Yet another way in which this administration is clearly anti-science.

Ah, another arrogant individual who presumes to know the mind of God.

I loathe televangelists. They are nothing like the Christ they claim to serve.

Honestly, it’s really hard to tell. I’m pretty sure some of them are just that stupid, but there’s also some that have no problem undermining the US to enrich themselves. And of course there’s some that are both.

“You seem to have forgotten that my bowl is half empty…”

I agree. I think one of the arguments for the amillennial view is that it was talking about the Roman Emperor of the time.

Oh, I know that the Antichrist (the definitive article) signs an agreement with Israel (that’s what starts off the 7-year Tribulation, if I recall correctly). Trump hasn’t done that, nor does he meet a couple of other specific requirements, so I don’t consider him to be the Antichrist (note the uppercase).

That said, he’s definitely consistent with many of the attributes and I think meets the definition of an antichrist (lowercase) - hence why I said he’s that type of person.

I’d say only the idiotic ones who believe in a pre-Tribulation Rapture would want that. It really makes me wonder how many “Christians” have actually read the Bible they claim to believe (and how many would be those told “Depart from me, for I never knew you” Matt. 7:23).

In my experience, Christianity is pretty divided over “End Times” worldviews - amillennial (no literal millennium, which usually says that there is no literal Tribulation either and so Antichrist isn’t as much of a threat) vs. premillennial (we’re living prior to a literal millennial reign of Christ on Earth, and there is a specific individual who will be the Antichrist and hold power during the 7-year Tribulation). Within the latter it gets even messier - rapture or no rapture? Ezekiel’s War prior to the Tribulation or during it?

Whilst one can argue for the Rapture from the Bible, it’s definitely not as clear-cut as the Antichrist or Tribulation period - so if it were me, I would not be in an hurry to usher in the reign of the Antichrist especially when he will hunt down and execute Christians during the Tribulation.

Trump is an antichrist (not the definitive article, but the type of person described in the Bible). It really can’t get any clearer at this point.

I’m not an expert here, but considering that he is literally threatening other nations’ vessels in international waters, I’m wondering at what point the actions of the US Navy to “interdict every vessel” would constitute an act of war.

Hopefully the rest of the world increases the pressure on Trump and the US since it looks very much like he’s completely to blame for the rising oil costs around the globe.

I still have my cereal box AoE CD somewhere…

I’m familiar with a previous edition of that.

However, this one really does your head in: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3484848M/Complex_analysis

Our government is usually technologically inept.

The first online census (2016) crashed the system because they didn’t allow enough capacity. Anyone with half a brain could have told them that most people were going to try to use it during one particular time – after dinner (especially since the paper census is supposed to count everyone on that particular night). Instead, they decided to rate it for only 1 million form submissions per hour, despite estimating that two-thirds of Australians would fill it out online. At one person per family, that’s around 4 million online submissions. Now factor in that the eastern states have most of the population (and are all in the same time zone at that time of year) and, predictably, the site went down after dinner on census night.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/abs-website-inaccessible-on-census-night/7711652

Interesting. If LLMs can deobfuscate code, I wonder if they (or other AI engines) will make it easier to bypass DRM.

Yes, there is…

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

So basically the consumer market is screwed until the AI bubble bursts and manufacturers (GPUs, RAM, HDDs, etc.) can rebalance their production lines back to the pre-AI division of enterprise vs consumer product.