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4 months agoAn average data center only creates a handful of permanent positions. Turns out a building full of computers needs a shit ton more power and cooling than people plugging in wires.


An average data center only creates a handful of permanent positions. Turns out a building full of computers needs a shit ton more power and cooling than people plugging in wires.
Would need the details on some of these.
Well its not quite the same. A no true Scotsman fallacy is an appeal to purity based solely on membership of a group. When the group is defined by adherence to a code of conduct then it’s not a fallacy. For example “no true vegan eats animal meat”.
Christian is literally defined as being a follower of the teachings of Christ. The specifics of those teachings vary by what parts of the New Testament you consider apocryphal. But broad strokes all agree that it’s something along the lines of rejection of worldly things, forgive your enemies, love God and your neighbor, etc.
The Old Testament has a very different tone because its a mix of myth + law + history for a Bronze Age civilization. The Bible explicitly says that the fire and brimstone, wrathful old God has been superseded by Jesus’s new covenant. Basically it’s there for continuity and pedigree but if you follow the OT rules over the New Testament then you’re not a Christian.
There’s a good argument to be made that almost no modern denomination (including the Catholic Church) can claim to be Christian because their creeds integrate too many obviously counter-Christian values. But that doesn’t make the Pope wrong here. Using selected passages from the Bible to justify bombing innocent people makes you a militant Biblicist, not a Christian.