So today I drove five hours to see the eclipse, had a tire blow out, didn’t see the eclipse because of thick clouds, and got stuck in traffic for hours on the way back. (I’m still not home.) But at least I haven’t been shot by maniac, yet.
Any updates? It’s been 8 minutes, you’re starting to worry me.
RIP ArbitraryValue. Do you guys remember how excited he was about the eclipse there at the end? It’s all he could talk about. That’s what I’ll remember most.
I’ll miss him too, the eclipse lovin bastard.
If only we could have done something.
You didn’t? I upvoted his last comment.
Upvote and F in the comments. I loved Arbitrary Value as much as I love any other random commenter.
We should erect a memorial of jeans and beans in their honor. It’s what they would’ve wanted.
We did all we could.
I remember when he blew a maniac in traffic who shot a thick cloud on his back for hours that he didn’t get to see because of the eclipse. He never made it home because he was too tired.
That’s close enough to how I remember it, too.
You didn’t shoot anyone either tho, did you?
It’s been two hours. They for sure murdered someone.
It’s been 6 hours I’m getting worried
Asking the important questions
Thank God we have laws to keep guns out of the hands of obvious crazy people.
If you liked “Florida Man”, you’re gonna love “Florida Woman”
It’s not the Sunshine State when there’s an eclipse going on. Doh!
A meeting technicality!
We put the Wo in Man!
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Yeah, I mean, the divine commandment kind of places her in a difficult position. God doesn’t have a lot of tolerance of people that don’t do what He wants them to.
Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death.
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.
there was also that time that Elisha, when a certain king came to him to; basically, cast auguries. (oh yeah, that’s not wish craft when a prophet does it, huh?) so he tell this king… who god doesn’t really like anyhow… to shoot an arrow out the window. “Oh good. you’ll defeat that one asshole. now, take up a bundle of arrows. hit the ground.”
Of course, the king, being used to weird rituals and stuff, strikes the ground 3 times. (what’s not mentioned is why- 3 is a holy number. You see it in all sorts of places in semetic religions.)
So elisha says to him, “You idiot, you should have struck the ground more times. five or six, at least. Now… you’ll beat that other asshole 3 times, but you won’t defeat him totally. so, you know. He’s gonna come back.”
so, basically, god decided to let the israelites suffer under some douchenozzle’s rule because… his prophet couldn’t give clear instructions and the king went for symbolism over maximum effort…
It breaks my brain to remember that I was raised to believe this garbage
Onan is such a wanker!
It’s dumb that this story got turned into an anti-masturbation edict. Onan was pulling out because he wanted his brother’s inheritance, he was punished for his greed.
God told her to because of the eclipse
When the Creator tells you to do something like that, you want to get it in writing just in case the judge has a different theological take on the matter.
Is it legally admissible if its on some gold plates that only I can read?
Only in Utah
To be fair that happened in New York.
But New Yorkers wised up.
And that’s why a bunch of people rode out into the desert for so long that 2 of their leaders died on the way?
Given that the last guy who tried that ended up in jail, again, I would say no.
You just have to get God to write it in green ink at a 45° angle, then it’s okay.
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
–Genesis 22:1-2Ya, Yahweh is a bit of a dick.
Moses needed to get “Don’t kill people” written in stone but these folks just believe anything they hear
Georgia woman. It was a Georgia woman that crossed into Florida. WTH is up with that headline?
She knew where she belonged
Florida has a reputation to maintain
Recruiting outside talent I see. I guess you have do that with an aging population.
There is no mental health treatment in our society.
I have come to believe that blind faith is a socially accepted mental illness.
The ICD-11 definition for delusion clearly defines religion, but then commits special pleading to excuse religious belief.
mental health treatment in america is to grab a gun, wave it at people then drown in your addiction of choice. This woman chose “religious conspiracy bullshit”
If anything, there is anti treatment. Organisations are waiting and ready to exploit your mental illness at every turn.
Oh maximizing addictions and false logic are the best ways to make money though. Who the fuck cares if it’s bad for the poors. It will never affect the god holy rich who are above it all.
That’s because our health system is a fucking joke. Thanks republiclowns!! Working as intended.
It’s so weird that they freaked out this much over just this Eclipse. There was an eclipse last year and I didn’t hear a peep from these people.
Maybe because last year they didn’t have Marjorie Taylor-Greene tell them that earthquakes and eclipse are a warning from god?
2017 was all “Look at the science! Isn’t this cool!”
But then THAT path only brushed the Bible Belt…
I think it’s because giant singing and man-eating plants are a real concern.
