It's not a surprise nobody showed up

mythos is such a funny way for anthropic to show how they are not serious: first they say it's too dangerous, then they give it to some companies, now it's just gonna be available as b2b saas as any other model what are we doing here

In part one of @pearlythingz’s discussion with an Orthodox deacon, she pressed him about what the church is doing to protect men from predatory women. He starts off with the standard line that if men would just fulfill their duty as husbands, the wives will not rebel. This is obviously not always true, as Pearl points out. To his credit, he does say that a woman that transifies her kid should be divorced. (Please clap.) So then, the deacon pivots to, “Well, men having to pay child support to an evil ex-wife isn’t all that bad.” That is simply mind-blowing since missing child support payments can land you in JAIL. Pearl does not allow him to minimize this issue. And finally, realizing that this is not a winning path that he’s on, the deacon goes back to a male sin: men that beat their wives. 😑 This is, unfortunately, the way these conversations typically go. There is a 99.9% focus on male responsibility and accountability. Link: youtu.be/tZqUB2ZYjb8

If I were pregnant and doctors told me my baby had Down syndrome, I would abort. No amount of social media posts romanticizing profound disability would change my mind. Love is not enough. Caring for a severely disabled child demands far more — resources, support, energy, and resilience most people don’t have. The world is cruelest to those who can’t help themselves. Bringing a child into that reality, knowing the lifelong struggles ahead, isn’t compassion. It’s denial. Women deserve the right to make this deeply personal choice without guilt or judgment. Real motherhood sometimes means the hardest decisions. 💔

this is one of the best arguments I've heard on this so far tbh

(Aquinas rubbing his big belly) gluttony is rarely a grave matter

Pope Leo XIV on war in Iran: "I think this has already been made very clear: the notion of a just war no longer applies. The problem is that just war theory developed in centuries when no one could have imagined the weapons we have today or humanity's capacity for destruction."

The idea that a God of infinite love and justice would create souls who are by default condemned to an eternity of suffering is one of the most depraved ideas the religious mind has ever entertained. I doubt anyone who enjoys this idea is capable of experiencing the numinous.

Whereas religious arguments fail because most people believe differently than you

Quit yapping & go adopt one of the thousands of Downs Syndrome kids languishing in foster homes around the world, if you feel so righteous. Go ahead and do it and put the so called 'murderers' to shame. Of course you can't do it, for the same reasons that couple is aborting.