I should just get off the internet altogether, maybe. Get a tarpaper shack with no electricity or running water somewhere.
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Trump has slashed the NIH and NSF budget, hired an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services, and filled the government’s web page with crazed conspiracy theories. Here’s why we just published a volume on the left’s war on science.
by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.
April 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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I’m going to tell you something about the whole new atheist crowd and the fundies they are argue with (this is not a slight of atheists or religious people in general, most aren’t like this): If you’re spending a lot of time arguing about the existence of an invisible sky man, you’re already lost.
For those who don’t know, the NY Times Pitchbot posts humorous, sarcastic versions of the kind of centrist bullshit the NY Times is notorious for publishing. Sometimes it hits a bit close to the bone.
What religious people think of their beliefs as merely “arguing about an invisible sky man?” If that is what they really thought, then arguments about religion would indeed be vacuous.
What religious people think of their beliefs as merely “arguing about an invisible sky man?”
No, that’s the atheists. And they can’t wait for the rapture.
I don’t care what people believe. It’s when they use those unsupported beliefs to tell others how to live their lives that I have a problem.
Have you ever use BlueSky’s blocking options to shut out crud like this, PZ? I do. It works great. It cleans up my timeline on my bsky account, making my browsing experience much more enjoyable than before there.
So NYT Pitchbot is an AI replacement for Bill Maher?
There’s no crying! THERE’S NO CRYING IN BLOGGING!
The NYTimes Pitchbot is a sarcastic humor site.
They are on our side.
I use the blocking feature on Bluesky when needed.
With 34 million users, it is an absolutely necessary feature.
I like Bluesky a lot and visit it everyday. .
The New Atheist jab doesn’t really work since that crowd would rather argue about, or against, “wokeness” than about nonexistent funniest.
At this point, they are just as fundamentalist as the so-called fundies.
** That was supposed to be “nonexistent deities.”
Given the chronic massive ‘errors and omissions’ of the main slime media. It is hard to tell that those ‘pitchbot’ stories are satire!
Isn’t a pitchbot one of those A.I. monstrosities bogged down in tar?
@3 PZ said: It’s when they use those unsupported beliefs to tell others how to live their lives that I have a problem.
I reply: But, jebus and his sky-fairy father demand that their little zealot xtian terrorists ALWAYS, CONSTANTLY tell everyone how to live their lives!
PZ, I know you feel the need to negate the BS they spout, but, arguing with these mindless zealots is as rewarding as shoveling sand into the sea.
I take this as a commentary on the pugnacious “new atheist” style, not atheism per se. The people who brandish “invisible sky man” as a sneer.
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Some people are saps, Reginald, and will believe just about anything.
Also, I just tested that claim: I entered into Google
uniputic “meaning”and got“Your search – uniputic “meaning” – did not match any documents.”
Tried again with
jumetic plombi “meaning”and got“It looks like there aren’t many great matches for your search
Try using words that might appear on the page that you’re looking for. For example, ‘cake recipes’ instead of ‘how to make a cake’.”
So, no. This user discovered it is not the case that it makes up shit.
The fascists us their beliefs as a foundation for their authority.
You can’t directly damage their beliefs, but you can lessen their credibility in the eyes of the audience.
The NYTimesPitchBot is having the same problem as the Onion, that real events are out parodying the parody.