They happen about every 18 months, and thus are a rather normal and common natural phenomenon.
Crazies gonna crazy, though.
Every 6 months really. They just happen in places people aren’t a lot of the time. Heck next year north America will get another eclipse… But you’d have to travel to northern Canada in early spring to see it and it doesn’t sound nearly as fun a vacation spot as Mexico I bet to the chasers.
Not a Florida woman. Georgia woman. Georgia is exporting their crazy to Florida.
this is a lie by Big Florida!
(/s)
If God told her to then it should be legal.
No one can prove God didn’t tell her to go on a shooting spree.
We need to subpoena god.
Gonna be hard for the marshalls to deliver it. Or, at least to return from delivering it.
just give it to the pope.
I’m sure he can pass it on.
And morally ok. Because powerful sky man told her so.
If you go on YouTube and look up videos of the eclipse yesterday, you’ll see a ton of videos about why the eclipse marks the beginning of the end of the world. Just pure and total insanity or people taking advantage of that insanity. You might be surprised but you probably won’t be because you know in your heart that we’re just that far gone now.
This is why I literally groaned when I read another post on lemmy about LLMs using YouTube to learn from…
Ffs do we want these things to be unhinged conspiracy theorist Nazi replicators? I can’t think of a worse data set to use than YouTube… Maybe 4chan, but I don’t doubt that’s already been scraped.
I’ll never forget when Google released their early development ai in the early 2010’s and 4chan turned it into a racist sexist genocidal maniac in like a week
You mean Tay? That was Microsoft. One of the researchers involved thinks it was actually interacting with Russian chat bots, not 4chan.
Also, fuck it. What good would a Microsoft owned AI chat bot do for you? This is like getting mad at 4chan for sabotaging the Mnt Dew’s naming contest. Everyone knew that Pepsi wasn’t going to actually use that name and they embarrassed a billion dollar, multi national corporation.
Hey fair enough I stand corrected.
I just remember hearing about it around the same time as the mtn dew thing you mentioned. That and I vaguely remember a school doing the same thing asking the internet for a name and 4chan just said “hold my beer”
Yeah I was going to say this is what overpopulation looks like. Then I remembered the witch trials in the 1600s and thought there’s plenty more crazy shit people have done. There’s more people now and arguably less crazy shit. Stuff like this is always going to happen though, human condition. Still horrible, we’ve got lots of work to do as a species.
Feels like 1 step forward 2 steps back with this whole “civilisation” thing.
Wasn’t the eclipse not visible from Florida?
I mean … if I wasn’t already avoiding that shithole state …
In 1976, Larry Cohen made a film called “God Told Me To,” where random people commit murders in the name of God. The movie explains it as (spoiler alert) the influence of aliens, but apparently such a thing doesn’t actually need science fiction explanations.
Edit: Also, we live in what was the path of totality in Indiana and watched the eclipse in a park. When we came home, my daughter saw a bunch of people in a church parking lot doing some post-eclipse bowing down in prayer (I missed it) and she thought it was hilarious.
“I fell to my knees in that Aldi parking lot” is a popular meme on instagram currently, due to a sighting of Christians welcoming the end times in an Aldi parking lot.
I watched a video yesterday about the whole history of TimeCube.com, and it had the same sorts of patterns we see in online radicalization today. Someone with an untreated mental illness posted regularly on a website, and was egged on by people who thought it was funny. Then some kid who also has an untreated mental illness sees it and takes it seriously. Then that kid does something horrific because of it. (In TimeCube’s case the kid jumped in front of a train after meeting the old guy and being rebuffed.)
Can you please link to the video? That sounds really interesting.
Thanks!
Fuckin TimeCube, man. That shit was wild back in the day. I hadn’t heard about someone taking it seriously.
Take a society with no mental health assistance and then pepper it with tons of religious fervor. It’s a recipe for disaster.
I’m in the middle of the first episode of the third season of the podcast Long Shadow. This one is going to be about mass shootings. Looks like they haven’t added it to their website yet, but both of the prior seasons were excellent so I expect this to be more of the same.
Take a society with no mental health assistance and then pepper it with tons of religious fervor.
Then add in a whooole lotta guns
I wasn’t paying attention was some Alex Jones type telling people to do this last week?
Apparently a lot of people on tiktok thought the eclipse was the rapture
I guess everyone else out of the path of totality just stayed on Earth then?
Come on, what do I say here? Lock her in jail? Push her off the cliff?? Craziness should not be supported unless it’s in a tiny padded cell under constant supervision. Too many people in this country claim insanity and if she really is, let her watch Boomerang all day; if she’s not test her boomerang-ability
