movie review: J.Lo battles space robots in new Netflix film”.

There is at least one bot dragging over NTO from the other place and it does tend to have less political content: !nottheonion@zerobytes.monster I suppose it falls to the users here to post more of what they think fits and report what they feel doesn’t. We can help define the remit of this place if we feel it is going down the wrong track.

It also depends in what you are looking for - there are other weird news communities on Lemmy, I’ve tried to list them in the sidebar at !andfinally@feddit.uk

A big issue is about half of everything trump says could easily be the onion. Which is likely why there’s so many political ones.

It’s also an election year, in which Trump was tried for shenanigans, which will lead to a lot more news stories than usual where you read the headline and wonder if this is satire or not. Things will return back to a more even stream of content but US politics is especially odd at the moment.

They Live.

The Thing but not The Thing From Another World.

Most things based on the work of PKD.

A lot of Lovecraft adaptations have to be a bit loose (because his stories tend not to lend themselves to films and he wasn’t a good person) and are all the better for it - Re-animator, From Beyond, The Color Out of Space, Dagon, etc. plus quite a few fan films.

Flash Gordon film.

The first two Blade films - they struggle to make great Blade comics.

The Legion TV series.

It wasn’t even a book, more a sketch, a joke even. A lot (most?) of the adaptations of PKD’s writing are better than the original. And yet, the core concepts, about the nature of humanity and reality, break through and inspire some truly great work.

You have been drinking orange juice, not orange juice. It’s an easy mistake to make.

Warning: this is orange juice, not orange juice