I got a bogus moving violation ticket in a ghetto. Decided to fight it. Watched as minority after minority got their ass handed to them in traffic court. Cops are super rude about everything. Few months later I get jury duty. Hispanic man accused of a violent crime…ok yeah. I have already seen how the sausage is made.

Now I didn’t get picked they had enough before they even got to me but I admit I would be very disinclined to take the justice systems word. Maybe that is the wrong attitude to have. Just because the justice system is very very imperfect doesn’t mean that there is no crime.

Everytime the justice system does something like this. Mistreats minorities or the poor, refuses to go after the powerful it weakens it’s authority. And we are all worse off.

Meanwhile at work I can’t take a gift over five dollars and if I get like a box of chocolate I leave it in the break room.

Amazing how much integrity you must show is inverse to the amount of damages not showing it will cause.

Around 5 years into it is when I felt like I finally hit my stride. Maybe it was because she went to kindergarten.

I watched my mom and dad grow old, not sure about up.

I don’t get those. Half of yt comments are “I like how x” where x is the plot of the video.

Sincerity, the last thing you still can’t buy.

Jesus this hurt how right you are. Like any random person you know would be better suited for the job. In fact I am going to nominate my buddy Dave the accountant. He would be a great colony leader.

Justice Clearance “brought to you by Harlan Crow” Thomas wrote that this judgement could overturn other ones such as Crow v. Virginia which established the right of atheists to not be put in stocks and have rotten fruit thrown at them.

I think it is cosplay. It would take a lot of evidence to convince me that there has been this secret cabal of lost cause since 1865 and only now showing strength.

One of the larger Chinese Evengelical Churches in the US is a stone’s throw away from my place. I know a few people who attend there and their children are taught the Bible in Hebrew and Mandarin.

Everytime I pass it I get this odd feeling like this is going to be a source of some Dues ex machina one day. Like out of nowhere there is going to be this wave of Chinese American Christians who are trained to organize and do apologetics. Suddenly there is a new group that can terrify any political leader.

Or it will be a footnote to a footnote in US history.

It’s a thing about humanity. Sunrise on a heliocentric solar system looks the same as geocentric. And yet every single culture put us in the middle. It could have been 50-50 but instead we were all wrong together.

My point is that we see what we want. No, don’t change the words to suit them.

I got it to give me a book that was still in copyright status by selectively asking for bigger and bigger quotes. Took a while. Now it seems to have cottoned on to that trick.

I have been using it to do deep dives into subjects. Especially text analysis. Do you want to know the entire voc of the Gospel of Mark in original greek for example? 1080. Now how does this compare to a section of Plato’s republic of the same size? About 6-7x as large.

So right there we can see why Mark is often viewed as a direct text while Plato is viewed as a more ambiguous writer.

It definitely has its uses but it also has massive annoyances as you pointed out. One thing has really bothered me, I asked it a factual question about Mohammed the founder of Islam. This is how I a human not from a Muslim background would answer

“Ok wikipedia says this ____”

It answered in this long winded way that had all these things like “blessed prophet of Allah”. Basically the answer I would expect from an Imam.

I lost a lot of trust in it when I saw that. It assumed this authority tone. When I heard about that case of a lawyer citing madeup caselaw from it I looked it as confirmation. I don’t know how it happened but for some questions it has this very authoritative tone like it knows this without any doubt.

What I was taught was try to take their conclusion and see how hard it is to maintain it. For example if someone were to argue with me about the truth of their particular branch of Christianity I should do is show how many assumptions I need to make to get to it. I.e. there is a god, this God is personal, this God favors human life, this God choose one particular tribe, this God waited all that time to send his son down…