I’ve heard a lot of people like the Musee d’Orsay, but I found the architecture to be a little garish.

The problem with killing off all the leaders is finding leaders with enough political capital to negotiate a cease fire.

I love the second example. The Catholic Church needed so much money to build the place that it caused a religious schism.

A lot of mosques aren’t that glittery. There are different styles to building mosques; I found the Blue Mosque in Istanbul to feel somewhat like a cathedral, but lighter and with patterns instead of iconography. The only mosque I’ve been in that felt off was the Hagia Sophia, and that is because it was converted from an Orthodox cathedral so it feels different.

I’ve also been to an Art Deco cathedral in Brussels that felt off too. It is the only Art Deco cathedral I’ve been to, which makes sense given what was generally built with Art Deco. Also, the modern Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City feels like a Catholic Space Mountain given that the style of architecture used for the basilica was heavily used in Disney’s Tomorrowland.

I think that, for you, maybe a lot of it is that you’re seeing some places of worship in a vastly different architectural style that you’re used to. The combination of grandeur and out of context architectural presentation makes the place feel alien.

I’m not surprised. It is the reason why companies like SpaceX don’t want to be dual use if they don’t have to.

They played the long game. Until a few years ago, supporting Israel wasn’t politically toxic.

I’ve had people cold DM me on LinkedIn for an internship. For all of them, it was pretty useless since it was obvious that I had nothing to do with the department they wanted an internship in.

That said, if someone was interested in an internship in my department, I probably would have chatted with them and set up an interview.

If they come, it will be a trickle. There isn’t that much left for Reddit to do which would significantly harm the user base as a whole to force a migration. At best, one sub might get banned and come to Lemmy as a way to continue. Whether that community will be accepted by the current Lemmy federation is up in the air.

Regarding future growth, Lemmy isn’t ready for it. The moderation and admin tools need work if the platform were to 10x, let alone see greater growth. I expect if that growth were to happen, federation would fracture further. You would also see some Reddit items come here as a way to moderate like becoming more dependent on a karma score and requiring more for signing up.

If the UK were to return, they would likely have to give up the pound.

I still feel that software development isn’t in freefall because of AI, but because large companies have hit the point where they aren’t going to put resources into development unless it will immediately produce revenue.

What large software company is doing the development typical of the industry a decade ago?

Maybe not. After all, who is attending?

People used fear to get a means of control. The threat of measles went away and people trumped up a fear that your kid would become special needs as a way to gain and keep power.

Or they’ll just stick with what they got.

“Why do they call them cookies and not bakies?”

Any major company with a proprietary code base shouldn’t be running another company’s AI model to write code. Why let the AI company learn how to code with your code base?

Yeah. It was a general lie that the founding fathers weren’t faithful Christians. Outside of autistic Thomas Jefferson, they still seemed to have some form of Christian beliefs. The issue was that each state had its own form Christianity, including state churches, and realized that the federal entity could not be religious as it could cause a major schism in the new Republic.

Also, the Bill of Rights was written with the intent to only bind the Federal Government. It was absolutely intended that individual states could regulate religion and that choice was to be made at the state level.

I feel like a large part of it is that a lot of AI slop is still in the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley has been shown to create a massive negative emotional reaction in people. You don’t want to trigger that reaction while trying to sell people something.

Well, she could make another kid.

People will say that and then use Nutella, which is basically frosting.

You’re going to have to confront the allegations, likely one by one or with a few people. You’re going to be upfront about it and you probably won’t be successful with everyone.

That said, it is kind of a bad sign that you led the discussion here first talking about a break up rather than starting with the rape allegations, since the people who know the two of you are likely going to take that as a tacit admission of guilt.